Plodders Club 🐌

[PlodAlongPolly]

Hi,

Anyone on WLI and in the slow lane v. welcome here for a bit of plodding supportive chat!

Plodders, bobbers, plateau-ers, stallers and stuck ducks come on in! Would be great to chat with others who are in the same boat, ie travelling at the speed of snails on their WL journey.

I have a mountain to move (nearly 5 st), am not ready to give up on Mounjaro yet and would love a bit of company here on this long haul to reach a healthy BMI. 🦥 🐌 🏔️

Come join me if you have a long way to go (either due to slow losses or amount to lose) and would like some peer support to keep going when the scales are being stubborn. It’s hard being on WLI when it’s not working as well for you and progress is slow or stalled. This is a safe space to share anything, the good, the bad and the side effecty. Anything positive (scale or non scale related) as well as freedom to vent and grumble as much as you want

If you taking WLI and trucking along nicely or nearly at your goal weight that is fantastic but please post on a different thread.

NSV - I ran for my train today, I had 1 minute to get from the bus, through the barriers, down and then up the steps (lots of steps) and on to the train.

not only did I do it, I was able to catch my breath really quickly. 3 months ago I would
have struggled to breath after running even half that distance.

So pleased to have found this thread. I’m on week 17 and have yet to lose a stone (12lbs). I’m averaging about 0.5lb a week which is dispiritingly slow. I’d hoped to lose 1/2 stone a month which I thought was a modest aim - but now seems laughable. My weight calculating app says it will take over 2 years to reach a little above the ‘healthy’ weight band.

I’m pleased for all the people who I started with who have shed the weight so quickly, but it does make me feel extra sad for myself. I began to think it was just me so I guess it’s true that misery loves company as I feel I’ll fit in here and won’t bring the mood down!

I’m on 10mg (MJ) now but will look to go up for the next pen. I have reasonable hunger suppression in the first 3/4 days, then can feel the hunger coming back. Never experienced this lack of ‘food noise’ others talk about. On the plus side, I’ve been lucky with the lack of serious side effects - worst and most common is flatulence 😳 and occasional stomach ache. Still hoping for something to click at some point and for me to start losing that 1/2 stone pcm.

I hit my first goal on nutricheck today, started at 19st 2lb, 16st 12lb now. It has taken 8 months which feels horribly slow and it has taken until 12.5mg to find my happy dose.
Still a long way to go but slow and steady is working.
Did any one read the BBC article yesterday about the mounjaro vs wegovy study? One line stood out to me -
Both drugs led to substantial weight loss, but Mounjaro's 20% weight reduction, after 72 weeks of treatment, exceeded the 14% from Wegovy, according to the trial's findings.

Which would put me right on track, 12.3% loss after 36 weeks, made me feel much better about being a plodder!

It's been two years and a bit more for me now, and I have lost over six stone at a pound or so a week, it all adds up. A pound a week is a good healthy amount. I am seeing lots of pictures of people with saggy wrinkly skin and I don't want that for myself. I'm 55 and gravity it setting in, but losing slowly is protecting my heart and muscle integrity and my skin won't need removing afterwards which I wouldn't do. Each to there own but for me, slow and steady yields better results

I do agree - but there’s slow and there’s glacial! 0.5lb a week seems ridiculously slow! At this point I’d definitely settle for 1lb a week (but would prefer 2lbs - just putting that out there for the universe to take note)

I was 94kg at the end of November and had a goal of 90kg by Christmas. Here I am I'm May and just hit 89.9kg, so I've lost about 4.1kg in five and a half months. I've worked out that's less than 200g a week. However, I know that if I stop using Mounjaro I'd have likely piled loads of weight back on.

Don't have any answers, but I'm moving up a dose on my next pen (10mg) I've noticed that something a lot of us have in common is that we've stayed on low does for longer (for whatever reason) I also have many underlying health conditions. It's frustrating, and I absolutely couldn't stay on my October starters thread as they have all lost many stones and it got me very frustrated, however, as has been said, I don't think very rapid weight loss would be good and I wouldn't want the loose skin etc.

I veer between thinking this is a healthy way to do it, and being frustrated as its so expensive. I do need something to start moving soon though as I'm getting very bored with still being 'around 90kg' for months on end.

I bet @RainbowZebraWarrior - that would try anyone’s patience. Hope you get a jumpstart soon.

Can I hop on too?

I'm losing about 1lb a week after losing a bit more at the beginning.

I didn't/don't mind being bigger. Other than a couple of years of my life, I've always been big so it's kind of my normal.

I'm looking for a thread where people are OK to plod in the knowledge that it might be healthier in the long run.

I've also read about how some people need to go higher to get to a therapeutic dose. I stayed on 5mg for quite a while and have just upped to 7.5. Will go up to 10mg next to see the impact.

