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.

Welcome @ConfusedMiddleAger83 we were all really apprehensive about starting, there’s such a fear of the ‘unknown’, no two people seem to react the same way which is bizarre. Fingers crossed for you, keep us updated x

They all seem to have slightly different requirements @Iwouldratherbesinging don't they? My first provider was just a photo too. I hope I can stay with this one for a while, cos that tape measure...it could end in disaster. It could be like one of those freak deaths in The Omen.

Good luck with the FLD and the walking @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden. I have always loved walking (I have two dogs). I used to meet up with my best pal on the beach every morning to exercise the hounds, and it was such a joy and so good for mental health. It never helped with weight loss - it was more of an amble than a walk! - but I loved it. I had an accident last August and very badly broke and dislocated my ankle. Long story short, a month in hospital and two surgeries later...walking is coming back, slowly but surely, and I relish every single step.

@Iwouldratherbesinging I’m 5ft 2. I know right? Last time I was 9 stone anything I was 14 and starved myself, I looked and felt terrible. I’m short but quite broad shoulders and big boobs, not sure if that makes any difference?

Wow @Lds1 You have a similar starting weigh tto me - I love seeing people on this thread that are that much further ahead that me too its so inspiring! 14 anything seems impossible right now!

@Iwouldratherbesinging Yes I have another blood test in 2 months with some further tests she wants to run (and have had 2 sets of blood tests spaced out already). I think she's investigating other causes of the high inflammation result to be sure and joining the dots. Last blood test not much had changed and I so wanted it to after several months on MJ and eating minimal UPFs but I hope it will eventually. I am so aware this is a minor problem and most people with morbid obesity will by definition have fat on their organs I think it just hit me how bad it had got.

I love Mounjaro. I have been so low every year for the last 7-8 years watching my self get fatter and fatter (about a stone a year) and yet trying so hard to lose weight. And scared of the consequences. Other people like to think "oh didn't you notice you're getting biggerr or what about your health..." and I inwardly think thats why i was depressed because of course I did I just couldn't fix it. This is truly life changing. Still a long way to go at just under 19.

@eibbed999 Oh gosh a month in hospital - the whole thing sounds so traumatic for you :( I hope its improving.

I am silly moaning about going out at night - until MJ (and elvanse) I have for the last few years had limited mobility in that I couldnt walk for more than about 8 minutes wtihout being in pain and needing to go back. Everything had to be planned around walking distance and parking and when i forst met my husband (before all the weight) I was in a walking group . It was one of the things I missed when struggling with pain and weight (and a chest infection that lasted/covid...) . I do think its amazing I can walk now and our weekend walks have been fantastic. I think its more the "need" to walk when I'm tired but I will reframe this in context of not being able to do this before.

The walking daily is really for the liver health (rather than weight loss) as its one of the things recommended and I did suspect my complete sedentary life for the last 5 years hasn't helped anything. And it is amazing I CAN walk now :) And yes the mental health benefits and the making time for it will be valuable. I often feel I dont have time and need to get bits of work done in the evening and then don't do them anyway so carving time for the evening will be healthier.

Oops thats long - I'm just thinking out loud so feel free to skim this everyone!

BMI is insane. It really shouldn't include boobs at all, we can't help having them! If I hit my recommended BMI weight for my height, I'll disappear if I turn sideways, and blow away in a strong breeze.

Building up your walking is a great plan @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden - you'll get there, bit by bit. It's sometimes dull and hard to find the time for, but I always seem to find the time for watching telly and arsing around on the internet! I'm using my dropping-off-things-for-Vinted as a walking plan - the ankle is so much better than it was, but might never be 'normal.' But I'm in a better place with it than I have been. Ironically, I lost 2 stone while I was in hospital/recovering - I was so traumatised I couldn't eat - but whacked that all back on once I was home and 'cheering myself up' with take-aways! But no more, Mounjaro has ended all of that and I couldn't be more grateful. I suspect as you say a lot of us have underlying organ fat conditions, and it's easy to slip into self-loathing about how we 'let ourselves' get so bad - except if didn't feel like a choice, did it? Nobody would make that choice - 'hurrah, I know what I'll do for fun, I'll eat myself to death!' It's a complicated issue that blends genetics, psychology, personal history and simple physical differences. Not everybody who overeats ends up morbidly obese. For me personally, Mounjaro has also made me feel better about myself - less self-loathing for sure!

