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

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

Size is how I know I must be a bit smaller. My original jeans were a size 26, current jeans are a size 20 and have a little bit of room. I have 2 pairs of size 16 which go on and fasten but are too tight.

I am glad wide legs are popular as that helps with getting them over my thighs and they have always been my favourite type of jeans!

Could anyone who is now on 15mg/maintenance describe your experience? I’m on 5mg currently but already planning on moving up doses each month. I’ve heard lots of positive experiences but my main worry is it losing its effect. So far I have found with both pens, I have amazing suppression and no food noise days 1-3, then by day 4 it’s like a switch and the food noise and cravings are back and no suppression at all. Yes I feel fuller quicker but portion control has never been my issue, I never really eat a lot in one go. It’s the food noise and suppression that are important for me as I’m a huge snacker so even if I feel full from a healthy meal, I will eat a mountain of crap afterwards because the food noise is still apparent. I wonder if anyone else feels this way? I’ve been using willpower for 4 out of 7 days each week but those days have been hard and I’ve constantly thought about food. This willpower will not last, and I’m worried once I get to the highest dose then it will become less effective for me. I know this isn’t really the case but I feel a bit robbed that I’m paying for this and only feel like it works 3 days out of 7. I would love to hear peoples thoughts and experiences!

I am diabetic and was moved up through the doses at 4 weekly intervals. I am now on 10mg and seem to be staying there.

Last blood test my blood sugar was in the normal range.

Side effects are pretty much non-existent.

@Lds1 yep it’s just clothes where I see a difference - I think our minds get fixed on seeing us as we were - I’m sure I will get down to 11 stone and be saying - mm I can’t see much difference but the size 14s will be the giveaway !!! You really have done amazingly well-

@Potato1234 if you are feeling a lack of suppression than you quite possibly simply aren't at the correct dose for you. At 5mg you are barely into the therapeutic doses.

I don't think it ever stops working but you still need to do the work.

When you are tempted by that 'mountain of crap' what are you thinking about? Are you hungry or is it something else?

@GnomeDePlume It’s all day every day except the first 3 days after the injection. It’s not when I’m hungry usually as I’ll just eat a proper meal if I’m hungry but it’s anytime outside of this. Hopefully I’ll find the right dose for me

Hello all, I'm new here. I've made the decision to start MJ after lots of deliberation and research. CW 21st6lb, bmi 50. Something has to change, for my future health and wellbeing, and I know that, realistically, I can't do it through diet and exercise only. (I'm too big to do any real form of meaningful exercise anyway now.... really hoping that will change).

Trouble is, I'm tying myself in knots deciding on a supplier. I don't feel I need lots of support, but it would be nice to have a supplier I could ask for advice from (especially early on) if needed. A few I've looked at seem to prescribe 2.5 for 4 weeks then 5.0 for another 4 weeks, but what if I feel I need to increase the dose quicker? I've looked at the monj.co.uk price comparison site and would rather go with one of the cheaper options but not necessarily the very cheapest. Ethically I think I'd prefer a company who don't push referrals. What suppliers are people using and how are you finding them?

Suppliers won’t let you increase unless you’ve been on a dose for 4 weeks. I got my 2.5 from Asda as I wanted to pick it up. They have a message system where you can ask questions but take a couple of days to reply - I assume you can just ask in person too. I got the 5 from MedExpress because I got a good discount. I’ve just ordered 7.5 from Cloud Pharmacy. All three have been approved within hours and had no problems with any of them. They all seem on par with each other so far

Welcome @Quitepossibly! No-one will prescribe in a way that moves you up quicker than a dose level every 4 weeks. 2.5 is designed to get your body used to the medication - going higher faster is the quickest route to horrific side effects.
I went with medexpress because of the discount codes and haven't switched yet. I'm planning to for the next pen though now I'm on 7.5 as the savings are bigger than when I was on 5. I wasn't fussed about the support any of them claim to offer - for me the real life user help on these threads has been the level of support I needed.

@Potato1234 I’m currently on 15mg, i get a lot of suppression from day 2 through to day 6 but not so much that I am unable to eat. I eat two healthy meals a day, usually breakfast and dinner and don’t want or crave anything in between. Days 1 and 7 I do find myself thinking about food but can easily say no, or grab an apple or banana, it’s easy for me to make healthy choices but then that’s all that’s available in the house. This kicked in for me from 10mg onwards. I’m not at all worried about my body becoming used to 15mg, we are all different and react differently but for me the higher doses have been wonderful

@Lds1 and @Crikeyalmighty, it’s weird, I know externally I am smaller, my clothes size has dropped from a 26/28 to a 20, some brands an 18 but mentally I still feel the same size, yet I move easier, can reach places I couldn’t before, can see in the mirror I’m smaller but can’t for some reason accept it, no idea why. That is an amazing loss @Lds1
I found myself thinking the other day back to my teenage years, I can remember going to a slimming club and losing weight, I think I dropped to about 12.5 stone (I lived on boil in the bag cod in parsley sauce and green beans, the 12.5 stone didn’t last for long!) yet I thought I was disgusting and hated myself, I’m a bit worried that I’m going to still feel that disgust and never be happy with how I look… but then I’m currently so happy that I can fit into high street clothes, I constantly flit between these feelings.

