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!

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I do love this thread, it's so inspirational and supportive. Thank you for all the kind comments re coping with my boy's behaviour.

@Reginaphalangeeeee I had a similar experience with a school nurse telling me when I was 10 that I was a stone overweight.I was then referred to a dietician and have felt ashamed of my body ever since.

I really hope that my children do not pick up too much on my weight battles. They know that I am trying to get fit - I have told them that I want to run faster than them. And they also know that I am aiming for us all to have 5 portions of fruit and veg a day and reduce UPF.

I normally jab on a Thursday night. I wait until the children are asleep. I am aiming for maximum suppression at the weekend as that is when I face most temptation.

I have made it under 18 stone!

@dimples76 As a mum of an ND child, I take my hat off to you. It must be incredible difficult 💐. What an amazing mum you are.

It's really telling to hear how many of us can trace our poor relationship with food back to events in childhood. For me it was my mum. She was permanently starving herself, nibbling ryvitas for dinner whilst simultaneously virtually force feeding me and my sister all the foods she wished she could eat. I am trying so hard not to pass this on to my dds. Well done for getting under 18 👏.

I've got family up and was over visiting earlier. Someone had made a biscoff cheese cake and I had a small square - honestly it was tiny - maybe 1.5" square! - but so so sweet. I'm back home and feel like I have eaten a kilo of cheesecake - like a post sugar surge feeling of nausea.

I've tried water and a couple of rennies, was thinking some protein might help, but I don't feel like eating and not sure if it will make me 🤮.

Any ideas what will get rid of this feeling/balance out the sugar rush? Or do I just need to wait it out?

Yuk. Disclaimer, I'm no expert. Could you manage something like a herbal tea? Ginger or chamomile. Or lemon water? Just thinking something fresh and cleansing might help. Hope it doesn't last long.

My mum definitely had a lot of issues around food. Her mum was obese and she often talked with horror about not wanting to get fat like her mum. She would eat very little, off a tiny plate while the rest of us ate normally. If I asked for seconds she would make a comment about how I was a fatty or greedy piggy. She'd buy me clothes that were too small for me, then say things like, oh I didn't know you'd got that big.

Food became my comfort and safety very early in life! I'm very grateful for Mounjaro because despite it not being an easy way to lose weight, it does seem to give most of us the space to make actual choices around food, rather than being driven to the biscuit tin by these mechanisms we developed in childhood. I think that even if some of us end up being on MJ for life, as maybe some of us will, it's a real gift to have those choices.

It's the first time in my life that I've felt I can actually make an authentic choice about what I eat. Even when I've lost a lot of weight in the past, it was all about willpower and restriction. Which are choices, I suppose. But it feels different.

Drink loads of water and maybe if you can, do some kind of exercise to get rid of the rush of energy?

Thanks @akaFrosty I am one of those weird non tea or coffee drinkers! No lemons in the house. I am nibbling some mixed nuts and it seems to be helping a little.

Hmmm...that's an idea, weather is bad here - wet and cold - will go and try some steps on the stairs!

If I feel like that I have some apple cider vinegar in water & do squats until it passes- on the principle that the elevated blood sugar is what's making me feel lousy so I want to use it up asap.

Stuck my head outdoors and rain was off so did a brisk walk around the block and got a bit wet 🌧️on the way back, but feel better for it - just acid reflux now - that will settle soon hopefully.

Squats are out for now @Arglefraster can barely raise myself on and off a seat now after doing some on Monday 🙈

W1D3….. ate 2 pastries at work today for lunch. Wasn’t hungry but felt I should eat something during the day….. wish I hadn’t. Felt uncomfortably full and now got an upset stomach 😭

lesson learnt.

@WeAllHaveWings and @CoffeeCakeAndALattePlease hope that you're both feeling better soon. It should pass fairly quickly. The worst of it when I had an episode like that is that I did not enjoy my indulgence and only ate it (scone with cream and jam) to be 'polite'.

Ffs - Been back and forth to the loo 3 times in the last half hour. Maybe it wasn’t the biscoff cheesecake afterall (or maybe it was) 🤦🏻‍♀️

At least the cheesecake is on its way out again. Hope you feel better soon.

I know exactly why I am like I am. Suffice to say I experienced more than one childhood ACE and by the time I was a teenager I was already overweight and already ridiculed (not by my Mum but by more than one person) for it. Plus some other stuff but that's not a story I want to tell. So food became my comfort. And then add in the many, many years of various random diets, slimming clubs e.t.c and it's no wonder I have been overweight for most, if not all of my adult life. The lowest weight I can remember being is around 85kg. Will I get to that this time around? Who knows?

@WeAllHaveWings I don't drink tea or coffee either. I don't really drink any hot drinks- apart from the occasional peppermint tea and even then I drink that lukewarm. Just doesn't really appeal to me.

I do like squash but I can't have it in the house as DS obsesses about it (11, autistic/adhd/pda and the bloody rest of it). Giving him squash is like giving Tigger rocket fuel. I've even had to change my diet coke to caffeine free diet coke after DS helped himself to a can. They say stuff like that has no effect on hyperactivity in kids. Well that particular night he was still going strong having a whale of a time at 1am. I wasn't and as DH put it, I'd had a complete sense of humour failure.

