March 2025 starter Mounjaro

[TheSpoonyNavyReader]

Hi

I am starting this thread for anyone that is starting their weight loss in March.

I have read a lots of the other threads and have never ordered until today when I looked in the mirror this morning and did not recognise the woman staring back at me, she looked unhappy and ashamed and quite frankly fat.

I got on the scales and worked out my BMI is 32, until 3 years ago my weight was around 9 stone, I am now 13 stone, peri menopause, an under active thyroid, death of a parent and not bothering with exercise and eating too much has left me like this.

My goal is to get to 10.5 stone by the end of May as that is when my son get married, and then keep going.

So who would like to join me, where we can support each other and go onto bigger and better things in life

I’ve just been approved and kit shipped 🎉

I have not eaten anything since lunchtime. I don’t care. Can I say that again for those at the back because this is just so unbelievable that I’m telling anyone who’ll listen (well, I’m here anyway 😂😂) I DON’T CARE THAT I HAVEN'T EATEN SINCE LUNCHTIME

As in- I’m not desperate to stick my head in the fridge and have a little snack. My default setting has changed from “be eating something” to “don’t be eating something”

😮😮😮😮😮

You could literally be speaking for me, you’ve summed it up perfectly!

Just back from my GP and had my first injection.
Sw 22st 3lb BMI 44.6
The needle was bigger than I was expecting but it didn't hurt! May be different when GP not talking me through it!

Took my second jab on Wednesday, feeling a little ghost of nausea today, but have managed breakfast and lunch and will make some halloumi and lentils for dinner.

I lost about 3kg in my first week or so (the 'and so ' reflecting that I last weighed on the day I submitted photos etc to Superdrug for prescription)

Suppression fluctuates, but as for most people the big difference is the absence of food noise. I don't want to snack, I'd rather just have one decent meal and eat well.

Bit worried as travelling soon for work to host an event and will need to jab while I'm away.

Happy with progress so far, but need to plan and prep a bit better for dinners in particular.

Well done everyone!

Well I don’t know if this is a side effect of a busy week or the MJ but I am absolutely knackered. And think starting with a cold! 🥹 but have no appetite whatsoever and it’s day 5. Going to have to force myself into a dinner as only had a protein yoghurt and some grapes all day!

Might I join?

Started with first Mounjaro jab last Saturday (1/3).

Work in a brutally busy job, and thanks to late night work and stress induced snacking have hit a BMI of 32.5 + which I seek to fix.

Starting on a 2.5 ml dose, I was sceptical as to what effect it might have. But within 24 hours, my appetite for food disappeared.

I was disheartened to see no loss after 3 or 4 days despite eating at most half what I normally would, but then saw a loss of 2.5 kgs register, which seems like a good start.

Genuinely surprised by how much of an effect even a modest 'starter' dose has.

My only real question is this: I could happily go for days eating v little indeed, but is there a minimum amount that is healthy? It seems bizarre - and slightly troubling - that the desire to eat just disappears, thus opening up the possibility of just not eating enough.

I felt a tiny bit hungry at lunchtime today. Which is the first time all week that I've felt hungry at all. But I felt full after eating just a bagel thin and haven't felt hungry again.

Tomorrow is my day for weigh in and second injection. Hoping that, since the levels of food in my stomach and digestive system will be much lower when I have this time, I will avoid the vomiting I had last weekend 🤞 I'm also going to jab first thing rather than last thing since that is when my system is most empty.

CANT wait to weigh myself. Forcing myself to wait until tomorrow but I can't believe I'm excited about getting on the scales 🤣

I have just done my first injection. I feel anxious but hoping I don’t get too bad side effects. I am currently 20 stone 5lbs. Or I was on Monday when I signed up to ZAVA. I will weigh in tomorrow morning and that will be my official start weight. I’m glad to read how those of you who have already started are getting on.

I actually started to feel excited at the thought of being able to buy clothes in most shops and not order online today. Excited and nervous to see how my first week goes.

good to be here with you all ☺️

Here to join in! Mine is due to arrive tomorrow and planning to get it over with straight away.

Been up and down with my weight for years, BMI is 31 at the moment and hasn't been below 25 since I was a teenager. Excited to get started.

SW: 14st 4lb
GW: 10st

Only a little concerned than I might get to 11st or so and not be able to get more MJ due to lower BMI. Not sure how all of that works!

This has been the easiest day 1 of a diet I’ve ever had. Normally I’m thinking right what can I still eat, what free food do I have, how many calories is that. But hardly any thoughts of food. Is this actually how other people live? No wonder they don’t understand how I could eat so much chocolate and cakes and finish whole packets. I feel a bit done that I’ve suffered for almost my whole life with a poor relationship to food and binge eating. I’ve always wondered how some people feel to not think about food all the time. I feel like I’ve had an insight into a whole new mind set. Imagine your day with no food noise. Wow!

Wow well done @TryingMJ and @Lordofmyflies - great results! X

Amazing start @TheSpoonyNavyReader !

