Mounjaropen Starters Nov ‘24 Thread 11 - The one where we have no chub rub and are wearing ALL the shorts as we head into June 🥳

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Link to last thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5319727-mounjaro-starters-nov-24-thread-10-the-one-where-we-are-very-nearly-beach-body-ready?page=40&reply=144487572

Welcome to thread 11 to fellow MN weight loss friends old and new!
Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we throw away the tent dresses, have no chub rub and wear ALL the damn shorts as we head towards Summer Holiday Season. 🙌

Join us here to celebrate NSV’s, weight loss milestones and generally mutually admire our new svelte frames!

I’m on W29 D5 and on my third 7.5mg pen
F in my early 50’s
H 5’ 5.5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 10st 1.8lbs
GW 9st 13.9 (maybe 9st 7lb if I can)
Total loss so far 51.2 lbs

We recommend the Shotsy app to monitor the amount of MJ in the system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free.

Feel free to swap recipes that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for managing side effects, exercise tips, tips for maintenance, titrating up or down and we love a wellness/supplements/beauty/ style chat too 🥰

RIP my arse… it’s completely disappeared 😢 however,Boobs are no longer the first thing you see when you meet me… Thankfully, RIP Hattie Jacques bosom shelf 😂… But I am still a 32J 🙌

Mine are too, especially at the top of the thighs which have traditionally always been Chaka Khan sized 😂

Morning everyone,

weekly check in

i have disappointingly stayed the same.

Once again my mood has been low this week and no motivation to do anything.
My mojo has got up and gone!

Forced myself to go out and walk in a hope that it would improve my mood, this week my step count is 73,109.

However, on a positive note, I got myself a M & S beauty bag. £210 worth of assorted products for £35. My attitude was I will give anything I don’t want, like or have a use for to my daughters. When I got home, I opened everything and I love it all, so much so, I returned to M &S and got another one.

Lucky! 😁

I have a wardrobe full of different sized clothes. Really need a sort out as just because something fits, it doesn’t mean I’ll ever wear it.

i need swimwear for holiday in august and I’m holding off. One company said no returns but I was going to order a few to try so guess I can’t use that company.

My weightloss has stuck to my usual patterns - boobs, waist, thighs. Bum still holding on. I’m a 12 in most clothes but by buying A line dresses I was still wearing some 12s even at my biggest when in reality I was a 16 in denial.

Just having an iced americano in the garden before my mad day of work begins. Working from home with the puppy. She’s super chilled so it’s a nice thing. Treating myself to gel nails later and haven’t decided on a colour yet.

Yes, absolutely! I had to go to a proper bra shop and get fitted because I just couldn’t get my size right. It was an independent shop and the woman running it was so helpful, I've got a whole set of new bras and I feel so much better.

I’ve always been an hourglass and I knew exactly how to dress. I’m now a boyish shape - no hips, less bust, narrow frame and I don’t know what looks good. It’s really hard to buy new clothes because I don’t know what I’m looking for. My favourite look is Annie Hall which I could never pull off as an hour glass - but I’ve bought 2 pairs of very Annie Hall inspired trousers in the Toast sale to see if it works. The summer sales are on now so a good time to order and try new things.

My bum has completely disappeared too but I’m glad - I love the look of a smaller bum in my jeans!

I’ve been struggling with BPPV (vertigo) all week. I’ve not been able to do any of my usual fitness activities. I haven’t even been able to go for a walk. I can’t drive or move my head. Hoping it settles down quickly. I was due my jab yesterday but I was too anxious to take it as I already feel so sick and dizzy. I’ve just done my first week of maintenance and my weight has stayed the same, just moving up and down the same lb during the week.

i ended up at the hospital after I went to the GP for them to check out my heart and low blood pressure. The hospital dr said as I was ‘very slight’ low BP might be perfectly normal for me. Why thank you!

my body has changed from an apple to a rectangle. I still have boobs (30ff) but they are a lot less in your face than they have been most of my life.

ive ordered a dress in the coast sales for a work event next week. It’s a size 8 and the reviews say it was too big at the bust so I’m hoping that will make it perfect for me. Fingers crossed.

It’s a very good week. I’ve had a whoosh, over a kilo down yesterday, and it stayed off this morning. And today had an offer on the house I inherited.

Im over the moon for both.

SW 140kg
Sw mounjaro 104.8kg
cw 85kg
next Goal 80kg
GW 70ish?

Love this!

Reading posts about thinner legs and am now holding out hope to finally have skinny legs at some point!

But actually they might be a bit slimmer than they were?

Bum is definitely smaller, but it wasn’t a great shape to start with. Now my tummy has finally started to recede it looks a bit more in proportion again.

To clarify - love the M&S beauty bag bit!

Weighing In Day

Another 1.5 lb gone, lowest weight for over 30 years!
SW 16.5
CW 12.6
only 1lb until 4stone loss.

