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.

I must get some stuff on Vinted! I have some jeans that I tailored so won’t fit anyone else - I think I’ve mentioned these! I’ll have to give measurements I think and see mid anyone wants them!

I’m struggling with 7.5. I did 2 weeks then suffered bad diarrhoea on days 3 and 4 post injection. In case it was a virus I did 7.5 the following week and again got worse diarrhoea. So I dropped back to 5 for two weeks but my weight loss stalled (1.5lb in two weeks) and my appetite suppression wasn’t as good. So last Sunday I did 7.5 again and the diarrhoea kicked in on Weds and yesterday and I was up in the night last night too. Imodium helped a bit.

it doesn’t feel that this is a side effect that’s going to pass. Before MJ I had IBS with diarrhoea for years but the lower doses seemed to help that. I’ve emailed my provider (Zava) for advice. I’m away in London this coming week from Thursday, so I’m going to do 5mg on Sunday and the following week I think I’ll try the 50 clicks, ie 6.25.

Would be interested to hear if anyone else has this diarrhoea?

That all sounds very familiar @UsernameShmusername2024 - I love pubs as well as loving a pint! I love the sense of community and the warmth of people being together (when it's good, that is!). And yes, all my friends are still big drinkers. It's caused a few raised eyebrows. One of them said - totally without ANY malice, just an observation! - that she was confused now, because her old drinking plan was always to drink half as much as me! The other night I nursed 2 G&Ts for a whole quiz night, whereas I used to easily put away a nice 6 pints of lager. Part of me misses that version of myself, but enough was enough. Just because I CAN drink a lot doesn't mean I should! Plus the beer often led to late night take-aways.

I love cocktails too @TragicMuse but so many of them are made with super-sugary syrup mixes, and of course it's those my taste buds want - multiple frozen Margs please!

I've sold masses of stuff on Vinted now @Onenotsosmallstep - I'd never even considered it til I joined this thread! It started with clothes but recently I decided to get rid of a load of my Doc Martens (I had over 20 pairs, which no human being actually needs!) which has been quite lucrative. Like you though I have bought as well - some nice dresses in an 18, which is a way off but not so distant I can't imagine it, depending on the fabric and style. Aspirational purchases!

The NSVs involving chairs really resonate. I haven't had one myself yet, but your stories really made me think about why it's so important I see this through. There's the aeroplane chairs, for a start, but also the everyday stuff - our local pharmacy puts out these spindly chairs I dare not sit upon! And a few years ago I booked us all tickets for a really fab panto, and decided I couldn't go after spending hours online finding out the seat widths and realising I wouldn't stand a chance. Then there's the friend who always invites us for a summer BBQ, and for the last 3 years running, I have been unable to fit in her garden chairs, and have had to ask for one from inside the house. She of course is very slender and always has been, and I can still feel that humiliation - and know that if it was a guest at my home and that had happened, I would have that extra chair ready to go just in case! This year I might well fit but I've said no, I'm not going - I am too traumatised by the memory of it all! We also had a new sofa a couple of years ago, and the leg broke on one side. When the repair man was coming I made sure I wasn't in the house, because I knew he'd take one look at me and say 'well, what do you expect?'

Chair trauma is a real thing - but not forever, my friends, not forever!

Ah, I’m not so keen on the sweet-syrup cocktails @eibbed999! Or the masses of fruit purée/juice. I like sweet things but I am a savoury girl - cheese over chocolate 98% of the time!!

I like an Aperol Spritz, or a Negroni, a Gimlet maybe. I do like a gin fizz which has a bit of simple syrup but not to the really sweet levels!

Chair related, I remember when I got down to a healthy BMI about a decade ago, the realisation that my hips no longer touched the arm rests on the tube. I'd been at the higher end of overweight or the lower end of obese for so long that it had become normal that my hips were squished in. I felt like a teeny little waif!

Morning everyone! My jab 16 today - 1.3kg this week! I've just done my form and hope to do another 7.5 as I spent this month building upto 7.5

SW 138.2
CW 118
Bmi 42 and I'm now chasing being under 40bmi and not "morbid". I think this will be about another 6 weeks... But in sight!

Ive had diahrea and fatigue but fatigue only on jab day eve/next day and actually not as bad as I got it in the beginning. Diahrea is also manageable.

@eibbed999 Well done getting into the teens and I relate to so much of what you say. I was so excited to get into my teens - first major milestone for me I think. And I'm now trying to get my bmi below 40.

It's amazing how each stage progresses and so very exciting to be looking forwards to "the next stage" rather than worrying whether it will work or not.

I absolutely come to check this thread (and the shemed thread) on weigh day and love that feeling of having people to share this with too. (Oh and I'm walking more and my mum is an alcoholic....! I'm sure there's a genetic link with all these addiction things)

I haven't yet really changed clothes size in spite of losing 3 and a bit stone but I'm in seasalt dresses/leggings and I guess they cover a variety of sizes really. It will be more apparent at the lower weights. At least it saves me buying new things!

Chairs - can so relate. And fear getting into cars of the seat belt will fit...

@Kay2000 sorry 7.5 has been tricky. I had a lot of diarrhoea weekends going upto 5 and it feels rubbish doesn't it. (Asda own immodium is 90p I discovered yesterday!). I had a random bought yesterday but fingers crossed OK today. I think being on MJ I've had full on repeated watery diahrea as well as weekends that are a bit "loose". That scared me a bit as I was scared of controlling it. I took immodium and also made up an electrolyte solution but it passed after a few days. Each time I've had it it's been the weekend after jabbing and passed but I know that's not everyone's experience.

