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

[MooBaggage]

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

Weigh day for me and I have switched to the new Eufy scales (because they gave me a better read out this morning, so the old ones are dead to me 😄)

Week 1: 20 stone 3lbs BMI 43
Week 16: 17 stone 6lbs BMI 37.1

Am really pleased with that and with the consistency of losing something pretty much every time I weigh - which isn't weekly, but more like every 10 - 14 days or so.

I created a weight loss prediction chart when I started in January which was based on losing around 1.5lbs a week and I'm a month ahead of where I thought I'd be - which is very pleasing, but I know is based on losing a lot more in the first few weeks, so I'm prepared for it to even out over the next year and a quarter (I've predicted I'll be at goal weight by April 2026).

Next mini target for me is to hit the 3 stone loss mark and then after that, to get my BMI to under 35, so I'm just ordinarily obese 🙄😃

@MooBaggage Well done, I started at the same weight as you and on week 16 I was 17st 8.2lbs, so you are storming it!

@MooBaggage Well done. Onwards and downwards. Not far to go for your 3st loss! That made be laugh about the scales😁

Thank you 😃 I find it impossible not to get either depressed or elated by the blooming scales - I'd predicted a weight of 17st 12lbs by today, so am obvs really pleased - but it is what it is and however quickly or slowly I lose weight shouldn't determine my happiness, but it does...

I've got 5 x Vinted parcels to pick up today (I know...!!) and I think some of them are size 22 tops, so hopefully I'll have new stuff to wear that I can get my boobs in to 🙄😃

@MooBaggageyou’re doing brilliantly!! Wish my weight was shifting as quick 😄.

I have realised I will shortly reach my 1 year point and, if I can lose 2kg by then I will hit the next half stone point and a total loss of 5 stone. I have a feeling I may miss it though as my weight loss is very slow now, I have 2 weeks to go and am on holiday for one of them! 😫

@QueenOfHiraeth Almost 5 stone! Wow. If someone offered me that in a years time, I’d bite their hand off. You have done so so well. I’m in awe.

Agreed! 5 blooming stone! It's the fact that it is happening and even slowly, continuing to happen that is brilliant - how amazing that this time last year you were carrying that weight and now it's all gone 😍

Well done @QueenOfHiraeth and @MooBaggage, great losses!

I had a work lunch today - university catering at its finest (not!) I ended up having a bite of a sandwich and a handful of grapes. But the visitors commented on my lack of eating- they seemed very reluctant to accept that I was just not very hungry. I saw a colleague who I have not seen in a few months at the meeting and she messaged me later to say that I looked great so that was nice.

Yesterday's lunch was also not a hit. I had smoked mackerel with salad which I enjoyed at the time. However, hours later I could not get rid of the fishy taste. I brushed my teeth, used mouth wash and ate some mints but still it lingered.

Seeing my PT tomorrow for the first time in a few weeks because he has been on holidays and not looking forward to it.

Took the youngest to Macdonalds earlier. It was more in the way of a bribe and to make him forget about a snafu of mine. It surprised me how much it didn't really appeal to me. We are also going out to a family thing on Saturday and I found myself saying no to chips with DH and the youngest (the oldest won't want to join us) and how I would prefer to take a sandwich. Might treat myself to a well fired roll from the bakery though- it's essentially a bread roll with a burned top.
Has anyone found that since MJ their eating habits have completely changed?

Everyone is doing so well. @QueenOfHiraeth, just WOW!!

@QueenOfHiraeth@MooBaggage 🤔🫢
well as you say... bmi under 35 would be a great achievement. With my BMI 45.4 at the start!!! It’s now 38.8, so I am getting there. It’s funny to think of the things you are excluded from with a BMI>35 in healthcare. Thankfully I don’t need an operations or anything but previous experience in maternity services means I don’t ever want to feel the utter shame of not having access to the same things as others because of my weight.

