Some musings about my weight loss

[LyricalGangsta]

I'm using Mounjaro and everything is going fine. I don't seem to have any side effects, I feel better in lots of areas since starting including mentally. It seems to have calmed my mind if that makes sense?

Anyway, regards to losing weight I am going to do a second pen of 5mg after I finish this one on Wednesday as it's working fine - I'm losing about 3lbs per week which is amazing.

The thing that I can't get my head round is the thought that this is clearly working and hopefully should continue to work, so why can't I envisage the end?
I see all these success stories of people losing 6, 7, 8 stone and I think that will never be me.
I am still overweight at the moment - I think I am just inside the top end of overweight now from obese so I look so much better now I'm 2stone down but I just can't imagine me getting to where I want to be. It's like I don't believe it will happen.

Has anyone else had this or is having it?

Thanks

I think it's because we are used to losing weight being so awful and so hard that it feels like a gotcha moment is coming when Mounjaro is working so well. I'm four months in and would usually have had several arguments with my own brain by this point, but with Mounjaro we're working together. I don't feel like self sabotage is on the horizon, or anything like that.

Oh absolutely! I feel that I could keep on like this for however long it takes and I'm not tempted at all by anything.
You are right with the feeling of like "what's the catch" sort of thing 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hello @LyricalGangsta I have been using Mounjaro for 21 weeks now and have lost 4 stones so far. I have another 3.5stones to go. I am still obese but noticeably slimmer. I cannot believe it. I feel almost more comfortable in my "big clothes" and nervous about wearing smaller clothes.

When I say I can't believe it, I don't mean it in the frivolous sense. I literally mean that my brain isn't accepting it. I mentioned to DSis that it has almost felt too easy. I feel worried something bad is going to happen.

It has also improved my mental health in unimaginable ways. I'm less irritable and generally less obsessed with food. It's changed my life, I feel so free.

I feel the same.i have been overweight for so long I literally can't imagine being a healthy weight. I am worried I will look like I am melting though lol

I think i have a fear of being a healthy weight in some ways. I always think well if I was slimmer I would be able to....

Cant yet believe that I will be if this keeps working! Know exactly what you rmean OP

Thanks for the replies

It's good to know I'm not alone!

Ooof, that struck quite a chord with me.
One of the reasons I started Mounjaro was realising quite how many things I was actively avoiding because of my weight. I hadn't quite thought about having to confront how I feel all about those things when I'm a healthier weight.

I've been on it 7 months and even though I'm down several dress sizes I'm convinced it's not really working and I'm really no different. I saw a photo someone took of me just this weekend and did such a double-take. Couldn't believe it was me, and I was the slimmest person in the group.

It's very hard to wrap my head around the changes and to accept them. I imagine it will just take some time.

I can understand this, op. I've only lost 5kg so far and am a size a 22. I once got down to an 18 with Slimming World, but have never been thinner than that as an adult.

MJ is going well for me, but I still can't imagine being a size 12-14 which is what I think I would be with a healthy bmi as I'm quite tall. I can't believe I could be that size. I can't physically imagine what I would look like or feel like. And I really can't fathom that I could lose all this weight and keep it off forever. But that's because it's never happened before.

i am in maintenance now and I think it’s worth trying to muse about the ‘can’t believe it’ feelings. I had a very easy time on MJ (almost no side effects, never went above 5mg) and the risk when it is so effortless is not working on habits and learning about what works for me. I don’t plan to stay on it for life, which I know some people do. So I need to notice and try to feel proud of what I’m doing differently (ie eating much better) to give me a chance of maintaining.
not sure if that helps. I’ve often not had much sense of achievement because it has been such easy weight loss, but I think there is a risk there too.

I think wrapping our heads around the changes is much harder than any of us could have forseen. Maybe it's because of how consistent the injections allows our losses to be?

I've lost 5 stone in 11 months using ozempic. I've another 2/2.5 to go if I'm going by bmi. I currently weigh 12st 13 and am 5ft5.
I'm in territory weight wise I haven't been for 16 years. It feels good and I feel like my old self but also I see the two stone I've ideally still to lose a lot more now than when I had many more stone to lose. I feel my brain is determined to always make me insecure about my appearance but there again I wonder too If I'm just facing up to reality. What I've left to lose is still a lot, probably around 20% of my idea body weight. Maybe I'm not been over critical just realistic?
At the same time too though I wish I would let myself rejoice more at losing almost 30% of my initial start weight. Its like a dream come through.
Feeling like this is only a recent thing and maybe it's because the end is in sight? I can now picture how I will look at goal, my style and size and I long for it.

Felt exactly the same as you when I started in June last year but now I am 6 stone down and on the cusp of a healthy BMI.

Yes I had all this.

To the point where I was telling myself that I look all gaunt and ill under 10 stone which I absolutely don't - but because I couldn't imagine being under that, I told myself I shouldn't aim for it

I'm now 9 stone 7 and it just gradually happened, lost 5 and a half stone in total.

Thanks everyone

I've had 3 people at work say I look great over the last week or so - now that I am down 2 stone people are noticing.

I can see some change in myself and clothes are getting loose. Keep hoiking my work trousers up.

Then DD was being silly with Snapchat earlier and clipped a video of me and I still look like a small country.... 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄🤣