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.

NSV

The three pairs of sandals which I ordered (so that I had a choice - I wasn't going to keep them all) are all far too big. I ordered the extra wide ones, but they're like boats on me.
🤣

So clearly, losing a great deal of weight has meant that my feet have stopped being very wide. I had noticed that they weren't swollen anymore.

I'll have to send them all back and start again. The sandals, that is. Not my feet.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne good choice to keep the feet rather than the sandals.

But isn't it weird how weight comes off in places you hadn't considered as weight carrying places?

My forearms have lost weight!

Clothes are going to become an issue for me before too long. I'm coming up to a four stone loss. All the clothes I made recently were made to conceal me, huge, baggy shirts and tops.

But I'm only 1/3 of the way through what I want to lose. This is making me unwilling to invest a lot of time and money in making clothes which will become redundant relatively quickly.

Decisions, decisions.

Wow I've just realised I'm a 1/3 of the way to where I want to go too. That's actually quite exciting. In my mind I'm still really a morbidly obese large person (which I am) but it is huge really isn't it. I know it's that last half where it will start being obvious and each loss will show more but yay go us for being a 1/3 in!!

My feet have shrunk from 4.5 to 3.5. its so random

@Doggymummar my feet and ankles and calves always lose weight first

Ooh does this mean that I might be able to get boots next winter?
I haven't worn them for many years.

Week 3 weigh in on 2.5mg and I have gained 2lbs. I knew that I wouldn’t continue with the really high loss of the first couple of weeks but it’s frustrating and disappointing to have put on. I’m trying to have the mindset of looking at the month, rather than week to week, so happy with losing a stone so far. Just done my last jab of 2.5 before moving up to 5mg next week, so hoping that will give me a boost

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne well for me that was my very first thing - my nice biker boots suddenly zipped up after about 3 weeks -

Start weight (15 Feb 25) / BMI: 19st 9lbs / 44.4 (obese class 3)
Current weight / BMI: 16st 10lbs / 37.8 (obese class 2)

Wks 1-4 (2.5mg): -17lbs
Wks 5-8 (2.5mg): -6lbs
Wks 9-12 (2.5mg): -11lbs
Wk13 - 0lb
Wk14 - 2 lbs
Wk15 - 5lbs
Total loss: 41lbs

Wk15 weigh in this morning (wk3 on 5mgs) … and I’m down 5lbs taking total loss to 41lbs (1 pesky pound to get me to 3st!) … but I’m into the 16’s and super happy at that. No side effects and food noise hushed so will likely stick to 5mgs at next pen.

Goal 1: 10% of starting weight (27.5lbs loss) ✅
Goal 2: 10% of wk11 weight (22.4lbs loss, total 49.9 loss)
End Goal: healthy BMI (between 18.5 and 24.9 for my height)

Wow well done @Mum2Fergus !@Mum2Fergus !!! I'm about half a stone away from Obese class 2 and it's tantalisingly just out of reach. But will be truly celebrating when I get there!!

I’ve moved up to 7.5 yesterday and still don’t think I’ve got this suppression that everyone speaks of. 11 weeks in and 2st9 down so it’s obviously doing its thing. I have religiously stuck to my calorie deficit and protein goals but it still feels like a large bit of my head space is taken up by working out the maximum amount of food I can eat within my deficit. I do wonder if I should abandon the calorie counting and just eat ‘mindfully’ rather than obsessively calorie count but maybe that’s a stupid idea if what I’m currently doing is working? I have at least 10st to go at a minimum so I’m in this for the long haul!

I don’t feel like I have gnawing hunger but I do worry that I can’t keep this up for a year +

Or maybe I do have suppression and my brain is rubbish at identifying hunger?!

I think I might just be envious of the people who struggle to eat which is weird because in reality I’m not sure I’d want that all the time as I love food (obvs 🤣)

I think what may be making me doubt myself is that it’s not obvious in any way that I’m smaller, not even my face looks different and that usually the first place I lose it. I knew from the start though that is would take 4 or 5 stone minimum to make a visible difference so I was prepared!

Oh and I do find myself getting irritated by threads with people who’s start weight is less than my goal weight, and they say they can’t leave the house due to being so huge etc - arrgggghhhhhhh

Oh and I do find myself getting irritated by threads with people who’s start weight is less than my goal weight, and they say they can’t leave the house due to being so huge etc - arrgggghhhhhhh

Well yes. That's why this is such a good, safe space. This thread is where we understand all that shit.

I remember seeing a post from a woman who had gone from a (massive!) size 12 down to a size 8. And she still wasn't happy FFS.

But when I was 24 years old, a very long time ago, I recall being horrified to have got up to 10st 6lb. It seemed so FAT.

Now it's my goal weight, having reached 20st 2lb.

But I'm an Old Lady now.
🤣 I have better perspective.

