Jan 25 starters Thread 6. Set points, baggy trousers and all the ups and downs

[Thelittlestranger]

Didn't want to lose you all, so have started a new thread.

Roll up, roll up!

6 pounds @2025istheyeari ! really great loss.

It’s great reading all these experiences. I’m still on 2.5mg (started 2/1/25) and things have slowed down somewhat but still moving.

Would like to have a little rant. Almost 2 stone down and the only comments I’ve had have been somewhat negative. Along the lines of ‘I thought you were looking drawn/tired’ or ‘be careful, loosing too much on someone makes them look older’. The thing is, my BMI is 28.7, so nowhere near ‘skinny’ or even ‘healthy’! Grrrr…..

jealousy. Can't stand the former bigger friend getting slimmer than them.

I'm considering staying on 7.5 mg for another pen... Suppression is really high with this dose, and I've not noticed the tapering off when I'm coming to the end of the pen this time. My digestion is a bit of a rollercoaster since I started 7.5 mg - either all or nothing, if you know what I mean! Going between the usual mild constipation to full blow-outs... 🤔 I seem to have a very low tolerance for high fat content foods now, those always get me running for the loo. I haven't eaten any cheese in weeks, which is so not me!

I've now lost 12% of my starting weight, and am so very nearly in the overweight BMI category.
My hysterectomy has been postponed to the 14th (it was meant to be this Friday), but they said I can continue MJ until I have the surgery. I'm seeing the consultant tomorrow, so will ask about afterwards.

@StrugglingSUPGirl I have lost a bit over a stone and a half and no one except dh has noticed/mentioned. I have had a few quizzical comments about how am ‘looking nice’. As opposed to a great big mess I suppose.

people have a mental picture. And if you are a middle age woman (I don’t know if you are of course - I am) you are meant to fade into the background doncha know.

@StrugglingSUPGirl ive lost similar and just starting to get ‘you’re looking well’ comments. DH gives me the facts and he said I looked slimmer in the face so moving in the right direction as it’s the last place I lose from

One of the benefits of being a 50 year old cancer survivor is that I really do not give a fig about what most people think of me 🤣.

I don’t see any of the above, I don’t feel invisible at all.

Social norms mean that people are unlikely to say ‘by god Pen, your’re looking hefty’, they are more likely to say ‘you look well, have you lost weight’, etc., etc.. I remember saying to my friend who had been on MJ (I didn’t know), ‘bloody hell you look fabulous’. I didn’t say don’t lose any more, but I thought it tbh. Not jealous, I just thought she looked really good where she was, healthy and strong.

I met someone I hadn’t seen for a while at work recently, refused a biscuit and said I was dieting and that I’d lost a stone. He said I can tell but i would never mention these things 😅.

Don’t sweat the small stuff is my life mantra.

I’ve got 0.8lb before I move into the next stone bracket. I don’t do stones generally, but I’ll take the victory when I get there. 🏆

So after weeks and weeks of staying the same or putting on slightly, I’ve had a huge whoosh this week and taken off 4lbs!!! Quite confusing when you consider I could hardly move most of the time due to a back injury at the gym! I’m also now firmly in the next stone bracket and extremely close to being classed as overweight instead of obese which will be amazing!!! Feeling great about myself this morning and had to stop myself from running outside and shouting about it lol.

SW: 15st 1lb
CW: 13st 12lb
GW: 10st 7lb

Lovely to read about everyone's losses and so interesting to hear what dose we are all on now. I'm sticking on 3.75 this week again. I did go up to 5 a couple if weeks ago but suppression was too high! I have a 7.5 pen ready in the fridge but I might order another 5 to use before the 7.5 ( haven't decided yet)
Anyway, weigh and jab day.
SW 15st12lb
CW 13st 11lb
GW 12st
Happy weighing everyone!

I will go up a bit, have been on 2.5 from the start but I feel the suppression is not the same any more. I think I'll try 3.75 this evening

I had to share my latest graph. Look at that steady gradient on 5mg!

I have however decided to take a break for the rest of April while I’m away on holiday as I have had some negative side effects that I’d prefer to avoid while away - v low energy at times and some stomach ache and nausea. Despite some scare stories about MJ not working well if you return to it, I’m still on a low dose and getting results so I feel I can step away for a bit. I imagine I’d then go back down to 2.5mg and see how I feel before ramping back up more rapidly upon restarting. I’m not intending to tell my prescriber and just stash it in the fridge.

While I’m away I’m intending to eat relatively well and focus on protein intake. I’ll be interested to see what I weigh after a time away! Ideally I’d like to maintain but I’d also accept a gain. Ultimately I know I’ll be back on plan and the key thing is not to get derailed.

I’ll monitor my progress here as I imagine others will be thinking about how to deal with holidays as we move in to summer.

I’ve gone up the doses every four weeks, and I’m on my second week at 10mg. 7.5mg didn’t seem to do very much, and I was hungry more often than on 5mg. But I noticed it didn’t taper off on the last week of 7.5mg, which it had the previous three weeks. On 10mg I had real suppression for the first time, a bit too strong for me and I didn’t really like it. But I decided to take it again this week, just to check, and it’s the same. No other side effects, I just feel like I can’t be bothered to eat anything, but I am making myself eat healthily, and hitting around 1000-1100 cal. Next week I’m going to count clicks, probably 8mg and then I’ll work out where I’m going after that.

A further 1.8 lbs off which I'm happy about

Week 10 day 1
SW 15st 10lbs
CW 13st 11.1lbs
GW 9st 10lbs

I find the different doses we’re all on absolutely fascinating. The fact that we’re all losing at more or less the same rate just proves that it’s not just an appetite suppressant to me. I’m on 6.25mg and it’s perfect for me. I feel ‘normal’ on it whatever that means. I’m eating well, losing well and feeling great. Typical that it’s a non-standard dose!

