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!

Hi all its been a while since anyone posted so just popped in to say hello. I am close enough to my goal now that i have decided to start working my way down the doses and come off mj. Staying on it long term is not an option for me, I just can't justify the cost. It has taken about 16 months to get here but i am 10 stone 8 now bmi 26 down from 14 stone 4 bmi 35, which I never dreamed would happen. I have been on 10mg for a while so I am counting clicks to drop my dose, I took 8.5 today, not looking forward to my appetite returning but I am going to work very hard to try and keep my weight under 11 stone at least. I have the nutracheck app which I intend to use long term so hopefully that will help. Good luck to everyone who is still on their journey, its a life long commitment really isn't it. I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see how it's going. Cheers!

Hi everyone, family life has been so hectic I’ve been off here for an age! I hope you’re all doing ok. I’m on a break from MJ now, the losses completely stopped for me so think I need a reset and may or may not go back on it at a later point. I’ve remained half way to my goal and not progressed further but hoping to focus on better nutrition and more exercise over the summer months.
Sending all you plodders best wishes and happy trails 🐌 for your wl progress or maintaining. We have done so well to get this far!

😊💖 x

Thanks for the update op. Good luck in your journey

Hello everyone.
I had an almost complete stop for 8 months. Got things moving again for a couple of weeks with MFP to track protein, and increase it. Been sloppy this last week and no loss - which is ok and may or may not be related.
I have also finally started Pilates again - now doing a regular mat class and starting reformer next week. Keen to keep the momentum now and hopefully lose another 1.5 st over the next year and more importantly get fitter. Any loss with be good though!
Good luck with your break @PlodAlongPolly - hope it is what your body needs and works out well. Well done for @Deadringer for getting your BMI down to 26! Hope the titrations down goes well. Yay for getting that 2 st off @AllRevvedUpWithNoPlaceToGo ! How is it going @tryingtobesogood ?

Hello everyone, glad to have found you.

This is my second attempt with mounjaro. Both times I lost about 8kg quite rapidly and then slowed a lot and suffered a lot of vomiting and diarrhoea.

But I've got back into it in the recently I'm down 0.5kg (1lb) in the last week. So it's time to accept that I'm a plodder.

Ive got 26kg to lose, so it's going to take me a year. But realistically, allowing for Christmas, birthdays and holidays it's going to be longer than that.

In it for the long haul!

@BerfyTigot welcome.
You mentioned d&v.... Did you start getting this after a long time? I am on max dose for 6 months and have started getting nausea o d&v on day 2 or 3 with no dose change. It is terrible and I don't know why.

@Elboob I have had d and v right from the start. Messed around with microdosing but then didn't get any effect. I now take 1.25 every 5 days, which gives me a little self control and ive resigned myself to a couple of days of side effects. I take cyclizine and plenty of imodium.

Sorry you're suffering - i can only suggest going back down for a while.

@BerfyTigot I might just drop the dose, yes as something is wrong and it is horrid.
So you use a lower dose more frequently?

@Elboob Yes, been using 1.25 for about 7 weeks now

@AlmostStoppedII im doing ok thank you. Realistically I haven’t lost anything since before Christmas. But I’ve had lots of problems with side effects. Stopped for a while but now I’m back on 5 mg. I seem to be able to tolerate it at this level.

I had a big birthday this year, and spent about six weeks celebrating non-stop. Unsurprisingly I put some weight on but I have managed to lose that in the last week or so. I’ve just dropped down to part-time (not my choice) but I’m going to use this time to go to the gym and get fitter and healthier and stronger while I look for more work. I think this will really help with the weight loss in general and with me feeling good about myself and fitting in my clothes.

Like a few people have said, I think I’m going to be another year before I get down to where I want to be. Part of the problem is that a lifetime of dieting has just messed with my head, so I need to do this as gently as possible. I also had the worst year of my life in 2024, suffered burn out, and so I’m very careful about how much pressure I put on myself.

Anyway, I’m here for the long haul, back on MJ, and Monday I will be at the gym doing a full workout.

This happened to me. Had no significant side effects at all throughout my journey then. Increased to 10mg and was fine for about three pens then all of a sudden started getting stomach cramps, diarrhea and sulphur burps from about day 3 each time. I went back down to 7.5 and symptoms went, but my weight loss stalled, in fact I gained one month. Have gone back up to 10mg and have been ok so far and losses have been steady again. There was no reason I could think of for the side effects to start, just hoping it doesn't happen again!

I had another bout of side effects after a year with none. It’s so awful. I took two weeks off and then went down to 5mg. So far so good this week. Every time this happens, I end up gaining weight and I don’t lose as much on the lower doses. It is so frustrating, but I know if I stopped completely I will just gain weight so quickly.

@PumpKim and @BackToWegovy
It is very frustrating isn't it.
And the side effects are dreadful for me.
I am going to try dropping the dose.