Ha yes so many people on the Shemed Facebook group are horrifid at being "so overweight" and are less than I am now 5months in...

Also people losing well but then don't lose for a week and panic (admittedly I did this early on too 😂) or are shocked they aren't losing a stone a week...

@Fffreeeeezing if you're losing above 2lb a week it could just be that you need to put your calorie allowance up a bit (which would make you less hungry). It could well be you'd feel suppression /need to stop eating if you were eating more if that makes sense. Eat a bit more /add more protein with meals and you might find you aren't so hungry maybe? Or see how it goes for a week without being so strict and see how it feels?

(I'm not calorie counting but feel when to stop but the calories aren't even in my head.I do know that a lot of people find it helpful )

A NSV for me today. It's warm here and normally I would be sitting comotise by a fan and feeling terrible. Today I have been for a walk, done 3 loads of washing and some housework and helped my DH get stuff ready for a charity shop and dump run. And I feel fine!

It's an odd feeling.

I decided to leave my monthly thread because I couldn't deal with the fact that other posters were disgusted with how much they used to weigh when I still weighed more! It wasn't done deliberately to make me feel bad and was definitely my problem.

This is the mindset I am hoping to go with. I don’t want to get bogged down in calorie counting and macros and a whole diet culture thing. I just want to learn to have a normal relationship with food, really.

Am on week 8 of 2.5mg and I’m feeling like things are becoming a bit more of an effort now so am really glad I ordered a 5mg pen ready for my next jab on Monday.

Im still eating at about 1000 calories a day, although I did have a pizza the other night which took me over. I figured that is what slimmer people do, eat normally most of the time but have a treat if they feel like it. I do think I’m getting food noise more though so is definitely the right time to move up.

Small NSVs I’ve noticed, being able to wrap a towel around my body after a shower, well bath sheet, and finding it easier to cut my toe nails. I think this works but can’t wait until I feel like the losses are noticeable other than just slightly looser clothes.

1000 truly doesn't sound like enough calories? Could what you're hearing as "food noise" be your body telling you you need to eat more food? The mounjaro really does work and this is a long term game, you don't need to have an excessively big calorie deficit.

Possibly a stupid question - when are you meant to order the next pen? When you do the third dose? Or can you do it any time?

You can do it anytime, I'm with Oushk and they email a discount code every pay day weekend so I order then. I always have a couple in hand.

I’ve seen mentioned on threads that some pharmacies won’t let you until it’s been a couple of weeks, but other than that, it’s up to you. I usually order after I’ve done my third dose, if I know for certain which dose I’m after.

I’ve been trying to eat healthily and genuinely struggle to eat much more in the way of calories. I should probably try to eat more have struggled. Was initially aiming for about 1400 per day but I honestly can’t manage it.
My current average days is:

Breakfast- protein yoghurt or scrambled eggs or 2 weetabix with milk

Smaller meal - ham salad bagel or tin of Heinz Big Soup or Fish cake with small tins of baked beans or Protein Shake

Larger meal - Chicken skewers with rice and salad or Pasta Bolognese or Chilli con Csrne and rice.

Snacks - a small pack of baked veg crisps or Fridge raiders or piece of fruit

This is all so familiar!! Noone noticed I lost weight until pretty much yesterday, I'm over 6 stone down now and I saw a group of people I last saw at Christmas. At Christmas I was four stone down but they didn't notice. A further 2 stone down yesterday and they noticed. I do fast 800 but I don't calorie count anymore so if you are used to what to eat now I would cut yourself some slack. I didn't get suppression really until 10mg I don't think. It was sheer willpower till then. Even now on 15mg I have the odd days I could eat a ton of food and others I don't want anything. I just go with the flow. Normal weight people wouldn't eat just cos it was a meal time, so why should I?

Must admit I do think I ought to eat at meal times and that is part of the way I am doing things (I know others do IF and different things!) "Normal people" around me do eat at meal times - but just modify portion sizes to hunger. I think that stops binging/snacking later for those who that works for.

I am not super hungry at lunch time though so I just eat what I can (even if its nuts/banana). If I don't eat at meal times I'm more likely to not notice a hunger cue and get excessively hungry later - or not eat enough/ get enough nutrients in.

'm v aware all our bodies work differently though and part of being on mj is giving us that freedom to actually experiment and see what works for us other than "Must Eat Food Now." And I'm eternally grateful for it!

I met up with a friend for coffee today and she said, "Where has half of you gone!!!" So it must be showing already!! I hadn't seen her for a few months and I know I lost a lot of inflammation early on so I probably look less puffy as well as the weight loss. It did cheer me up as whenever I sit down (loo/ jab/etc) I'm so aware I have a giant watermelon stomach at the moment!

@TheZingyFish - Your meals look super healthy :) Good luck with 5mg