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 😃

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Thanks @InfoSecInTheCity I’ll have a look at some different ones, although I’ve tried the qvart and I’m not keen on those.
I have plain yogurt with peanut butter drizzle and cinnamon all mixed together which is nice too. Although my husband bought the wrong cinnamon yesterday, the bitter one, and I have none of the sweet left which is a bit annoying! I’m sending him back to the shop tomorrow

M&S do tiny bags of chocolate buttons ("Baby Buttons"). You can buy a 10-pack of them in big stores. I used to be able to eat a pack of the giant chocolate buttons in one go (probably still could, to be honest), but these are around 18g each, which is equivalent to TWO of the giant buttons, and it does scratch the chocolate itch for me.

I second @InfoSecInTheCity full fat greek yoghurt with mixed nuts on top (and a sprinkling of cinnamon) with a small squirt of maple syrup or a small handful of frozen blueberries. Really filling and satisfying.

These protein bars are great. Low carb and so tasty and hit the spot for a sweet fix and keep you satisfied (maybe too many calories? - I count carbs not calories), but worth a try for an occasional treat. [I don't get suppression either - you and I are MJ twins @QueenOfHiraeth !]

KIND Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt Cereal Bars 3x30g - Tesco Groceries

@InfoSecInTheCity you very helpfully recommended peanut butter a few weeks back and I didn't take a note of it and can't find your post now. Would you mind telling me again what one it was? Thanks

Back from 3 weeks holiday. To my astonishment, I stayed the same weight. (I had lost exactly 4 stone before I left). Very sedentary the first 2 weeks, but ate healthily, but the third week, the filthy (delicious) carbs kicked in😂Much enjoyed, but did walk loads that week and drank tonnes of water. This is the first time I have ever come back from a holiday and not gained at least 7 pounds (which takes weeks to come back off), so I am thrilled at that. Stood on the scales today and another 3 pounds down - just how? I am a slow loser, so no idea what has happened? Maybe just switching off from a hectic time, loads of sleep and water. Not sure, but I will take it!

SW: 18 stone 11
CW: 14 stone 8

Was a joy to be 4 stone less on holiday. EVERYTHING was easier.

Very much enjoying everyone's posts. What a helpful thread this is.

@alwaysscared talking of food & sweet treats. I, like @InfoSecInTheCityhas said, could polish off an impressive daily amount of chocolate pre MJ. Multi packs of chocolate bars or sharing packs no problem. I would sadly eat in the car or in secret and spend time trying to hide wrapper so guilt-ridden. 5 pack of fresh cookies, fresh pastries you name it. I would be shocked and disgusted to discover hoards of wrappers I had hidden and cry. I don’t ever want to go back to that.

That said, since discovering 85% chocolate on MJ I can finally get my hit and be done. Just 1-2 squares of very dark chocolate is so intense it really scratches the itch.
At first I felt guilty about this but have forced myself to do it in the open and guilt free. My choc now lives in the fridge. Also discovered melting it , lining a fairy cup case, then a teaspoon of peanut butter and more melted chocolate on top (think size of Reese’s cups)…. This is so yummy and intense as a treat but much better with good quality ingredients . It also avoids the sugar hit which I know now is my downfall. Dark chocolate cover nuts also great. M&S almonds in rich dark chocolate are Devine.

Good luck finding you healthy hit.

As for hunger, some people just don’t seem to get the same supression and so all the other tricks in the book needed:
-lots of fluid to fill you up.
-coffee is a suppressant of appetite.
-grains like quinoa that absorb lots of water.

@NewbieMJmy favourite is Pip n Nut crunchy peanut butter. They add a small amount of sea salt but other than that the only other ingredient is peanuts, no palm oil. So it doesn’t separate, is a nice thick gloopy texture with big chunks of peanuts. Other brands are all just a little bit wrong for me.
They do a sweet n salty one too but I don’t like that as much.

Meridian crush the peanuts so it’s teeny kernels and it separates so you end up with the oil layer, Whole Earth similar issues it’s just not chunky enough, Manilife is too runny with a few chunks of peanuts but it’s more drizzly than spreadable, Sunpat/Skippy/own brands all seem to have palm oil, other oils and sugar.

I mainly just eat it straight off the spoon, there are days when I can feel that I need something fatty and stick to your ribs, and that’s when a teaspoon of peanut butter does the job.

@InfoSecInTheCity OMG, that sounds delish. Off I go to buy it. Thank you!

Purchased, thank you. So low in carbs too!
I feel you should do a "top tips" book @InfoSecInTheCity as you have so many recommendations and sound advice. It's very much appreciated.

