Page 33 | 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 🥳

Mounjaropen · 2025-05-23T13:45:04+00:00

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 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 🥰

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:27

Goldleafcat · 23/06/2025 18:12

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.

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Sorry to hear of your troubles as a child, I hope you are now surrounded by people who value you for your qualities rather than your dress size 🥰

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:28

Goldleafcat · 23/06/2025 18:18

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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Bloody hell! That’s a dreadful thing to say

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:32

lovealongbath · 23/06/2025 18:58

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’m glad you’ve shared this. And I’m sorry to hear that you are feeling so down. Do you think it is all hormone related? Or might there be something else at play? Well done, recognising the symptoms I’m taking yourself out of your head for awhile though. Hope you’re feeling better today? Do the symptoms wear office time goes on during the week? What about if you were to split the dose across the week?

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:34

random223 · 23/06/2025 20:07

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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Hope you are feeling better soon too. I quite enjoyed the GIF as it was so random!😂

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:48

flametrees · 23/06/2025 22:26

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.

Bloody hell, that’s awful. I had a narcissist for a mother. She loved people criticising me.

Probably why I have no fucks left to give as I had to grow up with an extremely tough exterior 😂

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:50

MagnoliaTreePetals · 24/06/2025 09:31

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.

Thanks for the book recommendation! Sounds interesting.

Glad your mother was more measured in her approach this time. Keep going! 💪

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:53

TeenLifeMum · 24/06/2025 10:07

@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!

🥳 new/old dress klaxon! Enjoy wearing it 🥰

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flametrees · 24/06/2025 13:00

@MagnoliaTreePetals my dad would always add “keep it up” after Abu complement in a way that insinuated I wouldn’t.

something changed in me this year and I think I’m finally free of the weight of their opinions.

Pumpkinforever · 24/06/2025 13:58

Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 12:20

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

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Wow what a difference it makes. I had forgotten the impact. Really pleased I had it done. Will definitely consider a lift next time. At least for next 5 weeks I will not have to bother with mascara (which I tend to splodge on as I missed school mascara lesson 😂)

I quite happily chatted to my lovely thin eyebrow lady about MJ which is something that I am not doing with my real friends. She reckons half of her clients are on it, even the skinny ones who want to stay size 8 and most of the ones who have just had a baby. To quote ‘there will be no obese women in this area only those who can’t afford weight loss injections and hardly anyone will be overweight here in a year or two’. Bloody hell I thought I need to crack on and lose another stone asap 😂 She reckoned some have adopted funny dosing. She knew all the MJ jargon.

BlueWalker · 24/06/2025 15:08

@MagnoliaTreePetals Just an FYI; last week I reordered my twice weekly oestrogen patch/daily progesterone tablet combi for the first time and was informed they've received updated clinical guidance regarding MJ and oral progesterone so I had 2 choices. Either take double the progesterone tablet dose, or go for a combi oestrogen/progesterone patch since skin absorption is less affected by a slower dietary transit than the oral tablets. I plumped for the latter; due to stick my first combi patch on this evening.

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Mounjaropen · 24/06/2025 16:15

BlueWalker · 24/06/2025 15:08

@MagnoliaTreePetals Just an FYI; last week I reordered my twice weekly oestrogen patch/daily progesterone tablet combi for the first time and was informed they've received updated clinical guidance regarding MJ and oral progesterone so I had 2 choices. Either take double the progesterone tablet dose, or go for a combi oestrogen/progesterone patch since skin absorption is less affected by a slower dietary transit than the oral tablets. I plumped for the latter; due to stick my first combi patch on this evening.

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I just posted above (in one of my MANY catch up posts 😂) that I was advised to take progesterone vaginally rather than orally to combat the issue..this is only achievable with the branded micronised Progesterone (Utrogestan) which GP's don't like to prescribe as it is more expensive....

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Goldleafcat · 24/06/2025 16:32

BlueWalker · 24/06/2025 15:08

@MagnoliaTreePetals Just an FYI; last week I reordered my twice weekly oestrogen patch/daily progesterone tablet combi for the first time and was informed they've received updated clinical guidance regarding MJ and oral progesterone so I had 2 choices. Either take double the progesterone tablet dose, or go for a combi oestrogen/progesterone patch since skin absorption is less affected by a slower dietary transit than the oral tablets. I plumped for the latter; due to stick my first combi patch on this evening.

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I have the combi patches too! Only started HRT a few weeks ago and this is what the GP told me and prescribed. 2 weeks of just oestrogen patches, then 2 weeks of the combined patches.

I’m on week 1 of the combined patch, but my period decided to rock up last week anyway so no clue what happens when I finish the fortnight of the patches with progesterone. Hopefully not another period but 🤷‍♀️

Goldleafcat · 24/06/2025 16:37

TeenLifeMum · 23/06/2025 20:19

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.

