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.

Hi all, I am the same bobbing up and down a couple of pounds. I started March 25 and I’ve lost 5 stone 7 pounds. I’m now 11 stone 4 and want to lose another stone. I’m on 15 mg, it’s so expensive but it is helping maintain if nothing else. Today I’m going to force myself to go to the gym which I’ve got out of the routine of. Have a great Sunday all, you’re not alone.

Popping in to join some fellow plodders for mutual moral support. I've been lurking a while.

Started end of April 25 and have lost 3st 5lb.with about 1.5st to go. Currently on 10mg. I honestly never thought I'd still be on the journey a year later but here I am. On the plus side I've dropped 3 dress sizes from an 18 to a 12, I'm exercising regularly, and making good food choices and feel a million times better in myself so I've got to celebrate that 🎉

A month on since I last posted and…no change! Hardly surprising as I haven’t changed anything. One week left now in my fifth 20 week block - which has been a STS.

I need to actively diet/up exercise now if I want to start losing weight again. The evidence is overwhelming. This is the first time in my life I have stopped losing weight and not almost immediately started gaining. Which is actually amazing.

Hoping I can muster up the enthusiasm to stick to some kind of plan and lose some more though. More importantly than that - to improve my diet and make a habit of strength training. The time has definitely come to get some help with this. I may know how to do it but I’m not doing it so…

Yes we have to celebrate the positives. Sometimes I think i will never get there, and I ponder hiw much I have spent on mj, but then I think about the fact that i can go upstairs without puffing, I can walk the dog without thinking I am going to collapse, and I can look toward to my holiday next month without worrying about how I look in my summer clothes because I have got to the stage where I look 'normal', which is all I want, I dont care about being slim, I just wanted to look normal and now I do.

Completely agree @Deadringer my life is so much better now I have lost the best part of 5 st. I feel normal. If I just stay at this weight then that is not bad. I do still feel I need to make some changes for my longterm health - if that also means I lose another 5-20 lbs and be a bit slimmer, then great but it is not my primary goal now.
Just about to order another two pens (I buy and collect every two months now) …hoping I still get the ones with the generous surplus. That on top of the price hike - still not completely at peace with it!

@AlmostStopped where do you buy from. That you can get two at a time?

I need a kick up the bum as have stalled and gone into slug mode.

@Elboob Asda online doctor. I have 10% off codes (which I now don’t think they offer) so even though they aren’t the cheapest with the code it keeps me loyal! They call it a continuation pack.

Hello everyone

I am back, on 2.5mg and feeling some effects already. The scales have crept down a tiny amount and I am hopeful that I can stay on a really low dose and lose. I will definitely not go above 5mg again as all my problems started after I moved to 7.5.

I have joined the gym, though I am so busy at work that I am finding it difficult to get there as often as I would like. But things with work will change later in the year, and hopefully I can go enough that it makes a difference, mentally and physically. also a friend is going to join the same gym in a month or so and we can go together at least once a week.

All in all, I am still a firm member of the plodding club, can't see me leaving here for some time.

have a good weekend everyone

I bemoaned my very long stall upthread so I ended up upping my dose to 7.5 and not only managed to start loosing again but after 5 weeks at the higher dose I lost another half a stone and hit my initial goal weight of 2 stone.

it’s take me 10 months to do and I never ever thought I’d be able to loose this amount of weight as nothing I’ve ever done has worked. I have limited mobility/ fibro/ PMOS/ hashimotos thyroid all working against me.

I’ve had a few people start to notice and my clothes are all big now so I need to go shopping at some point for things that actually fit me properly. I am however only around 29 on my bmi so wondering what my new goal weight should be. I am never going to be tiny an I’m ok with that. There’s been no real difference with my health having lost 2 stone other than my cholesterol weirdly going right up where it used to be fine!