Mounjaro, 10st or more to lose, thread two

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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

With my diabetes I’ve been a chocolate refuser for a while so that’s not a problem for me. But cheese is my kryptonite and I normally receive it instead of chocolate. Refusing that is hard!!

I bought one of those bags of mixed mini eggs a couple of weeks ago, the ones with mini crème eggs, dime bar eggs etc and ate 2 eggs last weekend and will eat 2 this weekend, the bag will probably last another couple of weeks - unheard of, it would have lasted about 30 mins (if that) this time last year!
Another thing I’ve noticed, I am not resentful of anything hubby eats, whereas before, on a restricted diet, I would get very grumpy and miserable if he was eating something delicious that I couldn’t have. It was like I blamed him for the fact I couldn’t have it too.
He can eat all the eggs he wants this year and I’ll be smiling 😊

A couple of NSVs yesterday, had a clinic appointment yesterday and the waiting room only had those fixed arm armchairs and I fit. Normally I'd look around for a chair without arms or pretend to read posters on the wall to avoid sitting!!

I also walked 10000 steps with my kids in the sun without going red in the face, in fact without struggling at all. I even managed to carry my 8 year old on my back for a bit

Week 2 weigh in, and I've lost 7lb. Not quite as impressive as it sounds, as I've had norovirus, and haven't eaten a thing for 3 days! Its pretty grim, I wouldn't recommend it as a weight loss tool!! But hey, a loss is a loss, so I'm taking it. It's also jab day, but I'm delaying it for a day or two, until I'm recovered. 3 days of d&v is enough appetite supressant I need right now! Hope everyone else is doing good, and ready for the lovely long weekend. Happy Easter.

SW 22st 8lb
CW 21st 7lb
TW tbc

I hope you feel better better soon @Billybingbong

Well done @WafflingDreamer

It’s my jab day so I’ll be doing that shortly. No scales at my mum’s so no WI!

I’m thinking about how I can avoid the afternoon nausea surge. I usually jab in the morning and then feel really tired and nauseous by the second day. So potentially kicking in tomorrow aft. I asked ChatGPT and it suggested taking it at night.

Has anyone done that? I think I’ll get some Dramamine from the chemist but I’ll take any suggestions!

@TragicMuse I inject just before bed as it disrupts my sleeping, so I aim to be asleep before it kicks in. I did my very first injection in the day to check I had no major side effects and since then it’s been later, getting progressively later as I realised it was stopping me sleeping.

@WafflingDreamer yay, well done! I can’t wait until I can walk into my favourite pub and not ask to swap chairs into one I fit in.

I just weighed myself, only a small loss of 1lb but it has brought me into the 19st range, I’ll take that as a win. Haven’t been 19st something for years!

Here's an article on a new pill, orforglipron, which targets the same GLP-1 receptors as Mounjaro.

archive.ph/cfj2d

I read that article earlier @SeaStoat. Will be interesting to see what happens. What is clear is that weight loss medication isn't going away.

I love your NSVs @WafflingDreamer. It has reminded me that last year my brother bought new dining room table chairs and I honestly thought that I would break one sitting on it. I didn't but had a miserable time worrying about it. We're visiting tomorrow for the first time this year and I am wondering how I will feel around 2 1/2 stone lighter on them!

Also can I ask what is probably a really uncool question to those of you who have lost quite a lot of weight? I have lost over 70 lbs in 16 months (the majority of it in the last 9 months). I am still very overweight but have gone from nearly 22 stone to 16 something. There's definitely a very visible difference. Outside of my DH and DD no one has mentioned it at all to me. Not my best friends or colleagues or anyone!

I've lost weight for health and comfort reasons but just find it strange as if it isn't noticeable. Not even sure if I would welcome any comments to be honest!

I haven't lost as much as you yet @Motnight but am 3st 4lbs down so far - from 19st 9 to 16st 5. The only person to comment is the person who knows I'm on mounjaro and while I'm far from svelte, I definitely look smaller than I was and my shape is changing too.
It's the downside of society talking less about people's bodies now. It's good that the circle of shame in Heat culture has moved on, or the weight and eating habits of Hollywood actresses always being mentioned in interviews, but the flip is that people don't comment on losses either.
I lost 4 stone about a decade ago, going from around 15st to around 11st and people definitely commented more back then. It felt validating to have my hard work noted but also uncomfortable on occasion. 'You look like a different person!', in an approving tone, was tough as it felt implied that the previous person I looked like looked like shit.

Week 15, 3 pound lost which takes me to 3 stone!
Only my parents have commented on my weight (they know I’m on Mounjaro) tbh I’m ok with it. I hate weight loss talk, having lost and put on so many times it always feels like a false celebration losing and like I’m a failure when I gain ☹️

@WafflingDreamer I love reading about NSVs (even more once I figured out what it stood for!). Well done on defeating the evil chair empire and being so much more active.