Welcome new March starters joining the thread and thank you to everyone saying well done to me ☺️

Took my second jab last night 9.30pm, DP injected me in the stomach, opposite side to last week. I sort of felt maybe suppression was wearing off a little in the evening- I mentioned last weekend it had been my daughter’s birthday and I hadn’t even had any cake, and actually all week the leftover party bags (I made 40, and we had around 33 kids at soft play!) have been sitting on the kitchen side with all kinds of sweets in them and all week I have not been at all interested in them (previously I would’ve ransacked them all the first day!). But last night after my tea (veg soup and one slice of cheese on toast) I was sniffing around the party bags thinking “ooh maybe I’ll just…” I took out a milky bar ( 🤤) but then managed to stop myself and I went out for a good 1hr15min walk instead. The milky bar was only 130 calories so it actually wouldn’t have been the end of the world but it’s a bit of a slippery slope for me every time- once I have one little treat then the gates are open and in my head it’s “well now I’ve cracked, I might as well have this… and this…”. So I’m proud that I resisted, and found it interesting about how I hadn’t been interested in the party bags all week but the night the jab was due. Once I get the weight off I do really need to build that healthy relationship with food so that I could have a little 130cal chocolate bar as a sweet treat without then feeling guilty or like I’ve failed and ending up eating 10 more bars.

All this really has opened my eyes to “how the other half live” ie the other half who don’t get food noise. I saw this thread yesterday where the OP was asking if it’s normal to eat a whole packet of biscuits and not be able to stop yourself. She got a lot of really quite rude replies saying it’s pure greed, you should have some willpower, it’s not normal it’s disgusting, someone even quoted that stupid Kate Moss quote “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. I really felt for the poor OP because I knew exactly where she was coming from. I didn’t post as I didn’t fancy as argument with the “you just need to use more willpower” crowd (although a few people did post in support of the OP). Those of us who have started mounjaro and other medication can now see what those other people feel like, and no wonder they see overweight/obese people as having no willpower if this is what they feel like about food all the time. I just wish they’d have some empathy and not say the jabs are the easy/lazy way out. I’m not at all bothered about alcohol, can have a drink or two when out with friends but rarely drink in the house- but I understand that alcoholism exists and that for some people their every waking moment is consumed with thoughts of drinking, the shame etc and I would never say to an alcoholic “oh you just need more willpower”.

This was the thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5289551-i-will-eat-a-whole-packet-of-biscuits-is-that-normal-food-nosie?page=1

Official weigh day and jab day (tonight) and the results are in:

Week 1
SW: 12st6lb
CW: 12st3lb
GW: 10st6lb

3lb down. I'm delighted!! Long may this continue.

Amazing results from everyone so far. I had my first jab Tuesday afternoon and weighed myself this morning...3lb down already! I'm going away in 10 days so hoping I can get to 7lb off by then!

Agree with everyone it's really opened my eyes to how the other half live 👀!

Just had a DPD message to say it's stuck in the sorting facility. No idea when I'll get it now 😞

I know, I always thought my friends were so disciplined but actually they don’t even have the intrusive food thoughts.

Wow, 4lbs off in week one and into the 12s. So pleased.

Same!! Seriously! Started on Tuesday, down 1.5kg and off on holiday for a long weekend end of next week, so pleased I won't have to emergency shop for bigger clothes, should just fit into what I have already. I am wondering if I would be better off going up a dose...I'm still using quite a bit of willpower now, so hopefully it'll just make even more food noise disappear 🤞🏻

Ok guys bit of a confession, for full transparency. I got on the scales this morning and I’ve “gained” 1.6lbs since yesterday. I’ve put “gained” in inverted commas because deep down I do know I haven’t put on 1.6lbs of fat overnight. But it’s got me spiralling because this is what I don’t cope well with. Seeing numbers go up on the scales- I think “well that’s the point, might as well give up now”. Even though I had such a brilliant weekly loss (8.6lbs) that today’s number still means I’ve lost 7lbs over the week which is AMAZING. My DP said it could be the scales calibrated slightly differently, it could be slight water retention or inflammation- I went for an hour’s walk last night and he said after exercise your body retains liquids more. Not to mention the fact I came on my period yesterday. I guess this is the problem with daily weigh ins, you have to take the fluctuations. I do find it so hard mentally though, I just want to see it go down and down. But I want to be in this for the long run and need to grit my teeth. One thing I am so pleased about is that I didn’t eat the milky bar from the party bag (see my post above) because if I had and then had this “gain” I would’ve been beating myself up and blaming myself. Onwards….

Forgive me for being gross, but whether you've had a shit recently and how much can also explain little fluctuations! Either way, 7lbs over a period week is very good.

@TryingMJ ive also gained 😂. Nearer to 3 pounds.

Also had the despair and then the ‘I absolutely have not even gone over calories’ thoughts.

Mine could be that I had a cheese scone yesterday for lunch, so very stodgy. It was an effort to eat too.

im also maybe due on (peri and on prog pill and HRT, so can’t be sure).

Im breathing and will weigh again this evening/tomorrow.

Oh @Sleepeazie what are we like eh 😅 I mean, I obviously knew I wouldn’t be losing half a stone every week (I struggled to lose that in a month before!). It’s all just so psychological for me- seeing the numbers, up or down. Bizarrely I probably would have been better if I’d lost, say 3lbs yesterday on my weekly weigh in and then lost another 0.5 or 1lb today- would’ve been a smaller loss overall but wouldn’t have seen the scales go up. It’s so silly. But I guess that’s why we’re all here. Well after a minor meltdown I think I’ve got my head back in the game. I just hope I don’t see a gain tomorrow. Wondering about switching to weekly weigh ins, as in- don’t get on the scales at all in between but not sure!