Mounjaro/Wegovy with > 5st/30kg to lose: Thread 7

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Thread SEVEN of this lovely community. Anyone using weight-loss injections to lose more than 5 stone or 30kg is very welcome to join us, no matter what stage of the process you are on. Share your losses, your non-scale victories (NSV), your frustrations and your love of Longley Farm cottage cheese and kiwi fruit here!

Nothing is off limits to discuss - from protein sources to B bellies; Hammocks to smart scales; feeling chilly to easier bum wiping 😃

Please don’t post discount codes on this thread as your post will be deleted. These need to go in the dedicated thread on this board

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@SilenceInsidewow 50kg 🎉🎉🎉 amazing work

Hello all! Thanks @MooBaggage!!
So, weird thing happened today, I had a hypo. I’m not on any other medication for my diabetes so I’m not sure why?? MJ shouldn’t make my sugars go low, so I don’t know what’s going on. Felt bloody terrible though!

@silenceinside amazing result 50kg I am in awe. I did first jab Wednesday and need to lose that to get in healthy BMI which seems like an impossibility at the moment, so will take it a kg at a time and take inspiration from you that it is possible. Congratulations 🎉

@SilenceInside 50kg! Wow! I can only dream of that at the moment! Well done!

@SilenceInsidethat is absolutely amazing!!!

Thanks for the new thread @MooBaggage

MJ could make your sugars go low, it stimulates the production of more insulin and makes your body more sensitive to the insulin being produced.

However a one off hypo could be other reasons too:
a virus or other illness starting
dietary changes
stress
alcohol

Monitor it of course and respond in the way the diabetes team have coached you to, but unless it develops into a pattern it’s unlikely to be something you need to worry too much about.

Thanks for the new thread @MooBaggage I like your intro!

What an incredible achievment @SilenceInside you must be so very proud of yourself!

Thank @InfoSecInTheCity
I’ll keep an eye on it

tbh I can’t really comprehend it at the moment. I also have the weird body dysmorphia thing where I sometimes feel like I haven’t changed at all. Even though at the same time I can see differences. It’s very odd.

I have another 3st 9lbs to lose, about 24kg, so I’ll be carrying on for a while yet.

It is strange how our brains work isnt it. I have lost 27.5kg with the same left to lose and I cannot see the change, even though I can fit into a size 20 from a size 26/28. Then there is the peri meno middle that has taken my ribs hostage which I didnt have last time I was this weight in 2014/5.
Bodies and brains are odd. How big must I have looked at a size 28? Dysmorphia is a strange thing both ways round.

Congratulations @SilenceInside That is phenomenal!

Happy dancing here - 4 stones down, at last. These last 2 pounds have been soooo slow to come off, but they are gone!

Started 2nd September:
SW: 18 stone 11 (263 lbs. BMI: 43.8)
CW: 14 stone 11 (207 lbs: BMI: 34.4)

I now want to get another 4 stones off, so half way there. Not sure if that is doable, but will keep plodding on and see where I am nearing the end of the year.

Very much enjoying it all and will up my exercise when I get more time (which I will have in a month's time as I have given up a very time-consuming job which gives me zero time to do much of anything, although I am on my feet all day). I am desperate to get swimming and more walking in, but I am eating fantastic food which is making me feel great. My nails and hair are growing at a ridiculous rate and I am sleeping so well. Everyone comments that I am glowing which is lovely. But yes, I do need to up my exercise - there is certainly room for improvement.

Going on a 3 week holiday to the sun next Friday. Mostly self-catering so planning to eat fabulous food (Spain, so lot's of lovely fresh produce) and will be able to choose well eating out too. I bloody love the sun, so cannot wait.

Thanks for the new thread @MooBaggage and here's to all of us lovely losers.

And, I have just reminded myself today is injection day and I completely forgot until I wrote this post!

Yep... I've 'only' lost 34lbs so far, but at the same time think I look just the same, if not bigger, but then found my original photo I had to send to MedExpress in January and I'm HUGE in it 😮 Just can't believe how big I was... I was also in size 26 - 28 and am now a 22 on top and 20 on the bottom. I'll keep my prescription photos so at least I'll be able to see the change on a bad day...

Thanks for new thread @MooBaggage

Wow that’s an incredible loss @SilenceInside

Thanks for the new thread!

Congrats all on the incredible losses!

Thank you @MooBaggage. Glad to have caught up on here & hanging on to the thread.
I’ve had a strange day, emotional coming back to parents house for Easter with my dad no longer here with us 💔. Meant I really struggled to eat my lunch but did this weird mine sweeping of DC’s plates, not much but why eat chips when I could hardly eat my health chicken & rice!
We normally get a take away here when arriving. I really didn’t want one so convinced everyone a light snack tea would be better. This attempt at a lighter tea resulted in eating a few handfuls of crisp, bagels & 1/2 sandwich in addition to my salad. Really not that bad compared to my previous eating but my tummy hurts so much. It is gurgling & I think trapped wind! But sore under ribs left side too. Argggh now can’t sleep & still have my stupid cold 🤧
Feeling sorry for myself & sad.

So back in 2012 was the highest my weight got according to any records I can find, I embarked on the traditional ‘eat less, move more” journey and lost a bit of weight, stalled then gained some back and that game went on for the next few years.

As of today I am officially exactly 8 stone lighter than I was when I weighed in 2012.

My weight this morning is 156lb, BMI 23.72.

Absolutely incredible!! Well done.