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 will try and go for ‘cleaner’ choices post jab. I have it on Saturday so I guess on weekend food can be abit richer. The weird thing is that I was fine for first 7 weeks but last 2 doses of 2.5 & latest 3.75 seem to have triggered something.

I remember reading a thread on MN years ago where a young woman had lost her mum and posted about how upset she was at realising there were barely any photos of her. She said something along the lines of "she didn't want to be in pictures because she didn't like the way she looked but we loved her just as she was and now she's gone and I don't even have photos".
I made an effort to try to have some pictures after that even if I hated them I do hope I'll reach a point where I don't mind them so much...

Oh the pictures! I've been pretending I don't like them for the last 10 years and preety much don't seem to exist like you said @SilenceInside. Family events, birthdays, weddings..its quite upsetting thinking about it really. Or maybe its just that time of the month. @QueenOfHiraeth I have also thought about that in one of my low moments-my kids won't have any physical photo memories of me. I think it's probably a issue for a lot of us especially if we were at a comfortable plus 100kg for many years.

So much good sense on this thread! I particularly agree with the point @gimmemounjaro about not getting caught up in the weight and enjoying the process.
On previous weight loss attempts with Slimming World I was consumed with the stress of weigh in day, and used to have an enormous binge after class. This meant I had to spend the rest of the week starving in order to lose some weight at the next class.
Quite the restriction/binge cycle and for the life of me I found it impossible to break out of it.
but now I don’t have a set weight day, I get on the scales if I feel thinner. No stressful class, no self-harming reaction to it. It’s like a miracle

That's a good way (weigh!) of undermining the power of the scales @velvetseven

I weigh Saturday and record it if I like, if not I try again on Sunday and record that. Then just 'beating' Saturday's number feels like a win, even if I've gained from the previous week. It's easy for me to get a bit obsessed by the numbers, so this helps me to remember that it doesn't really matter as a measure, any more than if I were taking my resting pulse or something like that. I indulge my nerdy self once a week with recording everything and filling in my graph etc and then try to switch focus back to health not weight. Not always easy though.

NSV!! NSV!! Am currently sat on a plane waiting to take off and the seatbelt fits!!!

This was my mini target aim for today - hurrah!!

Just joining this thread now as about to start MJ tomorrow. Lots of helpful tips on here. Really worried about the side effects especially as I am away next weekend and will be flying but don’t want to delay starting. I’m 50 and have been overweight since I was 14. At the moment I’m finding hard to imagine not being obese so am starting by just imagining a one stone less. Currently 20.5.

Yay! 🥳 🎉👏

How fabulous. What a feeling!

Welcome @Loubydoo

and 👏🏆👏🏆👏 @MooBaggage
Your life is changing!

Hey there- as a long time lurker, thought I'd say hello!

I started out in Jan with 6 stone to lose- 1.5 stone down now, and took my first dose of 7.5 on Tuesday... I woke this morning, and can report that I am now a proud member of the SULPHUR BURPS club.... OMG they're disgusting!

Thankfully, as I have stalked the forum daily, I knew to be prepared with peppermint oil capsules and a shot of Pepto Bismol.. now both a permeant feature in my handbag, alongside emergency Imodium!

Hope you all have a lovely day!

Weigh in number 23
SW 21st 9lb (BMI 44.8)
CW 18st 0lb (BMI 37.5)
GW 11st 9lb (BMI 24.1)
1lb down this week
Losses so far; 4, 1, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, +3, 5, 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1
Total loss 51lbs / 3st 9lb

I was hoping to get into the 17s and down 4st for my birthday next week but my weightloss has slowed right down this month, a total of 7lb in the last 5 weeks.

I've upped my steps to an average of 10000 a day and started doing a beginners HIIT the last couple of weeks. I don't think my eating has changed although maybe a few extra treats have crept in but my intake is always below 1700 each day and averages to 1500.

I'm still on my 7.5mg pen so decided to go up to 8.75mg today and then I'll go up to 10mg when this pen is done.

In my companies global financial presentation update this morning, they have put up a slide with various things that are potential concerns to the business outlook (but didn't explain them all) and one is GLP-1s!

I always knew they were going to be a risk, but was a little surprised they are actually mentioning it now.

