Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 3!)

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Hello wonderful people!

Looking forward to hearing how we’re all getting on with your Mounjaro journey, and the general good chat!

W5D4
SW 103.9kg
CW 94.8kg

I’ve lost a small dog. Has anyone seen it? Next goal for this week: goodbye Kenwood stand mixer! 😂

@Febnewbie yes mine aren’t old enough to leave unattended really and it’s a pain dragging them around looking for toilets when we’re out. DH works away a lot so it’s often just me and the kids. I try to get the water in when at home on the weekends but then it means I’m awake in the night needing the loo 🤪 can’t win.

@MynameisJune I am in a similar situation and also just received 2.5 for my next month. I'm going to count clicks so I try 3.75.

It's not ideal and will make month 2 more expensive but seems like the best solution for now.

How do you count clicks? I might do the same because Royal Mail fumbled my last delivery and it arrived warm. My prescriber said it’s okay to still use but has to be within 30days of dispatch. Which my 4th dose won’t be so I’m thinking of trying to increase it. I just used my golden dose and my next 2.5 from the new pen together. It’s worked out about 5.5mg so I might have a rough few days but I’ve always had poor impulse control (thanks ADHD) 🤣

I read this yesterday about weight plateaus and it made sense https://www.secondnature.io/guides/mind/motivation/weight-loss-plateaus-explained?srsltid=AfmBOooIZt9LyJGu4tk6nhxQ1xoTzCDLVIrcXK6IzBZ6ln3nWbXnpYpu

W4d2 no weight loss this week but I have lost 6kg in the last month so I'm not too bothered. My blood sugars have stayed in normal range which means I feel a lot better in myself. Ironically when my blood sugars are high, I'm more likely to feel sugar/ carb cravings, possibly because I feel tired.

My 5mg dose has already arrived, but there's still some left in my old syringe, and my supplier included 5 needles so I'll have another week at 2.5 before I move up. It's not cheap and I don't want to waste it.

If you’ve used 4 already from the pen you’ll either have to do a hard click, that might break the pen or draw the remaining liquid out with a small syringe. The pens have changed and now won’t let you use the last bit. My supplier provided a fifth needle but the pen wouldn’t click round after 4 doses so I used a small insulin syringe.

My main goal for this week is to measure myself. Writing it here so I commit to it!!

I have gained 1kg this morning. I didn't drink enough water yesterday, about 2l when I usually drink at least 4l, and I think that's what really affects the losses for me.

Other than that, first day of 5mg was uneventful. No side effects, usual amount of food noise, minimal suppression, and I felt sugary/snacky all day. Woke up hungry this morning as well which is weird for me!

So, at least 4l of water today and see what happens tomorrow.

@MynameisJune this us quite useful

Ive been thinking or overthinking!

I know this is the February thread so maybe not noticeable losses yet but what are you planning to say once the weight loss becomes noticeable?

My husband knows but nobody at work, I work in hospitality and there are always new things to try which I have avoided so far but colleagues are starting to ask are you dieting?

Im always dieting and this time its actually working, thinking ahead , I don’t know what to say regarding how I lost so much- hopefully!

Ive started saying I’m calorie counting which is true but haven’t mentioned MJ

Any thoughts?

@Maro11 my husband, my mum and sister know I’m taking MJ but that’s it.

If anyone asks I’ll just say calorie counting and exercise. It’s no one else’s business and some of the judgey comments I’ve seen online I just don’t need in my life.

@Maro11 I think you will find fewer people comment than you might expect - I lost a lot of weight during an illness a few years ago and a few people said that I looked nice but very few directly said anything about weight loss.

A lot of people are on the jabs though so maybe it will be different these days - I saw another person this morning who has lost a lot of weight, one of the dads on the school run who used to have a big belly in classic beer belly style who now looks very trim.

I work in hospitality too (a bakery/patisserie) and I've just been completely open about it all. Everyone has been very supportive. Nobody tries to tempt me with stuff or pester me in to eating something. They don't comment on it at all.

I think it helps that most of my colleagues are younger, a lot of them don't seem to have the negative/disordered thoughts about food. Or at least not openly. They seem to have mastered the everything in moderation mindset and eating salad doesn't make you good and eating cake doesn't make you bad. They don't ever talk about what or how much someone is eating either. It's a very different attitude to that of older colleagues.

I plan to be open about it with other people too if they ask. I refuse to be ashamed or embarrassed that I take mounjaro because it's changed my life so much already. It's a tool to treat a disease that was killing me. I'm a one woman crusade to normalise it, like any other medicine.

Monday morning check in:

SW: 17.2
CW: 16.4

I've dropped 4lb this week, bringing my total to 12lb in 4 weeks. I'm in absolute shock.

Went to a party Saturday night and had buffet food, however I had less and made much better choices. We also went to McDonald's over the weekend as a treat for the kids and I used my app to see what would be a better option rather than just grabbing my go to. Using the nutracheck app is really helping me understand my food so much more.

