Mounjaro DECEMBER Starters Thread 3

[Slimwannabe]

Just starting up a new thread!

Today all of a sudden is my HEALTHY BMI DAY!!!

I’ve been losing in fits and starts for the last month or two, rather than my previously quite steady rate.

Then bang this morning another pound off and BMI 25!

So now I’m 74.05kg, which I don’t think I’ve been since I was 17 or 18. 29.5kg off. Can’t believe it.

@ShrankLastWinter that's great!

Just a question for you all. I’m hoping not TMI!

Over the last 3 months, if I have eaten a meal that’s not agreed end with me, within 20 minutes I get terrible stomach churning cramps and diarrhoea, it’s horrendous. I feel hot, like im going to pass out, and it will continue for an hour until there nothing left in me.
So the first time, it was a steak and salad and a few chips, I thought it was the salad. The next time it was kfc 6 nuggets, some popcorn chicken and chips. That was a particularly bad one as I was working overtime and thought I was going to die in the work bathroom 🥺 And then Friday just gone, chicken kebab from the local with a few hot chips, I only ate maybe 1/3 of the kebab too.

So what im realising is my body does not tolerate fatty food. But I know my appetite is a lot smaller and I do eat a lot less and easily skip meals so if I am planning a dinner out I do tend to hardly eat during the day. I am on 5mg and have lost 20 kilos / 44 pounds since starting, current weight 75.kilos / 165 pd and im classed as overweight so need to keep going.

I’ve read up on the reasons, one site referred it to “gastric dumping” basically the body throws water at the intestines to expel the food, does this seem plausible?
Im so worried, I have a girls weekend next week with dinner out, then brunch, then a late lunch, no way can I get sick and draw attention to myself, I’ll choose sensible food but there will be lots of food and snacks flowing all weekend so I will need to be careful.

Has anyone experienced similar?

Yes, that would happen to me if I ate those things. Possibly not the steak and salad, if lean steak and no sauce, and if I didn’t eat the chips.

Yes, it’s happened to me after eating a McDonald’s! I think my stomach now can’t cope with the greasy food.

Wow - you've been waiting a whole month and nothing? Can you initiate a charge back? That's awful!

3lb off this week, so that's 3st 12lb total so far, and around 20% of my total body weight. Another two lbs off and I will have hit my original "goal" - the one I didn't think was possible given my history with dieting.

Am halfway through my third 7.5mg pen and feeling a good balance between suppression and genuine hunger so hoping to stay on this dose a few more months.

See what they say in my second consultation. It is ridiculous though!

Week 32
SW 15 stone
CW 11 stone 12
TW 9 stone
total loss 44lbs

another week, another pound! Feeling better on the 12.5 now but no plans to go up to 15 at this stage. Feeling quite relaxed despite the slow losses because I’m living pretty normally and don’t feel like I’m dieting or restricting- I’m conscious of what I eat but I’m going out for dinner, having the odd treat, enjoying the sunshine. Plus I’ve barely done any exercise in the heat.

@frogpigdonkey that's the way forward I think. This process needs to be sustainable and compatible with living life. I've also been doing less exercise recently due to the heat.

Out of interest - was this Oushk or a different one? I understand if you don't want to name them, though! I just only keep hearing about calls with Oushk and none of the others.

Sorry to hear about the side effects and pissing about from providers on here. I struggled with the move up to 12.5 and vomited a few times but not much else. Haven’t had any issues with providers except one late delivery- have stayed with medexpress because I had enough referrals to keep the price down and at the higher levels price variations seemed less. And it’s easier!

The losses are amazing and I’m grateful to hear about everyone else’s journey. I realised today when looking at BMI that I’d lost almost exactly 20 kilos, the same as my holiday suitcase, and many of you are the same or more! Imagine how much good we have done for ourselves, not lugging that around with us all the time. Even when we still have a way to go it’s still huge progress we have made. On we all go!

W33D07
Loss this week: -2.6 lb
However, I have discovered I'm actually half an inch taller.

SW: 263.4 lb (so starting BMI was actually 42, not 43 but still mega obese!)
CW: 181.8 lb (now just into overweight and also into the 12 stones only by a tiny 0.2 lb!! No longer obese - woohoo BMI29)
TL: 81.6 lb
TW: 11st (so my target weight will be the very top end of the healthy BMI24.9) - 27.8 lb to target
Current dose: 10mg

Hi everyone

Ive been away for a week so no scales. Went down from 10mg to 7.5mg as my new 10 pen order was not going arrive in time to pack. Luckily I had a spare 7.5mg so I packed that.

On Sunday night around 9pm I ate salad, tempura courgette and prawn pasta. I ate a tiny amount of salad, a few pieces of courgette and about a 3rd of the pasta. It was delicious!

Then... i woke up at 3am feeling thirsty chugged a glass of water and promptly threw up! It was so so ill...

Yesterday I could eat nothing, drank sis tabs in water and peppermint tea. Half a banana last night.

Its the first time I have been sick on mj!

Feel ok today. So weird. I was due to jab yesterday but plan to do it tonight if Im still feeling better.

@TrinityWaves yay for leaving the obesity zone! 🥳

@Goinghome25 hope it was just a one-off and doesn't happen again.

After a mini plateau which turned out to be hormonal / pre-menstrual, the scales are now moving again.

SW: 105 kg
CW: 72.5kg (BMI 26.6)
GW: whatever weight gives me a waist measurement of 36"

NSV: Discovered this morning that I can now do a full plank without collapsing.

Had my 6 month online thing. Was mostly just a box ticking exercise. Prove my weight, height and id. She did ask when my pen would run out and said she'd mark my prescription renewal as urgent

@OrangeDonald That’s good news. I have my second consultation tomorrow. Wish me luck 🙄. The company is Curate btw.

Im with curate too @Lindy0070 .

My fingers are crossed that your second consultation is super efficient and they gets your new pen out to you asap

@OrangeDonald Just had my second consultation. All approved 🙌🏻🙌🏻. Just need it by Saturday as I’m all out!! I was approved last time but they tried ringing me for whatever reason and the only way I could get hold of them again was to book another consultation. She said I wouldn’t need to go through all that again.

When I woke up this morning, I noticed that my knickers are suddenly baggy, not around the waist as I might have hoped, but around my buttocks. This is despite the cycling and glute workouts. It seems churlish to complain, but why can't some of the fat from my abdomen disappear overnight instead?

@JunoRomaive had this too. When I’ve dieted before I have lost belly fat first, this time I feel like my arse has disappeared and my tummy is still fat! I walk a lot but don’t do specific butt workouts but might have to start!

I've got the baggy knickers going on 😆

Still slow and steady over here. :)
no idea what week I'm on. Moved up to 5mg this week. Saw 11st 5.5lb earlier in the week. Creeping towards 3.5stone loss.

Definitely getting lots of compliments now on my size, and clothes are just getting baggy.

NSV, grabbed some jeans I love in size 14 from Vinted (normally a 16, got lots of 18s) and they fit. Still wish the weight around my stomach would bog off as I'd look even better, but actually in a size 14!