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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My guilty pleasure @Darlinghagis watching people eat!

I know what you mean @HumBumBum I get my kids to tell me how food tastes to them as well! Weird I know but it's my guilty pleasure!

I've not weighed myself since the 11th of June so I'm going to go and do it this week... hoping for a big loss but honestly don't feel very different. I'm still wearing jeans I had in March when I started MJ. They're elasticated and definitely baggier than they were but they aren't falling off me or anything. Plus no one has commented or asked if I've lost weight so it all feels a bit... meh.

On the other hand, I've been eating really well and avoiding sugar, and I've been exercising more, although I still need to get back into lifting weights. I just got myself a cheap bike so I can cycle to the gym!

I've been following this thread but trying not to be on my phone as much so I'm now banned from MN most of the day! But well done to all of you who are working on this and may we all prosper!

Took some measurements this morning in g and waist is down to 32in which on the waist/height ratio means I’m now in the lower risk bracket. Started at the top end of the higher risk range.

I'm in a weird phase now I think - the weight loss has slowed right down, which I knew would happen at some point - and I know I've had a really good run of losing 2lbs + a week since mid-Jan. Am now probably losing 1lb a week (eating and drinking exactly the same stuff) and it feels soooooo slow - and I feel like my mind is seeing my body as is for much longer periods of time, so I feel like I look really big 🙄 Whereas before, my body seemed to change so quickly I always felt like I was looking smaller week on week.

Does that make any sense at all?! So - am just processing and reflecting that the next 6 - 9 months will be harder psychologically. 1lb a week will still get me there, just more slowly and my eyes will have to get used to it 😀

@ MooBaggage
I think you just have to remember the long game as it were.

A 1lb a week weight loss over a year consistently could be 52lbs = 3.7stone.
This is what I am going to constantly focus on.

Prior to starting Mounjaro I lost 1.5stone and it took me over 2 years as it was down a lb, then up a lb and so on and so forth.

There is also something about the slow and steady approach that hopefully reinforces the new eating habits of smaller portions, cleaner food etc. Say we lost the amount that we want to lose in a small amount of time, would we have retrained our bodies AND minds within the timeframe? The answer would be no for me!

@Kipperandarthur completely agree - especially as I intend staying on MJ at some level of dose indefinitely, as it helps with lots of my other physical ailments too!

I know this logically and would say exactly the same to someone else - just difficult getting the illogical side of myself (which is HUGE) to agree 🙄

@MooBaggage I honestly think we have to think of our health for the future. We may find it hard losing slowly, but I have seen some people who have lost fast and it has been brutal on their bodies. I saw someone I know on Facebook the other day and she is tiny now but has loose skin hanging from her forearms and she looks much older. That is only the surface cosmetic evidence of muscle loss and a HCP mentioned to me yesterday the risk of osteoporosis for fast losers.

I believe the recommendation is 1-2lbs a week which is where we are, and protecting our muscle mass and bone strength is so important. As PP said if we try and think where we will be in a year losing 1lb a week then that is huge, and as I have said before I had lost weight before starting Mounjaro but couldn’t seem to get any more off, so each pound is a bonus.

Also think how much 1lb is each week coming off somewhere on your body, two blocks of butter!

@Evenstar Yes true - and I already have Osteopenia due to having Coeliac disease, so need to protect my bones and muscle mass. Am still loving the hand weights and prioritising protein - am doing everything right (hopefully!) and yes, sensible me will take over and just be very grateful that I've discovered MJ and this time next year, all being well, will be so close to a healthy BMI, for the first time since being a teenager...!

I hear you @MooBaggage It can be so dispiriting to lose slowly BUT as @Kipperandarthur says, see it as an opportunity to properly instil everything we hope to achieve as a lifestyle, something that becomes ingrained and automatic and we no longer have to worry about any of the stuff that consumed our headspace before we embarked on this journey. It is so freeing not having to obsess about weight loss and that is where MJ is taking us..

You were the very person that encouraged me to get measuring - so get your measuring tape out and I'll bet you'll see progress. Also, I have been trying on clothes recently, and to my dismay, they are now too big (bought in anticipation of losing weight), yet the scales are slow! (Off they will go, tags still on, on Vinted).

I would also say, being a slow loser, I haven't got the expected loose skin that others have referred to. It may still come, but my body seems to be shrinking as a whole, not just the fat - if that makes sense? Even my thighs, which were horrid, have started to look less so. Not sure if it is slow weight loss or what, but I'll take it! I really expected after almost 5 stone weight loss to have a lot more loose skin, but I haven't.