Did my golden dose this morning, I actually found injecting with the needle easier and I haven't had bruising today. I was a little naughty and used the full amount out of my pen (0.7) but my thinking was I'm going up to 5mg next week so I'm using it as a bridging dose.

Feel okay so far other than the normal chills.

Have a great week everyone 😊

I don’t know the reason I don’t want to say I’m on it, normally I’m very open and honest, maybe failure to lose weight the conventional way, need a drug etc etc

Its been amazing for me so far, with little side effects, I wish I had started sooner

Still plenty of time to think about it yet, I want to lose 100lbs, 14 gone so far

Oh, I totally understand. I don't think it's going to be easy to be open about it but if someone has an issue with it then that's on them. Hopefully we will see a shift in the way media is reporting on WLIs which will help.

I'm also hoping we'll soon see a shift in society in general in the way we view obesity. That there are so many more contributing factors to it than laziness and greed. The success of mj alone shows that.

Also, we are losing weight the conventional way! We are still putting in the hard work of moving more and eating less we just have an extra tool to help. For me, I see mounjaro the same way I see my antidepressants - they are both fixing a chemical/hormonal imbalance in my body that all the years of therapy/dieting were unable to fully cure.

I've kept this very much to myself and have been worried about this. I started mid Feb but have told people (when they've asked) that i started trying to be healthier from the beginning of January. This has meant my loss appears muvh slower, although it hasn't been exceptionally quick anyway.
Lots of my friends have very strong, negative opinions of anyone who is doing this and I can't be dealing with the false concerns and knowing they'll be talking about it Behind my back.
It's hard, I felt judged for being overweight and now feel judged for doing what I can about it.

Exactly this!

Damned if you do and damed if you don’t

Either way people talk about weight, gains or losses

I'm doing it to be healthier, not for weight loss. I'm doing it because I have T2 Diabetes and my blood sugar levels are far too high despite medication.

I've never told anyone other than DH about my diabetes diagnosis because I feel very ashamed, so I haven't told anyone that I'm taking MJ.

I've told only dp; I almost told a couple of other people but decided it's easier to just spin one story to everyone then I won't trip myself up with fibs or out myself by mistake. It's a medical issue and nobody has the right to my personal medical history. Taking MJ isn't something to confess or own up to; it's a private matter between me and my hcp. That is my take.
I've got a very big family wedding coming up where I will be doing a reading and in lots of photographs so I'm telling everyone I'm trying to lose weight for that. It's not a lie.
What is far harder to explain away is my sudden and dramatic aversion to alcohol. I would normally always have a drink in my hand at any social event and guzzle a bottle of wine every weekend plus a few g&t's. Now, I couldn't care less if I never saw alcohol again. I just have zero taste for it and absolutely no interest in it. That is going to garner far more curiosity amongst my friends and family and I really don't have a plausible explanation.

@AnnaQuayInTheUk you shouldn't feel ashamed of having T2 diabetes or taking mounjaro; you should feel empowered by taking responsibility and trying to remedy it. By all means keep your medical history private (most people do) but please don't feel shame. That is what society has conditioned us to feel and it's just plain wrong.

I think if anyone asks my response will depend on how close we are. Close family (sister and mum) will get the full answer, they're very supportive in general so I'm quite lucky there, I've never felt like my weight is an issue with them. Anyone else it really depends on how I think they'll react, past comments, if it's even any of their business etc

The comments I've seen/heard seem to be either very much in support or very much against thinking ppl are just lazy. I try not to be judgemental of people and I think/hope people around me are the same.

I really don't understand the people that say just go to the gym/eat less, as if we hadn't already tried that. As much as I appreciate Mounjaro and what it's done for me, I'm sure most people would rather not take more medication than absolutely necessary, especially when most of us are paying privately for it. It's just like my adhd medication, I'd rather not have to take a pill every morning to be able to function "normally" but it's something I need, I'm not going to let people that really don't understand make me feel bad or guilty about it. I'm sure it's the same for people on antidepressants, painkillers etc.

@AnnaQuayInTheUk please don't feel ashamed, you have a medical condition that you're receiving treatment for. It's no ones business to know about it except you and your doctor but it's also nothing to apologise for or feel bad about.

Please take this as the friendly suggestion it's intended to be but maybe it's worth speaking to your doctor/a counsellor/a trusted person about how you're feeling, it might help you work through it and change your mindset a bit.

I'm just going to tell anyone who asks (well, maybe not complete strangers). I don't think anyone I know or work with would care how I lost weight. I think most people will just be happy I'm getting healthy.

I'm planning to say "The usual boring stuff: Calorie deficit, moving more". Because that's all true, MJ or not. If someone asked specifically about WLI because they are genuinely interested, I will probably tell them but I am not sure yet. There is such a stigma about it and people just don't understand that even with the MJ you still have to put the work in to lose weight.