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

Please no discount codes!

@unicornsaremagical i ordered from Oushk about 3 weeks ago and I was between 26 and 27 BMI. I had to upload previous prescription boxes, full length photo with face, photo ID. As someone said I think they’re also doing video consultations but will still approve as long as you agree to one.

You lot have been chatty this week! I've been unable to keep up whilst away!! Will try and take a look through this weekend.

I'm so pleased to be home - not going away for a while and can get back into a semblance of a routine.

I've felt different this week - when I've eaten spicy food it has not sat well in my belly. Nor has the bubbly. I've felt like I was eating more, but when I look at it, I'm really not. Quick WI today has shown 1/2lb loss, but will see on official weigh day on Sunday. Very happy with that given the travel - but a bigger loss next week pls, as it's been slow(we) going the past three weeks.

Enjoying the lack of car tyre though...

Just about to read back, I haven't been on since 28/2 as so busy!!
Very excited this happened today 🥳
Sub fat and body fat still up, and will take my 7th jab tomorrow.
22.8lbs off, I want 35lbs off all together, but my first target is another 6.8lbs to 161lbs.
Happy to be in the 11 stones this morning!!
I have 2 more 5 jabs and a 7.5 in the fridge, then I'll be done and maintain.
Oh and I'm 45 🙈
Well done to everyone over the last few weeks xx

Congratulations @Constantdieter Fabulous to see that go green.

I’ve just done my bonus dose. 0.75ml this time which gives me a dose of 6.25mg. Exactly halfway between 5 and 7.5. Let’s see how this goes.

Well done @GrumpyMuleFan that sounds like a big mind shift. We are MJ twins, I’ve lost roughly the same amount 15.7 lbs, seven injections in.

I’m not really making any changes other than dropping a meal a day, I’m sure I’d fail without MJ.

Just tried some shorts Iused to love but that have been too tight for years. They fit. Plenty of room to spare. Can't believe it.

Week 12 this week and today's weigh and 5mg jab, just 1lb off for me this week but I'm feeling good!

Away at caravan for the weekend and will be eating out tomorrow, I'd usually be panicking about that but I am fully in control and looking forward to it.

Have a nice weekend all

Yay for another NSV!
I also managed to squeeze into some Levis Curve jeans I’d bought over ten years ago to hold in my stubbornly baggy mum-tum. Haven’t fit for ages, can now tuck in all the wrinkles and saggy skin that have reappeared!

I just took my bonus dose. I have been getting really good suppression on 5mg so am rather alarmed to have calculated I just injected 7!! I extracted 8.5 ml which is much more than the 7 ml bonus dose from my 2.5 pen.

Oh well, a quiet weekend on the sofa avoiding food sounds good!

Well done! This is the best feeling. I tried on everything in my wardrobe last weekend and half of it is now huge on me, and dug out a vacuum bag of clothes which have been too small for years and some of that was too big too. Got a couple of dresses which still had tags on which I forgot to return because they were always too small too and now they fit perfectly.

Ooft, after being on 2.5mg for 2 pens/10 doses I went up to 5mg and it feels very strong. It’s needed and I don’t think I lost more than a couple of lbs on the 2nd pen but having to readjust.

I've apparently lost a 2 year old! Was a bit worried for a minute there, but my actual two year old is tucked up in his bed! He is pretty heavy, so that feels very impressive
@IBloodyLoveMyBlanket I'm sorry you aren't feeling good. I think I've resigned myself to at least two days a week or diarrhea and sulphur burps, I've decided it's a price worth paying but I'll need to move up very slowly.

I've lost a koala, I love koalas!

So I woke up this morning to get ready for work and felt so grim, that I was sick!! I reckon that I should avoid eating supper/anything after lunch/brunch on the day I do my MJ jab, as it literally must have just sat in my stomach all night. I didn't have a large supper at all, and I only ate about a half of it (and I didn't eat late). It's vile though. Yesterday was first week that I went up to 7.5mg, so maybe that was the issue (but I did the bonus dose last week, which was between 5 and 7.5). Maybe it's catching up with me now and I'll be getting more side effects. Typical that I'm working today, so please wish me luck! Think I'll have to mainline black coffee and water, and hope for the best!

Can you try something to soothe the stomach? Kefir or kombucha usually helps me.

Sympathies @TicTac80, hope it passes quickly.

Have woken up this morning feeling fairly nauseous. DH suggested eating something to see if it helped but no joy 🤢 really hoping it goes away soon as I’m parenting solo most of the weekend and not sure I can do it feeling like this!!!

Just done my midweek weigh in and I've lost another 2.6lbs and am (just) into a new stone category! 0.2lbs to go until I've lost 2 stone! Very happy with that!

that's amazing, @UnderandOverwhelmed
Summer and crop-tops, here we come 😁

Well done @UnderandOverwhelmed !
i think I'm going to dig out all my stored clothes this weekend and see what I have in smaller sizes. Not that I'm ready to move down a size yet, I've lost 17lbs so far but still firmly in size 18s. I was hoping I'd need a nice new dress for a family party in a month's time but doesn't look like it, I will just have to wear one I already have.

Good luck today @TicTac80 and @RockyisMYRhino hope the nausea passes.

Congrats on the new stone category @UnderandOverwhelmed nice to get a boost on a mid-week weigh in!

I’m W10 D7 and did a double weigh today. Am 68.3kg on the Juniper scales and 68.6kg on the Renpho - so the gap is closing! I’ve finally hit the minimum target on body water %

SW 79.6kg BMI 29.2
CW 68.3kg BMI 25.5
GW 60-65kg BMI 22-23.9

Official WI tomorrow on jab day to track this week’s loss.

To those feeling sick, ginger nut biscuits help me. Even if you can only bear to nibble a little bit.

@HeavyHeidi I did snigger at crop tops! I haven’t worn one since I was about 17!

I slept for ten hours last night after my 7mg dose. Very low key weekend planned. Enjoy it everyone.

Morning,

sneaky midweek weigh in and I’m down 1.2lb. I realllly want a 2lb loss this week to get my first stone off, and I’ve got till Tuesday to do it. Off to the gym in a bit, and I need to make sure I’m getting plenty of water in. I’m finding even 2 litres a day isn’t feeling like enough at the moment.

Not sure about joining you all with the crop tops, lol, no one needs to see my big old belly!

@DGonMJ you are nearly at healthy BMI now, you must feel fantastic.

I have thought about rooting through my clothes, but aside from a couple of pairs of work trousers, I’m still in the same stuff, despite losing nearly two stone. I must have looked so shit in it all. Never mind, onward and downward!

SW: 13 stone 7
CW: 11 stone 8

I am also still in basically the same stuff, some tops that were tight now fit better but I'm not sure I've quite gone down a dress size after almost 2 stone lost. I was wearing very baggy stuff before. I have 4 more stone to go though, so I was never expecting that much from early weight loss, this is long haul for me.

I’m pretty much in the same clothes too - 1st down but have 4st to go to dream weight which puts me at BMI of 21. I was aiming for 3.5 st to goal initially, so I don’t know how realistic that is.
My work trousers are verging on being loose but a belt will be fine for a while. I’ve some old ones which don’t fit yet so I’m not getting new ones until I’m past that size.

i tend to wear leggings a lot so they were clearly very stretched!! Hoping that the next stone makes more of a dress size difference