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

[DGonMJ]

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@DGonMJ same here, we're pretty much the same weight. I don't remember when I last saw 6 on the scale, at least 6 years ago, if not more. And even then I never manager to get below 68. Let's see this time.

Davina DONE! 😰
10 minute warmup and a beginners upper body session, I'm doing a 4 week beginner strength training so it'll be 3x sessions a week.
Could hardly lift anything and knackered after the warmup, SOOOOO unfit! 😭

Another small victory, pushups are soooo much easier if you have less bodyweight on you!

Oh god I’ve never been able to do even one! I have strong legs but the upper body of an invertebrate.

I had my 4th 5mg jab on Thursday and have felt no suppression and a lot of hunger since then. Had a night out last night and ate and drank normally, didn’t feel particularly full or bloated afterwards - a few weeks ago I’d have only managed half a meal and would’ve felt full for ages afterwards. Really disappointed and know I won’t lose anything this week. Just hope moving up to 7.5 next Thursday will help get me back on track.

I'm a classic yo-yo dieter coupled with the problem of loving eating out and there not being much I don't like to eat! I have always since my twenties basically fasted or done SW or whatever, slowly lost weight (as I could never pre-MJ resist having a mini-binge at the weekend to "reward" myself!) and then maintained for a little bit. Then I'd go on holiday or winter would hit and it would all go out the window. I'd plan to relax for a while and get back on it but then that would turn into a longer while (this time it's been ove a year of just gradually putting the weight on plus more). Then bc I feel shit and lethargic when I'm not eating healthily I stopped doing any exercise too and it all completely went to pot!

I initially thought I'd use MJ to get to my goal and then go it alone but now I've done a complete about turn. I feel so strongly that I don't want to go back to the way I was before (always feeling like I had no control over food) that I'm planning to stay on a maintenance dose long term. The cost is obvs a bit of a pain in the bum but as others have said - hopefully it'll go down as it's rolled out more. I'm thinking Il move to Oushk soon as they have the best maintenance plan it seems?

Im pretty confident that if I stop taking it Il be back at square one before I know it. Hearing posters mention suppression wearing off as they reach the end of the week or need to go up a dose and the food noise starting again makes me panicky and brings back the memory of that out of control feeling when you can't ignore the cravings any longer and end up bingeing. I'd be over the moon to never feel like that again and don't mind paying for it!

For the first time in my life I feel like I maybe know what it's like to be a "naturally" thin person and not have food dominating my thoughts.

I've always had a joke with my dh about how my dm (who has been the exact same weight for about 50 years!) virtuously claims she can eat one square of chocolate and then put it back in the fridge etc. I always scoffed and thought "life's too short - why deny yourself?" and laughed about it with dh but now I realise that this is basically the mindset you NEED to have if you want to be slim and stay slim! I would never have eaten one square of chocolate before and put it back, I had no "off" button. Now I don't even fancy chocolate!

Interesting to read about how others think about food. I am someone who has always been plump. I was the biggest of my mates at school/uni (I look back now and that was a whopping bmi of 25/26 but this was the 90s). I have a plump build - short, curvy, busty. Celtic/country girl build. Good breeding stock.

I get a real dopamine hit from food. I associate it with fun and indulgence and treating myself. I am greedy. I eat to cheer myself up. But I don't have constant food noise. Like @Jins I struggle to stop when I'm full but I'm not a snacker really. I pick but if the food is not in front of me I don't make the effort to look for it.

Twice I've lost big chunks of weight. Once I kept it off for 6 years relatively easily - I had to be mindful of what I ate but along came Covid and I needed the boost and on it went. Plus I am naturally sedentary and my world got small.

I do think about maintaining but I dont think about it much. Am happy to be on this long term if that's what's needed. I have diabetes in my family so it may be that it is.

I am happiest at a bmi 27ish. I have never been below 25 as an adult but I've had excellent health markers, excellent waist to hip ratio and fitness at that weight. Thighs that would crush a man. If I can get there I'd be more than happy. I am also reclaiming the word plump.

@myladyjane lol same here. can carry an oxen under each arm up a hill and whenever I tried to lose weight, my body goes: 'Oh, hard times again? Don't you worry lass, I will keep you plump as a partridge!'

I'm also a big food noise person. I've always been like this since I can remember. Especially with sweet things. If I know there's chocolate in the cupboard I will think about it constantly until I've eaten it all. It started to develop into a more binge eating type situation as I've gotten older but MJ has totally switched that off for me. I can't believe this is how many people feel naturally day to day!

I also spoke to my DH and he had no idea that anyone felt this way. I always thought I was greedy and had no willpower but ever since researching MJ it's opened my eyes to something bigger going on inside. And it's nice to know it's not just me who feels this way!

I am 11st 0.8 this morning - SO close to being in the 10st range which is crazy to me. I'm half a stone lighter than I've ever been in my whole adult life. I've always had 10st in my head as a 'goal' but even that felt unachievable to me. I have now reset it to 9st 7 as for the first time ever I feel like I can get there!!

