Mounjaro/Wegovy with > 5 stone/30kg to lose. Thread 8!

[MooBaggage]

Thread EIGHT - blimey we talk a lot! 😄 Anyone using weight loss injections to lose more than 5st/30lbs is very welcome, no matter what stage of the process you are no.

We're high on protein, low on carbs, upping the water and getting the fibre in any which way we can!

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Hi….

im 56 ( actually only 29…but the years say different unfortunately!) and been on mounjaro since august last year.

I'm 4lbs of 6 stone.

started at 16 stone 2lbs.

not been easy, the last few months I’ve on.y lost a pound or half a pound every couple of weeks …so slow going.

but I’m grateful for anything.

feeling fab, like I’ve got my mojo back and enjoying clothes again, after hiding myself in oversized size 20/22's for the last few years.

Welcome - I’m very similar to you, 2 years younger, started a month earlier at a few pounds heavier and have lost almost exactly the same. I’m really enjoying clothes now too, for the first time in my life really. How much further have you got to go and what are your plans for maintenance?

@InfoSecInTheCity An FP10 form is a standard NHS primary care prescription form so not sure which form you are referring to? I'm not aware of a specific form for requesting prescribing but I might have just missed it!
I know NHS procedure varies from area to area but, where I worked (now retired), the initial request would be sent in writing to the GP, Practice Pharmacist or Practice Manager then, if declined, appealed to the Medicines Management Department of the ICB. We used to get loads of these

@MooBaggage Our local Tier 3 weight service have updated their guidelines. I suspect this is to restrict the initial demand to those at most clinical risk
“Following a change to our referral criteria, effective 14th April 2025, we will only accept referrals for patients with a BMI of ≥40 and four or more of the following obesity related co-morbidities:

• Hypertension
• obstructive sleep apnoea
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
• Dyslipidemia,
• Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
• Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia.

May be different where you are though as the postcode lottery is still alive and kicking!

As @SqueakyDinosaur said, we should all congratulate ourselves on getting ahead of the game and being healthy ahead of time 😊
Welcome back Squeaky! Good to see you back and recovering

I will defer to you @QueenOfHiraeth got the info about the form from Google, I knew that you could ask for a private prescription to be moved into NhS because I have some family with experience of a private ADHd diagnoses and prescription which they were able to have successfully adopted by GP.

Hi 👋👋
Well done !!!!!

Because of my age, I’m very aware of the lack of ‘substance’ in my face if I lose much more. I’ve got quite high cheek bones and looking a tad ‘cruella D’Ville’ just now.

im wanting to get to my 6 stone … so I’ll be 10 stone 2lb. I don’t think it will be much of a benefit to me if I lose much more.

I’m not sure about maintenance just yet tbh.
I have in my head that I’ll drop down to 10mg for a couple of months and then lower until I’m back to 2.5/5mg and see how it goes… terrified to put all the weight back on again.

So after seeing this post last night I grabbed some stem ginger today and had this for my pudding tonight. I love ginger and this was amazing. So much better than the Rachel’s Organic ginger yoghurt which I used to buy.
Thank you @RobinEllacotStrike

I am down from 104kg to 79kg and my clothes sizes are all over the place. I am generally now a 16 (down from 18-20). I bought some M&S size 14 work trousers on Vinted (after somehow treading on my own trousers on Monday and almost exposing myself to the office 😂) thinking I would slim into them and they fit!!!
I know M&S vanity size and I’m not really a 14 but I am still beyond chuffed.

Can’t remember if it was this thread or a different one but some posters were asking whether Mounjaro could be making hayfever worse because they were suffering particularly badly this year.

Was just reading an article about the mild dry weather this year causing a massive increase in Birch Tree Pollen which is causing a lot of people to suffer at the moment. Thought I’d share to offer hope that once the Birch trees are done shedding their load hopefully you’ll see an improvement.

lol at Cruella - a very stylish woman, if a little angular. My face is ok at the moment but my neck, ohhh dear 🦃
Better than the alternative though I guess.

I’m 3lbs off my original goal but only just into healthy BMI and wouldn’t mind losing a bit more belly and thigh. Maybe two or three more months at 10mg, lose another stone. That would be BMI of 22, and then I plan to come down slowly over 4-5 months, hope to be MJ free in Jan/Feb. I’m also scared to death of putting it all back on again, I’ve never managed to find an even keel before, always losing or (mostly) gaining. I’m really going to work hard at preparing for maintenance as best I can. I think it’s going to be tough.

Well I hope all of you very near to or at your goal weight do a looooong taper off, so you stay on this thread 😃

@InfoSecInTheCity Aha, that explains it! I think what Google should have said was along the lines of "you can ask for the private prescription to be transferred to a form FP10"! Our rule was that, if the visit to a private specialist was reasonable (i.e. we would have referred the patient to that specialty on the NHS) and the medication was something that the NHS would issue, then we would do it but not otherwise. We would often do battle with patients who wanted something not on NICE/ICB guidance so would pay for a private consultation and get a prescription for it privately then bring it in to us demanding it on the NHS as they didn't want to pay the high prescription cost. Spent many years dealing with those complaints!

@Katkins17 I'd take the Cruella look over my sagging! I look like I am melting!

@Slowrunning I weigh the same as you and am finding sizes so weird, think I may be a 14 top and 16 bottom. I bought some M&S jeans and had to get an 18 (quite disgruntled as I also thought they tended to size big) but today went into New Look and found their 18s are too big so need a 16 in there. Bought a dress and a top in Yours which were 14s but had to put other 14s back as too big!

@MooBaggage Loooooong tapers are apparently the best way. There was a Daily Mail article recently which recommended taper to half your highest dose and stay there for 6 months before tapering further. That makes sense to me as the body needs time to recalibrate its own GLP1 production

That makes sense, birch is my main enemy!

