January 2025 Starters Thread 5 - Tortoises, Slow Runners, let’s lose a bit more!

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I'm feeling a bit disenchanted today. Half a pound up, suddenly the excitement has worn off and it feels like a long road ahead.

Just feeling a bit feeble. A feeble Weeble.

half a pound is just a fluctuation most likely. overall trend still downwards?

W9 D4 3.75mg
I had my first square of chocolate at work.l since starting MJ. I did not instantly get fat, nor did I have any other bad reactions. I do think not weighing everyday is helping me to obsess a bit less.

I had a work colleague tell me someone we both knew had started ozempic. I responded with ‘good for him’. I must confess that last year when I was still figuring out whether or not I could lose weight on my own or ‘give in’ to WLI, my response would have been different. Probably ‘oh he doesn’t need it, he’s not that overweight, why doesn’t he just get a PT? Why’s he risking the side effects for vanity?’ All the things I was telling myself…until I got fed up with none of the usual methods working, and all of the ‘this is my grandmother era, I’m meant to get fatter’ positive mantras couldn’t help. We never know the internal struggles people are having with their weight and health. I’m so grateful for MJ now, and this very supportive group of women here.

@IBloodyLoveMyBlanket but feeble weebles are allowed. And it's a pack of butter mate.

@MJalltheway ohhhh another hypermobile peri type. We do rock. For all my fitness regimes I go too hard and hurt myself or get a week of DOMS. This is why I've picked some simple short routines to do daily and will start with v light dumbbells. Gentle gentle.

I actually haven't done my first day of lent yet. I had to leave before 7 to drive to get a train to go to a different office. I am waiting for the train back and will get home about 8 but I am still going to do it. Much as I wish I didn't have to, my working week is always like this and for too long I've let it take over.

Are we ready for tmi? Brace yourselves.....

The wind!!!!! I had a bit of a dodgy tummy/sulphur burps on the weekend. That has mostly gone although not quite normal. But the wind both too and bottom is unbelievable! Thankfully odourless but it's been like the battle of Trafalgar and I had to mute myself on Teams calls. I was going to increase my dose to 5mg this week but I am going to stick to 4.3 as a result. Suppression is fine etc and I don't want to risk another week of people getting a performance of the grimthorpe colliery band.

Finally guess what turned up 3 weeks late! Wish me luck that it is not too heavy....

hypermobile here as well! Was only diagnosed a year ago, I thought everybody's knees bent backwards :D

It's my fingers which are really bad - they sort of bend upwards. I think it's everyone else's fingers which are wrong...

What are the chances!?I also have hypermobility. Diagnosed about 25 years ago. Lifetime of pain.

I have a long day with lots of travelling tomorrow, and a catered lunch. I am hoping at least one colleague who hasn’t seen me in a while mentions that I have lost weight!!

I can resist the crisps, will take a protein bar for the train journey home. Feeling tired today so shower and early night.

Hypermobility? Guess what? Me too!

Mostly upper body nowadays especially my shoulders. Aging has helped quite a bit

Wow, I wonder if there's a correlation! My two DdS have it too, I'm always going on at them to make sure they are as strong as possible and not to overstretch. It wasn't really known about when I was a child, I was just called 'double jointed'.
It's my hips, knees and ankles (very flat footed) I have trouble with.
Ive been resisting the crisps since the start. Haven't had a single one which is shocking for me. I almost daren't have any just in case I open the floodgates and can't stop.
I've realised that on 5mg I have basically just completely stopped any snacks. I was having only fruit and/nuts for snacks before but I don't even think about snacking now. Probably means it is a bit too much for me, I'm also doing IF so I'm only eating lunch and dinner and nothing else. Pretty sure I will stick at 5mg for the next pen as well.

Also hypermobile/double jointed 🙋🏻‍♀️

I've been quiet on here as I feel a bit "done" with it all now.
Obviously I'll continue and I'm continuing to lose with minimal effects. However, I think the novelty has well and truly worn off now.

10 jabs done. 5 at 2.5mg and 5 at 3.75mg. Next jab will be a bonus dose of 5mg. Takes the pen to 35 days but I feel ok with that.

SW. 13st 13.8.
CW. 12st 9.2.
GW1.11st 7.
GW2. 11st.

I have two full pens in the fridge of 5mg and 7.5mg and don't plan to buy anymore.

Does anyone else feel similar? Like fed up of it but with no actual tangible reason why?

@Randomusernameforcode no!

I am in it for the long haul. I expect to be taking the medication for the rest of the year at least, and possibly beyond.

My stats are similar to yours. SW 13 st 7 and CW 11 st 13. I have lost 22 pounds since Jan 8. I would like to lose at least the same again, which I think will take four months, then titration downward and finding a maintenance level.

What is it that you are bored with? Do you need to change up your diet?

Amazing how many of us have hypermobility. I wonder if there’s something in that? I suspect I have EDS but don’t really want to be diagnosed with yet another bloody thing.

