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.

I've been posting on my monthly thread but feel the need to jump over here for some support please.

While I'm happy that people are losing weight, reading that they only have 2, 3 or 4st to lose its just so demoralising. I know everyone's journey is individual and I feel bad diminishing anyone else's feelings, but their agonising over how much they have to lose and how it's going to take them months just makes me want to scream and cry.

I have over 10st to lose. It's going to take at least a year (maybe two). I'm just so disgusted with myself for getting to this weight. I'm so overwhelmed by it all.

I can't bring myself to say how much I weigh or my BMI but I'm class III obese. I'm weighing in kg because I don't have much concept for how much that is and when I converted it to st/lb initially I was totally horrified. Mentally I can't handle looking at the st/lb numbers. I keep meaning to take my measurements but I've been procrastinating because I don't want to know the numbers (will the tape measure even go around my body?).

Just completed wk3 on 2.5mg and took dose 4 last night. I've lost 6.1kg (13lb) which I'm both happy and worried about. Worried because it seems too fast, although I lost 3.3kg (7lb) water weight in my first week so maybe it isn't too fast when I take that into account.

I'm trying to think positive and give myself credit for starting this journey, and for what I've achieved so far, but it feels a bit hollow.

Not sure why I'm posting this all really but felt the need to get it out of my head.

@SilenceInside I've just taken a screenshot of your post to save as motivation. Well done and TY for sharing.

Hi @AlicesMum2025!

Totally sympathise - I also weigh in kg because it sounds less scary! It is difficult to see other people exclaiming in horror over their weight when they are many many stones lighter than me. I think that’s almost part of how I have ended up this size - it seems to big a mountain to climb so I haven’t even bothered to try very hard. I am hopeful this time though. Good luck!

@AlicesMum2025 can definitely relate (hello fellow May threader!) It feels so overwhelming to think about basically halving my body weight just to be vaguely into normal BMi 🙈🙈

But all we can do is a bit at a time and I just think if in a month or twos time I'm a stone lighter that's something I would have paid for at Easter which is about that long ago now...

It is nice having a thread for those of us shifting some serious timber though 🥰🥰

First weigh in on Mounjaro and I lost 3lb. I’m really pleased with that because I’ve now lost a total of 90lb! I lost 2lb last week so wasn’t expecting a huge water weight loss.

Onwards and downwards! Welcome @AlicesMum2025 we are all in the same boat here.

Welcome @AlicesMum2025 - we all understand where you're coming from. We're in a unique position. I've found so much humour, empathy and inspiration on this thread, it's hugely helpful. Try to let go of some of that shame and self-loathing, it can weigh you down almost as much as the kilos! You're on the right path now - you can't change the past, but you are changing your future.

@AlicesMum2025 I try to stay away from those threads, you're right it's demoralising. I'm not minimising these people journeys, but I think a lot of them might be trying to shift baby weight or menopause weight not dealing with a lifetime of dieting and the trauma of childhood obesity etc. I get my pounds and stones muddled up, and I don't know kilos ( too old) but it's been over two years for me, and I think 90lbs down now. It's a huge commitment both timewise and money wise. But I know you can do it. Stay over here with us and I hope we give you some inspiration

Now it's out of your head @AlicesMum2025 make that the last time you are disgusted with yourself. It's just a number on a scale, it isn't who you are, it isn't a moral failure, it's just a starting point.
From now on it's all about where you are going, not where you've been and being mean about yourself won't help. As you say, you've stated your own journey now - keep giving yourself credit for what you're doing and what you're achieving.
Don't think about end goals for now, but do set yourself an initial, achievable goal. It could be getting down to X stone, it could be Y kg lost, it could be reaching a certain BMI or a % of of your starting point lost.
My first was getting back into the 17 stones as that was 2 stone off but was also undoing the damage of a particularly bad last year of weight gain. I track all sorts of things though so there is always some sort of goal being hit. I was 'only' a pound down this week but am at 19.27% overall loss from my starting weight so am looking forwards to celebrating 20% soon.
You've got this and you're in great company here with others who understand. It was the only place I felt comfortable sharing my milestone of being 'just' entry level obese now as my BMI hit 34.9. The November starters are a brilliant bunch but people are buying size 10 clothes in that chat now and my win felt a bit like those people who are still running the marathon a week later!

That's amazing @SilenceInside! How do you feel?

Hello @AlicesMum2025 and welcome.

I also needed to lose between 10 and 11 stone.

16 months ago I weighed 20st 2lb. My BMI was 50.

I now weigh 12st 12lb and my BMI is 31.

Yes, I fully relate to all you say. People who only need to lose 3 or 4st don't really get it.

So yes, I've been doing this for 16 months and I've lost 7st 4lb.

I've got about 3 and a bit stone to go, and I think that'll happen by Christmas.

So the whole thing will have taken me two years.

But it's amazing! I'm now in size 12 - 14 clothes. It's a treat to browse through Vinted. It's a treat to look in the mirror now.

