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.

Thank you @Blondeshavemorefun it’s been nearly 4 months so am hoping my body has adjusted to the new MJ medication by now and won’t swerve my other meds so much going up from here.

Will have to see how I go as the health conditions are chronic unfortunately. Due to see a bowel specialist for one of the things next month, would like a review and treatment plan going forwards if possible, which is at least one area. I needed colorectal surgery a few years ago and hoping so hard I won’t need more of that as had horrific complications.

Hey @Mysticmaiden I remembered something earlier and thought would post in case it’s helpful re: anaemia. I have a friend who suffered badly with this in her pregnancy and her Dr advised her to drink orange juice as it can help with iron absorption (I can’t remember if it was with food or just generally ). I don’t know if/ how effective this is(!) but maybe it has some benefit. Also a kidney function test could be useful if you haven’t had one (I only know this from having a kidney health check last year) as apparently anaemia can be a factor.

Hi @leklo 👋 coming back to you now my budgie girl is down for a nap! Thanks for sharing your journey, 10 kg is great like PinkSour said above it is better than no loss or a gain, so well done for sticking with it!

I can relate to the bilial stuff and hope that has settled down ok? I had my gallbladder removed last year.

I know what you mean about reading the quick and dramatic results like 1 kg a week, I must admit I was hopeful for this too when I started MJ after a long, very slow, unending slog with little loss progress to show for it, either going it alone or diet clubs. Spent a small fortune at Slimming world(!). But thinking overall trends and all that a loss is still a loss. So we will get there it just might take longer and well done on getting a loss this week!

It’s so hard to stick to such a low calories with that kind of hunger going on, you’ve done better than me as I caved and snack too much. Sorry you have to keep them so low, even 1000-12000 is still v low and with doing exercise too.
Pls do avoid starve level cals as you would be lacking the essential nutrients and cals your body needs, even if it takes longer your health is v important 🌸

Arhh the bobbing is frustrating! Again hats off to you for starting back on MJ in Oct and getting the gain back off by Feb, I hope it is much more smooth sailing for you this time round.

Have you just gone up to 6.25? Hopefully a higher dose will help. I haven’t found my ideal dose yet either, same as you I’ve not been able to move up in the standard way. Yeah done pretty much tried all weight loss methods too (short of surgery) and I feel the same that I don’t think I can lose on my own again, at least while my DC are little.

Keep posting and keep going, we will get there eventually 🌟

I'm so pleased to read this as it's very similar to me. Started May 24, lost 4st 2lbs and am peri/menopausal. It's been life changing for me. I want to lose another 2 stone before the end of July.

Welcome @ThatsNotMyTeen and @ViolaPlains 👋 amazing losses both of you, you must feel so much better compared to the start of your journeys!
Can I ask what doseage WLI worked best for you?

Hello Plodders. I'm here to remind us all to drink a couple of pints of water now, and not at 9.30pm, so that you are not up all night long going for a wee!!!

Today's wins... A walk around the block at lunch with the dog - have had a chest infection and missed seeing daylight. Reinforcing my habit of eating apples instead of biscuits. Teenagers making batches of chocolate brownies for me to take to the office tomorrow - means I've not eaten all the leftover raw mixture!!!

What are your wins?

Thank you yes! Have half a pint of water left to get in, will have it now!!

Done! 2nd day of week mini target, thanks for the reminder @ChristmasLightsLover !👍

To be honest I have found them all pretty much the same, lol. It’s when the internal food chatter starts I decide to move up, but I’m trying to hold onto 12.5 for as long as I can as there’s nowhere else to go after 15

my quality of life has improved so much already and I am still BMI over 40

Well done on the wins too! :) Could do with eating more apples instead of bics, do you have a favourite variety? How cruel of them to create such a delicious smell! 😆 hopefully some hungry colleagues can take them off your hands tomorrow. Water was a win, pleased with that, also really enjoyed reading with my toddler today ❤️

That’s amazing, I’d like to lose 9 lb before I start my new job in 6 weeks and then another stone by end of June x

Thank you for the tips. I had my kidney function almost 3 years ago and everything was normal. I've had anaemia for almost 20 years, I think most of it was linked to poor absorption due to IBS. I used to eat a lot of meat when I was younger. I'm taking liquid iron and B12 which absorbs easier.