Jeezo. I’m also hypermobile, which causes me significant issues with trying to gain strength and stability. Seems a bit of a coincidence so many of us here are!

@cloudjumper wishing you luck and (gentle!) hugs for your surgery; glad you've finally got a date.

@0ncemorewithfee1ing I hope you manage to stick with it even if you're not posting here. We're always here for you when you want to chat 🤗

Have had fun and games since we got back from holiday; the fridge freezer was making a bit of a funny noise but I had so much other stuff to do, I put it to the back of my mind. Went to check the fridge yesterday morning and noticed a puddle of (coloured, eek!) water on the floor. Wasn't the fridge, but the freezer had stopped working and everything was defrosted. 😭 Had a fun day binning everything and cleaning up the mess. So upset at the waste; all the stocks and sauces etc that I'd made. 😢

In other news, as another daily weigher, the scales said 13.13 this morning, having been hovering just over 14 for what seemed like an eternity. Over the moun(jaro!) as haven't seen a weight beginning with a 13 for about 11 years! 😁 Fingers crossed they stay that way/weigh until the weekend! 🤞

Hey I'm in the hyper mobile crew too! Who knew there were so many of us?
I was diagnosed a few years back after experiencing knee pain whilst running.

@Randomusernameforcode I know what you mean. For me the novelty is still there and I’m excited by the progress but the low energy and inability to gain strength (due to just not eating enough to fuel) is a bummer. I think MJ is having a slight negative effect on my mental health - low energy and a bit “blank”… does that make sense?

I’m seeing this as a short term fix to get me in the healthy weight range and then the real work begins around maintenance off MJ.

@mince3point14159265 Sorry about the fridge loss. I feel ya! Congratulations on the new number - it can feel so significant!

@Zempy I wonder if that is it, RE the diet. Im just not enjoying food at all a the moment. I am eating because I have to but there is no pleasure in it for me at all.
Im not looking forward to anything and nothing tastes amazing.

Im feeling the most satisfied from very clean eating. E.g. broccoli, green beans, lean chicken and plain fish. Obviously this is great for my health and weight but just feels a bit "meh". Im someone who really enjoys seasoning and flavours usually but it's just not at all appealing at the mo.

My fridge freezer also broke today but it's because I was too vigorous battering the icebergs that had formed in there with a rolling pin. The rolling pin method never failed me before 😅😭

And me!! Mine is my knees and thumbs randomly! My son also has it. I have a rare genetic eye condition as well and registered partially sighted so exercise quite difficult- I did couch to 5 k a few years ago but can’t run outside so that didn’t last long! My big passion is swimming but no pool in my village and I can’t drive anymore. Dh and I plan to start before work in a couple of weeks when our nearest outdoor pool is open, in the meantime I’ll try to up my steps! I do wonder sometimes if I make excuses to not exercise but it really is quite difficult!

I'm also hypermobile, what an odd coincidence! I've always struggled with things like pilates as my shoulders go too far back!

I totally relate.

Also to this: think MJ is having a slight negative effect on my mental health - low energy and a bit “blank”… does that make sense?

Ive felt quite low mood/energy from the start apart from the first week when I felt great. My mood has definitely perked up since we've had a few sunny days though and I've been making sure to get out in it as I'm sure it's also vit D related.
I think it's to do with the "joy" receptor being dulled maybe in regards to food? Apparently one of the widespread effects of WLI's being the reduction in dopamine-fuelled behaviours. So I've also not been drinking or smoking (was only a two a day habit but still) or drinking coffee - so it's like all the things that gave me a little thrill are gone! Obviously it's for the best but it makes sense that life maybe feels a bit more boring now..

I previously loved having a nice curry at the weekend and then eating some really nice food from Waitrose on a Saturday night followed by a few glasses of wine. I can't stomach that now and dont really enjoy the taste of very much so it's a bit as you say...meh. It's definitely the lesser of two evils though - I couldn't continue just slowly gaining weight and on balance I was miserable before I started taking it. I'd rather be slim and a bit miserable than fat and very miserable 😂

I was very good at ballet - I had excellent turn out. Of course I did, my knee points all over the shop! I wasn't diagnosed until my 20s though. I was THRILLED to discover my very bad DOMS is a hypermobile thing and not just me being a weed!

@Randomusernameforcode I get you. I am a couple of weeks behind you and losing at a similar rate. I do get a bit bored even though I know it's a long haul thing.

I did my exercise - strength training today.

Thanks @myladyjane and @JoanCollinsDiva it's nice to know I'm not alone in this feeling.

Makes total sense about the dopamine etc and I totally hear you about being slim and a bit miserable than fat and very!

I can already feel and see a difference in my face (defo have one less chin 🤣) also had a recent NSV of getting into some old size 14 jeans. I need to take stock of how amazing these things have made me feel and not get too caught up in the "meh"!