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!

Please don't post discount codes as your post will be deleted - these need to go on the discount codes thread.

I love this. I guess it's that reaching the over half way ‘less to loose than I have lost’ feeling which is really significant.
I’m 4 stone down but at least that to loose still so still feel daunted. When I joined this forum I edged for ‘5 stone’, but reality of 9 stone was too much to consider!

I find this fastinating.
Admitting something I think I could only here….
I have worn the same ‘everyday seamless, high waisted’ xl pants for years. By years (eek 🫣 I mean more thana decade).
I of course have bought others but just revert to daily comfy wear. These pants saw me through a weight of about 95kg, then through first pregnancy 107kg (they stretched with me and were comfy over the bump). Next pregnancy 115kg and all the way up to 136kg 😳
I love them because they are high waisted and come right up to my actual waist and don't roll down. They encompass my whole apron like tummy& disguise the B belly a little under tops.
Snag (plus size company) do pants like this I notice but stayed with my old faithful so far. I have never had any other item
Of clothing that stayed with me through all my sizes.
Wonder if I ever decided I need smaller pants, that would be a very strange day.did look on snag and wonder what size Inwoukd even ever get now.

Please don't think I am gross 🫣

Could you speak to the pharmacist?

@MooBaggage also the leggara pizzas at Pizza express are only around 600 cals - ( the ones with salad in the middle) - I had one and shared some olives and some sun dried tomato’s and it only came in at 830 - and I was stuffed - plus a sparkling water

@Crikeyalmighty Thanks 😊 I'm coeliac so can only have the gf pizza, which I've never tried asking for as a leggera - although maybe they would?! 😬

I love their herb and lemon chicken wings though and their halloumi bites (getting hungry now..!)

Hi all! Lovely to see so many breaking into new stone brackets this week.

My current stats:

Highest weight - 16st 9.5
Mounjaro SW on 15.2.25 - 14st 12
CW - 12st 2

Loss this week: 0.5 lb
Total loss on Mounjaro: 38 lbs (2st 10)
Total loss overall: 63 lbs (4 st 7.5)

Re clothes sizes, my (stretched out) size 22-24s look ridiculous on me now. The last 7 or so years I’ve avoided clothes shopping as was such a soul destroying experience. Slowly starting to enjoy it again but it’s hard to adjust my brain. I keep reaching for the size 20 clothes thinking anything smaller won’t fit. But picked up some size 14-16 T-shirts in primark this week and they actually look decent on me which is nice!

Also I’m getting married very soon and it’s amusing at every dress fitting my poor seamstress has to keep taking the dress in even more. When I ordered it last summer my measurements were a dress size 26!

Oh wow @Mounjaronewbie25that must be blowing your mind having to change your wedding dress so much (when I can’t decide whether to buy smaller knickers!)

on the underwear front, I haven’t changed bra size at all, I’ve just tightened the straps and accept now that I probably wasn’t wearing the right size

@Reginaphalangeeeee nothing gross about wearing the pants you’re comfortable with. But at some point gravity may defeat them and smaller ones might be a necessity!

so I’ve got into a habit (good or bad depending on your view) of weighing every day.

Yesterday, my ‘official’ weigh day I had lost a pound, with 2.5lb to go till I hit 2 stone loss. Today, I’m 0.2 UNDER that 2 stone loss! Basically dropped almost 3lb overnight!

I am aware that this will no doubt creep back up a little again, as I know how my week usually pans out in terms of weight, one benefit of daily weighing I suppose.

But today, this morning I’m 2 stone down, so time to do my next short video for prosperity. I did one at the start, one at 1 stone loss. I also do a gym selfie once a month and measure my waist once a month. Just my waist, can’t be bothered to do anywhere else and it’s the place I carry a lot of my weight.

Have a great day everyone!

