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

This is interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/10/weight-loss-jabs-may-be-good-for-mental-health-research-shows

And this.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/11/weight-loss-drugs-why-do-people-lie-about-taking-ozempic

That's a really ingesting article thanks for sharing. I've only told my partner, who's incredibly supportive and can see how much better i am thanks to the jab. I have friends who would be very judgemental for different reasons, from one who's struggled seriously with her weight and sees me as the "thin, fit" one, to one who thinks they're dangerous or cheating etc. My mother is obsessed with weight and is very thin and there's no way on earth I'm mentioning it to her!! It's none of anyone's business really, but also it's a shame I feel i have to keep it to myself.

I have same problem with my mum, she’s been thin/weight- obsessed my whole life. My memories of childhood in the 80s are all of her doing ridiculous diets to get thin- grapefruit diets, juice fasting, kombucha diets etc etc etc. She always comments on people’s weight, what they eat, if their clothes fit etc etc. it’s awful and I have learned to just entirely avoid any conversations that touch on weight/health/diets etc. as too liable to lead to me feeling like crap. Luckily she lives nowhere near me, so I only see her in real life every 6 months or so. I know that my “new body” will raise eyebrows, will be interesting to see if she can resist the urge to comment and quiz me about how I’ve done it.

Really interesting! Many many years ago I had post natal psychosis and got given some hardcore anti-psychotics, I have never known hunger like it, and I put on several stone in a few months. Whatever mounjaro does to quiet the food noises, those drugs did the opposite. So many people on anti-psychotics (and antidepressants) do carry extra weight so its really encouraging that glp1's look like a safe and positive thing to use in conjunction with meds.

Apart reducing the food noise, and the feeling depressed about being fat disappearing because I already look and feel better, I think that MJ has helped me to feel calmer, more level, less reactive. I wondered for a while if it was reducing my ability to concentrate and get through loads of work, but I've concluded that it hasn't. It's just made me feel more moderate and less panicky about stressy situations, and so I am not overworking to compensate for that. When I've really had to concentrate and get through a load of work (eg for my job interview), I have done it better. Overall, I just feel a bit sunnier, if you see what I mean!

Another thought, which connects both the article about mental health and the one about some of us not telling others we're taking this. I'm much better about saying no to other people pushing food on me. I don't feel conflicted between people pleasing and getting irritated that they might be trying to sabotage me (though it is indeed possible that that is what they are doing!). I just don't feel the need to explain myself to others or to care as much what they think, whether that is the medication I take or the food choices I make. Would you like some dessert? No, thank you. I can listen to my body's signals, eg the thought of dessert after a small main course makes me feel sick, or finishing the full plate that someone else has given me feels ridiculous because if I do I will feel uncomfortable, and why would I do that because someone else has decided, arbitrarily, the amount I should have? There's no need for a discussion about my appetite or my weight. I am just making choices which should be neutral ones, with no value attached, in response to my hunger cues. I will stop when I have had enough. Likewise, I am taking MJ because I need to sort out my fatty liver and the awful pressure on my dodgy knees, as well as because my clothes had stopped fitting and I didn't like how I looked. My decisions, not anyone else's, no justification needed.

Finally had the first "wow, you've lost loads of weight comment" from someone who i havent seen since January. She asked what my secret was and I said it was super boring but I was just eating less, which is true in part. Sadly feel much better now as i was starting to think 24lbs had made no difference visually.

Wk13 jab yesterday and moved up to 5mgs…oh my god, the hiccups!

Hi all! Haven’t officially logged my weight this week and have injected a day late as I was away for the weekend.
Let myself indulge a little but oh my the sulphur burps and belly cramps are making me regret some of my food choices.
Back on it tomorrow! Feel like I need a cleanse lol.

God I could have written this about some of my relatives. They have never been anywhere close to being obese in their entire lives, but have been obsessed with their weight (and everyone else’s) or been on some diet for as long as I can remember.

It’s kind of sad really, I look at photos of myself in my teens and twenties and I genuinely thought I was fat back then because of the constant talk of diets and weight at home. I wasn’t fat at all! (I wish I was that ‘fat’ now).

Had lots of nausea, burps and a bit of an upset stomach since starting the 7.5mg yesterday morning. The plus side is the food noise has clearly decreased again.

We were talking about jeans a couple of weeks ago on here and I thought I was very far away from it - but today when I was getting some trusty leggings out the drawer I thought why not try on a pair of jeans and see just how far - turns out the size 16 fits comfortably, I wore them all day, and they didn't become uncomfortable after eating. That feels huge 😊

I felt so guilty yesterday 🙈I saw my mum and she knows I’ve been trying to lose weight. She was telling me about how weight watchers has gone bust and she said she read an article by someone who said all they thought about was food etc etc (you know the story!!) but then she started slimming injections and it’s changed her life. She said “that’s great for her, but you’re proof if can be done without anything and just willpower.” I wanted to confess, and Im sure she would have been supportive, but I just didn’t want to enter in to it 😔 I wonder if maybe at the end of the whole journey once im off them, it will feel safer to “confess”

that said, despite a “heavier” couple of weeks and definitely more wine than is appropriate, I’m down another pound.