Just back from a weekend away, and on the plus side I never once felt like my eating was going to become out of control, which is such a relief. But a couple of 'non victories' in a way, that I shall take and use as motivation to continue - went to the cinema and was asked to wait in the lobby until the screen was ready. The chairs there were definitely evil - spindly legs that looked like they'd collapse if I sat on one (this happened to me once, thankfully in my own kitchen, but I am traumatised by the memory!). So I had to stand and shuffle, not fun. Then this morning we went to Frankie and Benny's for breakie (stuck to poached egg on one slice of toast quite easily) and had to ask to be seated elsewhere as they tried to put us in a booth - and squashing myself in and feeling like I'm being suffocated with a table slicing into my abdomen is not something I want to pay for the privilege of experiencing. So, both those things were a bit shit, but on the plus side I genuinely feel like one day I will actually fit into the world. I'll just have to wait a while longer!

I think that people don't comment when you've been really, really big (like all of us on this thread) because it feels intrusive and rude.

I've lost 7 stone now, in 16 months, and I know I look very different. But in all that time, only two people have said anything. The rest don't because it draws attention to how massive I used to be. That's what I think, anyway.

My family do comment positively, but they know I'm on MJ.

Maybe also, some people think I'm going to get fatter again, so they don't say anything in case it upsets me.

You know something?

I'm in size 12/14 clothes now.

But my BMI is still 32.

There are women on the other MJ threads, who start off with a BMI of less than the level mine currently is. Which is fine, of course.

But it doesn't compute in my head.
At this rate I'll be a size 10, and still be in the OBESE category of BMI.
It doesn't make sense.

Week 41 weigh in for me.

SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 88.6kg (13st 13lbs), was 89.7kg (14st 1bs) last week.
GW: 81kg (12st 11 lbs) fifth interim goal

Current pen: 7.5mg, 31 weeks on this dosage.

A couple of milestones reached this week. Finally into the 13 stone bracket, just, which feels truly surreal. I have not been this weight for a very long time. I have also lost 50kg since I started Mounjaro. Which seems a lot!!

@Motnight I think I have reached a point where people seem to have to say something, as the difference is very obvious now, especially as I am dressing in a very different way. My friends all commented directly last time we all met up, as did my family. All of them asked in the same way, by asking first that it was deliberate weight loss and that I was not unwell!

Can you drink alcohol with Mountjaro?

I've lost 4st and when I got to around 3.5st after about 4.5-5 months everyone seemed to notice and ask how I was doing it. I'm happy to talk to people about it as I would have liked someone to be honest with me if I'd have asked (although I try hard not to comment on people's bodies or appearance)

I am so glad I found this group as I’ve had some dark moments this week wondering if things are working and whether I can face the journey ahead and it is so good to see the progress being made.

I am still eating around the 1000 calories per day level but am a little worried as I’m a bit scared of food. I’ve gone to healthy eating which is surprisingly easy but feel strange about what I was eating before. I see people still eating things like pizza and other takeaway and wonder what that would be like, but am genuinely not that bothered. I could almost say slightly turned off by the idea of them and it worries me a little. Is this normal? I worry that I won’t be able to enjoy food again?

You may find you are disinterested in alcohol, @Jjeffo.

You certainly won't be eating as much so alcohol will have a greater effect. If you don't fancy it, don't drink it as it's empty calories when you need protein.

I think how you're feeling about certain types of food is not unusual. What I tend to do, is have a very small taste of whatever I'm curious about, and then don't have any more of it. I do enjoy the food that I am eating though, I have a renewed delight in the more healthy options - I really appreciate a crispy juicy apple for example at the moment.

My family have been eating hot cross buns this week, I have enjoyed the smell of them toasting but I don't want to eat any of them. That's a win for me, rather than a worry.

Thank you for the reassurance. I guess I worry whether I would not be able to eat some of these things if in front of me, and what a waste this would be. I live alone so if I had a pizza it would be thrown out rather than someone else finishing it off or I’d be in a restaurant with friends and wouldn’t be able to eat my meal, and again would be a waste.

As a non-drinker my social life usually involves eating out a lot so am worried I may lose this part of my social life as well. I know so many people live life with takeaways and eating out socially but I’ve always struggled with my relationship with food and so this is quite daunting for me.

I think trying not to care about waste is an important step. So many places serve such huge portions, I think it's ok to eat a reasonable amount and then stop.

When eating out I try to order small dishes that I will eat most of, or things to share, so it's not on me to have to eat it all. I'll have a coffee if people are having dessert and so on. I've been on Mounjaro for 40-odd weeks now, and it hasn't ruined any social occasion involving food. I enjoy them more actually, as I'm not overeating and immediately regretting it.

I love alone too. If cook pizza at home I either just cook half of a bigger or get one of those pizzetta dinky ones. If it's a take away one I just save whatever I don't fancy for the next day or two.
If I'm eating out I'll try to chose something that's not too filling, but I've just accepted that I might not eat it all. I don't want it to affect my social life either, so just try to tweak where it's easy to do so.

I think, @TheZingyFish , your feelings about food may change. Mine have. I am often disinterested. It's a strange and unfamiliar feeling - and yet a good feeling. I couldn't binge if I tried. I just don't care .....

When I've eaten out, I've ordered completely differently from how I'd have ordered pre MJ - not because I am trying to comply with a diet regime, but because it's what I've fancied.