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.

My friend said the same to me after I lost 4/5s - and my reply was I’m still overweight by bmi and in size 16

I think as we are big to begin with and they see us shrink we then seem slim to them - does that make sense @Southwest12

Weirdness!

DH and I go out almost never. We are on holiday in a couple of weeks so I thought it would be nice to go out for dinner one night.

Looking at a local restaurant and I almost sighed with relief when I saw that they had a salad which I liked the sound of. Salad! I have never before looked at a menu and thought 'salad, that will be nice'.

The comments can be frustrating! Out of interest, were those people slim,average or overweight?
I've found that it's the slim people that think I'm wasting away! Which is ironic.

I think it's just getting used to something new. It's similar to when you see someone without their glasses for the first time, it's surprising and their face looks 'weird' ...but it's their face!!

In my experience, the best thing is to just nod along and change the subject.

Wasting away makes it sound as though you don’t know what’s going on or don’t know yourself. This is deliberate action for which you are in control and are working hard to achieve.

I’d just smile and ignore. Some people do find it difficult when we step out of our assigned place or role. Or move out from where they expected us to stay.

I'll be taking my 3rd dose at 7.5mg today. Last week, I was extremely uncomfortable for 2 days last week - stomach pain and sulphur burps. It eased by the second night. I used Gaviscon. It was tough - the worst reaction I've had so far. If it had been my first pen, I'd probably have abandoned Mounjaro. So I am hoping it will be easier this week as I really appreciate the effect it has had - quietening the food noise for the first time since adolescence in the 1970s. I can't believe that many slim people's normal is not constant noise.

Weekly weigh in today. I daily weigh and go up and down. This week, I'm 3.2lbs down, having only been down 0.8lbs last week. One week, I stayed the same. Some weeks I have been up. My SW ago was 309.8lbs - 22st 1.8lbs. I'm down 36.4lbs - 2st 8.4lbs to 19st 7.4lb in 19 weeks. averaging 1.9lbs weekly. 30 weeks to the year end - so I hope I will be a further 30-50lbs down by then.

Re the post about eating out and only having a main course when others are having 3 course. I've been out twice in the past 6 weeks. I ordered two starters both times. No one commented and I had two plates of delicious food plus once a side of the long stem broccoli with garlic butter. In the past, I'd have had 3 full courses plus bread and butter. I'm not constraining myself. I'm choosing what is delicious to me now, and felt comfortably full. This is extraordinary impact of Mounjaro for me.

I’m doing my first 7.5 tomorrow. So far my side effects have been varying levels of nausea and towards the end of my first 5mg peg I got a very dry mouth - that was really painful. It has dissipated but the nausea is unpredictable. Not unmanageable, just a bit urgh!

Last week was 0.8ml from a 5mg pen, so a step-up dose or around 6.75 or so. The suppression and fullness were really strong, and still are present and noticeable, actually! It might be that this is my dose…

I’m going to align my WI to my jab day. So WI tomorrow too and then benchmark that for the week.

Re: the smaller portions etc. I have been out and ordered less, or just not eaten things. I had a burger on Saturday. It came with chips, but I didn’t eat the chips - I had about 6!!

If anyone is scrutinising your plate that’s no reflection on you. As upthread, you stepping out the space they have assigned to you is totally a them thing. And you can choose to eat whatever you want in any quantity you want, small or large. But hopefully they won’t even notice!

Onwards!

@Blondeshavemorefun that does make sense. I guess it just reminds me that I was the fat one for so long that I look very different to them now, but to me I dont. My brain definitely hasn't caught up. I shoehorned myself into a pair of size 14 jeggings today but my brain still sees size 24/26 me

@mamabeeboo yes, they are what I'd call "normal" size, all size 12s I think

To be fair, the friend is someone I see as a group of four of us a couple of times a month and it took them until I'd lost 5 stone to actually notice and ask! And then they were shocked. I think they expected me to say 2 stone!

You're a size 14!!!!!! 😮
I'm a size 24 - Please tell me what it's like to be this size! I want a FULL SPILL because I wanna screenshot this and save it for when I'm feeling a bit meh😂

I currently dream of being a 16. But secretly I want to be a 12 or 14. It feels quite unrealistic, I have never been that as an adult. Or possibly ever. Despite having a small 21” waist when I was a teen.

I remember at my lowest weight, I was a size 18. As a uni student, who walked everywhere and didn't know how to cook and spent all night dancing at the clubs.
I was a size 18 and I felt like the skinniest person in the world! I remember weighing myself and I was around 100kg (at 5 feet 8).

Genuinely can't wrap my head around being slimmer than that.

Terrible stomach ache today. I can’t work out why. I had protein yoghurt for breakfast and a prawn salad for lunch and all I’ve had to drink is weak sugar-free squash and a Rubicon drink. Ugh!

I remember going clothes shopping with a tall, slim friend as a teenager. She made a comment like, ‘Could you imagine being a size 14? How awful would that be?’ I of course WAS a size 14 (I did not volunteer this information) and I can still remember how crushed I felt. I felt hideous. I’d kill to be a size 14 now!

