Mounjaro, 10st or more to lose, thread two

[Iwouldratherbesinging]

Starting a new friendly and supportive thread, we’re almost full on the last one.
original thread is here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5226758-mounjaro-10st-or-more-to-lose

I found that just over 3 stone (sounds depressing but it'll happen) was the point where people suddenly started to notice and comment... and by 3 1/2 stone was the point I had to start buying clothes (in supermarkets and not just fat shops!)

I'm just short of 4 stone down now, at the point where everyone is like "OMG YOU LOOK AMAZING" so it must be really showing.

Keep going everyone! This thread is so inspiring, I'm coming up to losing stone 2 of 10 so I'm on the way!
Had a very frustrating conversation with my sister the other day about how 'easy' it is just to stay focus and stop eating rubbish/exercise. And feeling a bit meh, but I'm not alone and the main thing I'm trying to do is heal my relationship with food.

On Friday I saw a woman I did Jury Service with 2 years ago, I am 5 stone down from then and she was careful with what she said " you look really well, your hairs grown' which was funny. I was stumped and said, it's been two years Debbie! I don't get out much so people don't say anything to be usually as they just see my head on Zoom.

I’m feeling really nauseous today. Jabbed on Saturday. I think I might change my jab day so that I’m over the worst by Monday.

It will be more than 5 days so shouldn’t be a problem if I go to Friday instead. Then since I seem to be on a 2-days-later-feeling-shit thing I can just lig about in bed on Sunday.

Oh @Kay2000 sorry about the friend. Was it you that had inflammation in the hand and started because of that? Or was that someone else. Grr for it not lasting as much as to begin with.

I'm hoping to out run (well walk) it wearing off and hopefully lose enough weight I can manage to move.... But it's a lot of weight so will keep fingers and toes crossed these effects continue - for both of us!

@GnomeDePlume yay for the steering wheel! I almost have a gap. As in I do but it brushes past where it used to rub. Its one of my goals for therer to be an Actual Gap! That and not be fearful about fitting in seat belts...

I'm nearly 2 stone down but it really isn't obvious. I think most people see "morbidly obese large person" and don't register the extent. 20st vs 22 is probably just all in that category.

I'm so confident now though that most of it will come off - I'm so looking forward to getting to that point where I just look "normal" rather than the "very large" person.

17stone is around the "not morbidly obese" stage for me and then 13 stone "not obese" I'm hoping from 17 downwards it will start being more obvious.

It's part and parcel of being on the larger side, that it takes time for the weightloss to be noticeable. I wish it didn't because I'd love the encouragement!

On the flipside, I also don't realise when I have gained weight, until it's been quite a bit and then I get a shock on the scales!

@Kay2000 I'm so sorry that your friend was really shitty and so insensitive, that’s really sad after 25 years of friendship.

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden well done on the walk!! Another milestone for you…

I’m definitely getting more and more comments now with a three and a half stone loss. I had a ‘do’ to go to on Saturday, I bought a new dress a month ago, put it on and it was slightly too big!! I also compared a full length photo from just before I started with a photo from Saturday and the difference was shocking!

You looks amazing, you look like you’ve lost a lot more than 3.5 stone! You can really see the change, well done you!

And thanks, I’m still seething quietly 🤣. I wrote her a letter in my journal, saying how much she hurt me and how insensitive she was. Obviously not to send, but I felt like I’d got it off my chest.

You can really see a big difference @Iwouldratherbesinging . Well done

You’re looking fab @Iwouldratherbesinging! That’s properly noticeable!

Well done guys!

At the weekend I put my old clothes in a box under the bed, I also tried on dresses that I forgot I even had and most fit now so I don't need to buy new work clothes.

We're away this week and I don't have scales so next weigh in will be a surprise, hopefully a good one.

I'm at 4st now and started at 21st 9lb, I would say I got my first comments around the 3st mark so probably as I dropped down into the 18s. Now I'm just over 4st down and have finally dropped a dress size, although I am still wearing my 22s as they don't fall off yet. People comment quite a lot on my weightloss now, I find it awkward sometimes as I'm not even half way through my journey. I also am aware that I've lost a lot but when I catch sight of myself I'm still very much obese.

The state of most of my old clothes they were only fit for rags - it was quite depressing to see just how much I'd bought stuff and wore it past the point of holes and shredded crotch... purely because having anything that fitted was the only thing I was looking for in clothes.

The less wrecked stuff has gone either to charity shop or into patchwork quilts if it wasn't quite charity shop fodder.

Another week where I went over 800 cals on ONE day and have a gain. Only a 0.2kg gain, but seriously, it's ridiculous. That even with body working better on Mounjaro, if I am not extremely careful, I gain.

A friend was moaning how after a 2 week cruise, drinking heavily and eating large amounts, they had gained 2kg.

I’m currently on a Zoom for the Women’s Rights Network and I’m looking at my face and I can see it’s visibly smaller 🎉. The first time I’ve noticed a difference in my appearance.

