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!

@Jins @HeavyHeidi @discov and all 🙂, you’ve said what I needed to hear, thank you. I took myself off for a short run, which was definitely easier. I then decided to distract myself and sand and oil my dining table - used quite a few calories.

I take the point completely re food noise, changed my mindset to next 3 months at least and updated my planner to keep track of social goals. We’re away in May- I’d love to lose a stone by then.

my plan is 1200 for rest of the week and hopefully a small shift when weigh tomorrow.

Thank you for the support.

Thanks all , started taking some Electrolites and it’s really helped with the tiredness I was struggling with . Have tried to walk a bit every day as well . Was surprised to loose a pound when I weighed last week and it was my monthly measurement day . I had lost 10 inches over the month - super surprised as the weight loss was slow this month . So a happy fish right now ! Just keep swimming x

It’s week 8 day 1 for me and I’m down 4lb this week - my biggest weight loss since week 1.
SW 15.1
CW 13.9
GW 12.1
I’m aiming for 12.1 as the very top end of healthy bmi and will be absolutely delighted if I make it there.

@supafish, where did you lose 10 inches from? Your waist?

Thanks for the new thread. I’m so cold today! I just can’t warm my bones.

First dose of 7.5mg tomorrow, fingers crossed for no side effects as I have a busy week ahead.

I’m very cold too @LillethCrane , have been all day. I’m on leave this week and have spent the day mostly at home with the heating on full blast.

I’m making this for dinner to warm me up. I’m a calorie counter but cba to calculate the calories in the soup. I’ve only had 450 so far today and I’m sure that a bowl of soup won’t tip me over the edge.

Injection day tomorrow for me.

I’ve been freezing too! I actually woke up really cold a few times last night. Looking forward to it being a balmy 17 degrees on Thursday and Friday. Although I live in a very old house so it will be colder inside than out 😄

Now you mention it I’m feeling quite cold as well. It’s not a normal state for me at all as menopause reset my thermostat and I don’t feel cold very often. Perhaps the 6.25mg bonus dose is doing its job.

I have been absolutely freezing today as well. and stomach still funny, meh. Not sure if mj side effect or something else.

It's quite a common WLI side effect, I've essentially been cold for the last 2 and a half years - losing 9 stone of cladding has contributed as well!

Shivering here too!

Got my first ‘you don’t need to lose anymore weight’ today. I’m 6kg/1stone away from an NHS-sanctioned healthy BMI. So I felt a bit conflicted with how to respond.

I have a colleague who keeps telling me I should not lose any more. She herself was always very slim but put on weight recently, so I am a little suspicious of the motives.

Sitting under a blanket here.

Have been analysing my 'reduced' suppression on jab 2 of 5mg. But have realised that it's not that, it's just that I'm not feeling so full I don't want to eat. I still have control but it feels more normal. However I've just checked my cals for today and it's only 870. Which has blown my mind as I really thought I had eaten more.

Am sticking on 5mg for my next pen and have applied for Oushk so I can do maintenance. I don't want to not have the option in future....

I haven't noticed being any colder than I normally am, but I'm normally freezing anyway!
I was given a slice of chocolate cake at work today, I took it and passed it on to someone in my office who I knew would eat it. Also went shopping in Lidl and normally would have been buying bags of the marzipan eggs and eating them all. Didn't feel the slightest tempted to get any of them, in fact I actively DIDNT want to eat them.
I don't feel like I'm quite eating enough at the moment, I only have lunch and dinner anyway (albeit decent amount of food then) and I'm rarely snacking outside of that. I made myself have an apple and a yoghurt today. Had a mini quiche and salad for lunch and 2 small fajita wraps for tea. MFP reckons around 1000 calories today.

@Thelittlestranger funny isn't it. I felt like i had been eating way too much on Sunday but objectively I really didn't.

And yes, no desire to eat any sweets or desserts. Someone brought in several of IKEA Daim cakes I normally love, and I also actively did not want to eat them.

Weigh in/injection day today. Sticking with 2.5mg.

Down 0.8kg since last Tuesday. Still slightly ahead (0.2kg more predicted on 20/3) of losertown, which is my measure.

