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

started 8th Feb
SW 14st 12.5
CW 13st 0.5
GW 9st 6

Currently still on 2.5mg but have ordered a 5mg for my next pen. Really nervous though. I have a job where I have to travel for work and deliver training. Really worried about diarrhoea and sulphur burps! Any advice for preventing these?

Dose wise I'm still on 1.6mg every 5 days. There's not a huge amount of suppression or satiety now and I can get hungry but oddly the dose still keeps me on track. It is strange but good I guess 🤷‍♂️

Morning all

should be jag day for me today but I’m pushing back by a day this week and another next week so I don’t have to bother taking my pen on holiday with me.

second week done on 10mg and have felt a bigger difference this week, almost like a shift in my body, like right we’re ready to roll now! I’m interested in eating and ready for lunch and dinner when they come round, but happy to stop when I’m full and virtually no snacking - some nuts here and there or a satsuma/ carrot batons and hummus.

I weighed this morning and am down almost 4 pounds on this time last week, which is insane. However I had the shits yesterday due to a dulcoease I took to get things moving and am under no illlusion that a load of that will be water weight.

SW. 16.3
CW. 14.8. -under 200lb!!!
GW … unknown. I will keep adjusting as I go. Google says for my height it should be about 9.6 but that seems unthinkable to be honest

Total lost 1 stone 9lb

NSV this week - a pair of ‘holiday trousers’ (lol) I bought on a whim in Sainsburys over a month ago which were way too tight are now snug but do-able.

I've decided I'm going to try upping my dose. Currently doing 2.5mg every 6 days and it's working ok in that it takes the edge off but it's getting less and less effective. So I'm going to take 3.75mg for my next jab and then 5mg for the one after. See how it goes!

Have stayed the same this week which is frustrating. I really wanted to be 84kg by the end of the month but I'm stuck at 87.7kg.

NSV: I can get my new size 12 M&S jeans on standing up! So without wiggling flat on my back on the bed like a dying fish out of water as I try to get the button to meet the button hole.

Morning all,

Lovely to read all the positive updates.

I have definitely plateaued and will be going up to 7.5 for the next pen. I’ve got 2 doses + GD so
may try slowly increasing over the next two weeks until my new pen.

My size 12 jeans are getting looser but when I’ve tried a couple of size 12 dresses on they’re a bit tight around the rib cage, so not sure I’ll ever be less than a 12 in certain styles unless I have a rib removed 🤣

SW pre MJ 208lb
SW MJ 187lb
CW - 168lb
Loss this week 1lb

We’re going away in 5 weeks and I’d like to be able to fit nicely in the size 12 dresses I’ve bought.

I’ve just taken my first dose of 7.5 mg, which I’m pleased about. I was starting to really crave chocolate and biscuits - I did x2 5mg pens.

I’m 5 ft 9, so fairly tall.
SW was 16 stone
CW 14 st 3 lbs

i know I look super slim and a size 10 at 11.5 stone as that was what I weighed when I got married. But I’d be happy to get to 12.5 - 13.

Hey lovelies! Well, it’s started - ‘you look great! Don’t lose too much now!’

I’m a size 14-16 and still (just) obese. At least just over 2 stone to lose in order to be a healthy BMI. But clearly I’ve stepped out of my lane somehow! 🤔

Just ordered my third month of 7.5mg. Feel like that’s what my body can handle right now…still have some suppression and the odd dodgy tummy every now and then.
SW 16 s 4
CW 12 s 12
GW 11 something…
Still in the overweight BMI category…but hopefully in a month will be ‘healthy’ and will start to think about moving down in doses.

A NSV for me- I have a specific pair of jeans from Sainsburys that I love in a size 18, but they've been getting looser and looser. I found a pair in a 14 on Vinted and ordered them not thinking they'd really fit- fit like a glove! I've not been in a size 14 for about 8 years.

Wee NSV this morning - shaving my legs and my knees have much less fat around them. Now I can't stop looking at my knees 😆

I was meeting with a group of friends from a hobby this morning and the topic turned to WLI. I’ve been on the fence whether or not to tell people I’m taking them. Nobody has commented on my weight loss yet bar one friend.

Well, it was like WLI bingo this morning. What will happen when they stop and all the weight come back on, I couldn’t stand all the side effects- they are really just starving themselves, and on and on. They are actually nice ladies but just have no clue about WLI. I couldn’t bring myself to correct what they were saying so I guess that’s me keeping WLI a secret then.

It’s like some threads on here where posters are clueless and just parrot the usual nonsense. I find it easier to just not engage with people who have a closed mind. Hopefully with time, the results of WLI will speak for themselves.

No but in a similar situation and the 5ml is scaring the life out of me and to be fair I’m still loosing on 2.5ml

After the next pen which I already have I’m looking at trying 3.75 to see how I get on

Good luck

A nsv of a surprise period arriving today, a surprise because I havent spent the last week eating sugar based junk and snapping at everyone. So mounjaro also seems to be calming my hormones, its a bloody miracle drug!
Started 7.5 last friday and so far liking this dose very much, no temptation to snack at all, not many thoughts about food, no side effects but still able to eat 3 good meals a day , long may it last!

@FunnyCrabDancethats exactly how I feel on 10mg - funny how different doses work for us all isn’t it?