I had thought about this exact scenario re NHS and no longer being eligible. But I’ve had a lifetime of saying I’ll change in the future, at some point you just have to go for it. Plus now, if they’re saying you have to have 4 comorbidities for referral, I have 2! I get why they have to do it, they’re clearly terrified of the enormous demand (and already experiencing some of it), but that’s so many people who could hugely benefit and won’t be eligible.

@SqueakyDinosaur awesome that you got your op! Hope the recovery goes well and gets a little easier from here on out!

I’m currently 96 kilos and desperate to be 79; because that’s my dhs skinny weight, which, of course he has arrived at effortlessly because I am eating healthily. Grr. I think I’d expect to be a 12-14 at that weight, if it continue to come off evenly.
i mustn’t get ahead of myself tho. Next targets are 10 kilos when I lose another 0.1 kilo, and 10%, at 95.4. Then I’m switching to stones so that can enjoy the numbers starting with 14. And then pounds when I get under 200. I know how to have a good time!

@InfoSecInTheCity that explains a lot. Amongst other things I have a salicylate allergy. Guess what one of the best sources of salicylic acid is?
Yup, you guessed it, flipping birch trees!

Weigh day for me, ~11 months in:
SW: 241.2lbs (17.3 / 109.4kg / BMI 35.6)
CW: 164.4lbs (11.10 / 74.6kg / BMI 24.3)
GW: 150lbs I think, BMI 22.2

Loss this week -3.5lbs
Total loss 76.8lbs / 5st 6 / 34.8kg

Aiming for another 2 months on 10mg and then will start reducing gradually over several months and see what happens 😬
My current provider will only prescribe at BMI 23.5 and above so I have just tried ordering from Simple Online Pharmacy and will see what they say.

Afternoon losers!

Hayfever has kicked my ass the past few days. I only started suffering from it a few years ago so I thought maybe this year it had gone away as mysteriously as it began. Seems not!

On a separate note, I'd like to come up with some mini goals between now and gw because the enormity of what I'm trying to achieve is weighing on me (ha). What sort of in-between goals have you guys set?

@DidILeaveTheGasOn I set ALL the goals! And celebrated each one!

7lb lost, 14lb lost, 21lb lost……..
5% bodyweight lost, 10% bodyweight lost, 15% bodyweight lost….
Overweight BMI reached, Healthy BMI reached
Size 20 jeans fit, size 18 jeans fit, size 16 jeans fit…..

Saturday weigh in and a neat 1lb loss this week.

End of week - 51 (5 x 2.5mg, 46 x 3.75mg)
SW - 21st 5lbs BMI 44.8
CW - 13st 11lbs BMI 28.9
Losses (2024) - 10,2,2,4,1,3,3,3,1,3,2,2,3,3,2,3,3,2,1,4,0,2,3,3,1,4,0
Losses (2025) - 0,3,2,1,3,1,1,0,2,3,3,-1,3,2,2,1,2,2,1,1,0,3,0,1
Total loss - 7st 08lbs (106lbs), 35.5%
Next Target 🎯- 13st

6 week average loss has dropped to lowest ever at 1lb a week, but still going in the right direction so I'll take it!

Good news (for me, not so good for my colleague 😞) is I wasn't selected for redundancy (this time!) so can stop worrying about that for another couple of year I think!

I can't believe this time next week will exactly 1 year since I started Mounjaro! I would never have even dreamed one year on I would be over 100lbs down in size 16 jeans and off my HBP and acid reflux medications.

@MooBaggage unless something unexpected happens and I need to come off Mounjaro I'll be here for the foreseeable! It is nice to see how our regulars are getting on. Or we can perhaps create a sister maintenance thread for our alumni 👩‍🎓😂

Hope you are feeling better soon @SqueakyDinosaur ! So much more to this journey than just weight loss, it is repairing and healing our bodies too.

Some great losses this week - well done everyone! 💗

@DidILeaveTheGasOn Yeah, each stone, each move into a new stone bracket, each old piece of clothing that fits better, jeans that I can get into.

As it happens my three stone point, 14st 4, will also be where I cross into onederland so I'm looking forward to that! 😊

@DidILeaveTheGasOn I'm same as @InfoSecInTheCity and celebrate every possible milestone I can!

@DidILeaveTheGasOn
I did every 1/2 stone I lost, every 10% of the journey to goal, every time I moved from eg 16 something to 15 something, every time I got closer to the stone below than the stone above (so when I went below x stone 7), when I got to a new BMI category, and when I reached a number starting with 1 (onederland). This gave me something to tick off every 3-4lbs.

@MooBaggage
I’m so nervous about stopping, I’ll be doing a very very very long taper 😅
In any case I’d like to hang around, I am invested in everyone else’s journeys and it might be useful, I dunno. I’d certainly like it if there were someone here who had successfully tapered down and was maintaining. It’s all a bit unknown and scary right now.

A thread for alumni might be good too as I can imagine too much talk of maintenance would get a bit wearing for those in active weight loss phase.

Ah thank you so much, you guys are marvellous.

Had my third jab this morning and know I'm not gonna be happy when I weigh on Monday night. I've been gardening for the last 3 days and probably tomorrow so much I've got a tan (and possible burn) for the first time in over a decade.

I've hit 6's with not being active so unless I do something really big I know I'll feel disappointed

So, I’ve decided I’m going to take a months break because of my surgery, going back on to 2.5mg after. I’m so scared, what if I pile it all back on?? What if I can’t help myself 😩 I don’t trust myself
Obviously am speaking to GP about being off it for a month diabetes wise