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

[Thelittlestranger]

Roll up, roll up ....

Yeah, my Renpho still put me a year older and when I was comparing stats with someone who has lost a load of weight on WI, but has done NO exercise at all - all of her stats looked better than mine. So, I'm still not convinced while still wanting to be convinced 🤣

My husband does keep on asking me when I'm going to stop too...

A new low this morning of bang on 9st 7! Who ever thought I could be bloody 9 and a half stone?!

Long time no post but I've just ordered 12.5 from Medicine Market Place after once month on 10 (well I'm on week 3 of 5 doing dose 4 Thursday) Not sure if it's the right decision or not as 10s been hit and miss but for £135 I may as well get it and dose 10 from it if needed.

This week has marked my first comments about my weight loss. I'm 2lb off 3 stone loss. And still at least 1.5 to go. But literally I've had several comments in the last few days and nothing before this. I always think of the kitchen roll analogy that I read here. I guess the roll looks like it's doing down now!

I inject on Thursdays but on Saturday I still didn't feel like I had suppression and was eating stupidly. Then Sunday it hit and I still feel it's working now but I don't know why it seems to kick in so late for me. I weigh on Saturday but I had stayed this same this week but since then I've felt lots of water coming off me so I think maybe I've lost a bit now 🤞🏻

Honestly Medexpress are one of the most expensive as doses go up. I have just ordered 12.5 and I've not paid more than £150 for any dose. Medicine Market Place are the cheapest but I've jumped suppliers for new customer deals. I was with IQ Doctor for a while as they have good customer service I was very happy there and they have competitive prices with new discount codes each month. They price match supposedly but they are out of stock of lots of doses so that's why I've finally gone to MMP. I am not expecting the best customer service but as long as I get my medicine right? 🙈

Thanks so much a med express is so expensive - I’ve done my last pen, I just haven’t been very organised and it has cost me dearly but I realised I was running it tight in terms of getting the pen and so panicked!

However my mood lightened this morning as I am the lightest Ive been in 20 years! So whilst I’ve “paid” for it, I’m giving myself a small cheer and a big break for being disorganised!

I‘m with Voy they are expensive but I’ve had no problems so for ease have stuck with them.

When you change suppliers, is it relatively easy? I may need to switch, have accepted I need this long term having gained 5lbs on holiday even though I was much better than I am
normally. Only had 4 days off plan - so it doesn’t make sense but my weight never has.

Well sone on all losses, nsv and huge sympathy to people struggling.

Its very easier to change suppliers it's a case of taking a picture of the box of your previous prescription. Sometimes they ask for a new full picture (pilsorted did I believe) or uploading ID. For medicine market place they require the pic of the prescription and a short video of you on the scale which is the most I've had to do changing but easy enough.

Thank you @sociallydistained ive a pen due this week so will think about changing next month.

Super easy to switch, I've done
ZAVA 2.5mg £108,
iq doctor 5mg £101,
pill sorted 5mg £106,
curate 7.5mg £132,
curate 10mg £122

Each provider just wanted a picture of the previous box/label plus picture of me and scales. Tried to get a price match with iq doctor but they declined so I moved on, otherwise I've had no interactions to comment on their customer service. Looks like a new provider has just come on Monj.co.uk and is cheapest so if I decide on a further pen then I'll just go with that.

TBC on my maintenance plans for now as TTC will be on the horizon...

Thank you @asparagusfearne TTC - exciting !

@BlueLimes exciting indeed, but worried for if things aren't straightforward! At least I'll have got my weight well into 'healthy' first.

@asparagusfearne wishing you all the best.
i was very anxious throughout pregnancies, but of a journey.. My DH said something really helpful (He had statistics background yeard ago) rather than thinking 20% risk, he said think of it as 80.% will be fine, you’d take those odds. It sounds simple but really helped my non stats brain.

Evening losers!

Couple of things today…

Weighed 61kg on the juniper scales. Lightest I’ve been, still within my preferred range. I had a bit of cupcake and a square of choc today which hit the spot. Trying not to deny myself treats, and after a bite of each I was totally satiated. But I think that’s the MJ working. I do think I’ll need to titrate down but then I also wonder what happens to the cravings when you give in on a lower dose.