For those that like lemons in water, I buy a 5kg box of them from Crowdfarming. Usually organic and unwaxed so I chop them up, freeze them and then stick it in a glass of water as and when. Cold, lemony water and even if DS gets hold of it, it ain't gonna send him apeshit.

😁 we did a squat competition after dinner a week ago & the 14 yr old moaned about his achey legs for DAYS 🙄🤣
I hope you're feeling better - that Cheesecake would likely have me running to a toilet so I wouldn't assume a bug.

@alltablenochairslike giving rocket fuel to tigger 😆 that's exactly how my brother was with squash as a kid! 5kgs of lemons sounds lovely

I did something similar in my first week too! Cooked too much for lunch, because it's the amount I would usually have and it sat in my stomach making me feel ill for the rest of the day...

I think it takes our minds quite a while to adjust to our bodies - it did with mine, anyway..! I've got better at listening to my body - I use side plates now and have even started to leave food on my plate and stop eating when I feel full - unthinkable a few months ago!

I have a tiny NSV! I can wear the smaller size watch strap 😁. Ordered a new one last week without realising I’d ordered a S/M rather than my usual larger one. It actually fits! Admittedly I’m on the first hole but it went round my wrist and isn’t uncomfortably tight. It’s the small things!

Well, I survived last night! - does getting on/off the loo multiple times overnight count as squats?

Daily weigh in this morning and I've put ON a pound 🤣, how is that even possible!!!!!! 🤣 Maybe it is all the new muscles I built from all the squats!

(I know it is probably water retention!)

Nice NSV!

I realised when trying to hold a packet of beef jerky between my thighs in the car this morning that my thighs do not touch anymore and are no longer a useful resting place for stuff I don’t have enough hands for 😂

Yes that definitely counts as exercise! Much like the frequent and urgent run to the loo when increasing water intake counts as exercise!

Glad you’re feeling better.

Hello lovely inspiring folks!

I am a long time lurker of this thread. I have posted a couple of times here and there but haven't done well to keep up with the pace.

I started MJ in October and am currently on 10mg - I have lost 4st and have another 3st to go and I'm still in the obese BMI category.

I have some NSVs I wanted to share:

• I enjoy looking in the mirror again! It feels almost emotional for me to see myself. For such a long time I have avoided mirrors and seeing myself used to make me feel so rotten. So bad that I would feel a horrible anxious feeling afterwards

• I saw DH's aunt recently (someone we don't see very often) and she said I looked just like I did on my wedding day! (This can't be true as I am currently 4st heavier than I was many moons ago but the weight loss must have made her think I look different). This feels significant for me too, as this particular aunt bought an outfit back for me from holiday last year and the size was 5XL and I remember feeling so upset. I wasn't offended, just sad that she'd got my size roughly right.

I need to do better with my diet (I haven't been eating much and need to get more calories in) and (restart) exercise. I'm worried I'm losing muscle weight and not fat and have been the same weight for about 4 weeks now.

Thank you again for everyone's lovely inspiring posts, I really enjoy hearing everyone's progress and feel so uplifted reading about it x

Can I just double check that I should definitely be eating over my BMR? I am adding calories and it just feels so wrong, that I am going to just continue to plateau. I’m now having about 1550 cals a day, my BMR is 1500. But my TDEE is 1940, and have always thought I needed to eat at least 500 below that number.
Some things I have added are protein, so chicken slices, cheese triangles (seem to be ok with these, although I don’t really like the taste) and added more eggs to my day. Am also looking into a good protein powder. Anyone have any suggestions? I want as low cal as possible.
I have started a multi vitamin, so hoping that my energy improves and brain fog eases a bit

Well done @doodlydooo
Thats great! How long have you been on 10mg?
I am on 5mg but sometimes just can’t be bothered to eat but always prioritise the protein. Forcing chicken in when I don’t feel like it puts me off it more but know I do not want to loose muscle… that will just me lower energy and even less eating when I come off (if I ever can).
I guess it’s normal for things to slow and a constant re calculation of needs is needed as we loose weight.

Glad you have such positive NSV!
I am honestly shocked at someone buying you an outfit. As a bigger person I just would not want anyone to buy me clothes. Even my husband knows this and doesn’t even dare buy me Pj’s now.
I figure this is a big girl thing and maybe I won’t mind if in smaller clothes sizes 🤷‍♀️

Yep!

BMR is the calories you need to function. To breathe, have your heart and other muscles work, to maintain your skin, hair, nails etc.

TDEE is the calories you use to do all that basic existing stuff and then to walk from bed to kitchen, up and down the stairs a few times, maybe a bit of sustained exercise here and there and so on.

if you eat less than your TDEE you will lose weight, 500 less is the general approx number to aim for if you want to lose 1-2lb a week.

I am 5ft 8, 158lb now, 41 yrs old and do at least 3x 30 min hard exercise sessions a week so I choose ‘light exercise’ on the calculator to give a bit of tolerance. My BMR is 1430, my TDEE is 1966, my daily calorie goal is minimum 1466, but I allow up to 1600.