Mounjaro / Wegovy with > 5st / 30kg to lose: Thread 6

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Thread SIX of this lovely community. Anyone using weight-loss injections to lose more than 5 stone or 30kg is very welcome to join us, no matter what stage of the process you are on. Share your losses, your non-scale victories (NSV), your frustrations and your love of Longley Farm cottage cheese and kiwi fruit here!

Please don’t post discount codes on this thread as your post will be deleted. These need to go in the dedicated thread on this board.

Having been lurking for a while, I am sticking my head over the parapet. I have been on MJ since October, started at 19 stone and 16 today. Don't know what my end point is as I am 60 and don't want to look saggy and drawn, but that's a long way away, or the drawn is anyway.

The sun is shining and I have been very brave and booked myself a 55 min gym intro with an instructor tomorrow morning (8:15 eeek). Haven't been in the gym in 20 years, so watch this space.

Hang in there all, keep jabbing and we are getting there xx

@Arglefrasterand @RobinEllacotStrike swimming is one of my relaxation tools too.

i have a Slazenger boy leg suit which comes up high on the chest and covers down to my thighs which makes me feel more comfortable.

I also have one of my favourite toys the Shokz Bone Conduction Waterproof MP3 player. You have to load it with songs like an old fashioned MP3 player, mine is loaded with 80s rock/metal and 00’s punk pop. I whack the volume high and then just swim up and down completely zoning out every other person there.

Whatever dose you buy, the prescriber will most likely write to your GP, who has already approved the medication. Provided you have a pharmacy label for the 5mg current dose, you should be able to immediately privately buy 7.5mg, then work your way up the doses as required.

Under advice and supervision by their doctor, people often took two doses together in the US during shortages of higher doses.

It would be cheaper for you if you could continue your NHS prescription and add a second, private, lower dose pen to it, while also utilising the "5th doses" for an extra week, but you are unlikely to have that approach approved in the UK.

@InfoSecInTheCity last time I travelled I spent much time in duty free lusting over those Shokz headphones. You will find me purring over them again early this Saturday at Heathrow Terminal 5 ......

Work are sending me to the US in June and my duty free and ‘tech in America is just cheaper anyway’ list is getting longer and longer every day.

In theory I need to travel with cabin luggage only because I have to make a connection that will be strained if I have to do baggage claim but I’m seriously considering taking the risk so I can go with a mostly empty suitcase 😂

Although I find many apsects of the body postivity movement problematic, one of the really useful takeaways, along with ageing disgracefully, has been to put aside my body shame and exercise. Go to the gym & the pool unapologetically. Wear the swimsuit and give no fucks. Sweat like a crazy women in the exercise class and give no fucks. Give myself permission to exercise, sweat, get fit, like everyone else.

No one has ever said anything to me about my body. People were generally as accepting of me as anyone else. The fellas in the circuit class (the one that always made me want to throw up) after a few weeks were so supportive and encouraging to me. When I switched to yoga, the teachers & classmates have been nothing but supportive and encouraging.

I had a huge learning curve in body acceptance when I started sea swimming in the pandemic. Lolling about sunbathing (& social distancing) on the beach, in my size 22 swimsuit, giving no fucks, hanging out with people in every size body including loads of gorgeous fit men and making new friends. It was very liberating.

We women in large bodies have just as much right to swim, exercise etc and anyone else. If you can find a way to address your internal barriers to exercise there is much fun & fitness to be had.

In reality no body else cares about you.

Harsh but true.

And if they do judge, (most likely a projection of their own insecurities) as I tell my daughters "what other people think about you is none of your concern".

We are transiting in hell LA so maybe I'll check out duty free there.

I'm with you re: swimming costumes - mine is BRIGHT PINK and shouts at you and is also kind of not standard (will find a link!) from Snag and I absolutely love it! It's made for big women so is the best fitting costume I've ever had, so I just feel great in it, even though I'm huge! Fuck it - I will take up space in a lurid pink costume if I want to 😁

https://snagtights.com/products/swimsuit-phone-home-hot-pink

It's this one and I'll be buying the same in a smaller size soon 😊

This is very true!!! A family member is an alcoholic and when not drinking is eating chocolate is mass quantity. When drinking, she stops eating much at all.

I worry I have that same addictive genetic make up, my vice being food. I haven’t found I have replaced food with anything yet, maybe there is a healthy substitute that would help. I know one person who had a gastric bypass then became a gambler/shopaholic following it. She recons replace food with another reward pathway.

For those of you who go swimming and don't like the (lack of coverage) you get from a standard costume.
There are some pretty cheap legsuits on Temu at the moment in their 'curve and plus' range. Think mine was around £8. The sizing is pretty generous though so if anything, go for a size down.

This is a good idea but not sure I am quiet up to 3 hours.
Trying to sell things on Vinted so multiple walks to the post office daily will be my start.

I have that same swimsuit @MooBaggage
I started off with the black one & then got a hot pink one too.

I agree they are the PERFECT swimsuit for larger bodies & I always felt fabulous wearing them.

I will buy again a smaller size once I've "landed" wherever that might be.

@Reginaphalangeeeee I totally get where you're coming from, but I know my Mum would want me to stick with it and whilst she's not the reason I'm doing it, I know she'd want me to be healthy. Ironically she absolutely did not want me taking the injections. She was such a worrier. She would have been very happy about my actual weight loss. I was speaking to my dad yesterday and we had a laugh about it.