I've got a hideous picture of me at my heaviest, and it makes me so upset and sad to look at it. But that will never be me again.

You'll get there @AlicesMum2025

NSV

I bumped into our practice nurse in the post office yesterday, and she said "you look great; you've lost so much weight"

Needless to say, she doesn't know about the MJ.
🤣

Hello everybody!
Here is my goal of the week:
SW: 132,5 kg = BMI 44,8
CW: 118 kg = BMI 39,9

You all know what that means!🥈😄

@AlicesMum2025 as others have said we know exactly how you feel. I was a regular on another thread and it was full of lovely, supportive posters. But watching their journeys was just so different from mine. I got ridiculously upset when a poster wrote how she had no idea how she'd managed to be able to walk at 16 stone. Less than I weigh now after losing 75 lbs 🤣. It was totally my issue.

Coming onto this thread has been very different. We just get it because we are living it. We've posted about seat belt extenders, the fear of breaking chairs, starting at BMIs over 50.

After nearly 10 months on Monjaro I have only just given myself a goal weight and if and when I reach it I'll still be officially overweight.

I don't even post that often but I find reading this thread really useful.

Good luck 🤞

Hello and welcome @AlicesMum2025 . I've only been on this journey 7 weeks, but already am finding this thread an absolute lifesaver. The level of support, advice & empathy is immeasurable. We all just 'get it'. We're all in the same boat, and have had the same struggles for a very long time.

Please stop beating yourself up, it serves no purpose other than make yourself even more miserable. Instead, try and look forward, and embrace the journey. Set yourself little goals and enjoy ticking them off along the way. Don't fret about the numbers. They will soon start to drop. My starting BMI was 56, it's already dropped to 50.8. Still massively high, but heading in the right direction. You’ll get there, we all will 💕

Well done @Billybingbong you've achieved so much already.

I got ridiculously upset when a poster wrote how she had no idea how she'd managed to be able to walk at 16 stone

OMG I remember that, too.

It actually broke my heart to read it. That's when I abandoned that thread.

This is a nice easy breakfast option at weekends I got from hairy bikers diet book - around 300 cals but feels nicely luxurious- I do it a fair bit

toast 2 crumpets - then dry fry ( no oil or butter at all ) a handful of raspberries/ strawberries and blueberries with a teaspoon of cinnamon powder till the fruit starts to collapse and wilt ( your kitchen will smell amazing by the way). Pile fruit
onto the crumpets and top each with an ample dollop of 5% Greek yoghurt .

it feels a lot more indulgent than it is on calories !!

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne silly woman - I had no problem at 16 stone doing anything at all - even dance excercise classes - and I’m not that tall at 5ft 4 -

That sounds delicious, I'll be giving that a try

@Billybingbong it’s delicious- my H loved it too as would a lot of kids

@AlicesMum2025and @Motnight I am a little embarrassed that I made a typo in my numbers. I should have said 21st 12lbs when I started Mounjaro, or my highest ever weight of 22st the week before I started with my first injection. Somehow that got scrambled and came out as 22st 12. I hope that 12 pounds between friends can be forgiven?!

In terms of how I feel, well, it’s like I’m a new person. I am not held back by my size anymore, and I don’t feel embarrassed just being seen in public like I used to before. That makes me less grumpy and more enthusiastic for pretty much everything in life. Nothing aches anymore, and I can run, and walk as far and as fast as I like. I think that WLI are genuinely an amazing invention.

@AlicesMum2025 please don't desert us on the May thread.

I understand why you might want to - I hate it when somebody's starting weight is about the same as my goal. But you can participate in more than one thread at a time. May starters will - whatever their weight - be going through similar stages of dealing with SE, investigating providers, managing 'golden doses' .

So post on more than one thread - I just have!

I'm beginning to feel like my scales are knackered, I have now lost exactly 3lb for the last 7 consecutive weeks, I have the straightest weight loss graph line ever!
Week 10 weigh in today and following yet another 3lb off, I have lost exactly 2 and a half stone and also 10% of my starting weight lost.

Bit of a dodgy stomach the last few days but no pain so not a huge problem and hopefully will ease off. I take psyllium capsules and magnesium citrate every day to counteract the opposite problem so wondering if I should pause one or both for a few days?

Just waiting now to see a difference somewhere on me now, usually when I've dropped any weight I lose it first in my face, not this time though, don't have a clue where I losing it from, it definitely is not visible!

@Doggymummar I agree re many people losing baby and peri/meno weight on the other threads. My situation is different, although I know it's not unique.

I put on a shed load of weight during an abusive relationship as a coping mechanism. Food was my comfort but also a weapon that ex used in order to hurt me emotionally. Luckily I'm many years past that now and very happy with DH. It took over a decade and a lot of therapy for me to come to terms with it though. The weight that I'm carrying is the physical representation of trauma and undoing it is a mountain that I need to tackle. I'm trying to break it down into mini goals but I'm having a hard time getting past the shame

@PinkArt you hit the nail on the head there about how I feel about my weight - a moral failing