I do feel like I look fatter than 1 and a half stone overweight though, so can't imagine what I will look like when I get there. Hopefully every pound will show more of a physical difference now I have less to lose?

oh yes certainly, once you're slimmer, each pound lost is a bigger percentage of your body weight, so it will show. Somoene compared it to pulling sheets off a kitchen roll - you don't see it getting smaller at first.

This is very true. Dh and older dd are very slim and I can really tell even when they've only lost a few pounds.

I love the word plump too - "pleasantly plump" rolls off the tongue nicely and some people really do suit being plump better. I also think it's much sexier to be curvaceous and have tits and arse! I'm really hoping my boobs don't completely disappear, I was measured the other week and much to my surprise I'm a triple D (never knew there was such a thing) which I'm quite proud of 😂

Oh well done @discoballv ! The lightest I’ve been as an adult is 11 stone (I’m 5’4”) and I can’t imagine being that again. I’m aiming for 12 this time.

I’m also in the oxen-carrying plump partridge gang.

I could have written this exact post. I've lost weight a few times before, after my DC who are 11 and 7, and then again after the pandemic but recent efforts have been so hard as I'm now 44 and in perimenopause. I can't imagine being slim slim, as even at my lightest I was over 10 stone - I looked good though because it was all in my bum and boobs. I'd love to be back there again and also happy to take jabs long term if that's what it takes, as I've had not a single adverse side effect in 6 weeks so far and feel great on them.

Now I’m middle aged I also feel it’s time to reclaim strong, sturdy, broad etc. I think in my youth I felt ashamed I wasn’t in the same size clothes or the same on the scales as my more slender friends, but I was never going to be.

I too come from study farming stock I think. Tall and dense with big hands and feet. My maternal gm was described as Amazonian and I think I take after her! Meaty barmaid type arms too like two sides of gammon 😂

although not as tall as others i’ve been told i’m quite dense, child bearing hips etc. I was always stick thin with curvy hips and hated that i couldn’t look as slim as others. I’m embracing that this time round and aiming for a size 10. Now i’ve had a child i actually have boobs so that’s in my favour i thought they would go as i lost weight but not so far. Problem is i have no idea how to dress for wide hips/curves.

@JoanCollinsDiva what bra brand was this? Most in the UK indeed don't do DDD, they go from DD to E, just in case you want to go shopping.

Had a very strange experience today. My mum popped round and told me that the diabetic nurse has put her on ‘a brand new weight loss injection called Mounjaro’. She then told me all about how she has to take it once a week etc. I was nodding and hmmmmimg the whole time 😂she said the nurse jokingly said if she doesn’t want to take it, she can sell the pens on the internet and make a fortune.

The worrying thing though was that she said she can eat anything, she can ‘stuff her face’ if she wanted and the weight would fall off. Bit concerning she’s been given no dietary advice at all! I suggested she might get side effects if she eats unhealthily, so perhaps look into it.

I’ll also anticipate conversations from my siblings about this now which is going to be hard to stay quiet about being on the jab myself.

Ha ha! I was home last week with the kids for half term and my mum was telling me that my sister is on it, badly explaining what it is and how it works.. I haven't told anyone yet that I'm on it, haven't felt the need as I have 0 side effects and I'm simply eating less and better.

@LillethCrane omg! I know a girl who is diabetic and been put on mounjaro, doesn't know I am on it too, but she was explaining it all to me and moans she feels sick all the time, she has carried on eating the same and was told nothing about changing her diet etc.. I said to her about maybe not eating fried foods etc, but her answer was well what am I going to eat then? . Ha.. no help with some people..
And she offered me some chocolate she was eating, I said no I'm OK thanks and she asked how I can resist as its so good.. I was like I have some really nice chocolate at home so I'll wait for my treat and eat that, she then tells me with the drugs she is on she can eat whatever she likes and the weight will fall off.. I think she maybe in for a shock soon..

@morbidcuriosity wow. I do wonder if many people have the gastrointestinal side effects because they keep stuffing their faces with fried foods, as nobody has told them this may not be the best idea.

it's a bit concerning though that there seem to be plenty of people getting MJ from supposedly specialists, and who are given no dietary advice whatsoever. And who clearly can't even use google to check the available advice.

Quite possibly yeah. With half the rubbish over social media about how it's the lazy way etc, people probably think they can carry on eating crap and the weight will fall, and if diabetic nurses are not advising any different you would prob think that's the case..

I think for people who buy it, myself included we research and find out lots before hand, not just handed it and told use this to lose weight..

Well i am at end of week 4 , had lost 1st by week 3 but have gained back 4 pounds. I think maybe i need to weigh at set times of the day.
I go up to 5mg tomorrow. I am a bit confused about bonus dose, how much is it usually? Do people take it on top of regular dose or instead of?