I have lots to catch up on here, took a little break as was finding life a bit too ‘online’. Feeling better now. After my STS and Easter egg scof week, I knuckled down, ate clean & had a good loss last week (1.2kg).

Sw 136
cw 116
it nicely rounds up 20Kg/3stone loss since January.

My 16th jab will be this weekend. I had expected to be prescribed 7.5mg which is the normal regime for ShMd 5th pen.
however, completely understand my loss has been great (15%), no side effects now and do have good hunger control. I can eat a normal size meal and then be satisfied for a long time.

However. The ‘yummy goblin’ in my head is a flipping nightmare right now. Not hunger, just lust for sweet, cakey, chocolatey things.

I thought I would help get out of my system with a small weekend treat. Nope. Tried abstaining from all, nope, still WANT IT!
I feel like I am being a saint when I decline a piece of cake that others are sharing but inside my head it’s like golem for cake!
So I have another month on 5mg.
I do know better to stay as low as possible as long as it is working, but I am inpatient, want continued good results and I don’t want this mental battle over yummy food. If my brain had its way, I wouldn’t eat much, but I would eat bad stuff.

Can I ask when you went up to 7.5mg? Anyone wish they did it sooner or wished they stuck out 5mg for longer?

Well a small NSV, I did run 1 of the first week of Couch to 5k today. I almost wimped out, but did it anyway. I was pleasantly surprised to find it manageable and not so knackering that I don’t want to do the next one. I’m actually looking forward to it, which is weird for me!

On reflection I’m a bit emotional about it, as 9 months or so ago just before starting on Mounjaro I was beginning to notice how difficult it was to get up stairs, or to walk any reasonable distance. The difference between then and now is insane. So glad I made the decision to give this a whirl.

Amazing work @QueenOfHiraethand @MooBaggagewell done on the losses!

@SilenceInsidei get what you're saying about C25K, I did the first run thinking I’d never make it all the way through, today I’m going to do week 6 run 2, by the end of this week I’ll be running 25 ins continuously. It’s mind-boggling!

@alltablenochairs oh mine have completely changed!

I took ds2 back to Uni on Sunday, which obvs involved going via a drive thru McD's... 🙄 He had a wrap of the day meal, strawberry milkshake and a triple cheeseburger...and I had a small diet coke! Being Coeliac, I can usually only have the fries, so in the past I would have had a large fries without question!

I don't like the thought of carbs any more at all and rarely eat any, whereas before MJ I ate lots of rice and gf pasta, or roasties. I'll have my protein on a big bed of baby leaf spinach - I have never bought spinach in my life before and am now getting through 2 x large bags of it a week..! I bloody snack on it if I'm feeling hungry... 😬

My food shop looks nothing like it used to - is totally bonkers!

OMG I am instantly obsessed with the Eufy scales data - finally figured out how to get all the information and am fascinated and terrified all at the same time!

Good news - I have high bone and muscle mass - hurrah!

Bad news - I am 47% fat...!

What kind of stats do others get who have the scales?!

It also says my water and protein intake is low, which is interesting because I've increased both significantly since starting MJ. Water wise, I didn't drink any at all before January, but am now drinking 2 x litres a day..! Protein-wise, I thought I must be doing OK, but will try to get more in.

It also says my BMR is low - how does it even know?!

I have such a difficult relationship with scales, but I think having all the read outs will actually help, because I love data and it will give me more mini targets to aim for 😁

Hi @MooBaggage Here are mine from my renpho scales. I was most put out when they added another year to my metabloic age on my birthday!
My water and protein are also low, I figured the water would be as I weigh in the mornings so havent drunk anything for a good 8hrs but why my protein is I have no idea! I am pleased my visceral fat has dropped a lot, it estimate it must have been around 22 at my heaviest!
I take these readings with a big pinch of salt and as a very rough guide only but if I can get everything down to being good or average, of course they will be fantastic😂😉😊

Massively! I haven't touched any of my Easter or Mothers Day chocolate. I still have one of the Toblerones that DH bought for me for my birthday too (Feb) - everyone shared the other one. My Mothers' Day chocolate is a big box of Maltesers, my absolute favourites but I just don't fancy them.