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I’m glad things are loads better between you all now and yay for your lovely SIL too.

Goldleafcat · 24/06/2025 17:56

@SerenePeer Have you heard back from Hair & Me? I’ve not had an email to confirm anything but when I logged in there is a bit which says what to expect in your box which states Minoxidil 0.5mg (capsules)! So I’m guessing I’m getting that at some point?

(wonder if I’ll end up the bearded lady 🧔‍♀️)

Goldleafcat · 24/06/2025 18:52

Goldleafcat · 24/06/2025 17:56

@SerenePeer Have you heard back from Hair & Me? I’ve not had an email to confirm anything but when I logged in there is a bit which says what to expect in your box which states Minoxidil 0.5mg (capsules)! So I’m guessing I’m getting that at some point?

(wonder if I’ll end up the bearded lady 🧔‍♀️)

Email has arrived! I shall see how things go. I also have a referral code if anyone is interested.

Shall see how hairy I become, hopefully it at least helps slow down the hair loss!

(starts thinking about body hair removal options just in case I become a yeti)

SerenePeer · 24/06/2025 20:16

Goldleafcat · 24/06/2025 17:56

@SerenePeer Have you heard back from Hair & Me? I’ve not had an email to confirm anything but when I logged in there is a bit which says what to expect in your box which states Minoxidil 0.5mg (capsules)! So I’m guessing I’m getting that at some point?

(wonder if I’ll end up the bearded lady 🧔‍♀️)

@goldleafcat yes! Apparently the 5% drops are in the post! 🤞I hoping as I have the drops, they won't add anymore chin hairs to the collection 🙈

SerenePeer · 24/06/2025 20:20

Checking in and catching up! In London this week so just had my expensive wanky salad (so bloody tasty though!).

Realised I have a bit of a wardrobe malfunction 🙈 The new dress i bought to wear in the office tomorrow is sleeveless with a suggestion of a racer back. Trouble is I forgot and didnt try it on with a bra until I was unpacking tonight...so how uncouth is it to have your bra straps on show? Asking for a friend ahem 🙈

BlueWalker · 24/06/2025 20:30

SerenePeer · 24/06/2025 20:20

Checking in and catching up! In London this week so just had my expensive wanky salad (so bloody tasty though!).

Realised I have a bit of a wardrobe malfunction 🙈 The new dress i bought to wear in the office tomorrow is sleeveless with a suggestion of a racer back. Trouble is I forgot and didnt try it on with a bra until I was unpacking tonight...so how uncouth is it to have your bra straps on show? Asking for a friend ahem 🙈

Do you have a paperclip or hairband or similar? Lengthen normal bra straps then clip them together to form a racer back. I managed it once with gaffer tape.

SerenePeer · 24/06/2025 20:34

MagnoliaTreePetals · 24/06/2025 09:31

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.

Oooh i love Mel Robbins - she has a good podcast too.

SerenePeer · 24/06/2025 20:37

@lovealongbath that's interesting about job and patch days....I had a spell of feeling low that I suspected was probably mj related. But after moving my jab day to a Sunday (away from patch day) it seems to have improved

SerenePeer · 24/06/2025 21:00

BlueWalker · 24/06/2025 20:30

Do you have a paperclip or hairband or similar? Lengthen normal bra straps then clip them together to form a racer back. I managed it once with gaffer tape.

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Oooh good idea!

MsRumpole · 25/06/2025 06:33

Hello! Guidance needed. One way or the other, I haven't taken a shot for nearly 3 weeks, and Shotsy says I am down to 1mg in my system. I have a 7.5mg pen. Any views on whether I just take the whole shot or whether I take say 5mg and work back up?

jay55 · 25/06/2025 06:41

You’re meant to go back to 2.5 after a break. After my hols in December I did one week 2.5 then back up to 5, but 5 was as high as I’d gone.
id probably do 2.5, 5, then 7.5.

lovealongbath · 25/06/2025 07:28

By now, you know what your body can tolerate.

Erring on the side of caution, I would take 2.5mg then 5mg then 7.5mg.

however, if there was zero impact a few days after taking 2.5mg I might be tempted to take another 2.5mg mid week.

Pumpkinforever · 25/06/2025 07:36

just tidying up the klaxon cupboard so there is a shelf for dress sizes, stones/kilos and BMI categories. Anyway guess what

📣📣📣 overweight and no longer obese 📣📣📣

Thank you MJ and to the November Support Crew.

Family event at the weekend and I don’t have to hide in the photos. Have posted my NHS BMI. I started at 40.9 in November and I am now 29,6.

SW 100.7kg / 15 stone 12lbs
CW 73.48 kg / 11 stone 8lbs
Total Loss 27.2kg/ 4 stone 4lbs /60 Guinea pigs/

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 🥳