Mounjaro - 10 Stone or more to lose (Thread 3)

[TheFunkyDuckling]

Thought I'd kick start a new thread for this oh so supportive little group, as the last thread was reaching it's limit.

Do you guys just weigh once a week? I am desperate to weigh after starting my first pen on Thursday, but worried that if I've not lost anything after these couple of days I'll dishearten myself argh

I weigh every day but only record once a week. Daily weighing makes me realise how much I fluctuate!

Good idea

Yes, I had to self inject blood thinners after surgery and be on total bed rest for 3 months. My belly was bruised all over! The needles for MJ are nothing compared to those ones 💉

Yes, lesson learned. What a lovely welcome I was offered.

Everyone over here is lovely though

@Kay2000 I use either a luer lock or luer slip syringe from UK Medi, the 1ml one is the one you need, and the separate needles. Mainly because I am a wimp and couldn't face a 8mm fixed needle syringe when I saw it which seems to be the shortest available.

It doesn't really matter if you get the lock or slip type - they both work with the same needles they sell, the luer slip with reduced dead space will mean less medication is lost but the luer lock is a bit easier to change needles if you want to between extracting and injecting (not necessary but I prefer to) or if a needle bends/you get a faulty needle.

I buy the 6mm 31G needles as they are the same as the needles I use on my pen, but they also do 4mm needles if you prefer them. The gauge (31G, 32G) is the thickness of the needle, the higher the gauge the finer the needle. Finer is more comfortable, but also more prone to bending. If buying look at the tab on your pen needles and buy the same as you use now.

@Potato1234 I used the hard twist (with the help of pliers) successfully for my first 4-5 pens it was really easy to do, but the next 3 didn't work - either the dose knob went loose, or the plunger wouldn't push down (and unfortunately I didn't find out until the needle was in me!) and I had to use syringes anyway so I just stick with syringes now - they are worth having on standby anyway incase you end up with a faulty pen or the hard twist doesn't work.

Hi!

There's so much disinformation about the medication which is left in the pen. Personally, I'm not prepared to throw away over £50 worth of Mounjaro but heigh-ho. I'm also only willing to use the extra MJ if I withdraw it using a needle and syringe. I'm not guessing the quantity.

However:

a) The people who throw it away are annoyed with the people who use it.

b) The people who perform a hard twist to get the last dose out are annoyed with the people who use a syringe.

c) And on MN generally, quite a lot of people just argue for the sake of it.

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I also weigh daily in my scales app (picture) and log weekly in MFP.

Don't be disheartened with any increases, most peoples weight fluctuates daily, it is the long term trend that is the important one and it sometimes needs a bit of patience to see that long term trend clearly over a few weeks.

Daily fluctuations when in calorie deficit can be for a few reasons - hormonal/time of month, eating a carb heavy/salty meal the day before and retaining water, bad sleep, haven't been for a 💩 etc

I have my nephew's 5th birthday party to attend this afternoon. It's just a family affair but no one there knows about MJ. Normally I'd drink Pepsi Max, have a bit of everything on offer food-wise and finish it off with a dessert.

I'm not sure what I'm going to say about why I don't want Pepsi. I'm avoiding fizzy drinks because I've heard they have caused people problems, so I'll just be drinking from my water bottle (the only other option to fizzy drinks will be alcohol which I don't drink anyway). In the context of how I normally am, it's going to stick out like a sore thumb.

I don't know if we're having a BBQ, homemade pizza or buffet. I'm tracking calories so won't be able to do that this afternoon. It will be easy to say no to dessert with the excuse that I'm full.

I'm anxious about eating the wrong thing, or too much, and paying the price with SEs. This is only my 2nd week and I am also anxious about not losing lbs if I don't handle this situation successfully. In time I hope MJ will have given me time to educate myself well enough that this type of thing won't phase me, but it's all new and I'm not there yet.