Being a bad influence here after you've been talking about dates as a healthy sweet thing but has anyone else discovered these ?
They are bloody gorgeous! Luckily I find I can eat just one as they are really satisfying

Discovered an old electronic note/diary on my last big weight loss attempt. The apps I was using at the time to record my weight are not available, and so I think my memory is not accurate, until tonight and it has shaken me.

Travel back in time to summer 2019. I made a diary and all the familiar feelings and incentives to loose weight were written down there.
I was shocked, I was 124 KG. Biggest I ‘d ever been. I vowed to loose weight and did it alone. 5 months later and couch to 5K I was 110kg- yes 14KG down & even lost a little weight over Christmas. Spring 2020, down to 107Kg, I then had surgery & life changed beyond recognition for a bit.... lock down happened. bam 10kG back on in a month or two. All fresh baked bread I am sure as I lived for it. Oh and because of my surgery I avoided exercise and people, oh and I hated my job… bam 120kg again by Summer. Full circle!
I decide maybe best not to weigh myself as so depressing, not try to loose weight but just stay about the same & accept my weight.

Fast forward 5 year to January 2025. Depressed about my weight and confidence at an all time low. Step on the scales eventually. BAM, 136KG! How the f**k did that happen. Beside myself angry I let this happen, I mean 124Kg was bad enough! Why couldn’t I just have stayed there! Self esteem rock bottom. I felt too big to even be cuddled.

Well 5 months past again. 113KG. That’s a loss of 23KG. Just shows how successful MJ is! And that my body does want to loose the weight. I am at the gym and getting back into some of my clothes from 110Kg but…
That nagging terror. What if the same happens again. How can I stop it from ever happening again. I can’t go back. My body and mental well being can’t cope with going through this again. The time before I lost weight I said never again can I go above 100Kg… it’s a scary step
up each time!

Also this time, despite being a similar weight, the clothes do not look as good on me. My tummy is bigger, my bottom is smaller, my tummy and boobs sag now. Arghhh I don’t know where I am headed. But surely, surely… there has to be something to make sure i never let it happen again.

Feeling emotional reflecting on it all and wondering and hoping it can be better this time.

sorry for the long post. Sure there are many who relate. Hitting known weight targets you have set before does something funny to your thoughts. Trying to be kind to myself tonight.

Just a thought @alwaysscared but I remember you saying how much you like apples, have you considered cooking some up to make apple compote/pie filling and freezing it in portions, you could add a little honey or maple syrup to sweeten it but if you get sweet apples then you probably wouldn’t need it, just a pinch of cinnamon and whatever other spices you like. Then you could have that with full fat Greek yoghurt and some chopped nuts as a faux apple crumble. You’d get the sweet/dessert effect but high protein, good fats, low carb and just generally healthier.

You could use it in porridge or overnight oats too. DD loves hot fruit on porridge, we keep bags of summer berries in the freezer so I can make it up quickly for breakfast when she fancies it.

@Reginaphalangeeeeeyou are doing really really well. I know the fear you’re talking about the ‘what’s to stop me eating my way back up again’ feeling. I have it myself and it’s always there a little niggle like the cartoon devil on my shoulder - “you may as well give up now, you’ve been here before, you know you’ll just get fat again, don’t bother getting rid of those clothes you’ll be wearing them again in 6 months, what a waste of money why are buying nice stuff that you’ll only end up growing out of or looking like a sausage splitting out of its skin…..”

I figure I have 2 choices, 1) Give up, accept being fat and just succumb to it. 2) Give it my damn best try, use this new tool to help fuel my weightloss, use the time and headspace to learn better habits and find exercise/activity that gives me the satisfaction that food used to give me.

I’m going with option 2. I’m ignoring the little fucker on my shoulder and giving him a smack every time he gets too loud, I’m trying to be proud of myself and to see myself with kinder eyes, I’m putting effort into finding food that I really enjoy that isn’t going to sabotage me and stretching my confidence limits with exercise classes and social activities that keep me moving.

Can I guarantee success, no, but option 1 guarantees failure.

@Reginaphalangeeeee I hear you...! I've played the moving up and down through various weights my whole adult life and am now less than 1lb away from the last heaviest I'd been when I went to SW (for the nth time) and it's scary..

I also know that all my family and friends are watching me and thinking the same thing - here she goes again... I lose 2 stone, put 3 on, lose 2 stone, put 4 on etc etc....

Posts by @InfoSecInTheCity and @RobinEllacotStrike in particular have helped me so much to re-frame all this and accept (with HUGE gratitude) that this time actually will be different, because finally I am taking medicine to treat this disease I've got. Finally, my willpower and desire to be a healthier size can come through now that the physiological aspect of eating is being helped by the medicine. Which is why I always want to be on some kind of dose - I'm never going to be able to stop taking thyroxine (no thyroid gland), so why would I stop taking MJ?

