SW 16st 5lb
CW 13st 5lb
1st target 12st 5lb
3 Stone loss so far
Hello Everyone, I have so far been a silent participant with you all....... Until now.
Firstly I want to say huge thank you for all your posts, advice and support. I am not someone who does social media at all, so it has taken me this long to get up the gumption to send you a message.
Like so many of you I have been overweight all my life, or rather, I have been told I am overweight, all my life. I look back at photos of myself aged 9/10 and have no idea why I was put on my first diet at that age. Thus started a lifetime of dieting and relapsing. I never ever talk or discuss my weight issues with anyone, no one has ever known my weight apart from the occasional doctor. I have been shamed for so long, I just cannot bear to invite even more.
I have lost 3-4 stone on 3 occasions and then life stresses and traumas mean that my health takes a back seat and it all goes back on again.
No one knows I am taking WLI's, not even my darling supporting Husband. I just don't want any attention in that area.
So it is quite a big step to write all this, even sharing it anonymously with all of you, who have proven yourselves again and again to be so kind and supportive.
(Thank you so much to our MJ Fairy Godmother who started this thread, opens up new threads and posts such encouraging messages.)
My MJ journey started when I made a (rather expensive) appointment to see the weight loss consultant at our local private hospital. As an A&E nurse I had already seen some very sick people who had taken the jabs without proper medical care. The consultant was incredibly helpful and supportive. I now telephone him once a month to discuss the next pen, whether to stay the same or move up a dose.
I have now lost 3 stone and feel like a new woman! I am liberated from the constant call of food, yet I still enjoy cooking and feeding my family, I just eat much smaller amounts.
I am not counting calories, just eating a mainly protein and fibre based diet (with an occasional glass of wine or 2 at the weekend).
Thank you to whoever recommended the Psyllium husk capsules, and all the encouragement to drink lots and lots of water. Despite a tendency to getting bunged up, I seem to have stayed a happy pooper.
I am doing proper exercise (again, thank you for all the suggestions and encouragement), I do simple weight exercises every morning, swim twice a week and try and fit in 2 long walks a week. Who would have thought it! ME, with weights!!
I do find that the effectiveness and side effects of MJ varies from day to day/week to week. When on 7.5mg I was finding that day 6 and 7 saw its effect lessening, and then my next jab took a full 24 hours to kick in. I was concerned about moving up to 10mg as going from 5 to 7.5 saw a significant increase in side effects, which had since settled down a little. However 10mg has been much more effective over the whole week, and there was no increase in side effects.
Although I do get nauseous and some indigestion for the first few days each week, it is intermittent and I can put up with it.
NSV's: I have just had 4 days in France: On the airplane I didn't spill into my neighbours seat and I could do up the seatbelt without stretching it to its limit.
By the pool I wore a size smaller swimming costume and felt more confident and less ashamed that I should not be there exposing my flesh! I loved the sunshine and heat, no longer sweating buckets.
I am now sitting in my garden in a summer dress I haven't worn for many years. I have gone down a bra size from 38 to 36, (but strangely needed to go from a 38DD to a 36E, despite smaller boobs!).
Sorry it's been such a long post, I think I have been saving this all up since November!
Thank you for being a wonderful corner of Cyberspace where the support and suggestions have kept me and will keep me going.