March 2025 Starters Thread 3

[TheSpoonyNavyReader]

New thread as I am sure we will fill thread 2 up by the end of today!

Welcome back everyone and well done for all the losses. Some have 5-6 stone to lose, some have 2 stone and me I have put 4 stone but looking at the BMI chart I could lose 6 stone and still be in the healthy range.

Hi everyone, weigh day for me too!

SW 90.35kg (199lb)
CW 87.35kg (192lb)
TW Undecided!

Ive just taken my 3rd jab, so two full weeks of being on Mounjaro now, very happy with the loss of 3kg/half a stone. I was hoping for a kg a week to keep it sustainable so if things continue like this, it’ll be more than I expected but still not too much.

I’m undecided on my target weight, I’ve always been a heavier person in terms of BMI, even when I’m objectively very skinny in appearance, I sit at the top end of “healthy” on the BMI scale. It makes it difficult to know what target to set myself but I guess I’ll just see how it goes and where I land. Anyone else in the same boat?

happy Friday everyone :)

W4 d4 and the suppression is super-strong, I'm really forcing myself to eat anything at all. Glad I ordered another 2.5 pen for the next month as I'm definitely not ready to move up.

Having said that, I had no suppression at all on Tuesday eve (I jab midday on Tuesdays) and devoured a whole bag of Haribo. And my mood has been really low this week, but I've had a lot of work and poorly-kid stress to contend with, so I'm not attributing that to MJ.

Every day really is an adventure on this stuff!

Awww well done on the WL and sorry to hear you are feeling sad and alone. You aren’t alone we are here 😊

I'm the same, I look slim and fit at 11st 7 but would be still "overweight" by bmi. I'm 5ft 7 so I think my healthy range is 8st 7 to 11st 5. I would look ill at 8st 7!

My goal is 11st 7 currently. But it might increase tbh.

Hoping you are in a better head space soon and it is just a rubbish week which will pass @RuthEvershedforPM well done on your weight loss journey. Definitely not alone here one thing I've seen being more of a reader than poster is everyone seems genuinely interested in everyones story.

Weigh day and jab day for me:

end of week 1

SW 110kg
CW 108kg (106.8kg first thing this morning how can I have gained 1.2kg in 4 hours!)
TW 80kg

Morning all

Some really amazing loses, I am going to start making notes so that I can tag everyone.

This week is my first week on 5ml, not had any SE at all, suppression has been up and down, Wednesday I could have ate anything and was hungry and I did eat. I went to the pub for lunch on Thursday the suppression was so high and I literally could not even eat half a sandwich.

It’s jab 2 of 5ml today and weigh in and I have lost 3lbs again this week, which brings me to a new stone bracket 11s which is amazing. I have lost nearly 10kg in 5 weeks which is a French Bulldog or a car tyre, which is madness, that I was carrying around that everyday.

SW 13st 4lbs
CW 11st 11lbs
TW 9st 7lbs

I've lost the equivalent to a sperms whales brain 😂

Well done on all the losses big and small!
Im week 4 day 3 on 2.5mg and not had any suppression now for a good few days.
I've stuck to my calorie deficit with willpower alone over the past few days but finding it really hard today :(
Cant wait to move up to 5mg on Tuesday and hopefully it starts working again!!

Hi everyone

Has anyone experienced sleep issues on MJ? Twice this week I can’t sleep, last night including. I take medication which helps me to sleep so this isn’t normal for me at all. I’m going to stop caffeine earlier in the day to see if that helps but wondered if anyone else has had this problem.

Hi all well done on losses so far!

@popdepop i have used simple online pharmacy and they have an offer code of vip15 as well. Arrived next day and got 6 pen needles with it

starting my 5mg pen today but think I’m only going to do 35 or 40 clicks as has had nausea with the 2.5
I did the golden dose last week and got about 0.7 ml so 2.9. Lost 4lb this week which I’m happy about as last week it was only 1lb

sw 14st 12.4lbs
cw 13st 7.4lbs
total loss 15lbs

Checking in!

I'm similar. At 5'5'' my healthy weight range is apparently 7st 13 to 10st 9. The idea of being 7st 13lb is hilarious - I have an incredibly slim, long-limbed 12 year old daughter who is the same height as me and she probably weights about that. I never have looked like she does as I have a much more muscular frame. The slimmest I've been as an adult was about 5 years ago - I was working with a PT and running good marathon times and weighed about 10st 7. All the weights and long runs and I never got my weight any lower than that and if I look at pictures from then I'm slim, fit and toned. I'm happy to be sitting at the top of the 'healthy' BMI range if I can look like that again!

I'm struggling with constipation again which I'd thought I'd sorted! Daily prune juice hasn't been doing the trick so I've just taken two senna tablets. It's made me a bit concerned about upping my dose as I have a 5mg pen to use from next weekend so I think I'm definitely going to do 3.75mg and will drop back down to 2.5mg if I need to.