Speaking of knickers I need to get some new ones too, mine fell down inside my trousers the other day while I was gardening! Had to waddle into my shed to pull them back up so the neighbours didn’t see me sticking my hands down my trousers 😂

Oooooh @Mounjaronewbie25 how exciting!! Congratulations and if you feel brave enough to post a picture after the wedding I'd love to see your dress 😍

The biggest size I have in my wardrobe is one top that is a 26 - 28 from last summer - and it fit at the rime, but wasn't huge and I remember starting to stress about what I was going to do when the inevitable happened and I hit a size 28-30, because not many shops go bigger than that - it was a real worry 😥 So to be comfortably in a size 22 and be wearing some 20s this summer is bonkers to me!

I haven't got new bras either - the boobs have shrunk, so I'm on the tightest fitting/shortest strap length, and they feel very happy to have space! But it won't be long before I need to get smaller ones - hopefully!

My size 18 knickers look like dolls knickers to me 😄

@Reginaphalangeeeee No shame! You won't find me judging - my old knickers were literally falling apart and I still have some in my drawers I've got into the habit now of charity shopping clothes when they're getting too big - but some things are hard to part with!

I went to good old M&S yesterday to buy some new undies. I am out to a dinner and dance on Friday and I bought a new dress. I tried it on with my big holdy-in pants on, and the pants where very loose. Last time I wore them they were practically cutting off circulation. Checked the size and the massive pants were a size 24.

I checked the size of my new dress and I thought that I had bought a size 20 but no its an 18!

So I bought a load of knickers in a size 18! I can't remember the last time I bought an item of clothing that had a 1 at the front.

I also bought myself some period knickers which I've wanted to do for sometime but was worried about them fitting.

Knickers are weird. I have a small drawer stuffed with them in every size and fabric. But the only ones I like are the 5 pairs of Wirarpa boy shorts from Amazon. Cotton, waist high with a really wide gusset that stops me getting sweaty and sore. But they are an extra large, and getting too big now. I could buy more but perhaps I won’t have such particular needs soon, and I can wear all the others instead. But I would recommend them, much cheaper than snag.

I started June 24, I bought a starter pack with one 2.5mg and one 5mg pen thinking back then I had to move up as provider was suggesting.

I did 5 weeks of 2.5mg (used 5th dose in pen 1) and then tried 3.75mg as a step up to 5mg. Stuck with 3.75mg ever since as it works for me. I could have probably stayed at 2.5mg longer if I had realised I didn't have to move up.

It makes sense to buy your 2nd pen as 5mg as the price is not significantly different, or even the same price, then you can dose 2.5mg from it and if you want to move up mid pen you have the flexibility to do it.

As I think I will be on Mounjaro for at least 2 years I plan to stay on the lowest dose possible that does enough for me to stay on track with a calorie deficit.

@Reginaphalangeeeee @CanIGoHomeNowPlease @Zebracat hey finding a decent pair of knickers is very important! I finally found the perfect ones for me on Amazon a few years back, full brief, high waist, cotton and a nice elastic. And have I ever been able to find them again? No! They’re always unavailable when I search for them 🥲 wish now I’d bought more at the time.

@MooBaggage ohh I don’t know, I might if I’m feeling very brave lol. But we will see!

@Mounjaronewbie25 have a look at innersy pants on Amazon. Big, cotton, wide waistband and none of that silly thin elastic that cuts you in half.

I loved my Innersy pants from the A place.
They do size up large, and none of them fit me anymore though.

Ah thank you @Zebracat and @alltablenochairgreat suggestions.
They both look good and similar to my (decade + old ones).

Tricky to decide size.
I think I am between size 18-20 in trousers currently.
Bottom and waist smaller but tummy still the size of a bottom 🙄.
I wants one that give a little support.

Thanks for the knickers recommendations, I am shopping!

This MJ weight loss experience is so very weird isnt it!

In the past, I am guessing we have all dieted on and off for more years than we care to remember and now, here we are with this incredible though not always kind, MJ, supporting our efforts and its really weird.

