Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 4!)

[Nicecuppatea2025]

Welcome one and all to the next instalment of our magical weight-loss journeys!

Good luck over the next few weeks. Loving all the ongoing support and encouragement.

Has anyone seen a badger? I’ve lost one!

@MynameisJune people who have never struggled with their weight seem to get a wee bit threatened by people using the injections. Don’t want us fat people being slim when that’s all they have going for them lol.

But no, in all seriousness, I have made the mistake of reading the comments on Facebook under adverts for Juniper etc and some people are so arrogant and act like they’re superior to us fat people because they’ve never been overweight, “I just eat less and move more. Easy” 🙄 ugh it makes me angry, just want to tell them to shut up, they haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. Good for them they’re lucky enough to have never had issues with food and weight!

I think I'd try and talk to her about a colleague or associate of some form having great success with Mj at some point. She may appreciate hearing the good experience..

I would be so mad if my sister did that although I imagine you didn’t tell her you weren’t planning to tell anyone else. Still I would expect it’s common decency not to highlight you have been using injections.

when I have been asked I just say high protein / low carb. I say it’s been really boring and that I lived off salads all year (am at goal weight and maintaining now). But I say that I needed to get healthy now I am in my mid 50s and that my cholesterol being high was a wake up call. The focus on health generally helps as people can see that would help give you more willpower.

you can talk about whatever circumstances made you decide you needed to try injections and just say that is driving you to stick to it. People may guess it’s injections but hopefully they won’t call you out on it.

@Choux if someone outright asked me if it’s injections I would have a hard time lying and saying no lol.
But I also think that would be a bit of a rude question to ask someone! Doesn’t stop some people though. It’s like people who directly asked me if I was pregnant when I was only 6 weeks and didn’t want to tell people yet but already had horrendous morning sickness. 🙄

I’m very interested in how this works for you.
I am struggling a bit with side effects that occur the day following the jab whenever I increase the dose past 3.75mg. Yesterday I tried 4mg and feel really sick again today.
I am losing weight on 3.75 but the chocolate cravings come back on about day 4.
I may try splitting the dose and doing 2mg twice a week to see how that works.

I don't feel bad, most people I know have very strong opinions (not good) about anyone on MJ. When asked what I think, I say it's none of my business what others do and good luck to them for wanting to make a positive change.

Nobody has asked me outright, I don't think many would but I'm very active and always have been so I don't think there's any suspicion. I will happily lie through my teeth I steady of dealing with judgement 😅

This is awful, I'm sorry you were oured I this way 😔

It's working great.

I don't have a lot of side effects and much prefer the stability of a split dose than the big dose and side effects once a week.

If you plot a weekly dose every 7 days vs a 1/2 dose every 4 days dosage on a glp plotter you'll see how much more variance there is in the former vs the latter.

If you have any questions, please ask. 😊

No one has asked me outright but I wouldn't expect they will because my weight loss is not at a dramatic pace. I lost a whole lot of weight on my own first so I don't think they suspect anything different.

I'm also working really hard on my diet (huge macro fan) and I hike every weekend so I could bore anyone senseless on nutrients or how much I love hiking.

I would feel bad if someone asked outright and I will feel terrible if DH ever finds my Mj but I will just have to deal with that if it happens.

@Mounjaronewbie25 one of my friends and her partner were talking about MJ and how they really wanted to go on it etc.
I couldn't keep talking about it and not say anything 🙈😂

So could I ask for opinions.
I take my 5mg jab at 4/5pm Mondays. On Tuesday I start to feel nauseous and by 4/5 I'm really tired.
So this week on Tuesday I'm working with lots of kids (well about 12, aged 10-16, cared for, lots of behaviours to manage) 10 till 3, with 2hrs travel on each end. Managers and directors of children's services also coming along "to interact with the kids". Not selling this job am I 🤣

Anyway I'm wondering if to take jab Monday morning and bring forward any side effects, but having written this I'm now wondering whether to delay a day. But being honest, I don't want to delay it, I'd rather go 10hours early 🤦‍♀️🤣

I’d take it tonight or early tomorrow morning @Hangryfastjo I think you need to leave at least three days between doses from what I’ve read on here.

Thank you. I’m going to try it next week.

Its very annoying so I have been known to throw facts at them like for thousands and thousands of years right up to the late 1970's in western societies like the UK/US/Canada/Austrailia/Europe obesity levels were pretty constant around 5-6 % and peoples bodies naturally moderated their food intake and weight. Once we moved to a highly processed non whole food diet and there was an explosion of fast food obesity levels rocketed. Mass studies over the last 50 years prove this diet and the world we live in literally makes our bodies and brains work differently and pushes up levels of obesity to crazy unnatural levels. Also during the same period study after study shows for the majority of obese people diet and exercise does not work for longer than maybe 6 months. So yes it should be the first port of call but by the time most people get to the point where they will take the risks of the jabs they have already tried and failed at diet and exercise over and over again.
The jabs aren't easy you still have to make the lifestyle choices they give us the willpower and satiety back that the processed food took away from us, correcting a metabolic issue in our bodies.
Shaming someone for taking the weight loss jabs if they are truly obese is the same as shaming someone with diabetes for taking insulin or shaming someone with high cholesterol from taking statins.

Regarding telling people the only ones that know are my MIL and SIL as SIL has been on it and been pretty open which was great to discuss and MIL is great and very supportive also DH knows and actually he wanted to lose some weight so he has been eating cleaner and feels better for it My daughters also know as they understand and have seen the struggles I have had all my life with the weight-I am so grateful all of them seem not to have struggled with the same issues and are all healthy weights in their teens and twenties.

