I can’t process the weight loss…

[spikyplanty]

NC’d for this but very long term MNer.

Stood on the scales on 28th September and they read 15st 9lb. I was in denial that I had tipped from a size 16 into a size 18 (I’m 5ft 6).

This morning, after six months on Mounjaro, the scales said 11st 9lbs. Four stone gone. 52lbs.

Obviously I’m over the moon…I no longer avoid mirrors or photographs, nor do I spend large parts of my day hating myself and desperately trying to hide my body. I enjoy choosing an outfit and getting dressed. I fit into size 12 clothes and am loving wearing nice stuff as the weather warms up.

BUT I just can’t internalise the fact I’ve dropped four stone. I still mentally see the same person in the mirror. I still feel (in my head) like a fat person. I can’t process that I’ve lost weight. It’s not body dysmorphia - I physically see the weight loss. I know I look SO much better. I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that I’ve actually done it.

I guess I’m wondering if anyone else is like this?

Yes and no

many have come off tapering down and kept the weight off

for some they stay on a low dose to maintain

some have come off and Gained weight as they eat more obviously as mj reduces appetite

in the ideal world @VashtaNerada people take mj. Learn Healthy habits. Keep healthy habits. Get off mj and keep weight off

Can you source the claim that people have come off and maintained the weight loss because all the studies I’ve read say the opposite.

Interesting point. Thanks to my job I have a deep understanding of proprioception. In my case (perhaps not others i.e the poster who mentioned fitting through gaps) I’m certain for me it’s more of a body ‘image’ readjustment after a life of being, feeling and being told (thanks, DM…) that I’m overweight.

I'm glad you asked this as I too was wondering.

Going from people on these boards

This so much.
I’ve dropped a similar amount of weight, gone from a 20 to a 8-10 and said something the other day along the lines of “you don’t get a body like this not liking cake” because I’m so used to being self depreciating.
Got a few funny looks for that one. Luckily in the company of people who knew me when I was fat so was able to laugh it off.

Like with all diets most people regain the weight because they have insulin resistance and other metabolic challenges that predispose them to weight gain. Research in the 1990's showed that 96% of dieters, including successful weight watcher and slimming world clients who managed to reach their goals and keep the weight off for the first year had, regained it all five years later, many of them were heavier than they had been when they started the diet.

So a lucky few will be in that happy 4% who are able to lose a lot of weight and keep it off, but most will always need help to stay at a healthy weight. Until GLP-1 drugs that help was non existent, so fatties got blamed for not trying hard enough, and failing to resist the temptations of an increasingly obesogenic environment.

As a diabetic the NHS will keep me on 5 mg of Mounjaro until a better treatment is developed. The excellent control it exerts over my wonky glucose metabolism will save a fortune in the long run. If Retatrutide gets through the stage 3 trials and into production I hope the NHS will start prescribing that instead, since it acts on 3 receptors and seems to increase metabolic rate. As an old woman with many health challenges a bit of extra oomph sounds highly desirable.

Once an efficient way of creating the medication in pill form is perfected, making it much cheaper to store and transport, and less challenging to use then GLP-1 medications are going to be rolled out in the same way as statins and low dose aspirin are today. The cost benefit ratio make it inevitable, the NHS will save so much when heart attacks and strokes drop, dementia and Parkison's are postponed for years, most cases of fatty liver disease are reversed and diabetics get to keep their kidneys, feet and eye sight that it will make perfect fiscal sense.

Best of all, nobody will be able to deride obese people for their repeated failures, because the only people who will still be obese are the ones who do not tolerate the medication, and being unable to tolerate the only available treatment is a misfortune, not a moral failure.