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

[DGonMJ]

Previous thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5270287-january-2025-starters-thread-4-lets-lose-some-more

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Just checking in!
I amazingly lost 2lb this week despite having my birthday weekend !
SW
20st 5
CW 17st11
GW 12st5

I've had people start to comment and ask if I've lost some weight too this week which has been nice!

I've just done my first ever golden dose and having a little panic... I've been doing 3.75mg and I wanted to continue with that and I've fucked up and given myself a full 5mg shot of 0.6ml.
I now feel really sick already- 5 mins after jab and hugely anxious about side effects.
I'm so cross with myself. I used a new syringe to do it and was so anxious not to exceed dose written on side of pen I didn't compute to do 75% of the dose on pen. Whatever 75% of 0.6ml is and did 0.6ml.

I'm now just so anxious. Hand hold anyone??
How had people found going from 3.75 to 5????

And to make matters worse I had to do my 3.75mg last week about 18 hours later on a Friday morning rather than Thursday eve so it has been less than 7 days since my last dose and I've done too much 😓

@Changingnameagain

Dont panic!!

I went straight from 2.5 to 5 and wasn’t ill. It did make me feel tired, but aside from that it was the same as 2.5.

@Changingnameagain I had no problems going to 5 mg, please don't panic!

Thank you @zempy and @cloudjumper for your reassurances
I think the swift onset nausea was actually anxiety cos I was freaking out. I feel better now I've done something to take my mind off it. Going to chug and extra litre of water though between jab and bed just in case.....

What I've found interesting anecdotally is that the slimmest people I know have all been fidgeters

My slim DH and DS on the other hand were clearly common or garden sloths in previous life

So helpful to read. I'm about to jab my first 7.5mg (procrastinating but going now haha) - suppression was good on 5mg even to day 6 so I am curious about 7.5mg. I think the burps will settle! But sounds like otherwise you've had an okay start! Thanks for sharing :)

It’s been as if I’m not on WLI at all today. I managed to hold out till lunchtime but I seem to have been either eating or hunting around for food all day. Weirdly there’s no food noise as such - I’m just really hungry.

Jab day tomorrow and hopefully there’ll be a decent amount in the bonus dose but if not I’ll be topping it up from the new pen. It’s definitely time to move up.

I was really hoping to be able to tick off my first stone but I think that will have to wait

I have another problem now. 2 months ago, I was covered in one nice solid layer of lard. Now some of it is gone and the rest is softer and wobblier - meaning I can actually feel the bones and muscles underneath. Which also means I can feel how much I still have to lose..
Have to keep telling myself that remember, it's not a sprint.

Hi all, de-lurking to ask a question if that’s ok. I am due to take the bonus dose from my first 5mg pen on Saturday. I have another 5mg pen waiting in the fridge. My question is do I take all of what I extract even if it is more than 0.6ml? (I probably should have gone up to 7.5mg, food noise back a bit.) And if I do take a slightly higher dose am I ok to then take the 5mg pen as normal? Tbh it confuses me a bit

Hey everyone, just been catching up on everyone's progress! Great to read about some fab losses and fellow tortoises. We are all heading in the right direction 😊

4 days in to 5mg and feeling super lucky to have no side effects.

My loss this week was tiny, I don't even know what percentage of a pound it was. Went from 12.9.9 to 12.9.2. Not feeling disappointed though which is great progress as previous diets and weight loss attempts would have seen me feeling really flat with that result.

Made a real effort this week and have really mixed it up with the evening meals, despite not being able to eat much. I've enjoyed what I have had though and feels like I've got my mojo back a little.

I'm not sure if it was this thread or one of our earlier ones but please could someone link me to a good marine collagen? I tried the bovine one and it tasted absolutely vile to me, felt like I could actually taste cows 😂. I don't actually eat red meat so I'm reluctant to try another bovine one as I think psychologically, i'll convince myself that any of them taste like cow.

Well that was disappointing, only 300gr down this week, so basically the same. I don't even understand how, have been eating well in calorie deficit the whole week. Am I somehow sucking calories in from the air?
And the tracking app I use recommends that I should be eating 1500 kcal for weight loss. Ha.