Morning troops posting a day early as we’re away for the weekend and it will be bedlam tomorrow.
Week 17 in the lobster teapot house and 2 pounds off which takes me to 3 stone 6 off! Going to a wedding on Saturday and actually looking forward to wearing a dress and heels!

I find it difficult to get motivated to do something mid week while working too @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden especially after a long day it is hard to be motivated.

Do you have any opportunities to do it before work or during lunch? I have been trying (and mostly failing) to get a 30m slot where I go for a walk during lunch at work but I always seem to have a meeting overlapping my lunch break which means I don't get enough time.

I hate walking alone as have this silly notion people are looking/judging, but lunchtimes I feel less obvious, like I could be out at lunch going somewhere rather than just wandering around 🤣 I would love to get a dog again (we lost ours 18 months ago) to give me a 'reason' to walk more, but it is not the right time for us just now (and too expensive with the cost of Mounjaro too!)

So going to do the first ever injection this evening.
My stats.
Height 5 foot 5
Weight 21 stone 3 pounds
BMI 49.4
Will be taking 2.5 of mounjaro.

Not sure what my target weight is, i guess will know when I getcloser to it.
My interim target is 16 stone.

Hello @Weightlossprincess welcome, nice to have another new starter on the thread. Your starting stats are similar to mine, I was 21 stone 12 lbs and I'm about 1/2 an inch taller, so my BMI was 50.

Good morning!

@Weightlossprincess why not start with 10% as a goal? It’s less daunting than the long view! Then you can reset as you go!

Also, you could add in some non-scale victories (NSV) - I had one for being able to do up the plane seatbelt without an extender! And wearing some smaller jeans (the under-the-bed storage of forgotten clothes is a rich mine!)

I jabbed last night - 2nd dose from my 2nd 5mg pen as it’s still working well for me. I am going to stick with Wednesday as my day, I seem to escape most of the nausea that way. But I’m weighing on a Saturday. I’ve nearly re-lost my holiday gain so am back on the downward trajectory again, and it’s still easy.

Weight loss twins. How long have you been on it?
Hope its going well for you x

That's a really good idea, thank you.
I have 3 months till my next holiday, and would be lovely to not be embarrassed asking for an extension.
I remember Ryanair randomly allocating me an exit row seat once, and you are not allowed an extension in those. The flight attendant had to ask people near by to swap with me, it was mortifying!
10% and seatbelt by August would be fabulous!

@Weightlossprincess I am now 10 months since starting. I like numbers so found seeing lots of little milestones kept me motivated to keep going to each one. I used moving down the BMI classes as my main milestones in the beginning.

10 months on I have no idea my target weight is as I haven't been a healthy weight for 30+ years!! Under BMI 25 is the dream. I'll probably decide what it is when I get there!

I remember Ryanair randomly allocating me an exit row seat once, and you are not allowed an extension in those. The flight attendant had to ask people near by to swap with me, it was mortifying!

@Weightlossprincess Been there! Mortifying is the word had to sit there until everyone board before they shuffled us around in front of the whole bloody plane. The poor (male) steward was trying to make me feel better by saying (in front of everyone else) it must be the belt that is short on this seat/plane as we have passengers who are much larger than you all the time 😳

@Weightlossprincess I started at the beginning of July last year, so tomorrow it will have been 44 weeks, 10 months or so. It's been going really well, I was fortunate that I responded immediately to Mounjaro and lost weight from the first week. I am now 13st 12 lbs ish. I have a whole list of mini targets as it helps me to have an achievable goal that I can reach quickly and then move onto the next one. I set myself 6 main interim goals of losing 10% of my body weight each time, and I've hit four of those so far. I have a spreadsheet....!

