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.

@UsernameShmusername2024 I do too because the minute I have a drink ( wine) I don’t lose at all -

We’ve just been out for lunch and there was a portion of chips on the table. I didn’t eat any chips. And not because I was making an extra special effort, but because I genuinely didn’t want any chips. Not even slightly tempted. I don’t think that has ever happened before.

I also weigh daily and log it weekly on the app. Although I also record it on a spreadsheet and have a second tab of micro/daily.

And I update my forecast for where I might be based on a steady 2lbs a week.

This week’s weighing has been all over the place. And my end result is 0.25lb lost.

I mean. It’s a loss. I suppose. But it’s a little bit mentally challenging when my calorie tracker shows I’m safely within my daily allowance every day and I don’t eat back exercise calories.

It’s a marathon not a sprint It’s a marathon not a sprint It’s a marathon not a sprint It’s a marathon not a sprint…

I have stated developing something on my face. I was so confused I had to Google it.

Apparently it is called a 'jaw line'! Who knew? I didn't think I had been issued with one but I have, also cheek bones which were another surprise.

I've not weighed in a while now
The slow loss is getting me down .
I mean the last month and a half has been very slow
Just keeping doing what I need to do ,tracking my calories,drinking my water ,doing my swimming,and hopefully it will all come good

I think slow is good for skin retraction. I feel I have been slow - then worked out it's averaging 1.8lbs (more at the beginning less now). I had hoped for a stone a month - but just realised that I was 800 calories a day vlcd when I did that - so a more normal but defict diet isn't going to deliver 3.5lbs a week.

I daily weigh and definitely go up and down. It doesn't get to me. It just keeps me focused. I also relate to the pre and post loo comment.....

My wierdest progress is a pad of fat I had three inches down my breastbone. It was an odd bump so I was sent to have it scanned. Now it's gone, ahead of fat elsewhere. I just feel the bone. I still have 2 chins ... so while I can definitely see facial weight loss, jaw bone definition is some stone away, I fear. I am also ageing - getting to those soft creases I loved in my old cousins & great aunts when I was a child. So progressing from middle age to old age. I think I will be thin and wrinkly, in a good way. I hope for body skin retraction but am resigned to a future with my body, thighs and arms being wrinkly. Lower legs will probably still be solid with lipoedema.

I'm also shedding weight lopsidedly - more from the left hip bulge and thigh than the right hip bulge & thigh.I go in from the waist, then out over the hip, in again to the knicker line then out again. I shed 10% of my starting weight in 16 weeks. I'll be under 18 stone when I've shed another 10%.

And so the sorcery begins, @FourSeasonsTotalLandscaping...

I've been reading these posts for months and months so thought it was time I posted.

I started Mounjaro last July at the grand sum of 131kg, which was a BMI of 45. I'm currently 92.5kg and BMI 32. I thought I was about to be "just" overweight but I'm apparently 5cm shorter than I thought I was! Oops. Though the NHS app says I grew 4cm in 6 weeks last year, so no wonder I was confused. I definitely didnt grow, I'm 50 this year, growing taller would be a medical miracle.

I was with a friend this week who texted another friend saying I'm with Southwest12, well the half of her that's left. I was in size 16 jeans and t shirt and yet when I look in the mirror I still see 131kg me. It's definitely very weird. No one really noticed the weightloss until I hit 5 stone, I think it was buying a new coat that helped.

I'm definitely not going to put on weight again as I've sold all my clothes on Vinted. Absolutely obsessed with it. I made 7 dresses last year and now have to unpick them all and recut them and sew them all again. I do like being able to walk into most shops and having the choice of anything in the shop. Sizing is bonkers though as I got a size 14 linen shirt in M&S the other day, yet would need an 18 in a different style!

Week 19 in the Lobster house and a pound off which takes me to 3 stone 10.

Im a daily weigher and I log in happy scale which tracks averages. Weighing daily has helped me to stay on track and to be pragmatic about it all. If I’ve gained/not lost I can think about why - oh I ate later than usual or had something salty. Keeps me on the straight and narrow and a habit I’ll adopt for life I think.

It gives you these cool graphs - this is my weight since 2020! The struggle has been real! Spot where I started on the GLP1 😊

Thanks @Lobsterteapot that looks like an app I can put to good use!!

So I think I can call this an NSV. I've just had a message from a work colleague offering me a spare ticket to a gig next week, and I said yes without hesitation. Only a few weeks ago, this would have sent me into a bit of a panic, worrying about what to wear, will I manage to walk from the car, will the seats be big enough, and I would probably have made some excuse not to go. Instead, I'm really looking forward to it. Life really is opening up, it's wonderful

Instead, I'm really looking forward to it. Life really is opening up, it's wonderful

Totally agree @Billybingbong

I've ordered train tickets for London in July.