Ah that’s great you had a check and the liquid supplements are helping, sorry it’s been such a long time @Mysticmaiden . Have you had your vitamin D levels checked? Mine are long term low, on the high strength tabs year round. Can relate with long standing stuff, wonder if it has a slowing effect with the WLI’s.

Yeah that sounds like a good plan and that’s so great how much your quality of life has improved lots already! It must be a real encouragement to keep sticking with it.

I wonder if Eli Lilly might tweak/ improve the drug at some point, or make a slightly different formula for those less sensitive to the effects, so we can get better suppression and relief from food noise etc. There must be developments in progress, as it’s been so widely proven for both diabetes and WL.

Congrats on the new job too! @ThatsNotMyTeen 🎉

No haven't had anything checked for over 2.5 years but had a feeling it was pretty low. I basically didn't eat meat for 5 years and most places like work canteen had carbs like chips as not many options so I was nutritionally deficient in a lot of vitamins. A month or so ago I started on high strength oral spray vitamin D daily and went from an insomniac of many years to sleeping through after 3/4 days. Its a miracle! I also used to catch all the bugs going, one year I had 7 respiratory infections in 6 months. GPs didn't do any tests, said its post covid and wearing masks affecting immune system.
I definitely think deficiency in vitamins must affect metabolism and so increase weight gain. Mind you my father and brother are both low in iron and vitamin D, as well as women in family, and its rare to see it in men so its probably a genetic/absorbency issue!

Ima slow low loser. Been in since 23 march 2023, so nearly two years. I. Close to losing 5 stone but the first three wre in the first 6 months. Since then it's been really slow with long plateaus and losses in the grams. BMI down from 42 to 32 so I have made progress but it's disheartening when others are losing 2a week or more. N

Hi and welcome @Doggymummar 👋 that’s an amazing loss overall, well done! Are things moving at all at the moment or stuck? Wish there was a way we could hit the boost button with WLI (or any WL method actually!)

A few more pounds lost this week so that’s 12lbs so far since last august! 🙃I’ve just had my dosage request accepted to increase to 12.5mg of MJ with my next pen so hoping this is the one that is the key for me. Thank you for the tips on the water, that is definitely helping the scales move (fractionally!) well done to all the other slow losers here! We will get there for summer!!!

Stuck! Its weigh and jab day and I have stayed the same again, maybe a slight gain. It's quite disheartening really but I have come so far and made so many sacrifices financially I don't want to stop till I get to my goal. Now the weather is better perhaps I will get out more.

Wow. A few pounds in a week is excellent, what gave you done differently?

@Doggymummar I have increased my water intake and am attempting a 15 mins run three times a week! Other than that nothing really. I don’t diet and do have the occasional treats (a glass of wine or ice cream a few times a week) but often find myself having two meals a day with a light snack at lunch as the food noise has definitely gone away and I don’t feel like eating as much.

to be honest though my weight goes up and down so while it’s nice to see another pound come off it could go well go back on again in a few days!

Thank you @PlodAlongPolly OP for starting this thread. I love the 🐌 too 😀. There is a “slow losers thread” but to me many of the posters are FAST! If you are losing more than 1-2 lbs a week that is fast unless you are very overweight. I will be back later to write a longer post on my experience. I really relate to @leklo ‘s experience of hardly having to eat anything to lose. But more of that later.

PS. Also, I think worth having a THYROID test - a common reason with older women re. putting weight on inexplicably/finding it hard to lose. My thyroid was tested recently and it was low (I may have to take a higher dose of thyroxine ) and I think that has had some impact, although fairly small overall, as I lose weight slowly for other reasons as well.