I started off knowing that to reach a healthy BMI I had 8st 10lbs to lose, which is way more than my poor brain could ever think possible, so I told myself if I could just get back to where I was 10yrs ago that would be ok, after all, I have lost 4st before, more than once.
When I got to the 4 stone mark and it was odd, I realised just how obese I still was at that weight, and I was quite shocked because the last time I was there I felt good and thought I looked ok ish.

Thats when MJ really came into its own for me, because instead of giving up and having the self destructing food noise back in my head, I simply carried on.

And it was easy to carry on because MJ keeps the food noise devil in his box, I rarely have to deal with him anymore.

It seemed to take forever to hit 5st lost but when I did, it felt huge!
I had got to 15st 4lbs before (when I thought I looked good!) but hitting 15st 2.4lbs was massive, I am now in new territory and when I see 14st on the scales, that will be massive and hitting 14st 7lb will mean I am no longer obese, something I havent been for over 25yrs and the best thing of all...

I will just keep going.

I rarely think about MJ, I do my jab and then I forget it again.

Tipping over that half way point is incredible and it really is possible! And when you hit it, you will look at how far you have come, how much you have lost, how it wasnt really so hard and that you are now on the final stretch of an incredible change in your life and its right there, its doable!

So keep going, dont stress it, take the losses, the gains and the sts for what they are, just little rungs on a huge ladder that you are climbing down and so long as you carry on, carefully and consistently, no matter the slip ups, you will eventually reach the ground, your goal and whilst I dont know how thats going to feel, I have a feeling it will feel pretty bloody fantastic!😊

I'm happy with my cheapo size 18 knickers from Asda - will probably buy another multipack this week so I've got enough without having to use the size 24s...!

Based on this thread I've thrown 3 x old pairs in the bin this morning 😇😃

Am already promising myself clothes of wonder and joy once I hit my final size next year - the spending will be EPIC...

This is such a lovely and encouraging post! So happy for you to be able to see the progress and see numbers that once would have felt untouchable for you. We're all in this together 💕

What a lovely post @MabelSpan

Can't wait to get in about the new clothes too @MooBaggage . I LOVE clothes. I have bought 1 size 14 in a monsoon dress I had my eye on for ages, and it came down in the sale and I thought, yes, meant to be. That dress WILL fit me at some point. Since getting over half-way on my weight loss journey, I realise I have made the switch in my head to "I will" be slim. I have no doubt now which feels incredible. Like many of us, I had assumed obesity was a burden I would carry for life. Not any more.

"Clothes of wonder and joy" here we come.

A really lovely post @MabelSpan. So positive, I was brave to actually do some obesity maths.
I actually just went on a BMI calculator to work out how much to get to each BMI calculator…
For me: 7kg to get BMI under 35.
This feels doable over next 2-3 months. Ok

Getting into ‘overweight catagory’
22kg off from current weight. Ok nearly but not quiet as much as I have lost since Jan… so maybe by Christmas 🤷‍♀️

That is normally where my brain stops going as I don't remember being ever much below that, but to get to ‘normal’
Wow… that's another 15kg.

I mean… coldd sweat. 62 kg over normal 😬 9st 10lbs!
Eeekkk still not sure that is doable so just currently going for ‘loose the same amount that you already have done’ approach for now. That would be 50kg total and fabulous.

@Reginaphalangeeeee I use @InfoSecInTheCity 's spreadsheet to track my weight loss and I made a predictor graph when I started in January, based on a loss of around 1.5lbs a week, showing 2 x predictions a month from Jan 2025 - August 2026.

Along the graph I've put key markers, like <BMI 40 <BMI 35, 50lb lost, 60lb lost, etc. I fill it in twice a month and colour it in, which gives me great pleasure 😃

It shows how long the journey is, which is OK because it makes me feel less panicky that I have to do it all as soon as I can - it will take time - but then it's taken me 40 years to put it all on, so 18 months is OK to get it all off!