Haven't told my mother as she judges everything anyway, so easier just not to say anything and also no one else like work colleagues friends neighbours etc.
Have a couple of work friends that are obese and if they ask directly I may quietly discuss it with them as at least they understand the underlying issues we all get with food noise,and constant hunger.

Always remember that Oprah thing where she said she always thought she just didn't have the will power of thin people. After taking the jabs she realised they actuall don't even need willpower as most of them aren't even thinking about it, they aren't getting the food noise or cravings or food obesession.

That aside I am torn about what level to go to on my next pen. Been on 2.5 for two and getting high suppression and no food noise still and getting full on small portions. My weight loss seemed to slow and almost stop last week, so I had decided I would probably go up, but this week my next jab isnt till thurs but I have already lost 2 lbs, so no idea what to do. Really don't want to risk the extra side effects of 5mg if I don't have to. Has anyone stayed on 2.5mg for a long time if it is working for them? Maybe I should order 5 but count clicks? just not sure at all.

Jab day today, binned my golden dose as the pen arrived warm thanks to Royal Mail service and it had to be used in 30 days from dispatch. Didn’t want to risk it even though it was only a few days over the 30 days.

SW at heaviest 208lb
SW on MJ 187lb
CW 175lb

2lb loss this week, although the scales dipped down to 174 on Thursday but bounced back up and have stayed there.

I’m 5’9 so fairly tall.

Can anyone explain the reasons for titrating up if you're getting good suppression? I'm on 2.5mg and keeping within 1200-1300 calories but I had Covid over the past fortnight and despite everything else being the same, water intake good, exercise good, food the same.. the scales have stopped working (aka 0.6lbs loss this past week and now a STS).

Could it just be a temporary Covid thing?

Or do I need to think about going up to 5mg even though I'm feeling good suppression and no side effects?

My worry I guess is that a higher dose suppresses me even more, or just adds side effects to the mix which I've bee lucky with so far. Does anyone know the medical reason to titrate up beyond calorie control?

Weigh/jab day for me-

SW 107.8kg
CW 95kg
GW 88kg

Had a pretty big weekend with lots of booze and a huge pub roast yesterday so wasn’t expecting a loss at all, happy with that!

So weigh in day for me

SW 14st .5lb
CW 12st 10.5lb
Lost 1st 4lb

5wks 2.5mg
Just done 4th 5mg

However this week i have STS. I'm fine with that as I have lost 6lb on 5mg so far. Two years ago I got to 12st 8lb (for a week 🤣) so I'm thinking it's just a set point I need to work through as there is literally nothing I have done differently.

I have my next pen which is a 5mg and I'm happy to stay on 5 another month and go from there.

I've started to tell people if they mention my weight, though it's still only 5, including DH.

I watched a slender woman on tik tok do a poem about vain people using injectables and thought "twat".

Good luck with it. Did you know day one is the day after you've taken your injection, as in 24 hours later. I hadn't realised that at first 😊

The sulphur burps I get about 36 hours after taking my jag on 5mg are horrendous but equally, and grossly, the relief on my stomach after burping is incredibly satisfying 😭

In terms of who knows I'm taking mounjaro, it's family only. They're pretty supportive, probably because there's a lot of big people in my family and they all know how hard it is. My brother lost a lot of weight the 'old fashioned' way and has kept it off which is great but the women don't seem to have the same success for some reason. Generally certainly not the same support from partners in terms of time, that's for sure.

People in work know I'm watching what I eat but I don't really talk about my personal life so haven't felt any need to expand.

I'm feeling very down and demotivated lately. I have such a long way to go before I'm a healthy weight and now I just keep worrying that I won't ever actually reach it. I'm not hitting any of my targets. I can't see a difference when I look in the mirror. I'm tired all the time, I've been quite mean and snappy as well. I don't feel like Zibby right now, just some miserable imposter instead.

Weigh day yesterday and after about 10? days of being stuck at 98.something the scales finally shifted.

SW: 115.8kg
CW: 96.5kg

In 7 weeks.

I should be pleased with that but i think because I can't see it or really feel it I just feel a bit crap.

I don't think 5mg agrees with my brain. I felt brilliant on 2.5mg so I'm going to go back to it I think. No point staying on 5mg and who knows what 7.5mg would feel like. I don't want to feel worse than this. I don't have any physical side effects, just the really low mood.

Need to give my head a wobble and get a grip.

I'm honestly disgusted by some of the things I've read. I knew people hate fat people but I didn't really understand the extent to which a) they want fat people to suffer to 'earn' good health and b) how much the confidence of so many thinner people is predicated on having fat people around to bolster them. I spent the first half of my life as a skinny minnie and would never have bothered to waste so much time simultaneously concern trolling fat people while also demanding they do everything the hardest way possible. It would be funny if it wasn't so vitriolic.

Weigh In and Jab day today. Should have been tomorrow but I’m slowly bringing my jab day forward to a Saturday as that’ll work better for me. 1lb off but I’m not surprised as I haven’t made the best choices this week, so I knew I wouldn’t see a big loss, I’m just pleased the scales are still moving down. I’ve lost 13lbs in 6 weeks which I’m really pleased with and I’m sticking with 2.5mg for a second month. 3 weeks until I go on holiday so hoping to have lost a stone and a half by then.