I cheated a bit and did 6/6.5/7 to get up to 7.5 - I did 7today. Not sure if that helps or prolongs the agony...

Totally agree @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden - for the first time I'm looking forward to each landmark moment, with complete confidence that I will eventually reach them. It's usually at about 12 weeks into a diet, when people start to notice and you feel a bit thinner, that I usually get complacent and then eventually crash off the wagon. This time feels very different. I am also convinced there is a link with the addiction things. I read somewhere once that food/obesity is a woman's addiction of choice a lot of times because it also allows us to carry on looking after everyone/running the house/sorting the kids/ whatever your responsibilities are - it's not as splashy as alcoholism or drugs, but as we all know it does huge physical and mental damage, and leaves us with the same feelings of helplessness and shame.

That's amazing @Doggymummar!

@eibbed999 it's a great feeling isn't it?

I had a similar experience with a swing when I lost all the weight a few years ago...could sit on it comfortably without worrying that the chain was going to embed itself into my thighs

Week 18 for me - 3 pounds off and that takes me to 3 stone, 10 pounds off (all on 5mg)
School mums are asking me about it now, ugh I hate talking about weight. It was so humiliating the last time I lost a lot of weight to acknowledge that I put it all back on. I felt like I was broken.
I just said yes I’ve lost weight, I feel a lot better and then changed the topic. I still don’t believe that this is forever or I’d be able to talk about it wouldn’t I? Sigh.

Good afternoon everyone! Lovely to read about all victories, whether scale related or not!

I am really enjoying being able to buy a new set of clothes for summer. I am size 20 now but even that makes things so much easier and cheaper and gives me so much more choice. I bought a lovely jacket from Seasalt. Tried it on and thought it was too small. My DD bluntly told me that it was actually the right size for me and I needed to stop choosing clothes to hide myself in. She's right!

I am seriously considering therapy to support my weight loss. I knew that I was / am an emotional eater and am concerned that I have not addressed the underlying issues around this. I did spend a few weeks generally feeling flat and I think that was because I am used to eating in stressful times and was no longer doing it and this was affecting me as a result. Not sure if that makes sense or if I'm just giving myself a convenient excuse about my years of overeating.

I'm going down to London soon, from my little Scottish village, and I'm looking forward to fitting in the train seats more comfortably.

Also not stuffing myself with crap throughout the journey.

I dunno Lobster, I think you’re being a little hard on yourself.

It’s fine not to want to discuss it with people, there’s so much stigma attached to weight and diets at the best of times, add in WLI and you’re then having to think about how to talk about it without fending off anyone else’s weird or stupid misconceptions about it. The whole narrative around ‘piling it back on when you stop’, ‘cheating’, ‘Sharon Osborn’ etc etc. which seems almost entirely aimed at women, actually. It’s irritating.

It’s your business. You don’t own anyone else thinness or stories of your thinness, or judgements/comments about what you’re doing.

I have told my husband, child, 3 sisters, my niece, and one friend. No one else. And aside from husband and child, that’s because I was away with them and it was pretty obvious that I was eating in a fundamentally different way to my old habits. No one else has noticed that I’ve lost 2 stone - or if they have they’ve not said!

I’m seeing the friend next week. She will notice because I haven’t seen her since I began and she’ll be looking. The others we’ll be with, probably not so much.

It’s ok to keep your own counsel while you work it out.

I submitted my photos this morning. Horrified by how fat I look in them. (I know that’s the idea) so fingers crossed. Want to loose 3 stone.

I hated my photos too.
Horrifyingly fat.

I deleted them, which was silly, because now I've lost over 7 stone, it would have been useful to compare them. But I looked so ugly.

I have my original starting pictures in the Hidden album on my phone, which was something I saw suggested on here, rather than deleting them which I almost did. They were from July last year, I have a set from January when I changed supplier, and now another set from this week as I've changed supplier again.

My brain does the thing where I feel like I haven't changed, but when I directly compare the three photos it is a stark difference. I do absolutely hate looking at the first set though. What is clear is how much healthier and fitter I look now. Not slim yet, as I'm still BMI 31ish, but getting there.

I've kept my starting pictures, and am taking monthly progress photos, as well as measurements. The idea being that if/when I ever plateau or doubt my progress, I will have something to spur me on.

I’ve got a passport pic that is particularly crap - I wasn’t feeling well that day either -

Oh my passport and my driving license photos are both from when I was 20st plus and you can really see it on my face and chins. I did wonder at what point you might need to get a passport changed due to the picture looking so different to me now.

I still can't see much difference yet. But knowing it's 3stone still feels good :)

(for some reason I wrote 16th shot not 19th and it's bothering me that I can't edit it!)

Well done everyone on your losses 🥳 I weighed this morning and it said 16 stone 13.9 lbs! So I’m officially in the 16’s! One of my goals is to weigh less than my husband - it’s always made me self-conscious that I weigh more than him for some reason. Does anyone else feel like this? To whoever posted about the diarrhoea - I too have IBS and have found I get these symptoms too. It’s more apparent if I don’t eat, hopefully it’s temporary

@Potato1234 ha- I feel like this too -

Hi @Potato1234 I'm also glad to finally weigh less than my DH.

Re - diarrhoea - I take loperamide 2-4mg when required.
You can buy it on Ebay. It's much cheaper than Imodium although it's exactly the same.

Link