November ‘24 Starters Thread 8 - The one where we hop into Spring and thinks about new swimwear👙

[Mounjaropen]

Link to previous thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5268809-november-24-starters-thread-7-the-one-where-we-might-need-smaller-smalls?page=40&reply=142476529

Welcome to thread 8 to MN weight loss friends old and new!
Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we Spring forward into a new season...and consider new swimwear and Summer Wardrobes ❤️

I’m on W17 D3 and on my fourth 5mg pen
F in my early 50’s
H 5’ 5.5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 11st 6.4 lb
GW 10st (maybe 9st 7lb if I don’t look like a melted candle)
Total loss so far 32.6lbs

Recommend the Shotsy app to monitor MJ in the system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free.
Feel free to swap recipes that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for side effects, exercise tips, tips for titrating up or down and we love a beauty/ style chat too 🥰

I’ve concluded this is just middle age life and I’m thankful for my amazing family. Going through everything without them would really suck. Apparently I’m very resilient - which is just as well really.

I've finally had a whoosh. 4lb off this week! Down to 11.8 despite drinking too much wine last night

Oooh yes! I dream of capsule wardrobes! Tres chic!

Yay!!! Must be the week for whooshes as seems a few of us have had them!

Happy Friday fellow expensive death jabbers.

Like many of us, I had a mini whoosh this morning and am now BMI 27 🥳 So I've registered with Oushk with a view to switching to their maintenance plan when the time comes.

My tummy still has a long way to go too, and interestingly the tops of my thighs which I never viewed as fat are looking particularly flabby. Time to get those areas toned up and slather on the bio oil i think! Haven't been to the gym since Monday so need to pull my finger out at get consistent again. I thought I'd cracked it last week getting back in the groove but work trip to London got in the way. No excuse really as have a lovely gym at the office with lovely shower gels and hair straighteners. Just couldn't be arsed!

Well, despite visibly having lost weight on my stomach (evidenced by more crinkly skin, very much a mixed blessing) the scales tell me I have lost 0.1lbs since last week.

And I can't even muster the will to finish off DH's hot cross buns in response!

Add me in to those with a good scale this morning. Finally back to my low .8kg off overnight.

That did include 3am bathroom visits the last two nights.

Hopeful this will boost me into a clean weekend and an actual new loss by weigh in on Monday.

Hope everyone is feeling good and has a nice weekend, shame it's not due to be as warm as last weekend.

I noticed that this week has been the first time since starting MJ that I haven't felt queasy I'm on week 18 I wonder why that has happened I can't think what's different 🤔

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Well done! 🥳

Bugger all losses here too. And no HCB’s either 😭

Well done! I could do with a good clear out tbh 💩😂

It probably means your blood sugar levels are settling? Not a bad thing. Maybe keep a food diary to see if anything you ate previously set it off?

@MsRumpole I'm with u @Mounjaropenalways answers every post it's great to feel included in this community I love it

Very excitedly weighing in today🥂🥂🥂

W17D7
SW: 19st 9lbs
CW:16st 9lbs
1st GW: 17st 13lbs
2nd GW 15st 4lbs
TL: 3st 0lb

Three pounds off this week so I'm now three stone off in total! That's also 15% of my starting weight gone, my body fat according to my scales is down 10 from 57% to 47% (totally ignoring that this is still terrible!) and I'm down 6.5 BMIs. Thanks to one of the other threads I know I have lost the equivalent of one of those big water cooler bottles I can't lift, plus two guinea pigs.

So pleased to have finally hit 3 stone and I can't wait to start obsessing about hitting 4 stone 😂

Starting 12.5 this morning I haven't ordered another pen but starting to panic I've past my GW although I'm still in the overweight range this is where my surgeon needs me to be

3 stone badge! WooHoo! Congratulations!

Fingers crossed he's happy to go ahead with the surgery now?

Love the water cooler bottle plus guinea pigs, @PinkArt! Congratulations on the massive loss.

I am not joining you in the whoosh corner despite pooing 3 times yesterday and feeling pretty bloody confident I’d see a loss this morning as a result. Scuppered by sausages - they were very salty and I expect are the culprit despite 2 pints of water after dinner. I’ve gone up half a pound instead of down, grr!

However have just ordered a new bra - current bra is 36G, and the new one is 34F. I have two 34F bras and they’re the only ones that now fit, but they’re both black, so I’ve ordered a white one. I ordered the cheapest one I could find, though, in the hope of shrinking even further!

@Mounjaropen & @TooExtraImmatureCheddar I'm absolutely thrilled with myself this morning. It feels like I've been saying nearly three stone forever, because I've got blase about the faster speed of mounjaro weight loss.