It is very odd, you hear of some people really struggling to eat at all on 2.5 or horrible side effects, or people not responding at all to the meds.
I feel lucky not to have suffered much and still enjoy food 😊

I have had that twice this week and believe me I know I have lost weight but I am only one large chocolate bar away from a BMI of 30 so I am still very obviously overweight.

When I have said I want to lose another two stone a couple of people have been horrified. It is like they want to keep me as the fat one.

I think that the people that say that sometimes don't realise that we might still have a lot to lose because we are much smaller than we were. They're comparing new you to old you and seeing the difference. I think if you maintained your current weight for 6 months and then said I need to lose another 2 stone then they'd respond differently.

I had the "don't lose too much" convo at work today and I got a bit annoyed and told the person how much I currently weigh and she was genuinely shocked. She thought I maybe had a stone or 2 to lose, not 5. But that's because she can still picture 20st Zibby and compared to that the new 14st Zibb is small.

As for the ones that don't mean it is a weird compliment and do want you to stay fat, just feel sorry for them and how insecure they are.

Who else is cold?!! 🥶
im freezing.
Have been wondering what was wrong with my lips the last week or so. Tingly….

just worked it out ….. even my lips are cold!!!!!!

what is this?!! Anyone else?!

Me too. Just a warning in some of the other threads I've seen people hit with side effects around 6/7 months in. Not sure sure if it's the accumulative effect and/or from being on higher doses though. I'm keeping my fingers crossed in the meantime..

Morning all, I'm starting week 16 I think.

Sw 116.5kg
Cw 95.1kg
Loss this week 1.5kg
Total loss so far 21.4kg, 47lb, just over 3 stone or 5 large domestic cats.

86.6kg gets me a bmi of 30 and just overweight so that's my next target by August (might be a bit optimistic). I've set my ultimate goal weight at 70kg so I'm about half way there.

I must have poked a little blood vessel with last week's jab because I have a bruise about the size and shape of my index finger from it. First time I've had more than a tiny yellow bruise. I do rotate sides and spots on my thighs so it was bound to happen at some point.

I feel like I've really settled in to this new way of being, 7.5 is working well for me, the changes have now become routine, very few side effects and these were self inflicted. I have found I'm very sensitive to dairy/lactose, much more than I used to be, I'm not a big dairy person so it's not a big deal for me. I'm no longer having the 1-5 weekly tubs of ice cream even in the warm weather, I'm not even interested.

My adhd is actually helpful in some ways because if I put snacks in a cupboard/out of sight they very quickly no longer exist to my brain and without the food noise I'm not hunting for anything, I just move on to another activity and before I know it I'm heading to bed having eaten nothing after dinner at 6.

I'm now wearing hoodies in a mens medium (snugish), I was wearing a mens xl in Feb and that was sometimes a bit tight.

I've ordered 10mg as my next pen more out of curiosity more than anything else, I'll see how it goes knowing I can just take a lower dose if it doesn't go well.

Still loving reading everyone's updates and seeing it going so well.

Feeling cold is a very common symptom- I don't get it as much anymore, but did earlier on.

Just hopped on the scale for a cheeky extra weigh-in and I'm at my goal weight! I can't believe it.

Am now setting a slightly lower one as I have a brand new 7.5mg pen waiting for me in the fridge for next week, this is the lowest weight I've been for years so I suspect the losses will start to slow a bit so I'm not putting too much pressure on to meet the new GW. If I get all the way there then great and I have some wiggle room, if not then I'm still totally chuffed with this weight now. I'll then start a maintenance dose/tapering down after that pen is done.

SW 107.8kg
CW 88kg
New GW 85kg

I didn't check in last week as I was away, but it's been a bad few weeks. I STS for 2 weeks, but suddenly dropped a little weight today. So essentially my two week loss is less than 1kg, which is less than half of my weekly target. The first week I could write off to TOTM, but that wasn't an excuse for this past week. My hunger has increased and I was getting cravings again. This is in the context of I'm not rushing up the doses to have high suppression, I want to experience normal levels of hunger and lose weight at a steady pace, so I think I have low expectations/wants. But I don't want it to be a snails pave rate of loss though.

I have been on 3.75mg for the past 5 weeks, and today I increased the dose to 5mg for injection 15. I'm disappointed to have to increase the dose already, but the positive effects had worn off. Even things like my knee was hurting again, my energy levels dropped and my IBS symptoms/bloating came back. All of these disappeared on MJ until now. I'm hoping I can stay on 5mg for a good long while and not just 5 weeks. It's been so disheartening to have stopped losing weight, but a lady came up to me in body pump today, asked if I lost weight, said I looked amazing and so much stronger. I valued her comments so much as had been feeling rubbish that my weight loss seems to have ground to a halt for 2 weeks. I'm also now fitting in most of my size 14s and many of my size 16s just look ridiculously large on me. I was checking my legs out in class, and they are definitely looking leaner.

So the stats
SW 96.55
CW 81.3
2 week loss 0.9 (although that was literally overnight, it was the same for 2 weeks)
TL 15.25

Hopefully with the increased dose I won't get any side effects and I can get back on track with a steady 1kg a week loss

@PurpleCoo I really think you are being exceptionally hard on yourself there.

The facts are so impressive - 15kg is really quite an achievement, and your WL over past two weeks is at a really healthy rate. And you’re doing body pump!!

Would like to add there is absolutely no shame in going up to a higher dose.

From where I’m standing, you are doing GREAT!