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!

For the slower weight losers - try to look at it in % terms rather than the actual weight lost. Also, I think it’s harder to lose weight from a lower starting point as my understanding is that your body needs less calories to metabolise at a healthy weight.
I’ve lost around 3st or 20% in total but the last stone has been much more difficult and slower than the first two. I’m currently gaining and losing the same couple of lbs over the last 2/3 weeks. I’m reluctant to up my dose as I don’t want to lose much more but I’m definitely plateauing.

Not just over 40 BMI- also 4 of the 5 related health conditions! The headlines make it sound like everyone will be getting fat jabs, but in reality very few will qualify under such stringent guidelines. I did read that they will be easing them in the future, but I think that isn’t coming until 2027.

Re rings- I’m thrilled to be able to get my engagement, eternity and wedding rings back on. For a while I could either only wear one at a time, sometimes too puffy and fat for even one. They’ve all spent a lot of time in drawers in the last ten years. Now I can wear them all stacked as they were designed to be. Am only 5kg from the weight I was when I got married 20 years ago! Serious NSV for me.

For sure. Some days the skin on my stomach looks like a deflated balloon which I guess it just about was and like balloons can't unstretch.

Have concluded the lipoma weighs at least 10lbs so it's not me that's overweight, I just have a heavy lipoma. 😁

I had one of these on my wedding ring for ages when I last lost weight. I eventually had it reduced, 3 sizes smaller. I cannot take it off at all now 😅 but I shouldn't need it adjusting again!

I wonder how much weight we have all lost collectively now. Blows my mind. Well done everyone!

I have had a really, really shit day at work today. In the pre MJ days I would have reached for a post work vino, and would probably be three glasses down by now. But I haven’t. So that’s a definite plus.

But I have instead inhaled some of the kids’ crisps and sweets. I think I’m punishing myself for a bad day and feel even worse now! Monday has utterly beaten me. But I suppose at least I have not reached for the booze so trying to focus on positives!

Almost forgot to check in...! Weigh day was Saturday.

SW: 15st 0.4lbs
CW: 11st 5.8lbs

Lost so far: 50.6lbs!

NSV: finally in the healthy bmi range (just!)

However, I'm also losing hair like it's going out of fashion. Iron doesn't seem to help much. Just hoping it will stop soon and grow back 😓

Next pen is down to 5mg again, I want to lose that last half stone or so and then maintain.

Ooh, I am struggling.

Going over my calories every day because I can't stop snacking. Craving sugar and chocolate. Had a takeaway on Saturday and I've just been spiralling. Ate a whole share bag of malteasers, some maoams, chocolate peanuts, soooo much bread, mcdonalds fries, cakes.

I am sabotaging myself and I'm not quite sure why.

I am not hungry but I can't stop snacking. My mood is actually pretty good lately (despite life being rough at the mo). I read back over some of my old posts and oh my god I was so hard on myself. I don't feel that low any more, thank fuck.

I am very tired and exhausted and stressed out though. Going through hell with my youngest child currently and I'm falling into bad habits again.
Not eating proper meals at the appropriate times and when I do eat something I eat it standing at the kitchen island inhaling it as fast as possible.
Eating to calm myself down or perk myself up. It doesn't actually work anymore though, thanks to MJ.

I am losing hair in great big clumps currently. My body is a mess. I look 105 years old. The loose skin, the sagging boobs, the crepey wrinkles, the stretch marks. Currently I don't feel too upset about it all. I just try not to think about it and when I do I just have a little daydream about eventually having a full body lift and new boobs. Not going to happen but it stops me obsessing about it all.

I wanted to be 79kg by the end of the month but that's not going to happen. I don't actually feel upset by that or disappointed in myself. It is what it is. I will get there and it's probably a good thing that I've slowed down.

It would be interesting to add it all up! Everyone is doing such an amazing job and I absolutely LOVE reading about everyones success, scale and non-scale. It's so impressive.

I'm sorry you are having a rough day @Mounjaroday , I hope tomorrow is better for you. Well done on passing on the wine!

Congrats on the healthy BMI @SansaClegane ! Bloody well done!

Onwards and downwards everyone!
(except those of you already at maintanence - incredible btw. Just onwards for you guys!)

Oh, it's too late to edit my other post but need to chime in about the varicose veins.

Holy shit, I have 2 absolutely massive ones. 1 in each leg. They are so lumpy and awful! I actually got them while I was pregnant 7 years ago but the constant weight gain over the past 6 years plus a job where I am on my feet for 8-12 hours a day has made them sooo much worse.

The one in my right leg starts in my groin and is a huge bulbous knot and then goes allllll the way down my leg in great big waves and lumps.