@Quitepossibly each pen contains four doses, therefore lasts for four weeks, even if you could move up quicker you’d be throwing money away ☺️ Try not to overthink the supplier, I’ve moved suppliers a few times on my journey without issue and as @PinkArt has said, the support from these boards is invaluable. I started with med express, then moved to iq doctor and my current supplier is pharmacy2U, haven’t had any issues with any of them. It’s definitely the best decision I’ve ever made.

I'm finding now at 10mg that I'm not getting any food noise until day 6 or 7 and even then it is quiet noise.

One of the things I am noticing is that I am no longer craving carbs. Carbs were my downfall: bread, rice, pasta. I could eat huge quantities. And of course carbs never come on their own, they mean eating butter, jam, sauces etc.

Now this may be because I am diabetic. Mounjaro is meaning that my diabetes is managed.

The 5mg you are on may simply not be enough. You are getting good suppression for the first days so mounjaro does work for you it is just a case of getting the right dose for you.

Once you can get to 6 days of suppression then finding the willpower for that last day will be a lot easier. Some of that may be down to breaking the snacking habit.

This could be finding something else to do with your hands so that you dont want to reach for a snack. The old stopping smoking trick of taking up knitting/crochet.

Weighing day for me (the 8th weigh in, and later I'll be taking my 9th jab). I realised as I came down the stairs that the first thing I wanted to do was post here about it - it's like having pals who are excited for you/pick you up when you're down! No picking up needed today, though, as I am 4lbs down in the week. My eating has remained the same, but for various reasons I have done twice as much walking as usual, so that must have contributed. So very happy to have taken this decision, it has changed my life way beyond weight loss - I feel so free from a lot of the mental weight as well as physical. I'm still on 2.5mg, and will stick with that for now as it is working perfectly for me at the moment. Off to London on Monday, and I'd usually pig out on the train (Burger King and Upper Crust at the station, sugary Costa, M&S snacks...all while being embarrassed at taking up most of two seats with my giant arse!), but this time I'm planning on taking a sandwich I've made at home. And not drinking too much at the even I'm attending! I drink so much less than I used to.

SW: 307lbs
CW: 277 lbs
TW: ???

Just realised I am officially IN THE TEENS!!! I know being 19 stone something would be horrifying for most people, but for me it feels like a small victory!

Well done @eibbed999 you are definitely in the teens and deserve to celebrate that!

My sneaky weigh this morning before official day tomorrow is looking hopeful!

All my holiday gain went as soon as I was back. It’s funny what you say about drinking less, I had come to a point where I wasn’t drinking much anyway but now it’s gone down even further. I don’t even save calories/syns for booze as I did with SW. I’m just not that bothered by it these days. I like a cold alcohol free beer. Or a cocktail. But I’m not downing the wine like I used to. It makes life so much easier.

I've found the booze thing really interesting, @TragicMuse. I read with interest about your holiday/wine experiences. I don't want to give the impression I was an alcoholic, but I worked for years in a heavy-drinking culture career, and most of my social life was wrapped up with the pub. Both my parents actually were alcoholics (that addiction gene has got to be real!), and I've always been able to drink vast quantities without being properly drunk - I was one of those 'she can drink you under the table' people. It became part of my identity, I suppose. I LOVE a pint! But I'd decided even before MJ that I needed to stop drinking as much, for health, cost, weight and self-respect reasons. So I swapped out beer for wine/G&T/vodka and soda, and since I started MJ, I've found I just don't fancy much of that at all. As I've said before, it's been like an injection of moderation. I'm sure I'll have splurges at some point, but at the moment I'm not that interested. My friends are all a bit freaked out, and I know some of them are a bit disapproving - maybe I'm not as much fun!

Well done on getting into the teens @eibbed999! 💪
I could've written that about myself and alcohol and actually your sentence 'I LOVE a pint' made me have a real rush of 'oh god I love a pint!'. But I'd also cut down pre-MJ, partly because hangovers are now terrible and I just feel a bit done with it.
Drinking is a central part of how my oldest group of friends socialise and I was probably the biggest drinker out of us so it's been really difficult and strange to be trying to avoid drinking too much and fielding questions about why. I do fancy a cold drink on a hot day and sometimes really miss wanting a glass of wine after a hard day, I love the rituals around drinking and haven't quite worked out how to replicate those yet. I'm drinking a lot of peppermint tea instead!