Work friend who hasn’t seen me since July last year was openly commenting on my weight loss in a way no one has done before “skin and bone, there’s nothing of you, you’ve disappeared, I didn’t recognise you, just checking you’re not unwell” she’s younger than me and I’m sure these are all acceptable ways in her mind to positively acknowledge weightloss. I was chatting to her about a job opportunity, so the pressure was on her to be nice. I said ‘oh yeah I’ve lost it on purpose, I was obese before, perimenopause etc, so I needed to go on a diet’ But I did feel a bit vulnerable, maybe I really do need to sort my wardrobe, maybe 61kg really is too low. I have a friend who started WLI a few weeks after me and we both call each other Skinny Bitch as a joke. But that somehow feels more acceptable as it’s a mutual term of endearment. It’s odd isn’t it? Dealing with comments, not knowing how to feel.

@DGonMJ I think when we lose weight it can take a little while for the "skin suit" to catch up and so we don't look quite right for a while, maybe a little gaunt etc. But give it a little time for everything to balance out and for the weight loss to stabilise/evenly distribute around the body and I don't think you'd get any comments like that anymore. Plus everyone will be used to the new slim you! Congrats, you've done so well! 🎉

I'm getting a lot of positive comments, and a few 'stop now, you're too skinny!' ones, but no that's definitely not the case here. Nobody would look at me and seriously think that I'm unhealthy because I'm underweight.
And yes it takes a while for everything to settle. I do need to go get some fillers though. Love my cheekbones, but temples are too hollow.

So I’ve bought the Renpho scales this week. My husband set them up for himself as he loves doing that sort of stuff and couldn’t wait. He was HORRIFIED by his stats! I did warn him that the scales were rude but he still went ahead first 🤣. They are now called the Rudeboy scales. And I’ve added ‘14% protein’ to my work email signature (not really. But I did want to!).

@Polkadotdash 🤣 (annoyed they took away the laugh emoji reaction but I guess that was open to someone abusing it 😢)

Wore my new size 14 (OMG) jeans to work today. They fit very nicely when standing up but (TMI alert) were within a whisker of splitting my vagina in two whilst sitting down.

I was SO happy on the train when the seat next to me vacated and I could turn to the side and cross my legs - the relief! 😅

Couple of days off food-wise! Had birthday cake yesterday (not mine) and takeaway today. Takeaway was yuck though so didn't eat much. The cake was delicious (I made it 😁) but just had a teeny slice.
my usual Tuesday exercise class was a bit rubbish today - normal instructor on holiday - so jumped on the rowing machine as well when I got home. I am so enjoying just moving!
Wore an old-size pair of trousers to work today but def can't do that any more, they were hanging off me. Another pair to go on Vinted.
ive decided that I'll list things on Vinted for a month and if they don't sell, its off to a charity shop.

LOL @Polkadotdash , like my style app advising me how to best hide my "large thighs". Rude!
Like the plus size shops in Thailand, they don't do any of the 'curvy and voluptious' niceties. nypost.com/web-stories/thailand-plus-size-stores-are-called-fat-girls-and-moo-moo/

@meatyryvita 🤣🤣🤣 I have a pair of jeans like that!!

So, I made my husband remeasure my height today after telling me a few weeks ago I'd shrunk by 1.5inches. it was annoying me, so I got him to mark my height on a wall with a pencil as if I was 5 years old.

Turns out I haven't 🙄 and I'm a massive 156cms. Which also means Im now finally in healthy BMI. I mean, I already was, I just didn't know it. So, NSV sort of today.

The other thing I am finding this week is that my second 10mg dose is causing me some issues. Feeling quite sickly and completely off all food. Not had this since my first 5mg pen. Not sure I should have gone up to 10. Might come back to 7.5mg for next pen unless it settles.

Does anyone have psoriasis and has noticed any impact? Mine is shockingly bad at the moment - I suspect it’s just a random flare up, but would be interested to hear if anyone has noticed any sort of change.

Morning, another early start/long day ahead here. You’ll laugh, I did my usual wee and weigh on getting up and I seemed to have lost 3kg. I stood on the scales three times, thinking that I must need to change the batteries or something, then I noticed that my pyjama top was underneath one side of them. Drat, anyway still a small loss. 89.8kg.

congratulations @MananaPenelope ! FInally the scale decided to start moving.