Any tips? How would you handle this? What do you say if people ask questions about why you're not eating or drinking like normal?

Actually, after nearly a year of using MJ, I can confidently say that there is 0.8ml left in the pen after the first four doses are taken.

So in a 15mg pen, that's one full dose of 15mg (0.6ml) plus one dose of 5mg (0.2ml).

I just inject the extra 0.2ml (5mg) on about day 5, then I adjust the day I give the next 15mg.

@AlicesMum2025 I've never had any problems with fizzy drinks, so if you like them, have some.

As far as food is concerned, just eat what you like, but much smaller portions.

I'm 16 months in now. I eat everything, just less of it, and that includes bread and cakes etc.

I've still lost over 7st.

@AlicesMum2025 I told my family at Christmas I was avoiding anything fizzy as it caused acid reflux and I was trying to avoid it, I had some apple juice in the restaurant and whatever they had that wasn't fizzy (water!) when we went back to their house. No-one noticed or said anything other than sympathising with my acid reflux!

If it is a buffet/BBQ style people pay less interest in what you are eating than you think - move around and talk to different people, they probably won't notice. Have a single crisp now and again and say "I need to stop picking at these!" they will think you are eating as normal.

@AlicesMum2025 tinzaparin is brutal! I did them for 6 weeks post c section and made my husband do them for me, sometimes they really stung and bruised me bad! MJ ones are a walk in the park, just the same as insulin pens!

Loving all the positivity here :) @Onenotsosmallstep I found exactly the same ! And it was early enough on it wasn't due to the weight loss. Chat Gtp suggested it could be a mix of reduced inflammation and increased blood flow but this has been a truly lifechanging result for me. I have had several years of not standing up for long, not being able to walk more than 8 minutes before lower leg/hip/lower back would ache and getting into a doom spiral about not being able to walk as I need to lose weight and not being able to lose weight . Becoming mobile again is truly incredible. My new thing (4 months in) is to go on a 30min walk each day and there's no way I could have done anything lie that before. I can pop into shops with the girls when I couldn't before.

I throw away my extra but purely as I'm only paying 99 a month and get the pens - I will be all ears for the end of my year and keen to do it when I get there! As long as by then the prescribing rules isn't so tight they notice you've "missed" a week.

My check in - I jabbed Friday but am going up a dose (well part of one) and have had quite bad fatigue since. Catching up now! I'm officially 3 stone down - yay!!

I know you guys will get this but even with 3 stone down I've been feeling very aware of how long a road this will be though, another stone just to get out of "morbid" and even then ANOTHER 4 stone and a bit to stop being obese. I know the main thing is I'm doing it - but no way could I have done this and sustained this without MJ - there's just SO MUCH OF ME.

The daily walking is still happening though - my average step count was 2500 in January, its improved over the last 2 months with sporadic walking so if I can keep this up I will be moving out of sedentary!

Random tmi sex question.... (too scared to ask this on a non mj/ large person board hope it's okay). We haven't er been very active for a good while now and we're loving that its all returned the last month (not sure if its mj/elvanse or just more energy!!). I'm v aware of my size but it's okay at the moment and I think knowing I will get smaller is helping my brain. BUT I've been thinking about when I've lost a lot of weight. Obviously my body won't go back to what it was pre all my weight gain. And lots of loose skin. Won't that just get in the way... and be really er not fun. And like sleeping with someone in a skin bag? I was okay with the concept of lose skin before as it would be mostly hidden (and completely belive its better to have loose skin than be morbidly obese) and I am committed as getting as close to a healthy bmi as possible. Just this is a new worry I've got...

Oh you’ll be fine then!

Happy Sunday everyone….

I just weighed in a day early as away with work tomorrow and lost 1lb, so total now stands at 57lb after 24 weeks… yay

I have eaten a few things this week I don’t normally have so am happy with the loss, out for a meal last night too so all good,

I just finished my 5th 5mg pen and am staying on it as it suits me great.