@justteanbiscuits it must be so disheartening for you. Hugs xx

I’m having a hard time at work at the moment and tonight wanted to fall face-first into something unwise. I didn’t, and I’ve stayed under my calories. But it’s the first really difficult day I think.

bastards.

Sorry you had a shit day at work today, @TragicMuse but you did brilliantly to resist old coping strategies, which is so hard to do when you are stressed/frustrated/angry.

This is a lovely thread. I need to lose 6 stone, on MJ and 2 gone now. @Iwouldratherbesingingyou look beautiful and so much happier in your skin. I’m just at the stage when I can start to wear nicer clothes and I look at a lot of the stuff I was wearing and think it’s just self hate in clothes form. Full of holes, only interested in whether I could get into it and no focus on whether it looked good at all. There are lots of people who dress well and look good at bigger weights, I just find it a bit sad that for a lot of us we don’t think we’re worth it. I’m a long way from target but I know I look better and I’ve found it a bit of a virtuous circle in feeling better and looking better. Onwards and downwards all!

Reading some of you having trying times but still keeping going with the plan has got me thinking: how to celebrate/commiserate/comfort other than with food?

DD and I were talking about this. Mounjaro is showing interesting results for a number of damaging behaviours. But a lot of those behaviours come about because there is an underlying problem. Take away the self-medicating with food/alcohol/drugs there may still be a problem to deal with.

Losing weight isnt going to cure bad relationships, horrible bosses, difficult situations. But perhaps it will give us the confidence and self-worth to face up to them.

Is the world ready for a lot of previously invisible, fat women coming out of the shadows and demanding solutions?

Weigh in and jab day.

SW 137KG BMI 53.5
CW 118 KG BMI 46.1
GW 60KG BMI 23.4

So that's near as dammit 42 pounds or 3 stones off. I am now going to need to look at making good on my commitment to start going to the gym.

I havent looked at sorting new clothes yet. A pair of trousers which were a little bit tight for daughter's wedding just before I started on mounjaro are now ridiculously large.

Part of the problem is that making for myself I have always gone for loose fitting tops. Though I will admit that some things are now getting perhaps a bit too loose fitting. I very nearly lost my jeans while working on the allotment at the weekend.

So for me I think I am now at the 'ill-fitting' stage of weight loss.

Small NSV for me today. I have some trousers* I made a couple of years ago and although they fitted they were a bit snug and I had popped the crotch seam.

Today they are fitting really well! Not tight, seams aren’t straining!

I’m really pleased! They’re a really good garment and I love them so I’ll have some more wear before they pass out of size and wearability!

*Love Notions Summer Caye for the sewers among you!

@justteanbiscuits it must be so demoralising for you, has it always been like that? They say that you need a minimum of 1000 calories a day for your body to function and 800 calorie diets are used in extreme cases, your metabolism must be so very slow, or could it be a hormonal imbalance? Have you spoken to your gp, but then mine would probably say that what I’m saying isn’t correct… could you ask for a referral to a nutritionist maybe? I do feel for you 😔

@TragicMuse shit days at work are the worst, but not reverting to old habits is a good way to make you feel better. It’s a weird feeling now we are not turning to food to reward ourselves or make ourselves feel better, I think I’ve replaced food with endless scrolling on Vinted looking for clothes!

@TragicMuse thank you for the pattern suggestion.

I have one back:

https://fridaypatterncompany.com/products/hughes-dress-pdf-pattern

I have made this a couple of times for DD. The bodice is laced at the back which makes it an excellent make for someone losing weight as it can be adjusted downwards.

@GnomeDePlume i like that phrase - the ill fitting stage of weight loss - I’m struggling a bit as I don’t really know what suits me now or what size I am. Stores and their sizing are rubbish, I wish it was just a standard measurement, I mean who on earth thought up the 22/24 then the next 26/28 - translates as snug or huge on me!

Music is a big thing for me, I have always used it to celebrate/commiserate/comfort myself, but the ‘old’ me would also turn to food. I think it was also habitual, I used food as a child/teenager to block things and that carried through to adulthood and almost became normal, I self medicated with calorific food, now I’m not doing that I sometimes feel exposed - does that make sense?

I’ll never fix younger me, I have a small family that loves me at every size but I will always mourn that young girl who was worth so much more than she thought or was made to think. I’ve cut all ties with those people but those feelings will always be there and I have to accept that I can’t change anything.
I need to work on self worth but not sure how to….
love to all!

@Iwouldratherbesinging exposed is a good way of describing it.

As overweight women we are often overlooked and also tend to hide in the shadows. As we progress with our weightloss we are seen more.

I know my DD has said she isn't entirely comfortable with this visibility.

All the positive compliments also come with a hint of criticism of our fatter selves.

Gosh! You look well. You must be so proud. You look amazing!

The implication is that our fatter selves were unworthy. Yet we aren't different.

@Iwouldratherbesinging just thinking that I took 'exposed' literally.

But of course there is the emotional exposure. Without food as a coping strategy what is there?

Hell's teeth, we aren't all going to turn into a cohort of runners/gym bunnies are we?