Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 2!)

[Mounjaroday]

Welcome everyone to thread 2, all you brave people who started their WLI in Feb!

So happy we can all support each other! Good luck for the next few weeks 🎉

I sadly haven’t had the aversion to wine 😆 although 2 small glasses and I’m sated, whereas before I could easily drink half a Bottle or more.

I’ve scrolled back up but can’t find the link someone posted with the insulin needles on it - please can someone repost so I can order them and try and extract the last dose!

I agree, I think this is so interesting. If there is a jab to help with food noise/ suppression, then it’s only a matter of time before they create something that works specifically for problem drinkers, and how amazing would that be for all the people who struggle.

End of week 1 weigh in

SW - 96.55
CW - 94.9
TL - 1.65

Not the huge loss most people seem to experience in week 1, but it's a good respectable start, and I am pleased. I had hoped for a little extra in week 1 to get me off to a good start, but ultimately I am aiming for a steady 1kg a week loss, as I want to avoid the problems with losing weight too fast. I am a week late (not pregnant, probably just peri/cycle finally syncing with HRT), so there may be something related to that as I always gain leading up to TOTM. My weight loss was all the first half of the week, and STS for the last 3-4 days.

I have been food tracking and aiming for around 1200-1300 calories. Suppression seems about right, as I am usually ready for my meals and enjoy them, but I'm not hungry between meals. Someone brought fancy chocolate biscuits into a work meeting and I just wasn't interested at all.

I usually exercise a lot (at least 90 minutes brisk walking a day, plus 2x1 hour swims). I have found I had more energy this week, so fitted in an extra 50 minute swim after a full day at work, and walking the dogs for about 1hr15

I did my first Saturday morning so my husband would be around for a couple of days if I felt poorly. 0 side effects here, I was super nervous too 💐 So much support here. I've got a diabetic cousin and have been well versed with needles and pens for years but I still had a wobble when it was my roll I was pricking though...😳

https://medbasic.co.uk/bd-micro-fine-30g-1ml-syringes-needles/?attribute_pa_quantity=10 it was these and I bought the same for my imminent fifth dose, also on recommendation on here. Fingers crossed it's straightforward! 🤞

I'm now end of week 3, had a weigh in today as I'm away tonight and won't be home until later tomorrow and will do my final 2.5mg dose Saturday evening when I'm back.

I'm now 9lbs down in total in 3 weeks 🤯
SW: 183lbs
CW: 174lbs

I'm in a celebrating mood and usually that would be me thinking about wine and a takeaway tonight as a treat but nothing, nada, zilch!

Im feeling a bit gutted as Ive put on weight this week.
Think it’s a mixture of no suppression at all al week, half term so I've rested more, I’ve definitely eaten more although I have eaten healthy foods. Im trying to avoid calorie counting due to my obsessive nature but it looks like I need to start doing that.
I wish I could move up to 5mg for next week as 2.5mg isn’t making any difference

I am also reluctantly starting to conclude that I might need to calorie count

I don't really want to - partly because I want to develop and set good habits for life, not rely on counting calories but also because it's a PITA especially if you cook from scratch all the time, as I do

I am going to give it another week and see

Oh prawns sound lovely - thanks for the taking the time to reply! I rarely eat prawns as my oh doesn't like them

I rarely drink so its not unusual for me not to.

Start of week 3, weighed and injected this morning. Small loss of .6kg which is still more than I lose when just on a calorie deficit so I'm not unhappy. Although if I look back at the week, I've done less exercise overall and had alcohol and some sweets last weekend which was different to week 1. Next week I will be back to my usual exercise routine and no alcohol or sweets (they made me feel like shit anyway!)

SW 82.6kg

0702 - 82.6kg
1402 - 80.3kg
2102 - 79.7kg

Happy Friday 😊

The alcohol thing has been really nice.

I don't feel the sort of compulsion to have it - I had a tough day the other day and would usually have reached for it but I just had a cup of tea instead

But I have had a couple of small glasses of wine and a G&T - on separate evenings - and sipped them slowly and enjoyed the flavour

Same with coffee - I haven't felt the need to go for it straightaway in the morning and some mornings I haven't bothered at all. Some mornings, I have savoured a cup

My experience with alcohol wasn't great, but I'm wondering if it was the wrong choice of drink.
I had 2 bottles of beer last Friday (I injected in the morning) and as my only real bad side effects is sulphur burps, it made that a whole lot worse.
For me, I would go for an uncarbonated drink like wine but it depends on what your side effects are.

Also to add, I wasn't drunk but the hangover the next day was awful, I didn't drink any water before bed which was a mistake.

I hope you can enjoy your night, with or without the drink 😁

Hope all goes ok after your third jab this morning. I usually take mine in the evening so it would be interesting to know how you get on changing to a morning jab. I’m so nervous of taking my 4th on Sunday evening so may delay until Monday morning and see if that lessens the side effects. I’m also going to limit how much I eat on Sunday as I’ve had a pretty full stomach before each of my previous two jabs and I’m sure that’s what contributed to the awful sickness the following two days. Fingers crossed it will be better this time.