I've not had a drink since Christmas I have a case of exotic reds I bought and a bottle of whiskey untouched. I gave my hairdresser all my mini prosecco bottles. Just don't fancy it. I did but some alcohol free Koppaburg last week when it was nice weather.

I've been on 15 mg since December and the suppression isn't going anywhere. I actually forgot to jab on Wednesday 😕 and did it last night. I reckon I could go two weeks, but what's the point? I would be throwing away half my pen

Ref suppliers, I never chased discounts, I would find it too stressful. For the first 18 months I was with Chequp who were great. But as I came to consider maintenance I wanted to move to a company that has proper support in place. So I moved to Oushk. They support lifetime maintenance so long as you stay over BMI 19 which suits me. You pay something like £15 a month and if you get to say 23 and want to reign it in you can have 2.5 even tho you are Under 30. That was important to me as I have never successfully maintained before. And I wouldn't want to have to eat until I was 30 to be prescribed again.

That’s brilliant @eibbed999 yay to the teens! I remember that feeling so well. ❤️

I could tell you pretty much exactly what I drank on holiday and it really wasn’t excessive, but it was clearly more than I needed, calorie-wise! Even with the average 12,000 steps a day and lots of stairs!

It has really made me think…intellectually/mentally I am still a drinker. But in reality, most red wine tastes like brackish pond-water unless it’s fantastically good, and white is nice but not all that, it’s often the cold I like rather than the wine.

I like the memory of what booze was like for me, but I often don’t get that experience now.

I’m not ready to say I can completely give up booze, but I don’t reach for it.

Except for cocktails! I ADORE cocktails! But I don’t often go to places that offer them
so they are a rare joy.

Week 6 weigh in, and another 2lb off. It was also my first week on 5mg, and happily no side effect from the dose increase. I'm starting to notice a few subtle changes now. My clothes are feeling looser, energy levels increasing, joints less hurty etc.

SW 22st 8lb
CW 20st 12lb
GW tbc

I had a small NSV at work this week. Sat in a meeting room, and my (still very large) backside fitted nicely into a chair with arms. The last time I sat in that room, just a couple of months ago, I had to perch on the edge of the chair, as there was no way I was wedging myself in without causing a mischief. So I'm taking that as a win 😊

On the subject of alcohol, I would always have a glass of wine or a gin most nights, but haven't touched a drop since starting the jabs. Strangely, I've also gone off tea, which I would drink by the bucket load. Its strange how your tastes change so quickly!

Have a great week everyone, onwards & downwards

@Billybingbong congratulations for another loss this week and your NSV. I am only starting week 3 but I hope I can achieve such a significant loss as you.

I very much identify with your NSV. I have to go to seminars for a course I'm doing and all of their chairs have arms on them. By the end of the 2nd day my thighs hurt from being pinched by the arms of the chair. My next session is 3 June so you've given me hope that maybe this time will be a bit more comfortable! 🤞

Week 3 for me, 3rd jab this morning.

SW: 19st 9lb
CW: 18st 5lb
TW: 🔮

So happy with how it's all going, unless anything is majorly different next week, I think I'm going to stick at 2.5 for another month. I barely think about food and have to work to make sure I'm eating enough (which is insane for me 😂) so don't think there's really any need to move up yet.

Hope everyone has a great week 😍

In a previous thread I think someone compared the passing of time on MJ to how it feels having small children, the days are long but the years are short. This resonates a lot with me as here we are almost at another weekend. Continue to love this thread in all its joy and raw honesty on our journey. @SecretSquirrel703 and @Iwouldratherbesinging I remember the being weighed in class at primary school (for a maths project on averages I think- how very sensitive!) and the upset at the time and even now over 30 years later.

I also blame this thread for my new Vinted obsession. Sold a dress in size 24 worn once to a friend’s wedding where I just felt frumpy all day but have bought a dress and blouse in size 22 instead, oops!

I’ve changed my supplier for my next pen, my first 2 were from Asda because I was nervous at the start of the journey and wanted the reassurance of a familiar brand. 2 months in I feel like I know what I’m doing so trusted the monj price comparison and ordered my 7.5g for £135 from medicine marketplace without having to faff with codes etc. Well I’m impressed! Ordered about 4pm Wednesday, uploaded the dreaded pictures that night and it’s arrived via tracked Royal Mail this morning on Friday.