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 🥰

@AlwaysTimeForWine my DD is a bit older but on MJ. It’s been amazing for her. Low doses or staying on 2.5mg sounds like a good idea. Mine lost very fast at the beginning and has painful gallstones. She’s been seen by a consultant who says it’s likely she already had them but the rapid weight loss caused them to be symptomatic. I also had them in my 20s. So if you can encourage her to go slowly that would be a good idea I think.

@LindtCurves I don’t believe this nonsense about weight loss injections negatively effecting your face. My own face looks much much better since loosing the weight and I look younger too. It’s just another thing to bang on about for unimaginative journalists.

Talk about a NSV! I had a total stranger (a mum taking her son to school) this morning stop in the street simply to tell me I looked fabulous. Then at work I was told I looked like 'a princess'. I was wearing a floor length cream maxi; I never normally wear light colours but maybe I can now.

I think journalists are looking at celebs with pumped lips and a history of Botox rather than us normal people who just get slimmer faces as a result of weight loss.

Good lord! I am so sorry to hear you went through this. I was bullied as a child and teen for my weight and it was awful, it left a horrible stain on my confidence… I was actually overweight so to hear you had that when it was just natural curvaceousness is even worse. Well done to your mum for finally stepping up. I don’t want to overstep but I do wonder why both your dad and brother did that? It’s an odd thing to do.

I lost weight when I was a teen and bumped into a friend from school I hadn’t seen in a while. She told me ‘you’ve lost weight! I can tell! Your head looks bigger’.

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Love it! Dress sounds stunning too

My advice to anyone is to dose slowly. I am on week 30 and only went up to 4mg this week.

Just checking in…
injection day Thursday.

2 weeks ago I increased from 3.5mg to 3.75mg. On the Sunday and Monday my mood was very low but manageable. I recognised my mood was dipping so tried to divert my feelings by going out for a walk.
Last week, again on 3.75mg , again on the Sunday and Monday, my mood was low, not as low as the previous week, but it was low.

This week, I took a risk and upped to 4mg. I weighed up managing low mood versus upping suppression.
Yesterday was super busy, had the grandkids in the morning after they had a sleep over, I dropped them off a lunch time. Then met some chums for late lunch, then met another set of chums to go for an evening walk. Home, tired bed. Successful day!
However, today has been awful, I literally spiralled downwards, my mood was seriously low, I mean seriously low, By lunch time my head was pounding as I had been crying and felt so overwhelmed. I was able to recognise how I was feeling and I needed to do something positive and keep busy. I went for a walk, and I would say I walked for about 2 hours before I started to feel better.

I dithered about posting this as it’s not the most positive of posts, but I just want to keep a record of this side effect.

I would start on the 2.5mg and see how it goes. It’s a risk taking less as you might just be wasting it; what if it’s not enough to work? Lots of people don’t have any side effects when they start and if she eats well, good clean food it should help to keep them at bay too.

Sorry you have been feeling low @lovealongbath . I would happily stay on MJ for life given the effects on my weight but I suspect it may also be affecting my mood a bit so will try to come off at some point. Hope it clears soon 💐

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I plan to be on it for life too, just need to manage it best we can!

I honestly can’t understand but their logic is that because I obviously wasn’t overweight I should have known they weren’t serious and if I’d been fat they wouldn’t have said it. Db once said it when visiting dh and I in our first home with his then girlfriend (now wife). That was the last time he ever mentioned my weight. Dh was about to rage at him but sil got their first and he apologised. For reference, sil is the loveliest person and beautiful but she is a size 18-20 so I think db calling my size 10 body “fat” probably felt hurtful to her too.

It’s odd seeing your horrified response as it was just “normal” banter in my teen years. Db said I was a “forgetful bulimic - binge but forget you throw up”. 😳 No wonder I’ve never felt good enough 🫣 Overall I was very loved growing up and db was horrifically bullied at school so I guess I got it at home.

I can remember my neighbour saying to my mother “ you’d better stop feeding her or she won’t fit through the door” when I was 12. My mother laughed. When j challenged her afterwards she said he was only joking. But I can still remember how it felt to have a grown man comment on my clearly developing young body. I spent the next 40 years hiding myself. Hating attention from anyone other than my husband.
if anyone said that about one of my daughters I’d literally go through them. Still seems off to me that my mother didn’t defend me.

thing is I wasn’t fat at all. I just had two very skinny sisters. One with an eating disorder and one with an illness that made her vomit a lot. By comparison I was a healthy normal child.
Things like that affect us more than we ever realise.

i have just realised…..