I’ve had a really poor appetite the last two of days and am constipated despite vegetables, psyllium husk and mag citrate (the latter has stopped working miracles). I even ate pasta in the soup I made for dinner last night which doesn’t really agree with my stomach ……. all without results. I bought some prunes the other day but they look so plump/sticky/sickly that I can’t actually face eating them.

🐢 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 unite 🏆 , onwards we go.

Opinions please, has anyone else had a side effect of crazy itchy skin? Like, nothing satisfies the itch? Mainly arms and legs but also neck face and back! Seems to have only started since I've been on 5mg. Using any cream I can get my hands on, normal body cream, my little one's double base eczema cream and then if that doesn't work, her steroid cream 😂

@IBloodyLoveMyBlanket5 inches from bust , 2 from waist ,2 from hips , 1 from my left thigh! Though my boobs had shrunk this month because my bras are suddenly looser in the cup .

No @Jjsmum2007 , I haven’t had those symptoms at all. I do suffer from very dry itchy skin in the winter if I don’t moisturise enough. I can really recommend the Ameliorate brand. Best stuff I’ve found for my body for a long time.

I’ve felt cold this week for the first time since January, upped dose from 2.0 to 2.2 so probably to do with that. Will be trying to up water intake and maybe try electrolytes in case it helps. Thanks for the tips on here about that. Definitely hungrier than January when I was on 2.5 but am still gradually losing weight so it’s all fine. Have lost nearly 9kg in all since beginning of year, and am less than halfway through 2nd pen- (took February off). Can’t moan about cost. Size-wise my previous size 14 jeans which I needed to use a hair bobble to stretch across the gap between button and button hole and were very very tight, are now not only do-uppable but actually need a belt. Yay!

I’m still plateauing, hovering around the sane for a week and a half now with slight ups and downs. This is the point where I would normally throw in the towel, I’m trying to take each day at a time and think of the set point theory mentioned before.

if I can break the next lb barrier I’ll feel so much better. Weigh day proper on Friday and 2 more 5mgs then an increase to 7.5.

i know I said I wasn’t going to post much anymore (thanks for the good wishes everyone, I’m keeping buggering on) but just quickly delurking to say @Jjsmum2007 I dont suppose you have tree pollen allergy do you? I never had it until my early 40s but I spent 2 springs wondering why I was intensely itchy but had no rash. Went to drs had some blood tests etc. in the third year I suddenly twigged (lol). I also have a mild allergy to tree nuts which I never had before.

we are in prime tree pollen season so just thought I’d throw it out there…..

Hit the two stone loss today lads!! Actually went slightly under!

Jan 8 SW 13 st 7
CW 11 st 6

I am five foot four and very late fifties so I am just aiming for a healthy BMI and will review from there. So that gives me about another stone to lose for initial goal weight. I haven’t been under 11 for 13 years.

In other news, my 7ml bonus dose isn’t sitting easily and I’m glad I didn’t go straight to 7.5. I really thought I was going to be sick when I went to bed last night. Woke up to runnier 💩 than usual. Slight stomach ache. I have an appointment with my endocrinologist today which should be interesting. I will hopefully get bloods done and be able to see what the medication is doing to my body that I can’t see.

Keep going you bunch of losers!

Sorry to hear about the itching @Jjsmum2007- that sounds hard but unlikely to be related to MJ I would think though I’m not a doctor. Maybe an allergy?

I’d seen my bonus dose of 6.25mg as a bridge to 7.5mg but now I’m thinking I might have found the dose for me. I’m still not feeling a huge amount of suppression and I’m enjoying my meals but yesterday evening I felt ‘thinner’ somehow and am interested to see what my morning weigh in says.

It’s 3 days to my next shot and I’m currently thinking about doing 50 clicks to give me 6.25mg. This means I could potentially get 6 doses out of the pen as long as I’m comfortable with going over the 30 days by 5. I’m not sure about that yet and in any case I may need to go up after a few partial doses.

So far I’m not seeing too much loose skin. My stomach seems to be shrinking back ok, neck and bingo wings were a lost cause before I started but I’m old and it happens. I’m holding on to muscle mass pretty well according to my scales. There’s always more I could do but I want to make small changes that lead to a sustainable maintenance rather than go all out only to drop it all.

I had a chat with DH about being on it long term, the affordability on a shrinking household budget and he reckons we can’t afford for me to stop taking it as it’s virtually cured my IBS. Sometimes he can be an absolute diamond!