January 2025 Starters Thread 8. New clothes, new shoes, new bodies...

[Thelittlestranger]

Roll up, roll up ....

I'm just happy when something fits me tbh. Have spent a lot of my life not being able to shop in most high street stores...

I’m starting 10mg tomorrow- have not been great with food today, lack of groceries plus coming down with a cold I think so craving chocolate to feel better. I need to get my graph moving in a more positive way, so I’m hoping for higher suppression to aid in the making better choices aspect of my diet. I’ve been active this week though and am trying not to focus just on the scales.

I have done two pens at 5mg but moving up otherwise. Potentially moving to 12.5 before my holiday then will have to drop down again and titrate upwards as I’m not taking it with me as it won’t stay cool enough. Plus the stress of taking it through the airport 😱.

I've flown with mine plenty of times, nobody has even asked about it.

So, this is my wierd clothes one. My bras always used to annoy me. I would take them off as soon as I got in the door. Then, covid, wfh, weight gain and all of a sudden, I never think about my bra, don't take it off until I go to bed. But, now, 2.5 stones down and my bras have really started annoying me again. It's like tge fat layer was providing a cushion between me and the bra😅

@BreezyPeer could they be the wrong size? My bras annoy me if the back is too big, so the bra moves too much.

@HeavyHeidi Maybe? I do need to get measured for some new ones but I haven't got round to it yet. I dread to think how old some of these are 🤣

ah it's that then, your back size is probably quite a bit smaller after 2.5 stone loss. You can do it yourself: https://www.abrathatfits.org/calculator.php

@HeavyHeidi thank you! I will have a look xx

Checking in.

Jab day! 7th dose of 7.5, still working really well for me so no plans to increase. I've still got months to go though (estimated goal by October).
official weigh in in the morning.

Checking in, plus a thank you to everyone that has inspired me to be more more disciplined in the gym. I’m quite enjoying the weights and as gym crazy DS is back from uni I’m getting non stop advice! I’ve bought some smart scales and in only a week have dropped from actual age to a year below, despite lots of non green readings- I’ll take that as a win. For anyone that’s interested in doses at lower amounts, I’m taking between 2.1 and 2.2 mg weekly which gives me massive suppression on days 2 and 3 but quite hungry by day 6. Now I’m almost at goal (size 12 mostly/ 62kg) would like to lose a teeny bit more, I’ll need to decrease soon but even a tiny difference in dose has a noticeable effect in me so will be learning as I go.

First week where I have actually gained about 500gr.
It's the bastarding 62 kilos, my sticky point - I was 62.1 last week. Even when I lost quite a bit of weight in my 20s, could not get past that one. Seems my body has clearly decided that it will be a sticky this time as well.
We will see.

Do you take it in hand luggage @HeavyHeidi ? How do you dispose of needles? I’m off to Japan in a couple of months and debating what to do, I could put it in my hold luggage and you don’t actually need to keep the pen in the fridge once opened do you, but I’m wondering about the needles, guess I could take a small Tupperware to put the used needles in?

yes I've just taken it in hand luggage. I've used ice packs too once when going to Middle East, just put it separately on the belt then and still nobody even checked. Airports often have sharps bins so can dispose there.

eurgh, going up to 8.5mg hasn’t been good, diaorrhea and suppression off the scale! Managed way less than 1000 calories yesterday which just isn’t sustainable. Think 7.5mg may be the place to stay for a while!

Voy sent me out a small sharps container with the first order, it's about the size of a purse. I haven't used it because I already have a large sharps bin from doing my own b12 injections. If you'd like it for your trip, I'd be happy to post it to you?

@MJalltheway thats so so kind of you🥰 if you’re sure, that would be amazing, but you’d need to let me pay you.I’ll dm you, thank you xxx

SW 101kg
CW 87kg
GW 70kg
loss this week 1.1kg which nicely balances out the 0.2kg loss last week!
14 down, 17 to go. I might be being ambitious with the goal weight, it's the lowest I've ever been as an adult and it's what I weighed when I got married 21 years ago. But if there's any time I'm going to get there, it's now!

I had a really odd sensation yesterday. I was in a meeting not concentrating 😂and looked down at my legs and couldn’t stop thinking about them being too thin! I also wore a dress on Wednesday and felt weird all day because, again I felt ‘too thin’!? I’m not too thin at all, I wouldn’t be a healthy bmi until I lost another stone and a half at least! I’m aiming to lose another 10lbs to reach my own goal.

Has anyone else had trouble adjusting to their ‘new body’??

I'm not sure how I feel about my new Renpho scales. Not only are they weighing me nearly 2lbs heavier than my other digital scales (offensive and rude!) which my head is struggling with but I cannot work out how they can give an accurate reading of most of the stats.

Visceral fat (low) via my feet? But more importantly how does it distinguish between skeletal muscle (low average) and muscle mass (high)?

The good news most are in the green - apart from weight, subcutaneous fat, BMI and skeletal muscle.

I know I'm going to get sucked in, but I have questions.

@Laura7010 yes certainly. I haven't reached 'too thin' stage yet, but funny things like I panicked because I felt a lump and then realised it was just my bones. And I keep picking up clothes and thinking that no way will this fit, and then the item turns out to be too big. Hve no idea what I look like.

@Laura7010 definitely.

I'm also struggling that I have another half stone to go until I'm in the 'healthy' BMI range when I'm lighter than I've been since my teens. And people (who know I'm on WI) ask me how much more I want to lose, ans surely I must be done yet. Their 'too thin' isn't actually 'too thin' it's just not their picture of me. I also worry that there is no way I'm going to be able to keep this off.

But,.I'm slightly anxious in general this morning (due on) so tomorrow is another day.

Week 27 WI and 1.8lb lost.

SW 11st 5 BMI 28.2
CW. 9st 8.4. BMI 23.8
GW. 9st BMI 22.3

I’m 0.4lbs below predicted weight for next Friday when I fly out so there’s capacity for a little indulgence 🤣

Good luck to all weighing in

I bought a frio for when I go to Egypt to make sure it stays below 30 when traveling. I got sent a container when they were out of sharps bins which was a medicine bottle, you know the type you struggle to open so I will take that with me. If not travelling with children Tupperware would be fine. When I was away for just a week I just put it back in it's packaging and brought it home

Oh here you all are 👋

I panicked because I felt a lump and then realised it was just my bones

This made me laugh. I know what you mean - I always have an itchy back and just this week have had a bit of a shock when I scratch it as it feels a bit bony!

Ive weighed this morning and I've lost 3lbs meaning I'm only 1lb away from goal 😮

SW: 13.6
CW: 10.7
GW: 10.6

I took my first jab on 17th jan so it's been only 15 weeks to lose almost 3 stone. I'm amazed and very pleased. My bmi has gone from 28.6 to 22.4.

Dose wise Ive gone up with each pen 1 x 2.5mg, 1 x 5mg, 1 x 7.5mg (plus taking a couple of bonus doses) and then I've just taken an extra 20 clicks of my 7.5mg bonus dose with my new 7.5mg pen as I felt suppression had waned. Il probably do the rest of the 7.5mg pen as normal and then titrate down for maintenance. I just hope I can maintain ok as that's the hardest part isn't it? But hopefully with MJ it'll be different this time.