Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 5!)

[Mounjaroday]

Welcome to the latest thread, all WL warriors welcome as always.

Congrats to us all for our achievements and NSVs so far. And props for all the support, encouragement and kindnesses throughout.

Feel we’re breaking the back of this now! Base camp is firmly in our rear view and we’re climbing on … will some start to see the summit in the distance, over the course of this thread? That is pretty darn exciting!

No matter what your pace, and if you’ve lost a microwave, a tin of paint or 192,000 bees: well done!

xx

Weigh in day. Alas a gain but not unexpected its TOTM and I had substantial losses over the last two weigh in due to illness. Body probably needs a bit of time to heal.

W12 D1, 5mg
SW 124kg
CW 109.5KG
TW 72KG
Gain this week 0.4kg
TL 14.5kg

Ohhh new thread, thank you 😊 Just posted long msg on previous one. Summary, craved chocolate, ate chocolate, wasnt all that. Happy Easter! Happy weigh in, 198.5 lbs. Broke 200 barrier 🎉

SW - 13st 11lb
CW - 11st 5lb
Current dose 5mg

Well done everyone on their perseverance. I moved up to 5mg after the first 4 weeks and have stayed on it since as it's still working.

I am starting to worry about both the cost and, as I get closer to my target weight, the thought of coming off it.

Does anyone here draw their doses out of the pen with an insulin syringe to get a different dose or do people just count the clicks?

Happy Easter weekend to all.x.

I'd count clicks if pen not locked, then syringe when at extra dose time x

W9 Day 1 - week 5 on 5mg

SW 16st 5
CW 14st 11
Lost this week: 0
Total loss: 1st 8

Not a sausage off this week. I've been away for the last week and stuck to my calories without depriving myself and also done a fair bit of strenuous walking so slightly disappointed. I do feel incredibly bloated this morning though.

I had ordered a pen to go up to 7.5mg but decided this morning to stay on 5mg, so 40 clicks. The side effects have finally settled down and I'm managing well on it so I'm really reluctant to go up. However this is the second no loss on 5mg.

I'm also thinking about the MJ future. I initially thought 3 months on the jab but tbh I now realise I didn't quite understand how it worked and I feel my weight loss is all down to medication. I'm onto week 10, with another pen in the fridge which will take me to 15 weeks, maybe longer if I'm taking a reduced dose.

I can see me being in the healthy BMI range by the time the 3rd pen is finished but soooo nervous about titrating down and stopping as I think my old normal will return no matter how much I try to relearn habits etc.

Also, I hopefully have many decades of life yet and the thought of being on MJ forever is very overwhelming 😂😂😂. I'm curious and hopeful about future treatments as I find living with the reduced food noise is so freeing and I love it, the weight loss is almost a happy side effect.

Thanks for new thread…hello to everyone still on our journey! Losses have really slowed for me so will move up from the 2.5mg I’ve been on from starting in my next order.

Start weight: 19st 9lbs
Start BMI: 44.4 (obese)
Current weight: 17st 13lbs
Current BMI: 40.5 (obese)

Wks 1-4 (2.5mg): -17lbs
Wks 5-8 (2.5mg): -6lbs
Wk 9 (2.5mg): -1lb
Total loss: 24lbs

F56 in surgical menopause.

Goal 1: 10% of starting weight (27.5lbs loss)
End Goal: healthy BMI (between 18.5 and 24.9 for my height)

Me! Had to do it as a full jab and then an extra - did 3mg (12 extra clicks), 3.5mg (24 extra) and then ~4 (0.9ml in a syringe). Have ordered 5mg for next week.

You should be able to get just about any dose you want by counting clicks. Does this help?

Really nice, OP @Mounjaroday

Quite unexpectedly slightly dropping my dose seems to have caused a 1lb gain but I guess that makes sense if I lost more weight initially, which I didn't really. Nothing hormonal either.

Brain feels better on 3.3mg but it's really early days. I know my losses will be even slower. It still makes losing weight easier through feeling less hunger than without it.

I plan to come off Mj from the end of July. I know I won't be at goal but I should be either in the very low 70s or high 60s.

Hope everyone has a great Easter

Thank you for new thread !

I'm worrying about it too. I know my downfall is snacking and irregular meals, standing in the kitchen making dinner and grabbing some biscuits, or watching TV with crisps, eating donuts at work etc. It's always so mindless and I really truly don't want to go back to that. I am absolutely dreading the day the noise comes back - I'm eating two decent meals and one or two decent and healthy snacks a day and it's a good routine but can I keep it up without Mounjaro? I can't afford it for much longer.

P.S I started on Mounjaro on 22nd Feb and had only eaten milk chocolate once since then, back at the beginning, mainly sticking to dark chocolate. I ran out while I was away and decided to have a bit of the kids' cadburys buttons egg and it was actually rank. Buttons eggs were always my favourite 😭

I don’t have a sweet tooth so Easter isn’t problematic for me. I did have an Indian takeaway and wine last night and I’m still eating a couple of packets of crisps a day but I’m losing an average of 1.5lbs pw nonetheless, so I’m happy enough. Lots of exercise, veg, salad, fruit as well.