Slow and steady - you know what you're doing and your body does too. You've lost loads and have done magnificently. You have got this.

We cross posted, but this is so helpful - thank you.

Thanks everyone - this really is such a bloody lovely place to come and chew stuff over ❤

I just got the tape measure out and have lost 3 inches from everywhere since I last measured!

Will go away and give myself a good talking to 😀

I am a pretty slow loser, 78lbs and I am 2 weeks short of a year on MJ. @NewbieMJ at 43 weeks I had lost 70lbs so similar to you. It was hard at the beginning when some people were losing incredibly quickly. There were people losing over a stone in the first four weeks, I lost 4lbs 😭
But I just kept telling myself it would be better this way and I’m ok with it now. For me this way of eating is for ever and my goal is pretty arbitrary so the main thing is just trying to make one good decision after another and making choices that make me feel good. I do weigh and I love it when the scales show a loss, but it really doesn’t matter if / when I get to my goal weight. Better health and quality of life is happening right now.

Fabulous result.

Three inches off all round is a great result @MooBaggage . And I love your attitude @gimmemounjaro .

Different topic all together: Has anyone who's post-menopausal and on HRT had to have any Gynae investigations since being on MJ? I had a full period the other week, so went to the GP - have a trans vaginal scan yesterday and the GP's just phoned me - my womb thickness is above what they'd like it to be so they're referring me to Gynae for a hysteroscopy / investigations 🙄

I'm not worried it's anything sinister as this will be my 3rd hysteroscopy in 3 years (due to random small bits of bleeding since starting HRT 5 years ago), but they're muttering about me being on Mounjaro and I'm more worried they'll tell me I have to stop taking it.... New guidance says to double the dose of oral progesterone and I said this to the GP on the phone - but she said that's only if the womb thickness is under 4mm and mine is over that, so I need a Gynae referral.

Eugh. Just wondered if anyone else has experienced anything similar?

The 'good' thing is I'll be seen by Gynae within 2 weeks, so will have a view from them quickly.

i feel like I’m not losing but I am. Just very slowly.

this morning I weighed below 90kilos!! I’m in the eighties!!! I cannot remember being in the 80’s kilo bracket before. Last time was possibly in the actual 1980’s.

im wearing shorts today for possibly the first time. (I might have to mow the lawn). Certainly first time in memory (excluding bicycle shorts)

sw 124kg
cw 89.6kg
ltd 34.4kg

goal 74kg

bmi is 29.9 & I think that means I am no longer “obese”. I am merely “overweight”. Fancy scales deems my visceral fat to now be “normal”. <happy dance>

i would like to think I’ll never be BMI obese again.

@gimmemounjaro thing is it doesn’t matter - if someone said to you a year ago , you will lose 5 stone this year you would be utterly delighted - you have done incredibly well . comparison is the thief of joy !!

@RobinEllacotStrike good legs too and nice shorts !! Are you quite tall? I’m now86.6 and def still in obese category ( although my H assures me I’m not obese very kindly) at 5 ft 4

@NewbieMJ I’ve lost several times before, only a couple of stone each time, but never got loose skin at all as wasn’t a fast loser - always took around 6 months to lose 2 stone ( when you factor in holidays etc) bonus is though I don’t have any of that melting candle type skin - and that’s at 63

I love your shorts @RobinEllacotStrike , and well done on getting under 90.
I hope it’s all ok with your gynae stuff @MooBaggage , and don’t stress about the weight loss. I weigh every day and I’ve gained this week, which serves me right because I have got sloppy. I think I’m still expecting to sabotage this opportunity, and stay fat despite it, and it becomes self fulfilling. But I see all you lot with the same fears and history killing it and it really helps. Yesterday I had a better day, and today should be better than that, so it’s all good.

@Zebracat nah - it’s probably because the heat is back - I put 1kg on the other week in 4 days when it was very hot eating exactly the same - cooled down and whoosh 0.7 went in 2 days- no bloody logic to it

Oh don’t worry, I don’t compare now and full of joy! I switched focus from weight to health / fitness and that’s great because weight loss is so unpredictable, but I can still be winning even if the scales aren’t moving. I am doing couch to 10K at the moment - today’s run was a repeat and I went 750m further in the time and knocked 1.23 off my time for the first 5k. Don’t get me wrong, I do celebrate weight loss, but to me that’s more exciting than a change on the scales. The idea that I could run for a total of 50 mins would have been even more bizarre than losing 5 stone a year ago.

Absolutely agree @gimmemounjaro