Over the past few months I have gradually got rid of all of the various storage bags of clothing that I had stacked away. I had so many! Every time I thought I'd got the last one out, I'd find another. Clothes from years ago that I hoped to wear again, sizes from 16 up to 22, reflecting on how my weight and size has fluctuated over the last two decades or more. They've all gone into recycling, onto Vinted if decent, or back into my wardrobe if they fit and I still wanted to wear them. I find it such a weird relief that they are all gone and the clothes I have in my wardrobe are all the clothes I have.

My BMI was 50 when I started in Jan 2024.

I weighed 20st 2lb.

I now weigh 13st 1lb.

Have been on MJ since July 2024.

My BMI is still in the OBESE category, although I'm in size 12/14 clothes now.

BMI is nonsense, isn't it?
🤣

@Weightlossprincess I was once on a flight back from Turkey and I'd been put in a seat near the front that was narrower than the others. I literally couldn't even fit in it, never mind fasten a seatbelt. I had to spend the flight home sitting on one of those little fold-out chairs that the cabin staff use when they're taking off etc. People we'd made friends with on the holiday were on the same flight, and they kept coming over to ask if I was okay. It was one of the most embarrassing things ever. And after that I went on to add a few more stone! I'm off to Spain in July, and I know from past flights that I can fasten up if I'm around 280lbs, and I should be by then - though all it takes is for you to get an extra short belt because it's been repaired, and you're in trouble!

Absolutely love this idea. I might steal it

Here's my NSV.

We live in a little Scottish village. Two of the DC live in London. Because of the awful transport links, it takes 10/11 hours to travel to London from our part of Argyll.

Anyway - for years I've avoided making that journey because of my weight.

I have now booked tickets (First Class) 🤣 to go to London in July, to stay with my son.

I can't wait! I can walk without getting out of breath now.

I too have boxes of clothes that i can't get into.
Would be amazing to have some that are too big.
Do people buy new clothes constantly as you go, or do you try and make do until interim targets.
I love clothes, but would not want to replace a food addiction with a shopping addiction hahah

I feel your pain.

@Weightlossprincess I kept wearing my XXL size 22 but oversized things for a fair while at the start, with stretchy leggings and joggers so they were ok for a while. After they started to get too noticeably baggy, I got a few cheap "one size" dresses that fit around the bust but looser elsewhere, and wore those for a while with tights/leggings that I already had. Then I've been able to wear stuff from storage that now fits and that I still like, and I've only bought extra things from Vinted. I've been able to sell a decent amount of my old stuff on Vinted which has funded my purchases. So it hasn't been too expensive. But I WFH and no one cares what I wear, so I don't have to be smart or dressed up for anything which makes life easier.

I know there are things in my storage bags that I will want to wear. But there are also other things that are perhaps not me anymore. First dibs to the teen - even though they’re substantially smaller than I ever was! The rest will be charity shopped or sold on Vinted.

I do have a pair of jeans that I altered. Not sure what to do with those! I made them fit me, so probably useless for anyone else. I suppose I could alter them again. Or make them into something else entirely!!

i have a silk t-shirt I bought around 45 years ago. It’s hardly worn but I’ve always kept it because I love it! I think a silk t-shirt is cool! Maybe it’s time is coming, at last. And then I can say ‘oh, it’s vintage daaaaahling’!!

I'm just under 30 BMI and have now got size 8 PJ's from John lewis ( just the bottoms) widelegged elastic waist that fit nicely. Jeans and tops I can buy a 12 anywhere if it doesn't have buttons but still need to lose three stone to be healthy BMI. I'm kind of ignoring it now, I definitely need to lose a couple of stone, off my legs mainly but I will stop when I don't jiggle I reckon.