I’m on week 19 and have lost 11% of body weight so I’m 32% towards my goal having lost 1st 8.5lb since Jan. I’d hoped I could get there by Christmas but it’s looking more likely that I’ll have another 10 months to do. Definitely helps to have this thread as I’m so not a stone in a month loser!

I've lost 8% of my bodyweight in 12 weeks, which is pretty good really. That's 18lb, an average of 1.5lbs a week. There was a time I could only dream of losing that amount of weight in that time. It's slow and some weeks its very very slow and like you @Grecianrainbow I was hoping to be done by christmas but it will probably be later.

There is a lot to be said for plodding along

I take shot 19 tomorrow and have lost 11.5 lbs so far so I know how it feels! But I was putting on weight before so I think any movement downwards is positive! I too have been slow to move up and wonder if this has affected things although I didn't lose quickly a the start either. Have a new 7.5 pen to start tomorrow then thinking of going up to 10 next time

If it's any consolation I'm on a FB page where people are losing a stone a month or more and the skin issues are horrible. Talking bout it flapping when they walk and having to dress to cover it etc. Which would psychologically ruin me. I'm close to 7 stone down in over two years and my skin has shrunk nicely, and I'm 55 so no spring chicken. I really think we are winning this battle.

Flapping when they walk 🤮

I’ll take slow thank you very much

Out of interest, has anyone noticed their heart rate has gone up on mj? Mine is higher during sleep. Fingers crossed it's OK.

Yes! I had terrible heart palpitations that would keep me up at night. I read it can be because you're eating so much less, you can become deficient in some vitamins. I started taking a multivitamin, problem solved.

Hi everyone!

Sorry I’ve been off for ages, life’s been hectic whooshing me along like a twig in the rapids! If only the weight would shift a bit in similar fashion eh!? 🙈

I’m behind on several pages of messages so will try to properly catch up later but wanted to pop on and say hello! 😊 So great to see loads more plodders have joined, welcome welcome!

Still slow going for me, 1 stone 10lb off in 6 months and seem to have hit another stall. Ho hum. On 10mg and thinking will go up to 12.5 when I finish this pen.

Happy Friday to you all and hope you have good weekends ahead x

I’ve been on mounjaro for a year now and have lost 46lb. The first few months were the quickest then it slowed to less than a lb a week. I’ve been happy with that though and am now bmi 26 and 11st 2. I would love another 6lb to get to bmi 25 and into the 10st bracket but my body says no. I’ve been gaining and losing the same couple of lb for 4 months now and the lowest I’ve got to is 11st. I’ve moved up to 7.5 but still no more coming off. I’ve lost 22% of my original body weight so maybe that’s all I’m getting 🤣 Oh well, I’m delighted to get this far anyway ☺️

Well done! Just keep going I got stuck at 202lb for N I N E sodding months, cracked it at Christmas ands now 175. It moves eventually

Thats reassuring! I’ll keep plodding along and if the last few lbs ever do come off it’ll be a bonus. I don’t want to go higher just for a few lbs so if this is it then I guess I’ll be happy enough. Well done and thank you!

Happy Sunday everyone

this week I stopped counting, pointing and measuring. I just forgot to do it. And I have lost a lb. I’m very happy with that and happy that I am now down in the next stone bracket. A big number change feels good.

Morning! Still plodding here - met up with the 2 friends I started with in Feb and they look amazing. 3 stone ish down each. One is moving to maintenance soon, the other is going to cold turkey it from August.

I'm on 25lb, crawling to that 2 stone mark! Going to up my water this week as I'm crap at that. I also need to actually move more. I need to walk it off!

I dropped nearly two pounds this week. I shared a family bag of crisps last night and had two of those tinned cocktails still under my calories. I think switching it up sometimes works.

I'm another 1lb down this week. It's been a 1lb ish per week for me for a couple of months now and I'm OK with that. I feel like I'm kind of keeping up with myself if that makes sense.
I'm not tracking and on the days I've tried to track I've been well under the amount of calories my garmin says I need. So feel like I don't need to track as my body/MJ is stopping me from eating a full amount of calories anyway.
I'm exercising a fair bit too and want to make sure my body can cope with the exercise and has enough nutrients.
I'm not sure what to do once I hit my goal, but it's a long way away. Might need a maintenance longterm...

Still plodding along here, got under 80kg for the first time though which is good!

I had some routine blood tests the other day and noticed by HB1AC is 31, I have never been diabetic but it used to be around 36-38 so apparently it was 'normal' but is now 'optimal' according to some guides online.

Quite pleased about this.

My HbA1c was 28 when I last got tested 2 months after starting MJ.
I had a load of blood tests done as part of the NHS health check due to turning 40
Unfortunately I have nothing to compare it to & likely won't until the next check up in 5 years.
My levels must of been a lot higher as I used to binge eat a lot.