A slightly strange week in that although I am not getting hungry in-between meals & the side effects are unusually negligible, I have been getting an almost instinctive drive to eat, eat, eat. It is taking a LOT of willpower to resist.
It's as if an inner voice has been turned on, at full volume, and every instinct is getting me to eat something, anything, even though I am not hungry.

Is this because I am now at a lower weight than I have been for 30 years?
Is this what 'set point' is? Does my body think my weight is now too low or something?
It shouldn't be hormonal as I've been stable on HRT for a couple of years.
My BMI is 26.5, so I still have a way to go before I get to a 'healthy' weight.

The question is, I am on 10mg, It's working well in other aspects. Do I move up to 12.5 and risk more side effects again? Would moving up even cancel this new 'food noise', given that the 10mg dose is working in all other aspects?

Do any of you lovely people have any similar experience, thoughts or advice?

I've now got the same problem. My glasses keep slipping down my nose and my face. They're quite new and hadn't really thought abought needing slimmer faced glasses.

NSV I needed some new tights and Amazon insisted I should order large despite me entering my new weight into the box. Stupidly I listened and my tights gave me elephant ankles yesterday as they were so loose. I've reordered them in small and put the unused ones in the charity bag. Hopefully I've not been too optimistic skipping medium 🤞

I would move up. You can always go down again next month.

I completely agree with those saying their shape has changed. I’ve always been self conscious of my large bum … it’s disappeared 😳 I’m almost at goal, 3lb away from 4 stone down, but still have a tummy and legs look skinny but have a sticky out bit at the inner thighs. Anyway, I’m telling myself I’m in my 50s and won’t have the same shape as 30 years and 3 children ago! Such a lovely supportive group, I don’t post much but love reading everyone’s success stories. I still haven’t told anyone IRL, not even my DH. And a few colleagues and a friend have recently started. Feel like I’ve kept it a secret for so long I can’t possibly tell anyone now 😬 🤦‍♀️

@Mounjaropen did you say that you were with Pharmulous and that you could pick up from there? After receiving a lukewarm pen I need to switch to somewhere I can pick up from.

or it could be another of the November 24 posse.

Hi all, long time lurker very occasional poster, I think I’m pretty much at my goal weight now… woohoo!! But now what…? I’ve started lowering the dose a bit.. but that week I gained two pounds… not doing anything wild, just eating a bit more normally 🫠; and exercising alot… does anyone have a plan? I’m sort of happy to stay on it indefinitly if they will give it to me… but not sure whether they will?
Starting weight - 14st 1
CW 9st 7
GW 9st 5

@Thatpastalife Congrats on your weight loss 🎉

Yes they will. Hira Malik, Oushk, said on her Facebook live last night that they are happy to prescribe forever if that’s is what you need. GPs are bound by NHS guidelines but as a pharmacy they follow Eli Lilly guidelines.

I definitely need to do some exercise, but I just can’t be bothered 😂 When I was fatter, my legs were fat but they felt firmer despite being much bigger. Now I’ve lost 4 stone, I’ve still got quite fat legs but they’re like wobbly fat. I need to keep going and lose a couple more stone, but I’m worried that my legs are just going to get saggier. It can’t all be loose muscle either surely, so I’m not even sure how much exercise will help but I obviously need to give it a go.

@Thatpastalife I’m on the oushk taper maintenance plan. My plan is to slowly work my way back down the doses keeping a close eye on my weight and appetite. I went down to 7.5mg from 10 this week. I’ve also redone my calories and protein intake based on maintaining weight and not losing and my plan is to up my calories 100 a day each week until I’m eating my maintenance or if I can see I’m not maintaining but gaining. I want to work out what maintenance looks like for me. I will also continue exercising which is currently 10-12k steps a day, running twice a week, swimming once a week, gym 1-2 times a week.

although my plans were scuppered this week as I’ve not been well so I’ve done no exercise and I’ve not taken my jab yet this week.

on the Oushk live last night Hira suggested that the conti plan (and perhaps being in this for life) would work best for people that had spent most of their adult life overweight; taper would be best for those that had put weight on due to pregnancy, Covid, menopause etc and that flexi was there as a safety net for those who decided to come off.

I'm exactly the same @memphismayhem .
Generally shrunk all over: Bottom gone, I have a waist and very pleased with my collar bones and slim forearms/wrists, but still got quite a roll around lower tummy & my inner thighs seem very 'loose'. I am not losing too much too quickly but perhaps in time things will tighten up a bit.
I agree that in my 50's my shape is probably going to be different from when I was last this 'slim' in my 20's
Ive still got 10lb to go.
Anyone know of a magic method that can target the tummy roll?? 😁

Wow! Thats a phenomenal weight loss, congratulations! 🥳

If you want to stay on MJ long term Oushk pharmacy offers a maintenance system where you pay £15 a month to stay on their books which gives the option to buy a pen if you feel you need it. You need to book a phone consultation which costs £5.

I have a consultation booked but haven’t had it yet, a few people on this thread have already had theirs I think.

So if we’ve got no bum what is the most flattering way to dress?