Lots of people in our group asking "what are they?" and nobody knows 😂 me -> 🤐

I’m sorry I’m always negative on here but I’m so miserable. I’m plateauing all the time at the moment. I’ll lose a couple of lbs then stall or go up for 10 to 14 days then lose another 1 or 2. I’m doing something wrong. I’m counting calories religiously and staying under my TDEE by at least 500 per day. I’m scared to try new foods as I don’t know how my body will react. I’ve got mouth sores constantly (corners of my lips), I’m knackered all the time. I haven’t even been able to exercise for a couple of weeks because I feel so rough.
Had blood tests, they showed a vitamin d deficiency and I have high iron, I’m speaking to the doctor on Monday about that and have started a vit d supplement.
I don’t know where to go from here, suppression is non existent now so I’m surviving on will power and it’s so hard.
I’ve no one other than my husband to talk to about this which is why I complain on here so much, so sorry about that.
I don’t want to stop because I need to lose at least 2 more stone and it’s reversed my type 2 diabetes. I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I don’t have a uterus any more so I can’t blame menstruation for the weight gain. I drink litres of sparkling water a day, that’s all I drink. I’m hardly eating anything, argh!!

@alwaysscared really no need to apologise for posting, whatever you're feeling is valid and fine to share.

Would a lot of the symptoms you're having be related to the vitamin D deficiency, perhaps? The tiredness and the mouth sores? Hopefully the doctor on Monday could advise about that, and hopefully the vitamin D supplement will start to help soon.

Is there no chance at all that your diabetes management team/person could prescribe a higher dose of Mounjaro? You're not doing anything wrong at all, if you were getting it privately I think you would have simply moved up the doses until you found a level that was working for you.

@SilenceInsideno, unfortunately they won’t up it as it’s reversed my diabetes so there is not a case to argue for a higher dose. The doctor was sorry about it but there’s nothing they can do. If I was able to afford it I think I would definitely be on a higher dose now I think.

do you work in a chippie? Or at a chocolate maker? 😁

That audible book/podcast I linked to a while ago "The Thin Line" touched on wider societal implicataion of GLP1 meds. Food companies are already responding with "WLM" suitable foods/snacks etc.

Provided we don't all start having unforseen terrible side effects, I think we really are on the cusp of seeing GLP1's move into wider society and they will be used to treat other conditons too. We are the front runners & the tip of the GLP iceberg.

on the other hand tapas restaurants will be booming!

@alwaysscared

I get the cracks in the corner of my mouth thing as well. For me it's linked to my B12- when that's tanking the cracking is worse. One thing that really helps me is lanolin cream. Yep, the same stuff that breastfeeding ladies use on sore nipples.

@alwaysscared it's infuriating that the NHS is not willing to be flexible in order to actually make a difference to people.

@alltablenochairs thanks, I’ll order some of that. They checked my B12 and I’ve seen the results and I think it’s ok, but that hasn’t been confirmed by the doctor yet so it could be that.

@SilenceInside yes, it’s very annoying. But I have heard that people are now having to wait for 2 years to be prescribed even for diabetes (I don’t know how true that is), so I guess I’m grateful to have any

This surprises me because I'm prescribed by the NHS for the same reason and my latest blood tests show numbers in non-diabetic range. When I spoke to the Diabetes nurse I told her I'd like to increase dose because it was becoming less effective and I wanted to get comfortably into the healthy BMI range. She checked with the GP and they agreed. I'm now on 7.5mg and going up to 10mg next week, and have hit the very top end of healthy BMI. Once I'm in the middle of this range I'll ask them about decreasing and maintenance.

It's not against prescribing rules for them to increase, it's just recommended to stay on the lowest dose that's effective for as long as possible. They actually don't use the term 'reversed' for T2 diabetes anymore, you can put it into remission, which is classed as 3 months at normal levels without the need for glucose lowering medications, but are always diabetic and at risk of your sugar levels rising out of range again and still need to get all the annual checks (feet, eyes, blood)

You are on a glucose lowering medication, so are not classed as in remission yet so there really should be no reason why they wouldn't increase your dose as long as your blood tests aren't showing any counter indications with liver/pancreas and you are tolerating any side effects.

www.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/type-2-diabetes/remission/what-is-type-2-diabetes-remission

cks.nice.org.uk/topics/diabetes-type-2/prescribing-information/glp-1-receptor-agonists/

Hey @alwaysscaredsorry you're so frustrated just now.

Just to throw in a different suggestion when I get cracks in the corner of my mouth it starts due to dry skin/skin reaction but becomes fungal very quickly. Very sore & wont heal but a few days of an anti fungal cream & it clears up completely. A very (very) long time ago my grandmother had the same thing & was told it's due to our downturned mouths!

@InfoSecInTheCity yes sorry, I haven’t reversed it. I don’t know why I said that really because I know it’s the meds that are doing it. Should have said bloods are in normal range.
Im speaking to the doc again on Monday so will ask again.

@Arglefraster I’ve ordered some lanolin, I’ll see if that works. If not, I’ll try fungal cream