I was also a huge bread fiend - lovely thick slices of Gails sourdough piled with butter and peanut butter but, even if it's available to me, I just can't be bothered with it.

Realising my food noise is definitely back, just reading your posts @alltablenochairs@meatyryvita I want all of those things 🙄
How do I turn this off again as remember feeling ‘not bothered’ and safe around it. Now it’s a battle. I haven’t caved but don’t know how long I can hold off.
The strange thing is I am not hungry it’s sugar craving!

I am due my period next few days & hoping it settles after that 🫤

Great work in CT5K @InfoSecInTheCityand @SilenceInside. I am still not ready to start but did trial in the gym 10mins fast walk and 1 min jog which was ok, so if I do that a few times I may get there. HR went up to like 140bpm!

@MooBaggage I think we are a similar weight & start time.
I use the fancy gym fancy scales about every 2-4 weeks.
I also have a body fat of 46.7% but excellent bone density (see I do have big bones after all 🤗).
I hate that % but having only done the measurement a few times I can see it changing.
I am 43 but bioage means I should be able to retire!!!

My tastes have changed. I can't be doing with anything too sweet now. I've got a thing for Kiwis at the moment, but they can't be 'ripe' they have to be hard and sharp - in fact I was giving all the kiwis a good molesting in the supermarket last night and they were all too soft!

My tastes have changed, too. I'm never sure now what I like! Things that I thought were amazing before are now kind of... whatever. It's weird. Like I'm able to actually taste food rather than my brain just going "gimme calories".

@Reginaphalangeeeee I was the same before my period and really thought MJ had stopped working for me. But when I got my period I was fine again. You do need more calories before your period, some say could be 200 - 300 more. So I would say just go with it, eat lots of protein and good fats and wait it out!

More calories, more exercise, more protein. No weight loss. Have ordered a 7.5mg pen, still pending authorisation. Don’t think it’s going to make much difference 🙄

Had telephone appointment with Dr today for my first 3 month HRT review.

Got a big well done for weight loss - so much more positive than previous Drs I have mentioned it to.

NSV - Reviewed my home blood pressure results and I can stop my blood pressure medication 🥳😃

She has agreed to do blood tests for folate, ferritin, B12, Vit D, Thyroid etc to see if any deficiencies.

Feeling positive and sun is shinning in Scotland! 🌞

@WeAllHaveWings Great news about your BP and stopping meds! So nice when a GP is supportive. Enjoy the sunshine, its glorious here too☀😊

I have a little positive that I hope may also be a boost for others.

I have whined at length about my weight loss slowing (I've lost 1kg in the last 4 weeks on 12.5mg) but I measure myself once a month and, in that same time I have lost 1cm off my bust, 2cm off my waist, 2cm off my hips and 0.5cm off my thigh so something is still happening.

@MooBaggage Good bone density is often a positive of being overweight as weight bearing exercise is a protective factor and every movement is weight-bearing exercise to us! I have a few friends who are on medication for osteoporosis in their 60s and the one common factor is that they are all teeny-tiny

Make the most of it- it'll rain next week (w.coast here!). I need to go out later when the washing machine has finished. I'll probably roll through the woods although it's a bit bumpy because nothing makes me happier than roasting alive on a bus on a day like this.

As for me, I'm just glad I'm not freezing to death. Being perma-cold is about the only side effect I have ever had from MJ that really annoys me. Everything else I can live with. I'm still going out in a cardigan though but will 'downgrade' said cardie from a thick woolly one (Temu) to some thinner ones when they arrive (more Temu!). I have PLE so covering my arms in summer is kinda essential.

@Reginaphalangeeeee I am exactly the same. My weight chart is far from linear although I am still losing. If anything it looks really quite bumpy!