I am worried about the return of food noise when I’ve hit target and reduced/ceased MJ but I guess we’ll all worry about that and discuss it when the time comes. 🤷‍♀️

Sorry I misread your question.

Only a rough guess but I think about 0.75ml in a syringe should be about equivalent to 3.75mg but do check the math!

I’m the same. I haven’t lost the past two weeks. I’ve got two more doses of my current 5mg one left and I’m considering going up to 7.5mg next time. Hopefully we’ll both have a whoosh of weight loss soon.

Hi weekly weigh in day!

Highest weight - 16st 9.5
Mounjaro SW on 15.2.25 - 14st 12
CW - 12st 13.5

Loss this week: 3 lbs
Total loss on Mounjaro: 26.5 lbs (1 st 12.5)
Total loss overall: 52 lbs (3st 10)

Haven’t seen a 12 on the scales since 2018!

email from Human this morning 'Important we have noticed a significant decrease in your weight over the past few weeks, we are reaching out to check you are eating properly etc'

I'm day 3 of week 11

SW 95.9
BMI 36.99

CW 85.9
BMI 33.1
Loss 10.1 kg I've averaged over 0.918 KG loss each week

1 2.5 Mg pen 4 doses
1 5 Mg pen 4 doses
2nd 5Mg pen 2 doses at 5 mg and one at all 7.5 this week as getting lots of food noise at 5 days, I will use a syringe to extract 7.5 from the current pen and a 7.5 mg pen is coming next week.

I will admit I'm not counting calories and will have a protein bar if I'm out and feeling low sugar when at work.

Goal currently is to get BMI under 30 which is around 8kg to go and see from there

Tried on one of my dresses today and it was swimming on me. It’s a pretty good feeling 😊

I assumed it would be 0.9mls if a 2.5 dose is 0.6?

Thread 5, wow!
Had a flap yesterday. My new pen is sat at the chemists and it was jab day yesterday. Chemist posted they were open Good Friday but they were telling lies so I'm a day late 😔.
Went to Sainsburys and a giant black forest gateau was massively reduced in price and kept giving me the glad eye. I told it to bugger off. It would be have been straight in my trolley before MJ.
Is thst a NSV I wonder.
First 5mg jab today, wish me luck.
HAPPY EASTER

Yes it definitely is a NSV. The glad eye 😂

Everyone is doing so well...even if no loss this week, persevering! I would have given up already on other diets for sure.

We were on holiday in the peak district last week so I didn't weigh myself on Wednesday although jabbed. Few observations:
1, I weighed this am and lost 2lb since last Wednesday (10 days)
2, ate different foods to usual (more carbs etc , slices of bakewell tart but for example previously I'd have eaten the full cake, this week I had one slice only. 10 weeks in and it still shocks me!
3, we walked prob at least 15k steps a day so that would have helped
4, previously I woukd have seen this week as an opportunity to eat more sweets cakes etc than usual but just didn't even think about it.
5, I'm on 2nd pen of 5mg..I woukd say I'm just not feeling hungry till v late in day, but also def feel nauseous if over eat, or leave it too long to eat something
6, lastly, I was thinking of times I'm away with friends and for example they have a v small bowl of museli with fruit for breakfast (whereas I've been known to have several helpings of alien in one go many times) and when I saw what they were eating I felt how on earth could that be enough to feel satisfied. Now I know. I'm sad my brain has worked differently but so so happy I've got chance to sort things out

Yes you are right. Sorry I was still thinking of my 3.25 dose 😊

Im really struggling with nausea and food adversions mixed with an increase in sugar cravings. I honestly feel like how i feel when newly pregnant (defo not pregnant).
Weirdly this started last week on my 3rd 7.5mg jab. I jabbed again yesterday and feel even worse plus very tired too. I have a 10mg pen in the fridge but Im having second thoughts about moving up. Suppression is not that high which is why I ordered the 5mg

End of wk 11 and day 6 of first 7.5mg dose. I’ve lost 5lb in 6 days and feel way too suppressed so I’m going back down to 5mg. To date, I’ve lost 2st 2lb so my average weekly loss is just about ok but I’m aiming for 2lb per week ideally.

Finally, two people have noticed I’ve lost weight so I’ve found myself offering explanations which are somewhat economical with the truth. It’s particularly awkward when I’m asked, “what’s your secret?” as I then think ooh, they know I’m taking MJ and not telling! That’s made me feel a bit guilty as the one friend who noticed does have weight issues. She lost 5 stone a couple of years ago through willpower but it’s creeping back on again.

Oh well, it’s not for me to push MJ and I’m just going to keep going, head down on my own path. We’ve got guests for Easter so my food choice won’t be great but that’s just real life. I’m delighted with the results so far; my bmi is 27.6 and I can skip up and down the stairs, cross my legs and not look away when I pass a full length mirror.

Thanks for the new thread. Have now lost 15lbs since starting on 4th Feb. Have had first 7.5mg last week after doing an extra 5mg dose. I don’t feel like I have lost anything this week but also don’t think I have been particularly hungry. Maybe just bad food choices. Wondering if I should just up the dosage as it is sent to me or whether I should stick with 7.5mg and hope this plateau week is just a one off?