I haven't been down there to see my DC for six years. I'm really looking forward to it.

I actually booked First Class, to celebrate.

I can absolutely relate to what you say, before I started I was always reluctant to agree to go anywhere, as had to check seating, how far from car park etc…..i still have a long way to go but as I’m now 60lb down I feel more confident.

That’s absolutely a NSV @Billybingbong! Well done!

Realising how much stuff I was saying no to because of my weight was one of the things that pushed me into starting on mounjaro. Bars that might not have seats, visiting a friend in Bristol because it's hilly, dating, going to a spa with one size does not fit all robes...
The health improvements are amazing, looking better is amazing but as you say living life fully is priceless.

Weekly update…lost 1lb (don’t count the odds)….and my total loss now 60lb.

i still have a long long way to go, as i started at 28st 1lb, but I have no doubt I will get there.

i count my calories and have been quite low this week so I’m going to up my protein and try and get my calories up a bit next week.

another person said..have you lost weight??? You look fantastic in work….so that was nice to hear again this week, only 2nd person to mention it.

Have a great week everyone x

100% relate to the post, especially about being surrounded by people who are only slightly overweight and consider themselves huge. I try not to think about it, but I can't help but wonder if they think that a stone overweight is huge, what must they possibly be thinking of me who has 8 stone to lose!! 😱

Quoting myself to update everyone and check in!
After the holiday, after letting the salt/inflammation settle, I've gained 2lbs officially, which I'll take! As previously I'd have easily gained 2kg! DH is also on MJ and is effortlessly losing and it's annoying me 😂

Anyway I'm struggling to get back on the horse. As I said before the momentum has been lost and I'm finding it difficult to put my mind out of holiday mode and back into "goal mode". I brought my jab day forward by a couple of days cos I felt like I needed it, but I'm getting very nervous and anxious.

Please any advice!!!

@mamabeeboo I felt similar after Christmas and Easter, hard to shake off holiday mode. I’d consider tomorrow an official “reset” day and if you can, plan a set of healthy meals and get some form of exercise in. I go for a walk in my nearby woods for some solitude and contemplation if I’m feeling out of sorts sometimes.

I'm going to a festival soon, I've bought some clothes I never thought I'd be able to wear. Maybe a bit of teenage regression but at a festival I doubt anyone will care!

@mamabeeboo I felt exactly the same after Christmas and Easter, it took me a couple of weeks to get back into the usual routine. It really throws you off when our routines are all out but you will get there I’m sure.

@AlicesMum2025 i am also a May starter but also here and know what you mean about the other thread. I had my own preconceptions an about WLI and have been in denial that they were something that may help me and thought they were a risky or even ‘bad’ thing to do until I actually looked into them. I have to admit being really surprised that people would consider them for a couple of stone loss. - but have realised since investigating and understanding more that we all have to do our own journeys. I am far too ashamed of having allowed myself to get to this point to tell anyone in real life as I fear others would judge me for not being able to lose in a more acceptable way etc.

i plan for now to stick on the other thread as well as I’m finding it helpful for all those starter questions and experiences. I will see how I feel a few months in.

I’ve told people and almost all have been positive and interested in hearing how they work. A friend and my sister have started them after hearing my experience. The one negative was a friend who, when I said I wasn’t sure if moderately overweight people should be having them, as they’re not risk free, insisted her weight problem was just the same as me, as her body was disgusting, etc etc - she’s a size 14/16, gone up one size post menopause. I tried saying if she had the same “food noise” and compulsion to eat as I did, she’d also be 22 st with health and mobility issues, and not 11, but she wasn’t having it. I ended up getting very upset with her. I should have known better, her daughter got married last year and she kept insisting she couldn’t possibly wear a dress as she looked fat and horrible in all of them, seemingly oblivious to saying it to someone so much fatter 🙄

It’s nothing to be ashamed of, using injections to help. Especially when you realise they switch off that desire to eat and binge and realise our problems are not down to greed, there’s more going on if one small amount of MJ can stop that.

Week 7 loss1.5lbs
SW 24st 9lbs
CW 23st 1.5lbs
Total lost 1st 7.5lbs

Another good week, feels great that every week is a loss, sometimes small, sometimes a little bigger. Makes me realise that this process isn’t about the big losses but is about the consistent small losses that all add up.

Yes. And even though my weightloss has slowed right down (after 16 months) it's still continuing.