The article about not telling partners is interesting- I know a few people on here haven’t which is of course your choice, but I just couldn’t imagine not telling my life partner that I’m taking a medication. Quite apart from anything else if I collapsed or something or had to go to hospital he would need to know what medications I’m taking to tell staff- I realise it would be on my notes but I’d rather he just had that information, feels unsafe to me otherwise.

Jab and weigh day today, another kg off! Thinking of sticking to 7.5mg for my new jab, the side effects this week have been the worst I’ve had since jabbing.

CW 91kg
SW 107.8kg
GW 88kg

Congrats on everyone’s continued progress!

Downside to telling everyone is managing people’s opinions. Concerned family member informed me that she has spoken about my WL with a nurse friend of hers, who advised her that I am losing weight too fast, will lose all my muscle and get osteoporosis. I’m being very dangerous and simply must take it much more slowly, apparently.

What absolute tosh! I will continue with my perfectly healthy 1lb-2lb per week until I am at goal (which happens to be similar weight as family member. Maybe another one who can’t get their head around the family fatty getting healthy).

Good Lord. The interference! Not to mention it being utter bollocks. Sorry you are dealing with that!

I’ve mentioned my WLIs to 3 different HCP in unrelated contexts - a GP I know, a physio (ok, unrelated but weight loss can only be good for injury and arthritis!) and a paramedic. All were unremittingly positive. WLI are going to be a game changer for public health, whether slim people like it or not.

It’s a shame that some uninformed folk can’t resist their dislike and judgement of fat people. And if we are going to lose weight, it’s very important that we suffer.

Jab 13 this morning and 12.8 kg down.

I’m with Shemed and so I have to video call every week to have my weight recorded. Without fail, every single time, I weigh myself twice before the call and then end up 500g-1kg heavier on the actual call two minutes later. It’s been annoying me.

So I had the very simple realisation that I don’t need to record their “video call weight” as my official weight every week. I decided to record my weight every morning instead of once a week which I hope will avoid the disappoint when you see a lower number some days and higher on the official weigh day. It’s only a small thing but was bothering me.

My loss has definitely slowed overall. Still a good average of 1 kg a week, but that comes from having a higher loss the first month. Finally not having many side effects on 5 mg but maybe thinking about moving up to 7.5 gradually.

Also, briefly heard on the radio this morning that they are now thinking that WLI could reduce cancer rates for those who take them. The radio didn’t give any more detail so I don’t know if that’s because many cancers are caused by obesity ( common sense then if you lose weight), or they have found that the medication itself reduces cancer rates.

I think it's interesting how any weight loss, whether with WLI or not, provokes people to offer an opinion. And especially to caution against losing too much or too fast, even when you're losing entirely sensibly. I'm sure it's because it unsettles their own sense of control, either of their own weight or of the "box" that they've put others into, eg the fat friend.

I am quite clear in my head: I am doing this for my health and it has to be a long term change.

My GP knows, my gynaecologist knows and was supportive/impressed, my pharmacist knows. My husband knew I was starting on them but also that it wasn't something I was up for discussion about, largely because I didn't want the kids to be exposed to the same kind of weight loss talk (obsession!) that my mother subjected me to. That, and even the thought of a needle makes him faint. So I have kept it to myself since then.

I am working on giving off vibes that none of this is up for discussion! (And sharing my progress and wobbles here, anonymously -- thanks, fellow Mumsnetters!).

@WoolerOwl I do think many women are very competitive when it comes to looks until they get to the point where they don’t give a shit and hence it suits many of them to have a few ‘fat’ friends they can feel superior too in the looks department -

This is why ive not told anyone not even my kids/H!

NSV I’m in sz18 jeans this morning! Down from a sz24 when I started…happy bunny ☺️

I am now officially no longer overweight according to the BMI table. It's only by a whisker, so I would like to get more firmly into the normal weight category to give myself some wriggle room in future. And even though it's just a number, I would like to get below 10 stone. After this pen, I need to find out how I go about coming off it/ reducing my dose. I assume I will have to do it gradually.

I got my summer clothes out of storage and unfortunately some of them no longer fit - which I was a bit sad about. I love my clothes and I hate clothes shopping.

I’ve told no-one, mostly because I’m an adult making an adult choice in life lol but also because of the feedback I’ve heard that others have had to endure (your comment here for example). I just think life is too short and don’t want other folks moral compasses guiding my personal choices x

Love this! Amazing update…well done you!x