March 2025 Starters thread 4

[TheSpoonyNavyReader]

New thread for all of us.

Thank you for allowing me to rant, share our ups and downs. Our group blows my mind of how we are so supportive of each other.

Oh bless you, that sounds so awful. I don't take any oestrogen supplements but loads of my friends say that vaginal oestrogen has been a game changer for them.

Just catching up, here for my weekly check in.
9th jab today, continuing on 5mg.
I’m not sure how, but I’ve managed to put on 0.8lbs. It’s probably water retention, but it’s a bit of a kick in the teeth. If anything I’ve under eaten, although I’m really trying to eat as much protein as possible.

It’s a journey though, and I’m in it for the long haul, so overall I can be happy that I’ve lost 17.8lbs since 27th Feb!

Well I wasn’t expecting to need them yet 🙈🤣 but hey add it to my list I guess 🤣🤣🤣

We should add pile cream to the list of things we need to buy on MJ 🤣🙈

I hope you’re feeling better now ❤️

It will come off, just up your water and protein, don’t undereat x

Honestly the stuff women have to go through…! And men complain about the odd finger up the bum!

@CallMeStella crikey that sounds like an ordeal! I was going to post about my turkey neck but you have given me some perspective!

Another remedy to add, cold sore cream! not had one for over 30 years and today one appeared!

Another one here for pile cream 😂😱🤢

Yep I have a pile too - first time in my life :(

Snap! Must be the MJ!

@Lolliz87Thank you, yes, I’ll do that. 👍🏽

And well done on your loss so far! It’s brilliant x

Wow… I get snowed under at work for one day and it seems all hell has broken loose!

furstly my condolences to all those who are currently holding the crappy end of the Side Effects Stick. I hope they pass quickly. In the meantime I can recommend pepto for the general digestive issues. Milk of magnesia for quelling the nausea and preventing vomiting. And peppermint is a digestive aid in any form, including literal mints I.e. polos, smints etc. but it’s most effective when consumed shortly BEFORE eating. Rathe than waiting until you are experiencing the issues.

next @CallMeStellayou ordeal sounds horrific I wish you an incredibly speedy recovery. You description of the pain made me mutter swears out loud.

piles?! Really? I don’t even actually know what piles are? Do we really think they’re MJ related? I mean it does look like there’s a reasonable correlation…

lastly why is is so bloody hard to eat enough protein?! I felt like I ate SOOOO much today. I was extremely full alll the time. I track all my food (accurately and in detail by weight of every ingredient I use) and my macros at the end of the day tell me I didn’t make it to 100g of protein yet again. I’m actively prioritising protein, adding it into dishes and eating protein-y snacks. But ffs. (Also my total calories today were just over 1300, which is still blowing my mind even though I’ve almost finished week 8 because I have literally never in my life eaten as little as that in a day and not felt utterly ravenous let alone felt full!)

I’m going to increase my dose a bit starting on Saturday. I’m moving up to a 5mg pen. I’m currently taken a 2.5dose split into 2x1.25 (30 click) jabs. I’m going to stick with the split injections as it’s worked for me with maintaining a more consistent level in my blood and got rid of the awful side effects I had. But I’m going to move to 20clicks each jab with the5mg pen. Which will be 1.67 in each jab so a weekly dose of 3.32mg.

oh and happy Friday everyone. Congrats on making it through.

@soupforbrains hpw do you do the split dose? I’m getting bad site reactions splitting may help or I will just get 2 site reactions 😂

Morning all,

I’ve been away since Monday on a caravan park holiday with my youngest daughter which had resulted in two things:
1- I’m waaaay behind on the new thread, page 9 and I’m only just checking in! Will have a good read through this morning.
2- I’ve had my first “maintenance” week where I haven’t really lost (I’m 0.4lbs down from last today).

So I took my last dose of 2.5mg last Friday, but had already made the decision to move up to 5mg this week and I’m so pleased I have because my suppression is clearly waning and food noise returning. So I went on holiday on Monday (I say holiday, but like I said it was a caravan park with my 4 year old so not like it was a special occasion or European capital city with stunning food etc, I know we can all relax our diets on holiday but I didn’t really want/need to for this one!). On Monday and Tuesday I stuck to my calorie deficit- made packed lunch to take out, ate my own evening meal in the caravan before heading out the to entertainment and ordering my daughter food, no ice creams for me etc. But Weds and Thurs I fell off the wagon. I had lots of snacks throughout both days- Pringles, Easter egg, Doritos, chocolate bar. We went to the onsite pub restaurant and I had nachos. One night in the entertainment I had a slushie cocktail (just one!). I enjoyed what I had over the two days and although I do feel worse than when not overeating (ie more bloated) I don’t feel totally rough (which is another reason I think the 2.5mg isn’t as strong for me anymore). I wouldn’t call it an uncontrolled binge. I wasn’t weighing myself through the week as didn’t have my scales with me so I didn’t see the fluctuations and “what might have been”. Around weds morning I may have been lower and then come back up but luckily I haven’t seen that (I struggle with it looking like I’ve “gained”).