Some fabulous whooshes being reported here. Look like our bodies have realised we’re serious.

On invisibility - DH and I have discussed this frequently as we have both noticed it for the last 5 years or so. I can understand my invisibility but he’s 6ft 4 and has never blended into a crowd. I’ve never given a fig about what others think of me though and that’s even worse now I’ve turned 60.

@RockyisMYRhino love this for you!

Fab losses losers! This thread has brought a smile to my face this morning.

@Pandora71 thank you for tracking this, I’ll be watching with interest on the effects of stopping a week and restarting.

I must confess I did NOT get out into the garden at 6am and do Leg Day. However the plan is to mop a section of flooring tonight and do it tomorrow morning. I spent most of the night feeling freezing and got into bed early wearing several layers and bed socks. DS2 is ill, and off school for a second day today, so I’m wondering if I’m also fighting something off.

Cheeky mid-week weigh in and I’m 66kg, only 1kg away from the top end of my goal bracket of 60-65kg. So my revised plan is to get to 62.5kg, which takes me to just under a BMI of 23 and officially ‘healthy’ for my ethnicity. I expect this last 3.5kg/7-8lbs could take a couple of months to come off if I conservatively expect 0.5kg/1lb a week. So that’ll get me close to my maintenance call with Oushk, which is towards the end of May.

Have missed the Oushk birthday discount code, I want to be sure which dose I will need after I finish my second 5mg pen in 6 weeks. Hoping there will be some sort of post-Easter promo!

I am not planning to take any breaks for holidays. I actually really enjoy that I don't feel the need to over-eat, I can practice leaving a restaurant meal when I've had enough, even though it's tasty and I've paid for it (the horror!).
And I really enjoy feeling 100% every morning and not nursing a mild hangover, because I really should not have had that last glass of wine.

Same as @HeavyHeidi here, we're going away in the Easter hols but I'm not planning on missing any doses. Because I'm doing intermittent fasting and only eat 2 meals a day anyway, my evening meal is pretty normal (just largely lower carb). My problem has always been snacking rather than meals and that's what MJ has let me knock on the head completely. I don't really drink much either so I've just carried on not really drinking. I don't have side effects though, so it's a lot easier to just stay on MJ because I feel completely normal!

Carrying on my daily weighs this week, and after going up slightly yesterday, I'm back down again today. Official weigh in tomorrow, looks like I should have lost just over a kg.

Wow, some amazing losses, definite spring in my step here reading about them all, well done everyone! @RockyisMYRhino you should absolutely have gone and shouted!!

Thanks @HeavyHeidi but I’ve had an awful stomach bug/ food poisoning this past week
and fully expecting some to come back on ( hope I’m wrong!!!).

@cloudjumper I’m the same, sticking with 7.5mg for another pen and I’ve had more side effects definitely with this dose.Hope the consultant appt goes well. interesting to hear experiences on the 10 @RonMJ.

im not sure about whether to carry on with MJ while im on holiday in summer, mostly because we’re travelling with friends and kids and no one other than DH knows! We’re also travelling around and not sure about how I will keep the pen ok, although I saw on Oushk they have insulated bags. Also worried about carrying the needles and disposing of them. Anyway, don’t need to worry just yet as not away until July!

have a great, sunny Thursday all!

@Pandora71is that an app you’re using to track? Which one?

My holidays work quite well for jabs as we’re having two separate weeks away and we fly on jab day. So I’ll jab a day late when we return. I’m off to visit a friend in Malta in September and the flights aren’t as convenient but if the graphs and spreadsheets are correct I should be on maintenance by then so not sure how that’s going to look.

I won’t be missing my dose for holidays as MJ appears to have cured my IBS and I’m looking forward to a holiday without having to plan my days out round toilets 🤣

STS today. I knew I would. My body is just enjoying hanging on to overweight status as literally anything lost would take me under 25 BMI. Official weigh in tomorrow.

@2025istheyeari I bought one of these to travel with the pen & take a little Tupperware container to put used needles in to dispose of at home.

When we last talked about reactions at the jab site I thought I'd been lucky with only having a bruise a couple of times; I jinxed myself as now bruising on other side too and horribly itchy wherever I've jabbed. I'm going to stick with 7.5mg for the next month as I'm continuing to lose and don't want to risk more side effects if I go up too quickly.

Is anyone here autistic/adhd? I'm sure i read somewhere (maybe here) that MJ may help with symptoms. Has anyone found this? If so at what dose? I am really struggling at the moment, I think with autistic burnout and I would really love it if MJ might help. I haven't noticed anything so far and I'm back to thinking I might have to quit my job to cope, which is not at all sensible for financial reasons!

@cloudjumper it's shotsy. I use it too and enjoy the visuals. Also seeing 'approximately' what my MJ levels are through the week.

Another who has smiled while reading the thread this morning.

Yesterday I wore my daughters jeans into work 😱 Couldn't believe they fitted me.

Ooh I'm using Shotsy too but I don't know how to get the dosage to show other than as coloured dots ?

I have ADHD and actually think Mounjaro makes it harder for me to cope. I think I was using sugar highs to face the misery of having to buckle down to my job. Low energy and higher anxiety, either as side effects or due to cutting down on sugar and chocolate, have made focusing harder. I would probably benefit from HRT and have found my job increasingly difficult as I get older. Will be quitting for a while at least to try and find a different direction - and will at least take a few months off, try HRT and get healthy before potentially going back (if I can face it and don’t end up finding a different direction). I’m lucky to be in a financial position to do it though. Not sure I’d need Mounjaro if it wasn’t for the work stress and sedentary desk job…