Here's the full list of weight comparisons. It's slightly ridiculous but also really helpful to visualise what we've all been carrying around.

1 pound = a Guinea Pig
2 pounds = a rack of baby back ribs
3 pounds = an average human brain
4 pounds = an ostrich egg
5 pounds = a Chihuahua
6 pounds = a human’s skin
7.5 pounds = an average newborn
8 pounds = a human head
10 pounds= an average Gallon of paint
11 pounds = an average housecat
12 pounds = a Bald Eagle
15 pounds = 10 dozen large eggs (or 120 eggs)
16 pounds = a sperm whale’s brain (???)
20 pounds = a car tyre
22 pounds = 200 golf balls
24 pounds = a 3-gallon tub of super premium ice cream
25 pounds = an average 2 year old
26 pounds = average weight of a Koala Bear
30 pounds = average Vacuum Cleaner
31 pounds = average amount of manure produced by a horse each day
33 pounds = a cinder block
36 pounds = a mid-size microwave
40 pounds = a 5-gallon bottle of water or an average human leg
44 pounds = an elephant’s heart
50 pounds = a small bale of hay
55 pounds = a 5000 BTU air conditioner
60 pounds = an elephant’s peni$ (yep, weighs more than his heart!)
65 pounds = Lotus Mk3 – Aluminium Body Shell
68 pounds = 40” Sony Bravia Widescreen TV
70 pounds = an Irish Setter
77 pounds = a gold brick
80 pounds = the World’s Largest Ball of Tape
90 pounds = a newborn calf
100 pounds = a 2 month old horse
110 pounds = Mature Rough Fell Ewe
117 pounds = an average fashion model (and she’s 5’11”)
118 pounds = the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica
120 pounds = amount of trash you throw away in a month
130 pounds = a newborn giraffe
140 pounds = Ricky Hatton (Boxer / May 2009)
144 pounds = an average adult woman (and she’s 5’4”)
150 pounds = the complete Oxford English Dictionary
187 pounds = an average adult man
200 pounds = Vespa Moped
235 pounds = Arnold Schwarzenegger
300 pounds = an average football linesman
400 pounds = a Welsh pony

I love this. I am one microwave down. Or Mee-cro-wahvey as Nigella prefers to say. And a whole elephant's heart since my OFH weigh-in in November 2023 😂

I had a long day was travelling and a few work stresses led to me hitting the carbs. Previously this would have derailed me but I have got back on it!

@Mounjaropen you are due a whoosh!

I do feel that my losses are slowing, am going to calorie count properly from tomorrow (have a meal out tonight so will ignore that 😂😂)

I’m in between a koala and a vacuum cleaner. This has prompted me to work out that if I lose 3lbs more I will have lost the weight of my smaller dog.

Just came across this research on another thread and it’s fascinating. https://www.fractyl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Obesity-Week_Poster_Revita-Weight-Maintenance_FINAL.pdf Studies show that regaining weight is caused by abnormal cell growth in the gut, and by ablating those cells, they can show that people maintain weight loss.

https://www.fractyl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ADA-2024-Rejuva-Data-Presentation-President-Select-Abstract.pdf And this one is showing a new gene therapy that has been tested on pigs, which shows that by administering this pancreatic gene therapy, pigs were able to maintain weight loss after coming off semaglutide. It’s still progressing through testing so won’t be ready for humans for quite a while. But both of these studies show that there are physiological changes to gut and pancreatic cells caused by metabolic disease (in this case, diabetes) and unless you tackle those changes weight loss is unlikely to be maintained. It’s got nothing to do with willpower. At the moment, the option seems to be to stay on MJ/Ozempic, but it looks like in a few years you might lose weight, and then have a one-off procedure to address these gut/pancreatic changes to stop you putting weight back on.

Hello hello

I've been super busy at work, haven't posted for a bit and missed about 400 messages, you've all been busy.

Well I'm not losing anything at the moment. No movement the last 2-3 weeks and a grand total of 2.5lb off over the past 5 weeks. It's getting pretty frustrating. Things aren't getting particularly looser either.

I'd bought a couple of slightly too small things thinking I'd fit into them in a couple of weeks and I... Don't.

I'd stuck at 7.5mg for the 3rd month so probably should have moved up. I've not been binge eating but I've been eating more 'normally' which I guess at 5'3 is just not sufficient, and due to massive workload and travel I've not been exercising much.

I've got my brother's wedding in 10 weeks and really really want to be a size I'm happier with by then. I've lost 20lb but still at the upper end of the overweight category at 11st 11lb, I want to be at least another stone smaller and feel like I had plenty of time for that, and now the time is disappearing!