Mj jab day is Thursday.
i change my HRT patch on a Thursday.
On a Thursday , I am boosting my system with hormones.
By Monday, the hormone levels of both medications are dropping significantly so it’s a double whammy of hormone loss.

Need to change my days about, see if it makes a difference.

I am so sorry to hear that so many of you have had similar experiences of the bullying, shaming, ‘teasing’, of our weights and bodies while growing up.
@flametrees , @Goldleafcat @TeenLifeMum and others.
the worst thing is that so much of this came from people who loved us. I realise now that as a result I grew up hurt and lonely a lot of the time, and food became my solace as well as the way people could hurt me, vicious circle.
I genuinely thought the bigger I was, the less people loved me.
I was put on diets from the age of 9 and even taken to a hypnotherapist and faith healer in my teens! To think this happened to us when we were vulnerable children and teenagers is quite shocking by today’s standards.

I am reading a brilliant book at the moment.
Let Them, by Mel Robbins.
It is a complete game changer for me. I have never read a ‘self help’ book before, but this could have been written especially for me! (And I really believe the majority of us on this thread). In fact I am reading it via audible and she reads it brilliantly, With such humour and expression.
I’m on the chapter about dealing with other people’s opinions. It is about life in general, but especially resonates with me in this particular area of my life.

I have been slightly dreading seeing my DM recently. We are very close but she has been highly critical of my weight/looks all my life, and unusually I hadn’t seen her for a couple of months. Normally she goes over the top if I lose some weight.
(eg ‘Gosh Darling, WELL DONE, you look so much better/prettier/less fat, please work hard and keep it off this time’, all said in front of other people!!!!)
But this time she just quietly and privately said that she had noticed I had lost quite a bit of weight and I was looking really healthy, then we moved on to other things.

I’m sorry @lovealongbath that you have been feeling pretty rotten. You may be right that spreading out the new patch and injection day might help.
After the first couple of years of HRT patches/pills, my Dr moved me to daily estrogen gel and separate tablets of progesterone. I felt much much better on it, especially as the gel dosage is more flexible, I can choose how many ‘squirts’ I have. Normally It’s 2 a day, but when we I was highly stressed a couple of years ago, moved up to 4 squirts, now back down to 2.

@MagnoliaTreePetals I’ve heard about the book. I might need to get on Audible as I’m struggling to sit and read at the moment. Much of my job is reading so it tends to be something I do on holiday as in the evenings I want to rest my eyes.

big nsv today for me. I felt quite fat yesterday. No reason, scales still say 10st 3, but my eyes were seeing bigger me and convincing me that’s how big I still am. Today I grabbed a dress to wear to work thinking “this might not fit as it’s not fit for a couple of years and I’m probably not slim enough on my hips yet”. Well, it does fit! And it fits nicely! It’s a generous size 10 (I think it’s likely a 12 on the hips as Laura Ashley was made for women with hips ime), but I’m wearing it and feeling good. What a difference a day makes!

Quick update from me: went to see the GP this morning (ordered an appointment online at 9 am, got one at 10:20… Can’t say fairer than that!) Regarding taking oral micronisedprogesterone whilst on MJ. My friend is a practice nurse and the advice that they have been given is to ensure that women who are taking MJ take their progesterone capsule vaginally rather than orally to ensure that there is adequate protection if taking oestrogen separately (which I am) the doctor was very interested in the guidance as he hadn’t heard it but was happy to switch the brand of progesterone pill. I was taking to ensure that I can do as I wished and as my friend advised. Whilst there he took my BP (very good) and said as you’ve lost a lot of weight let’s update your weight on your records… And then said ‘a gold star for you’ your BMI is 23. 0’ 🥰 I did have a couple of other issues to discuss as I am under a gynae consultant at the moment but all in all you can’t fault that sort of service!

Just sharing in case it applies to anyone on this thread who is taking HRT in a similar fashion.

in other news, I read an article last week (in the times I think?) Which suggested that fat burning loss is greater if you do weights before cardio rather than the other way round (which I normally do) so I’ve been doing that since last week and I do think that there is probably something in that advice because yesterday and today I don’t seem to have had my usual post weekend 1/2LBS gain at the start of the week… Sharing this tip in case it’s also useful!

Goodness! My mum was formerly a nurse so should’ve know better, but didn’t cook and was happy to feed us all the UPF’… whilst also commenting on everyone else’s cooking/diet…

Hope all went well? Definitely consider an eyelash lift if your eyebrow lady provides it, it’s a game changer.

People are just weird. I’d ignore personally! Remember to enjoy your new slim svelte self though!

Wishing your DD all the luck starting 💪

Totally agree

What a fantastic start of the day! The dress sounds lovely🥰