So the stats this week are:

Starting weight 13 stone 6.5lbs

Current weight 11 stone 9.2lbs

Loss this week 0.4lbs

Total loss 1 stone 11.3lbs (or 25.3lbs)

I’m still very happy with where I am in my journey. Today I will be having a good day of eating within my calories and going for a long walk then taking my first 5mg jab this evening to continue on.

Also just to add- when I first started munching my way through snacks on Wednesday I was still attempting to log everything on My Fitness Pal, and it’s amazing how quickly the calories add up with that kind of food! Before I knew it I was at over 1000 calories of just crisps and chocolate in one sitting, whereas when suppression is high and we’re making the right choices many of us struggle to eat that many calories of healthy food over the full day. I absolutely dread to think how many calories I was eating a day before when I was in a self destructive binge cycle and really it’s no wonder I was 4 stone overweight in the obese bmi range. I really hope that this whole journey does help my heal my relationship with food long term.

First of all congrats to the loss that’s huge for 3-4 weeks!!! So if you loose 0.5 this week don’t see it as negative but perhaps more your body adjusting

most of us lost minimal last week on 2.5 as as you said dose started wearing off

also it’s ok to eat crappy food occasionally as that’s what’s gonna happen even after MJ as we surrounded by it, but I think it more important learning tools from MJ by portion sizes and adjusting back onto healthy balance etc

Weigh in day! W6D1
Start weight 16 stone 11
CW 14 Stone 4 pounds
Loss 1 stone 7 pounds
GW not sure, initially 13 stone so in overweight category.

Very happy. 1.5 stone loss. I'm taking my 2nd 5mg injection today.

Have a good day all. Will check in later

Milestone today … 8.3kg down which is 10% of my starting weight.

So sorry that everyone is in side effects hell. Hopefully the weekend is gentle on you alll :)

Week 6 Day 1. About to take 1st 5mg dose

SW 98.8kg
CW 93.2kg
GW 65 kg

I met my friend for dinner last night. She was my weight loss inspiration - she'd tipped into an obese weight in her children's primary school years and then in 2023spent a year eating keto,, getting fit and running long distances (she started with couch to 5k). She looked amazing at the end of it: not just slim and healthy but years younger. She dressed better and had fantastic confidence too. But now she has put nearly all of it back on. I'm not sure why. She has started to bundle up in big clothes again. She looks slightly ashamed as well and far less confident. It reminded me of how much of the struggle is ahead of us, how our change
need to be sustainable and how difficult a journey this is going to be in the future. (I don't know this happened as we didn't talk about food or weight).

Thank you!
Sorry I should clarify, this is my week 8 weigh in- I have done two pens of 2.5mg starting on 28th Feb for my first jab so 25lbs loss in 8weeks/near enough 2 months. I’m really pleased with it!
Yes, it’s definitely ok to eat some crappy snacks sometimes, I have a very “all-or-nothing” mentality when it comes to dieting which has scuppered me in the past- like “well I’ve fallen off the wagon now so I might as well scoff everything else in sight” rather than “well I’ve gone over my calories with crisps but I enjoyed what I had and will stop there”. Which is something I really want to try and combat with my MJ journey.

Still great weight loss well done!

im very similar to you all or nothing, and is a true savoury snacker !

yesterday I had I’m still fat feeling for first time since starting MJ as I had to submit pictures as switching provider and had to do take pictures with naked belly and the profile picture was hideous . Instead of giving me motivation resulted in me having salted Nuts and a couple of glasses of wine the ultimate water retention result over night 😩

I’m still not learning and habits has not changed and have to realise this is gonna take time and me getting to my goal in 6 months is now more likely looking 9-12 months as I need to rewire my brain so that I don’t gain it all back after finishing MJ

Good morning

I hope that you are all doing ok and we are managing seeing the scales going down and that we are getting some NSV, I can’t wait to the summer to be sitting by the pool and be comfortable in our bikinis.

@soupforbrains that sounds horrible I hope you feel ok today. I can’t believe that they said you were older at 41 I think I would have given them a piece of my mind.

@TryingMJ a loss is a loss and being away that is an achievement.

Today is my weigh in day and I have managed to lose some weight.

I am starting the 7.5 as I have done some mindless grazing as I call it, open a cupboard eat a few Pringles, eating olives when I was not hungry I really need to work on that and understand why I do it. This week I have lost 4lbs so in 2 weeks I have lost 5lbs.

Week 8
Height 5 foot 4
SW 13st 4lbs
CW 11st 2lbs
TW 9st 7lbs
Total weight loss this week 4lbs
Total weight lost 30lbs or 2st 2lbs or 14kg.

I have lost the medium size microwave which blows my mind.

Fingers crossed that 7.5 is kind to me.

It’s so hard to get out of the mindset of using food as comfort or reward isn’t it? 😕 I’m finding it very difficult!