June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (title edited by MNHQ at request of the OP)

[Potterson13]

Hi everyone!

I started MJ around this time last year, but due to costs and unforeseen family circumstances, I fell of the band wagon and took about 6 months off. I’m now a stone heavier than I was. I am back and ready to go again. First pen, back to 2.5mg, arriving tomorrow or Friday.

I found the last thread I was on very supportive so wondered if there’s a few people around who want to join me!

I’m out tonight and have just had 3rd jab. Feeling ok but would prefer a night on the sofa! There will be a lot of booze and food but hoping that there wont be too much pressure. We are in London and it’s v near so driving isn’t an option. If asked I’m just going to say that I’m cutting back. DH knows I’m on a diet but not about the jabs!

W1D5 suppression still going strong, I can imagine that people go for hours without eating. I find I have to force myself to eat regularly and have no sensation of being full, it doesn’t matter if I eat a lot or a little so using the opportunity to train myself on portion size. Oddly D4 I had cravings for sweet things just out of the blue. Gave in to the chocolate digestive - just the one! But today no sight of the cravings 🤷🏼‍♀️anyone else experience cravings later on in their jab week?

If it’s not too late, I’d like to join as well. Have just been approved and received my pen today. However going to wait until next weekend to start as have a really tough few days at work next week and a social event so don’t want side effects to have an impact. Quite nervous now I’ve got it!

2 weeks in, had 3rd dose tonight. So far I have lost 10lbs, and it's been relatively drama free. One random day of loose stools, and slight nausea for 1 day but otherwise all good!
Hope everyone is managing OK with minimal side effects?
Filo x

Its 9 pm. Just did my first one! 4ft 11, 72 kg. Currently. I've got in meds for diarrhoea, nausea, got Seabands and stuff for indigestion and hopefully won't need them.

Weighed today 2llbs on ! Eating right . Going to gym. My body hates losing weight. So peed off. I follow my calories in my fitness pal. Do everything I should. May see GP as this is not new

Week three starting today for me, jabbed yesterday

SW 101kg
CW 94. 55kg
Gw 60kg

Not feeling the suppression quite as strongly today, but have a thundering headache. Going to have some strong coffee and see if that helps, I didn't drink as much coffee as I usually do yesterday so it could be a caffeine headache.

Ordered my second pen last week and it's still waiting for review so glad I ordered it early, have one more dose /two weeks for it to turn up

Getting protein in has been challenging. I have yet to find a protein /collagen supplement that isn't utterly grim and I'm vegetarian. It's involved a lot of beans. I don't really like tofu or seitan either. Really making life difficult for myself 😅

Weight loss definitely slowed down a lot last week so hoping it doesn't just stall completely this week

I’m at the end of week one, down 2.5lb and feeling disappointed.

that’s not reasonable, is it? If I’d lost 2.5 on my own I’d be delighted!

I got this earlier this week, you still need to shake it like a protein shake but it just tastes like peach iced tea. I hate protein shakes!

amzn.eu/d/8eAWjNu

This is the type of conversation I have to keep having with myself. Pre-MJ if I consistently lost 2 pounds a week for a number of weeks I’d have been delighted so need to reframe back to those thoughts!

I think it’s easy to get excited that you might lose a stone a month but actually 2 lb a week as a steady loss feels sustainable and would be 2 stone down by 7 September - I’d take that happily…

Appreciate the link but I don't like the clear ones either. They all have a strange aftertaste 😕 eggs and beans it is for me!

It’s VERY difficult to keep a reasonable frame of mind with regards to the numbers. I have failed to lose weight so many times, if im
honest I don’t really believe this will work, or that if it does I’ll just put it all back on again. It’s all very frustrating, managing my diet and my exercise is enough without adding managing mood to the mix, you know?

Have you seen the Feel collagen powder? It actually tastes pretty nice, I can’t comment on how good it is because I keep forgetting to use it but the taste is definitely ok!

@BoredReceptionist I think I've tried every type of collagen and protein powder going and I just can't get on with them. I do really like beans and pulses so it's not all bad. I don't mind eggs but find them a bit sickly even pre jab. I haven't tried them since being on mounjaro but I'm not certain I'd get on with them at the moment.

On the plus side, the headache was most definitely coffee related!

3rd jab on Friday, down 9 lbs over 2 weeks so happy. Went for a day out yesterday, god the MJ effect really hit me, ordered a starter and main, prawns and fish, could only manage the fish, none of the sides etc I was SO full. People asked me if I didn't like the food! Interestingly I was at a meal with a lot of people I didn't know (hen do) and I was quite open about the fact I was on the jab ..not one person judged I just got a lot of "good for you!"

W3D1

jagged today and weighed in this morning. 8lbs down.
Really want to get into the 15 stone bracket.

SW 16st 11lb
CW 16st 3lb

Op did you come over to thread 2 or did you make you're own new thread ? X

3rd jab on Friday just gone, I’ve gone from a starting weight of 13 stone 12.4 to a current weight of 13 stone 3.8 in 16 days. Really pleased with this. I’ve had no SE at all. My diet has been very healthy too. I do though need to drink more water and move more. If I could get to under 13 stone by Friday I’ll be thrilled.

I’m on W2 D3, I’ve lost a stone since the beginning. I can’t believe the change this has made, from always wanting to eat to just not being bothered and feeling full so quickly.
I’m drinking lots of water, mainly eating protein and veg. I cut out all the things that might cause side effects - alcohol, refined sugar, caffeine.
I hope that reintroducing small amounts of alcohol will be ok and not cause side effects, because I’m fairly sociable. I’m planning the pub this week and have a bbq on the weekend so I’m not expecting the same rate of weight loss will last.

You’ve lost a stone in a week and a half?! Wow!

Im
due to do 2nd jab tomorrow but im struggling to eat enough. I had one slice of toast and peanut butter, and carrots/hummus/ oatcakes and could have stopped eating. I ran 5 k so I need to eat though, I’ve eaten 800 calories and burned 600 so that is not enough.

I would you think it is ok to delay the jab by a day?

I’ve only lost a couple of pounds. It’s maddening!

W2 D3
Saturday was my first weigh in and I lost 11lbs. I was so poorly though so not surprised it was a big loss.
I took my 2nd injection on Saturday morning and so far so good. I was really worried but it was nothing like the first one, just some slight nausea.

W2D3
SW 19st 2
CW 18st 6
GW ?

very very pleased (I always seem to lose big on first week of healthy eating then it plateaus, aiming for slow and steady in long run.) had a bad eating day yesterday as I was at a summer fayre, had an ice cream and a cookie, most sugar had in ages so my body didn’t react well to that 💩💩😂. Back on it today. Starting to think about exercise, especially strength work but not sure where to start!

I'm approved have had the pen in my fridge for a week, and I still can't find the right time to go for it.

How did you decide what days, when to take it? I'm running a business have meetings booked in most days this week + travel to London, I'm home alone as my DH is away this week for work, I can't afford to be sick or vomiting at any point this week, so do I wait and do this when life is a bit less hetic or do I just crack on and ride the side effects?

Also how long is OK to keep the pen without starting?

Hi All,

I have literally just joined mumsnet (again) for this post lol.

Started Saturday, seen someone post who was pretty much identical to my weight / height so would like to follow because I am a nervous novice.

What has everyone lost so far?

Is there a facebook group for mounjaro starters? I find it quite hard to follow here.