Well done to everyone on your losses regardless how big or small it’s still a win. I started taking multivitamins after a few disappointing weeks and this week (week9, day 7) i have lost 5lbs. Total loss is now 35lbs but still have 21lbs more to go till my goal weight. We have a little trip booked for mother’s day weekend and i’m hoping to get into the 11stone bracket (currently 12.4) in time for that. We’re going back to the place we went late last year when i was at my heaviest and i looked at the pictures and realised something needed to change. So looking forward to comparing the pictures but i hate food planning for when im away.

yes like @Randomusernameforcode said, if I was on a regular diet, I would have given up, as such a small loss for a lot of effort would not felt like it was worth it. Now the effort is manageable.

Have a big work meeting in less than 2 weeks where I'm also doing some presentations, really want to look comfortable there and not to worry about holding my stomach in.

@DandelionStars I would use whatever is in the bonus dose, it’s probably going to be around 5.8.

I don’t think it will massively impact if you then take 5mg doses from next pen. If you feel insufficient suppression you can always dose more than five but you will need more needles.

weigh day today
SW 101kg
CW 93.3kg
GW 70kg

lost 0.7kg this week so a decent steady loss and have done my fourth 5mg dose. I'll be ordering a 7.5mg pen next week but might do a couple more 5mg doses from it before I move up.

@unicornsaremagical What multivitamins are you taking?

I just don’t know I’m eating enough nutrients on this deficit. I have one or two pieces of fruit a day. If it’s a porridge breakfast day I’ll have berries, nuts and seeds with it, if it’s an egg breakfast day I’ll have maybe a tomato or avocado. I usually eat a big salad for lunch and some veg on the side for dinner - is this enough? I keep thinking about my colleague who had a gastric bypass and needed to go for regular vitamin shots as she couldn’t absorb enough nutrients.

I’ve been taking the Ancient & Brave marine collagen recommended on this thread and I don’t know if it’s coincidence with my natural hair cycle but my hair definitely feels thicker when I put it into a ponytail.

I take collagen capsules, so no taste.
Have started using minoxidil some time ago, as hair was definitely getting thinner on hairline, so just age related and not mj. Good news is that it really works, but I look a bit like a hedgehog due to all the new hairs sprouting up.

@DGonMJ i had the same issue i think i was lacking a few things, i feel a lot better in myself although still exhausted. my weight stalled at 2lbs a week for a few weeks. i started valupak multi vitamins from medexpress. Seems to of given me the boost i needed

@DandelionStars I had a similar situation after ordering a second 2.5mg pen. Decided to divide up the bonus dose to supplement the regular dose. So for example you could take your bonus dose on the 5mg…which might be 6mg. And then on your next 5mg pen you could divide the bonus dose by 4 so you take an extra 15clicks with each full dose. You’ll definitely need to use a syringe for your 4th dose - you’ll have a minimum 0.75ml (but likely a bit more depending on priming).

@HeavyHeidi i definitely have this is waves. I have soft weeks and firmer weeks. I think the fat cells release water and I get the soft weeks, and then maybe everything around the fat cells tightens up a bit. I’m wondering if that relates to the whoosh and the stalls.

@DandelionStars When I do the bonus dose, I take everything I can extract from the pen. Chances are it’s not going to be that much more than 0.6 ml. I usually get 0.7-0.8 ml with a syringe.

I took the bonus dose on Tuesday so that was just over 5mg. I’ve moved my weigh day to Friday to see the impact of the working week.

Since last Friday I’ve lost 3.5lbs, taking me to 2 stone in total. I’m really pleased with this, as I’ve had lots of weeks of stalling over the last 9 injections. It seems for me I’m either having a whoosh or a stall, rather than a regular weekly loss.

@HeavyHeidi what products with minoxidil are you taking? I’m forever looking for something to help my thinning, brittle hair!

@cloudjumper at the moment, Alostil 5% liquid, but will go back to foam when this bottle is finished, easier to use.