Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 6!)…

[Mounjaroday]

Welcome one and all to our latest thread!

So much support and encouragement on here. Can’t wait to hear everyone’s continued achievements and NSVs.

Congratulations to everyone who has reached their goal and starting maintenance, and all the warriors still trekking on.

I still have a couple of stone to go. Feeling motivated and ready to go!

We can do this!

I've just got new bathroom scales. The ones in the en suite started randomly weighing me 10kg less than the ones in the family bathroom. Which felt flattering, but very obviously untrue. And since I can't bear running to the other bathroom on a weighing morning while my DH makes the morning tea, and then stripping off to nothing lest I weigh a few more grams than I otherwise would, while the rest of the family knocks on the door to try to get in for their morning shower, I decided to buy a new set. Batteries loaded. Tomorrow morning is the new moment of truth. They had better not weigh me even heavier than the family bathroom ones.

Thanks, @AnnaQuayInTheUk ! It’s as much about looking at something in a medium and being able to buy it, rather than heading to the XLs/18s and buying yet another shapeless tent because that all that I could get my matronly bust and enormous mid section into. Never. Again.

I’ve found sexy, fun me again. And pre-MJ, I would have stopped dieting now. Everything is easier and better. But I’m not there yet. I really want my horrendous varicose vein done and I just know that being a healthy BMI first will be a massive help with that. Not to mention cutting all my risk factors for an early death or miserable slightly later death!

Sorry for the depressing note of death there! 😬

I also wanna get my varicose veiny horrible legs done. I’m so pale and have veins and spider veins and broken capillaries all over my legs. Which are now an ok shape, but I still don’t like to have them on display.

You've got this @WLINewbie . I think you just need to give your body and your mind longer to adjust. You're not going to go back to how you were before. Have faith in yourself. Maybe you just need to taper a bit slower?

I have got in touch with a gym! I am going to start ‘ladies strength classes’. It sounded less scary than any other options. I have never been in a gym in all my puff. But it must be done.

@WoolerOwl your post made me laugh, but no laugh emoji any more - hope the scales behave and don’t get flung across the room tomorrow morning!

@WLINewbie why not just stay on a maintenance dose?

I am nowhere near goal weight - not even half way there yet so have no personal experience - but I feel like the evidence suggests that continuing to take MJ is going to be the thing that makes the difference.

I do not know if this is a NSV or but I do suspect it's weight loss related - I got chatted up while waiting at a pedestrian crossing earlier today

I did! Just have not yet worked out how to put it into action!!!!

Let me know if you have any questions. The FB group is a great source of info as is their beginners guide. 😁

Ok, so tomorrow is weigh-in day for me and feeling pretty anxious. Also feeling some doubts and struggles creeping in from other fellow warriors.

So it feels like a perfect time for us to have … NSV Week!

Let’s celebrate and recap all that has gone right so far, and all the things that have positively changed our lives - however big or small! - since we started.

I’ll start:

• I have stopped snoring
• I can put my shoes on gracefully (for me)
• my drinking has reduced from 30-50 units a week to within NHS guidelines

Random weight fact:

• I have lost the equivalent of 20 bottles of Prosecco (without even drinking it 😂)

Let’s go!!

Hello all a quick NSV from me. I had my hair cut for first time since really started this and the difference of my face in the mirror was astonishing. I remember the last time thinking how bloated my face was and no angle was forgiving and today I couldn't stop looking at it! Also In the chair to wash hair it was so much comfier!
I think the nsv that's made me realise how unhealthy I was is the being able to bend down to tie shoes etc. My middle was so huge before. Im so eternally grateful for this.

I went for an 18 mile walk yesterday. I wouldn't have been able to do half of that 6 months ago

I bought clothes in size 14 without trying them on and when I got home, found that they were too big. From a start of size 16-18 at the beginning of the year.

Hi everyone

Have lost track of the day week I’m on but started this on the last day of February

after stalling for a few weeks I’m on the move again, have upped my dose to 3.75ml

Have lost 20 kilos as of today.

Struggling with clothes, not sure of my style anymore but want to wear less black.

Also lost so much weight off my face and neck it looks horrendous, only halfway to goal and worried about losing any more off my face, upper arms it’s your turn!!

Have a fab week everyone

And I’m officially a healthy weight…BMI 24.8 💜

Congrats on your milestone,@Maro11!

@LaurenW!! Congratulations!!!! 🥳

Weigh-in day for me.
W21,D1
SW 103.9kg / 16.4 stone
CW 79.7kg / 12.6 stone
Another 1kg loss this week. Plodding along.

Reaching out for some motivation please! 💪

After a great start and great initial losses, I've had a few weeks where I've really lost all motivation...
I've been incredibly tired, lost all will to do anything and I seem to have lost direction with everything.
I tried to be kind to myself and take the pressure off so I stretched out my jabs and had a bit of a "break" from worrying about "dieting", tracking and exercise.

Fortunately, thanks to the injection, I haven't been able to binge as I probably would have ordinary and therefor haven't gained the weight back, but I've understandable stalled.... and now I'm ready to get myself back on the wagon but I'm struggling to know where to start!

Any advice, tips, motivation, suggestions would be welcome and appreciated!

The worst apparent side effect since starting taking mounjaro is definitely really bad menstrual cramps. My periods seem shorter and lighter but the cramps started the first month and seem to be getting worse each subsequent month. I've been fortunate never to have been bothered by cramps in the past so to now be dealing with them in my mind 40s is hard going. They're painful, nauseating and distracting.

Thank you, I don't think I can get any more MJ unless medex will allow me to get a maintenance dose.

Feeling better today, yesterday was a tough one xx

I've not ruled it out, my current maintenance thang is very much an experiment. However it's really not something I want to be on long term personally x

Although I've been struggling with maintenance a bit, the one thing I've done for myself is not 'punish' myself for going off plan.

In the past if I'd overeaten I'd plan to have something ridiculous like 600 cals for a few days to reset. That just led to me binging and going further off track. Now I say, yesterday wasn't ideal but I still deserve to eat and will nourish myself properly today.

If I were you I'd just try get back to basics, meal plan including my favourite foods, get some decent steps in have a self care evening. For me I really don't want to be another statistic who piles it all back on after stopping the jabs, that's keeping me motivated.

Having glided up through the doses with little to no side effects apart from a bit of constipation ( easily solved with psyllium husk) I have found myself 17 weeks on with awful watery diarrhoea. It’s been going on for 5 days and although I feel ok in myself and am keeping hydrated/ taking electrolytes etc I don’t know when I should worry. Immodium hasn’t touched the sides of it - we’re talking dirty water every couple of hours. At what point do I accept I’m shitting myself inside out and probably have dysentery ?

Anyone else had 5 day long shits ?

Sorry to be so bald about it, I rarely worry about health related things but this is extremely unpleasant.

@WoolerOwl what's the verdict on the new bathroom scales...?

Hope you start feeling better soon @HoratioBum . Diarrhea is such a common side effect. I wouldn't worry just yet, as long as you're feeling ok and no fever or vomiting.

NSV for me today - my husband took a picture of me out on our walk today and I almost look normal?! Genuinely shocked that I actually look like that. Just a bit fat and not morbidly obese. My brain cannot process it!

BMI is 30.5 which is so close to finally being in the overweight category.

I took that approach and I came off MJ Sunday. Time will tell.

Not sure how long it takes to “ get back to normal “ and I only had 4 doses 7.5 ml the highest. I think it’s still in my system .So far I’ve not eaten any differently. I still feel “calm” around food. I am avoiding buying the obvious carbs but if I fancy a bit of sugar I will have it.