Sigh. It's just the mind games that are relentless - but we are here, proving to ourselves every week we can do this blooming thing! 💪

These look bloody lovely!!!!

I loved dates, then one betray me! All the years I have eaten them it happened only once but is apparently common.
I bite into it, full of dusty black mould! Gosh it was horrid, remember inhaling it as I bit. No sign on the outside and so I have not been able to eat them since.
Same sort of effect as watching Jaws as a child with long term psychological head f**k!

That said, these covered ones may be trusted if already stoned?

@NewbieMJ well done on your holiday maintenance!

I'm v excited - have just booked 3 weeks off in January 2026 and am going to Lanzarote! We've booked a villa with family (to spread the cost.!) - it'll be the longest period of annual leave I've ever had 😊

I'm already trying to work out what weight and size I might be by then (hopefully 'only' overweight 😁) and what clothes I'll need to buy...!

Can't wait to have 3 January weeks not in the dark and rain!

For those that like fruit compotes, Clearspring sell various flavours in little pots. My favourite is the apple and mango one.

@Reginaphalangeeeee like you I seem to have had long periods in my life of avoiding the scales and really not recognising that I have put weight on. I remember the first time I weighed over 17 stones I just couldn't believe it.

Although I like sweet things and particularly enjoy baking cakes and biscuits I am not finding it hard to resist. I really crave crunchy salty things, namely crisps and crackers - crunchy fruit and veg never seem to hit the same spot.

After being told (nicely but clearly) by the physio that the reason my lower back and top of my butt is so knotted is because the muscles are very deep and under developed and they need to be bigger and stronger to cope with daily wear and tear, so basically you have no ass muscles and need to fix it. I have now imposed a fee on my coffee. Every cup of coffee costs 30 squats that I will do while I wait for the kettle to boil/tassimo to brew. Over time, like everything the cost will go up with inflation.

If you can find them near you, you might like the Itsu crispy seaweed sheets. They come in 4 different flavours (I like the wasabi ones best) and they tick the salty/crunchy box for me, and a pack is under 25kcal.

https://www.itsu.com/grocery/products/snacks/

FFS, all I do is moan on this thread but here goes. I ate a square of chocolate, 20 jelly babies (guilty as charged, bad girl) and an extra bowl of frozen fruit last night (I have managed to get my frozen fruit down to 1 bowl a day, 100g of grapes, 50g of blueberries and 50g of raspberries) and I have gained 2lbs this morning. I follow a few people on Facebook who are on mounjaro and I watch what they eat and then weigh themselves and they are consistently losing week after week. I follow one particular lady who started at the same weight as me, around the same time as me and, honestly, the things that she eats (steak and chips, puddings, roast dinners etc) compared to what I am eating on a daily basis is crazy. I eat very clean and count everything that goes in. She is now down to 12st 10lbs and I am still sitting between 13st 8lbs and 13st 10lbs. How? I just don’t understand how?! I’m sorry all I do is moan but I’m fed up. Here is a picture of my nutrients a couple of days ago, which is now my typical average. What can I do now to make a change?

@alwaysscared I try not to give advice too much because we are all different and weight loss is really complex. But looking at those stats, the amount of carbs you're eating jumps out at me. A moderate carb diet would be under 100g a day. A very low carb one would be under 20g. I think most women do need more carbs than the (male) health coaches advise, but a range of maybe 50g - 75g seems like a reasonable amount that puts you in the somewhat low carb zone.

For many of us, it's the carbs that are driving inflammation and fat gain, because we are insulin resistant. That means that the sugar in carbs can't be processed properly and so goes straight into fat stores.

So my advice would be to half your carb intake and see how that goes. I suspect it will make a difference.

Thanks @taylorswift1989 I’ll try and cut some carbs out

I’ve discovered that most of the carbs I am eating is from the fruit. How did I not know this?! High carbs and high sugar, but so delicious 🫩

@alwaysscared . I think it’s grapes, please cut them out and replace with something that isn’t sugar.

@Zebracat 😭😭😭

@Reginaphalangeeeee thank you so much for your post. I’ve had a very successful first month on MJ, and I’ve lost over a stone. But my current weight of 99 kgs is bringing up some really uncomfortable memories of being here on the way up and down the scale. It’s a kind of tipping point for me. Lots of the unpleasantness with joint aches and intimate itching lessen here, and my clothes all fit better, I look less bloated and people notice. BUT I get this far and become complacent, bit more crap starts creeping into my diet, and up it goes again. My lower weight seems to be around 95, and if it gets to 99, I know I’ve lost. So I’m feeling quite insecure this morning. It does seem so important to learn from this. I can’t even imagine being at a healthy weight, but 84 kilos takes me to overweight, so that’s my first big goal. Next goal is 95, and in my head that’s a set point so it will bring it’s own challenges.