Thanks @Feb2025start - when are you due to extract it? Let us know how you get on! 💜

I’ve just done my 3rd jab 🥳

im 5 ft 9, and used to be v sporty, so am broad shouldered and have strong thighs. so will never get down to a “small” number. At 12 and a half stone I’m a size 10/12, look slim and feel great.

my start weight was 16 stone, I weighed yesterday morning and down to 15 stone 6 lbs (in 2 weeks)

id like to get down to 13 1/2 stone to start, and see how I feel. That is at the top end of a healthy BMI for me on paper, but I feel v good at this weight. Ideally I’d like to go lower and then come off the injections all together which hides me a bit of leeway to put on half a stone as the hunger comes back 🤣

Friday weigh in! I've lost 1.6lbs this week. Happy with that as I've eaten out 5 times with going away and a birthday meal. I mainly made good choices but when I didn't I was more mindful and stopped when full. I had a few drinks too. I didn't have any adverse effects from what I had.

SW 15st0.8
CW 14st5.8
TL 9lbs

Back to work and routine this week though so hoping to get a bigger loss next week!

I find it really interesting to see how different people's experiences are so far, from not losing to huge losses and everything in between. The same with side effects. To those feeling despondent, it will come, keep going. Also, yes to calorie counting if you're not losing, you know you're eating correctly then so can hopefully hold your nerve and wait for the mounjaro to do its thing.

Morning! Just chiming in to say that if you are on 2.5mg, that is the loading dose, it’s not a therapeutic dose. If you lose on that, it’s a bonus really. Plenty of people don’t lose significant amounts until 5mg - it’s normal. Annoying, but normal.

That’s the facts bit, anecdotally I also reckon that all the emphasis on diet and weight in our heads (plus the thought of the eye watering amount of money this is costing), encourages a lower intake, even without lots (or even any) suppression. I think I mentioned in the first thread that I lost an astonishing half stone in a week from the utter shock of doing my fat photos - quite took my appetite away! 😂

I think I’m getting such good appetite suppression on 2.5 that I’m literally forcing myself to eat sometimes and I’m nervous about something stronger in case I literally can’t eat at all….

@SpiralSister

I agree with this but I am finding it difficult because I am very much feeling the effects of the medication and I seem to have lost inches - I think but it's hard to be sure 2 inches off my waist - but it's not showing up on the scales at all!

I don't know therefore whether or not to go up to 5 or to stay on 2.5 and trust that it will eventually show up on the scales

I've decided to do this as well, I was planning to start today but I'm at home alone and although the most severe side effects eg anaphylaxis are rare I've decided to wait until someone is with me tomorrow. Quite excited though, I just can't imagine what it must be like to not think about food all the time. I imagine it's similar to how I rarely think about smoking now after being off then for 10 years but back then whenever I tried to give up it's all I could think about.

I feel so sick this morning, had awful acid reflux when I woke up and did a not-very-nice poo (sorry TMI!)

3rd jab was weds night, and I was quite piggy yesterday as the 2nd jab had worn off but 3rd not kicked in yet.

Ugh noodles and tuna at 8.30 in the evening is NOT a good thing to do guys!

I did it this morning! Multiple rounds of IVF in my past, so the injection itself didn’t worry me, but I’m a lone parent so managed to get myself even more worried about my 7 year old having to call an ambulance if I went into anaphylactic shock 🙄 But of course nothing happened and I’m fine 🙄. I kind of hate my health anxiety, prior to perimenopause I never used to be like this. But anyway, it’s done! And thank you for the support.

My starting weight this morning is 12.9 stone, I’m 52 years old. Goal weight is 10 stone initially (although would be ecstatic if I ever managed to get back down to the weight I felt most healthy and strong at, which is 9-9.5 stone). Good luck everybody! Going to look at Nutracheck tonight to try and start tracking fibre etc

Had my second injection this morning. Very happy with week one results. Had sulphur burps for 36hrs after eating something spicy early on, but learned my lesson quickly.

Good suppression all week until yesterday when hunger started to come back. Although I was still able to wait to prepare a healthy meal and count the calories.

I've been using myfitnesspal to record calories and sticking to around 1250 a day, which is very low for my height and weight (5'10, 121kg). It hasn't been difficult because of the suppression, but wondering if I should up my cals? I have been hitting 100g protein and 25g fibre daily though.

A real test this week: half term and dd wanted to bake a carrot cake. I haven't had not even a bite. I licked the icing off the spoon at the end and it was sickly sweet, a bit disgusting.

SW 124.5
CW 121.6

TL 2.9

Hi

Really sorry if I've picked you up wrong or you're found your own schedule (just ignore me if so).

Assuming you count your first jag day as day 1 then you'd take your second on day 7, seven days later. So if your first jag is a Monday then your second is also Monday.

You won't have done any harm and really sorry if this has come across patronising but your post jumped out at me.

If I was you I'd now stick to the same day you've taken your second jag. Xx