I actually bought my mum a pair of headphones whilst she was in the hospital so she could listen to some podcasts - just Sony ones from Amazon that were about £30. I have used them everyday. I do a 25min walk first thing in the morning. I have some nice upbeat music and I pound out the steps. Even if its raining I'm out there and I definitely makes me feel better. I get back to the house and finish it off with a 10/15 min kettle bell routine. I'm the set up for the day and already feel like I've achieved before I've had my breakfast.

I think I may have mentioned previously that I started open water swimming last year in a local lake. Its nearly time for it to open up for the year and I can't wait. Its the best feeling, so calming! maybe something like that will be better for your skin @Arglefraster - no chlorine. I've also found that the people at the lake are of all sizes and are much more welcoming than pool people.

NSV - not sure how much is down to yoga strengthening my hands/fingers and how much is down to weightloss but I can really click my fingers now & make a good sharp sound.

I could never really do this before - if I did it was a soft "puff" sound. Now its a proper sharp snap

@alwaysscared Panic not! After my brag about hitting overweight, I too am obese again today but "it'll be reet" as my FIL used to say, we both just celebrated a tad too soon and will shortly be there with room to spare
I really need to motivate myself to be more active, no excuses other than I hate it and am a lazyarse but at 65 I do need to start or I will shrivel up and fade away...

@QueenOfHiraeth and @alwaysscared I was healthy BMI for a day last week, then it went up, then a couple of days later it went back down. Weight fluctuates, it just does. As always the trick is to look at the bigger trend and as long as over time the line is heading downward you’re doing good.

I have multiple lovely Batoko swimsuits - made form recycled bottles, don't lose their elastic, and who doesn't like narwhals on an EU blue background with EU stars? Even better once a year in November they do a factory sale and they come down to at least half price OFFICIAL BATOKO © | Recycled Plastic Swimwear | UK Label

@InfoSecInTheCity I wish I was computer literate enough to manage your lovely spreadsheets and graphs.
I'm 65 now so computers weren't something I learned as younger people did and my career was in pharmacy/healthcare so I'm good at entering info into different systems but not at actually doing things for myself. DS1 was my tech support for many years (he's mid-30s and learned computing almost instinctively) but now he has a career, wife and babies he seems oddly reluctant to continue the role
I have my progress records in Nutracheck but they are bar charts and look very second rate next to yours!

By the way all, there have been rumblings of shortages of 12.5mg and 15mg looming for a while and it does seem like it is starting to bite now.

The thought is that maybe Lilly switched production over to low doses to cope with the post-Xmas demand but, by yesterday, about 10% of suppliers were out of stock of those higher doses and they don't all update their stock openly so it may be more widespread.
I saw some posts on FB complaining that Oushk were out and had accepted orders as they had been told a delivery would come in this week but it didn't. They are now saying 2nd April but no idea if that is guaranteed.
I'm sure I read somewhere it may take a while to resolve so it may be worth ordering sooner rather than later if you may be affected.

@QueenOfHiraeth I have seen messages around shortages of higher doses too (although don't impact me). Also saw a couple of days ago Eli Lilly has just launched Mounjaro in India which is not going to help any supply shortages. Such a huge market!

@RobinEllacotStrike I could have written this myself. It resonates so much with me. This is why I do keto - it shuts out all cravings and makes it easy to avoid all refined carbs and sugar. The more crap carbs, the hungrier I am and the reason for my weight gain/insulin resistance and metabolic problems (and the rest) over the years. It is a revelation and I feel I am lucky to have discovered this, and I know I am not alone as more and more people are coming to this conclusion (feeling aggrieved that I believed the "eat healthy whole grains/cereals/rice/pasta yada yada" at the expense of red meat, butter, cheese, cream and all the other so called "bad" foods that I ardently avoided for years).

Your posts have brought me tears today and I have messaged myself your very wise words in the Pavlov dogs post you wrote. Thank you. Loving the zero fucks in exercise too.

Once again a great big thanks to you all for keeping each other motivated and for words of wisdom and encouragement.

@Reginaphalangeeeee go easy on yourself and take time to find something along the lines of self-care. Grief is horrendous and the loss of a parent especially hard. I am in a temporary rental, and only have a shower, but I used to love a long soak in my fab bath. Epson salts - a detox and magnesium hit all in one and it made me feel so soothed; mentally and physically. Not sure if this is your thing, but something relaxing and indulgent might help you to reset. Take great care, it is very early days.

A top tip I got off here on an earlier thread was to only record the losses and it helps me so much. It makes the fluctuations have less of an impact, and as others have said, the weight is coming off and the scales are going down.

These threads are my fav part of the internet.
You are all bloody amazing.

I really really need to actually stop reading other MJ threads, there’s yet another ‘I’m current barely eating any calories, but want to eat even less, if I take MJ can I get away with starving myself……’ thread and I just want to scream at them.

Yep - I'm also not going to read of them any more - it's insane... 🙄

I feel like my 6.5mg dose is giving me too much suppression so far this week, so am trying to make sure I eat enough and have had a big protein drink tonight - it's ridiculous to think that starving is the sodding answer - just crackers...