Mounjaro Nov ‘24 Starters thread 9 - the one where we don’t eat all of the Easter Eggs 🐣

[Mounjaropen]

Link to previous thread :

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5283324-november-24-starters-thread-8-the-one-where-we-hop-into-spring-and-thinks-about-new-swimwear?page=40&reply=143078316

Welcome to thread 9 to fellow MN weight loss friends old and new!

Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we head towards Easter Egg season, celebrate NSV’s, weight loss milestones and admire our new Summer Wardrobes ❤️

I’m on W21 D1 and on my first 7.5mg pen
F in my early 50’s
H 5’ 5.5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 11st 0.8lbs
GW 10st (maybe 9st 7lb if I can)
Total loss so far 38.2lbs

Recommend the Shotsy app to monitor the amount of MJ in the system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free.
Feel free to swap recipes that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for side effects, exercise tips, tips for titrating up or down and we love a beauty/ style chat too 🥰

It’s a no bake cake. Too rich for anything other than a teeny slice. Was a lovely treat.

Yay!!! And all of that sounds delicious too!

Yay, well done @Mounjaropen and @Cantbesure! Love that the way to get into the 10s is by drinking rose and eating lasagna and Bailey’s cake - that’s my kind of diet!

About to go take my 20th dose. DM asked me yesterday what I was doing to lose weight and I fibbed and said it was Fast800, because she knows I’ve done that before. She’s having us all round tomorrow for Sunday lunch and I hope I can eat an unremarkable amount of food.

@TooExtraImmatureCheddar oh I reeeeeaallly hope you do. Just copy and paste it on loads of them. There are lots of similar threads. I never did but you could also start your own thread with it in the title. Mumsnet limits posts per day I think but do it last thing a few times. I’ve had several more in the last couple of days. Shame I can’t order them nilly nilly to different addresses for everyone. My one last week I had delivered was a 10 😆 🤦🏻‍♀️

@Mounjaropen Ah that’s annoying not getting through to the tens. That’s the trouble with me I’m not sure what style I ‘do’ or am anymore 🤦🏻‍♀️ better be careful with the me360 too as you’ll be building muscle with all that exercise. Not forgetting it is denser than fat too so will in effect increase your weight. I think when you get to a certain point it’s better to stick to measurements and how you feel rather than the scales. But 💯 keep monitoring so nothing creeps up for me.

Well done @Mounjaropen I’m so happy for you!

A blonde badgers arse 😆 🦡 sounds interesting. Your new hair sounds amazing. In time for the sun coming out too 🙌🏻

If anyone is interested in the revive collagen I have just combined two offers at H&B to get 28 sachets of the enhanced plus collagen for £49. The 28’s are on special offer anyway plus the code ‘treat’ took another 20% off that. Usual price for the 28’s is £78.99.

Woo hoo!!! Now just don't drink any liquid today and keep that dehydration going! 😉

No loss for me this week. Feeling very fat today as a result, which is absolutely ridiculous. Thankfully, I know it's just my brain being stupid and I probably just need to have a big 💩

A camera never lies…..

Was out for a friends birthday celebration lunch today.

Photographs were taken.

I am so disappointed in how I look. I am shocked at how my neck is scraggy. I knew I had lost hair but seeing my scalp in the photograph has made me realise just how thin it is. But I can’t say that about the body, I am still so fat, Yes, Not as fat as I was but I still have a hell of a way to go.

One of the ladies there is diabetic and was careful of her food choices for her sugar levels which somehow resulted in a conversation about people using the diabetic drug for weight loss. Bla, bla, bla. I never said a word.

Yesterday at my work there was quite a derogatory conversation about people on weight loss injections, bla, bla bla, I never said a word!

Not like me to keep quiet, but I just couldn’t be arsed!

I've been missing in action this week is this the new thread @Mounjaropen

It is!

Not anyone else’s business. Keep going. 💪🏻

Photos can be really unrepresentative, they 100% can misrepresent. So don’t beat yourself up for unflattering pictures. Not least because often we are hideously self-critical and it is rarely proportionate or deserved. You are on a journey and you are doing brilliantly.

People do really judge, and they don’t help. It is a sad side of human nature but we often find it easier to judge everything; we judge when people don’t lose weight and when they do - there is NO winning because people just love to judge and express (often uninformed) opinion. I think you are right not to get involved and to leave people to their judging. But try not to let it bother because it isn’t about you, it is on them.

Keep going and ignore all those judgy voices (including the self-critical one on your shoulder) 💪💪💪

Weight loss in women is so massively complicated by hormones too. I read somewhere that can make weight fluctuate by 7lbs, which is surely wrong, but I am taking this to mean those few pounds up (or not down) can come and go. Clearly I’m happy to believe this when things are going down but as soon as the don’t move (or move in the wrong direction) my brain switches to catastrophic thinking and tells me it is all over 🤦‍♀️

wishing you a next week of satisfying bowel movements, a quick return to the feeling of deserved achievement, and a woosh.

@Mounjaropen 🎉🎉🎉💪💪💪 for your 10s!!! You are doing so insanely brilliantly - everything with your exercise, you are transforming your future! Crap news about the gallstone but, hopefully that is easy to deal with, somehow 🤞

@Mounjaropenthank you I love a new thread

Well I’ve lost less than a pound…..so I know how you feel. Keep going!

I’d also add my neck is really bothering me too.

Hair loss-wise - HRT really stopped the loss for me. Particularly after testosterone was added to my regime. Maybe try that?

All cameras around me lie like troopers. It’s the only possible explanation. I bet you look beautiful in real life!

Happy Mothers day everyone have a great day

Happy Mother’s Day! Enjoy having your picture taken today as you all embrace your new svelteness… and also because as mothers we are all guilty of being behind the camera rather than in the photo. Take the picture, enjoy the moment. Life is short.

Yesterday I had home made Chinese, plenty of wine and another slice of Mary Berry’s cake. No exercise beyond a dog walk. No weight gained I mean, 💪 but also, 😩

I'm at 12 stone and I'm just about to weigh myself if I lose anything it'll be the first time I've been that weight since i was 21 a long time ago I'm 52 now

2lbs off so I'm 11stone 12 I'm over the moon