That’s me just done my 4th jab, and have lost 11lbs so far (7 + 2 + 2). Onwards and downwards!

Happy how it’s going. No horrendous side effects.

Have already ordered my next pen for delivery next week. Decided to go up to 5mg because I was feeling a bit hungry on Monday, but have actually been ok on 2.5 the rest of the week.

It’s an expensive mistake either way, so just took an uneducated guess really.

have a good weekend everyone!

SW 14.11
CW 14.0

I am a week and a half in and feeling fine, 4lbs down and happy with that. Love reading everyone's updates.

@Illbefinejustbloodyfinethats exactly the same as me. I’m 5’7 too I haven’t been under 12 stone since I was about 17 (and I was a professional ice skater until I was 27). I also have set myself the target of 11st7. I think for our height 11st7 is the top of the healthy bracket. Because I was initially targeting a loss of 8 stone. Which would be 11st10 but adjusted my goal to meet the top of the bracket since it was only a few pounds more.

I ordered mine just before taking 4th jab and going up to 5 mg glad I did and very ready for it. I “only” lost 0.4 lb third week and this week absolutely no SE and a more harder this week and food noise is deffo increasing. Having said the loss is tracking much better this week (I weigh daily) due first 5mg on Sunday.

as PP have mentioned if you up to 5MG you can count clicks to 2.5 mg and 3.75 mg where as with 2.5 if it dosnt work out on second jab you would need to double dose which would be much more costly . So I think you did the right think

I didn’t realise there was a new thread (they’re so fast moving!) so I posted my weekly weigh in on the old thread this morning. Thanks for directing folks over from the old thread @TheSpoonyNavyReader! I’ll copy and paste today’s update here to mark my place:

Week 5 weigh in:

Start weight 13 stone 6.5lbs
Weight today 12 stone 2lbs
Loss this week 2.2lbs
Total loss 1 stone 4.5lbs (5 weeks).

Very happy! And feeling really good. Jab 6 tonight. I’m on my second pen of 2.5mg and deciding whether to go up to 5mg for my third pen. I think I will, because although I still have fairly good suppression on 2.5mg at the moment I have felt a few more hungry moments and doing things like sniffling a few chips off the kids’ plates at dinner time etc! I feel like if I’m going for it, I might as well GO for it and up the dose pre-emptively- I want to achieve the best results I can.

I’m a teacher and we have one more week left until Easter holidays (I know some areas break up today but not us!) so I am wondering if I can hit an 11 stone weight on the scales for the start of the holidays, even 11 stone 13.9lbs 😁 just to see that new stone bracket (and then see how it goes with all the Easter treats… 😵‍💫🥴)

I was worried about constipation so I’ve been taking psyllium husk tablets and it’s doing the job, along with even more water.

@soupforbrains @Illbefinejustbloodyfine we are all about the same height and possibly same build.

I'm also aiming for 73kg (BMI 25) as I can't imagine getting any lower than that. I was that weight as a student and looked fine/ in proportion (but didn't appreciate it at the time. Fool!)

I know people laugh when obese people say it but I genuinely believe I have a big skeleton. One of my friends is the same height & super slim. She wears size 4 shoes. I wear size 8. And our wrists are markedly different sizes.

I will never be the same size as her. She is very weight conscious and definitely overdoes it at times and looks gaunt.

@IngoGreen I normally do take two psyllium husk tablets a day. I was a bit lax this week and missed them for a few days and then all of a sudden the constipation has hit again so I've definitely learned my lesson to take them religiously, plus a glass of prune juice to try and keep things moving.

The senna tablets do seem to have done the trick this evening thank goodness!

Jab 5 will be tomorrow and I'll be trying to get the golden dose so will update on how that goes!

Week 2 weigh in, and I’ve lost -4lbs.

Total loss so far -16lbs.

Managed to get the golden dose out of my 2.5 pen. It went with a bit of force. DH was in the wings ready with a bit of strength if needed but it went easier than the squash bottle lid (I am sure they are getting bloody tighter!!)
I am moving my jab day as I have a test that is impacted by slow digestion so I'm hoping that I can jab in the evening after my test. I'm certainly not coming off MJ without a battle. I feel amazing for the first time in at least a decade. Just done 2 hours of gardening and I'm not tired or hungry. It's been a miracle drug for me.

i have a bigger wrist measurement over the bony bit of my wrist than any of the men I have ever been involved with (8.5 inches). At my lightest adult weight of 9 stone 7 lbs, I was still a size 14 (in 1993 so pre vanity sizing). Around that time, I was told I had good child bearing hips and a flat bum! My head measurement is 60cm.

I’ve got big bones too 😊