Two people yesterday told me I'd lost enough weight

Only one person has said this to me, at a point where my BMI still had my in the Obese category. In fact I'm still in the category, even though most of my clothes are now size 12 or 14. Shows how mad BMI is.

I started MJ at size 24.

So keep plugging away, everyone. You'll get there.

Ahh yes I thought I was enormous as a teenager as I was so much bigger than everyone else I knew. I was a 12-14. Would die of excitement now to be that size!

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne yes I think an awful lot of us in that 30 to 35BMI range whilst certainly being chunkier than many of us would like certainly don’t feel obese - I know I don’t - overweight certainly yes but a size 16 sometimes 18 and a bit all over in my case not all on stomache . So the word obese doesn’t enter my mind- as far as I’m concerned I’m overweight .i feel more positive that way !!

I’m due my third dose of pen 1 on Thursday and I’m wondering what to do about the next pen.

I am worried about side effects going up to 5mg, especially as the first dose would be the day before I have to host a nine year old’s birthday party!

Doses 3 and 4 of the second pen will be due when I’m on holiday (on a cruise so there will be constant food available!) and I’m worried that if I DON’T move up a dose then by then the 2.5mg won’t be enough to do the trick and I’ll struggle.

just not sure what is the best thing to do really!

I still look at myself and think I’m fat. Esp my legs /thighs

yet can see how slim the rest of my month group is

A lot depends on height, I snuck into 34.9 bmi today and I certainly look and feel obese 😔, don’t get me wrong, I look so much better than my almost 50 bmi when I started, I’m a smidge over 5ft 3, all boobs and belly, top half is a size 22 bottom is a 20. Once I can squeeze into a size 16 I don’t think I’ll feel obese, but as a teenager I can remember being a 16/18 and felt obese them. I’m really hoping I won’t feel that way 🤞🏼

I was super obese at almost 38bmi

overweight yes. Fat. Yes. Obese hmmm maybe. But being told was super obese was a real shock and if I gained a st I would have been up another group and been morbid obese

now at healthy bmi. it’s a shocker

I started off, 16 months ago, with a BMI of 50.

I'm so glad that it's now 32. I feel healthy and attractive. I can walk easily now.

It makes me laugh that lots of people are starting out at BMI 32 and seem to consider it to be enormous. Well, it's not exactly skinny but it's not as bad as 50.

My BMI is a touch over 30, tantalisingly close to being in the overweight category. I think a lot of people wouldn’t think I was obese now, but I still have a lot of weight on my tummy and my thighs. And I think generally all over but spread out. I still have over 3 stone to lose but I think people would be surprised if I said that to them. I could actually lose 4 stone or more and still be in the healthy weight range.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me about the lipoedema, @SeaStoat I have no idea what I'll look like if I do lose weight. I lost 3 stone before starting and look exactly the same!

I am most looking to not always being the fattest person in a room. And not being afraid of chairs with arms.

I'm sooo close to being out of "morbid" which I will definitely celebrate and counting down the weeks to - but yes then a couple of stone of super obese... and then just obese..... It's a lot .

I still feel and look very "round". It's still shocking when people say I look so much better when I'm still morbid... how much worse was I :(

I'd love to be 16-18 and able to shop in normal shops. I'd love to not have to take into account a pregnant-ish looking belly and wear long skirts again! I'm hoping its coming :)

My issues since being on 7.5 are almost constant burping somedays. Like every 5-10 mins. Some days its sulphury but often just burping! I want it to go away as I am client-facing. It isn't as personally worrying as diarhea or constipation but it is awful when trying to work.

I'm still losing okay though - by the end of the year I will likely still be obese which is shocking. BUt as you guys say - just into obese is categorically different to when youre very round!

I'm still walking lots - just did 40mins and was amazed (still) how easy I'm finding it. It's gradually been building up since I realised the inflammation/muscle/whatever wasnt happening anymore.

I have a blood test thursday - partly to see how bad my liver is after the ultrasound (i think...) and partly to test for other conditions / auto immune as well as the general bloods. I'm so hoping some of my markers are down but preparing myself as I know weight loss itself can stress the liver so the true picture might not be seen.

You're doing well @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden

I found that my side-effects gradually faded away. I've been on 15mg for many months now and don't get any at all.

Only in Next jeggings! I think I'm a 16/18 now which still seems quite unbelievable. I got a skirt and blouse in Primark today, purely because I could. It feels so weird to be able to go in and buy stuff.

But still with an obese BMI 🙈 I had thought i was hitting overweight a few weeks ago and discovered I was 4cm shorter than I'd put in all my apps 😂😂

Good morning everyone. Lost another pound this week which means 78 lb loss over all. Still obese 🤣. Gone from a BMI of 52 plus to 38 something. Will keep plodding on.

Found some Next trousers (they are designed big with an elastic waist) that I liked the look of. Bought a size 24 and took the labels off for some reason and tried them on. They are far too big on me. Bought the same style in a 16 (which I am most definitely not) and they fit. So if someone who is tall fancies size 24 Next crinkle wide legged trousers in black let me know and I'll send them to you if you cover the postage!

Loving all the updates 🙂