I am still 24st and I realise that’s a lot to most people, but for me it’s the least I have weighed in around 30+ years…. I go swimming twice a week and feel better than I have in years, I have dropped a dress size, so bought on vinted as wont be in them long.

I always do the 5th dose, and use a syringe 8mm honestly it’s still very small and I find it easy to do and it’s totally painless.

Have a great week everyone x

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden
Regarding sex. I think the amount of loose skin you'll end up with depends to an extent on your age.

If your husband fancied you before, he should still fancy you. I believe that your response to him is the most important thing. If he feels that you desire him, he'll be happy to respond to you, no matter what you look live.

You were confident enough to have sex when you were very overweight. Keep that confidence.

Is anyone else with Pharmacy2u for their pens. Just wondering if anyone had a discount code.

Serious question, not judgement...why would you not want to think about what you're eating if you're unhappy with your weight? Why would you not want to get healthy?...just really genuinely intrigues me why people would want to go down this route and risk not only future health problems from injecting themselves with God knows what and also be unhealthy for continuing to live on junk food? I can't fathom it.

I don’t think that’s what @peppercornrent was saying. It’s more that you don’t have constant food noise and having to worry and measure every single thing you eat - you naturally eat healthier and smaller portions. For most people on MJ, they don’t crave junk food so don’t eat it. I don’t think they said anywhere that they’re continuing to live on junk food

@Millie90

Lets start with -

risk not only future health problems from injecting themselves with God knows what

Please go and educate yourself. People are injecting themselves with a prescribed medical treatment for obesity not "god knows what". The health benefits of the treatment far out weight the risks. You say "no judgement" but your tone stinks.

The rest of your post clearly does not understand what @peppercornrent was trying to say. This is a support thread for people going through the same thing we understand her clearly. If you want education on weightloss injections there is lots of information on the internet, or start your own thread to respectfully ask.

@Millie90 this is a support thread for people in the same sort of position who are using Mounjaro to lose weight. I think you really don't understand what the poster means by not thinking about food. We don't all live off junk food 🙄

"injecting themselves with God knows what" - honestly this is massively ignorant. I know exactly what I'm injecting myself with, if you don't know what's in Mounjaro then educate yourself - the information is easily available online. As for long term health problems, we are all avoiding the real measurable long term health problems of being obese and morbidly obese by losing weight. That is much more important than worrying about the possibility of unknown as yet undiscovered health issues of using a properly developed and tested prescription medication.

Serious question, not judgement...why would you not want to think about what you're eating if you're unhappy with your weight?

I never eat junk food. I cook everything from scratch with fresh ingredients.
I always have.
Not judgement? Your post drips with judgement. You're on the wrong thread @Millie90 This is a support thread, not a thread for interrogating we who are morbidly obese.

Why would you not want to get healthy?

We do. That's why we're on Mounjaro, which has been extensively tested and shown to work extremely well.

I'm on the way to getting healthy. I've lost 7 stone. But that's none of your business. At I say, this is a support thread. So kindly take your judgement elsewhere. Thank you.

Your no judgement incredibly judgmental comments are so wrong. Morbidly obese people are not automatically blessed with the stupid gene, and would not inject themselves with God knows what. We are actually using a clinically approved, prescribed medication, to help improve our health, when everything else has failed. Much the same way a smoker uses nicotine replacement therapy. We are not risking future health issues, many of us are already living with them because of our weight, and using the medication to reduce the long term aaffects of such.

Respectfully, perhaps this is not the right thread for your opinions

Has anyone had people tell them they've lost enough now and should stop?

I am quite tall but I am still obviously obese I don't carry my weight that well. I'm in size 20 bottoms and 18 tops. This week I've had 5 different people tell me I look fabulous and should stop now! Fair enough if I was a size 12/14 with a BMI of 27/28 but my BMI is still around 35. These aren't particularly close friends so they wouldn't in any way 'benefit' from me being fat.