I mentioned before that I was getting massive bruises at my injection sites and typical mounjaro has randomly decided to switch it up and I've now got a big red itchy welt looking thing from Saturday. There is no rhyme or reason with this drug 😅

@Zibb, please be kind to yourself and take care of yourself...! your posts read quite worrying 😳
I absolutely know how you feel as I used to be the same. do you need to up your dose though, as I couldn't eat that much anymore without feeling sick? Or are you overestimating how much you eat?
I know you said you're not feeling as low anymore, but it sounds like you are still struggling. I've battled with depression (amongst others) all my life, and that's very much the vibe I'm getting... do you have anyone to talk to IRL? I won't bother suggesting going to the GP or trying the NHS, as I've found them utterly useless, but I really hope you've got a good support system around you. I'm here to talk, too, if that makes any difference!

Sending you a virtual hug and I hope things will get easier for you soon, do keep me posted please. I can relate so much to everything you say (including going through hell with my youngest, ha) and I can only imagine how stressful your life is right now. Stay strong!

@Zibb sorry to hear you’re struggling this week. Totally agree with @SansaClegane’s words. May I also say, Zibb, you’ve been such a wonderful support throughout this to so many of us and we are all right behind you! xx

Weigh-in day for me.
W22D1
SW: 103.9kg / 16.4 stone / 229 lb / BMI 35.9
CW: 77.4kg / 12.2 stone / 171lb / BMI 26.7
TL: 26.5kg / 4.2 stone / 58 lb … fuck me, that’s 25% of my original body weight!

Another 5.2kg to reach healthy BMI. I go on holiday in 6 weeks time, so aiming to get there before I go. 7.5mg is working really well and sticking with it.

Ooh ooh, new week = new theme! Let’s do shopping week!!

Who has been hitting the shops? Would love to see what you have been buying recently or have your eye on!

I’m obsessed with Mangos ridiculously flattering waistcoats.
https://shop.mango.com/gb/en/p/women/gilets/knitwear/knitted-waistcoat-with-jewel-buttons_87079065

Never thought I’d wear something like this but it’s absolutely beautiful and surprisingly hides a wobbly tummy:
https://shop.mango.com/gb/en/p/women/skirts/midi/midi-satin-skirt_87070455?c=25

Also on the market for:

• a really lovely co-ord set
• super floaty beach sarong dress thing
• flattering swimsuit / bikini for a wobbly tummy

… would love some suggestions xx

week 20 day 4

SW 95.9 BMI 36.99 Height 161 cm

CW 80.8 BMI 31.17 Height 161cm

Loss 15.1Kg 15.75%

I have used two 7.5 pens and have the 3rd in the fridge ready to go.

Ive not had a GW since starting this 'adventure' but now looking to hit 76 kg or less for begining of August, I will then be at the same weight I was 20 years ago.

I've not been 'calorie' counting just eating the same but less quantity and freshly cooked along with fruit, sweet deserts and some chocolate and fasting 16/8

I've been hitting the Gym 5 days a week with 2 PT sessions, weights for 1 to 1.5 hours and then 30 min of cardio for each session.

Congrats to all on here who are sharing the 'adventure' with their progress 👏

Good morning. I am back from my latest adventure and just catching up on posts. Well done to everyone with their losses, and fantastic work to those who are now at goal/maintenance. Fab work ladies!

I weighed in on Monday at 77.95, so it means I lost just 1kg on my 10 day holiday. I experimented with not tracking and didn't go wild, but had a couple of ice creams, a cream tea fish and chips plus two other meals out instead of self catering. So really the small loss is ok all things considered.

I am tracking again now I am home and straight back into my usual exercise routine.

So my total loss in 18 weeks is 18.7kg.

I am reviewing my goals now I am in the overweight category and just aiming to lose 750g a week now instead of 1kg a week. Once I hit 74kg I will reduce to a goal of 0.5kg a week.

So to be on track I need to be 77kg by the end of June. I am weighing higher today, but did my first body pump since before holiday, also had a lot of fish sauce in my dinner last night, so probably retaining water.

I am at the point now where when I bump into people they are all shocked and getting the "OMG wow you look so amazing". Of course, people are too polite to comment on weight so they talk about my clothes and tan instead 🤣 I always wear nice clothes and tan easily, and I always get compliments about these, but not in an OMG wow kind of way 🤣 I did get one snide comment about how I must feel so much better not carrying all that weight anymore. I do, but I wasn't that big and this was a person who knows I am super fit and active, climbing hills and mountains all the time even before the weight loss. Meow! 🤣

Ah yes. The “you must feel so much better” comments. And “the problem will be when you stop taking the injections”. Plus the direct questions about how much exercise I am / am not doing.

Was talking to an aunt (75) last week about my WL and shared with her that, at my heaviest, I was 4kg larger than my beefy husband. “Oh well, you always were bigger than him” she said. That comment hit me for six, really. Mainly because it simply isn’t true. Pregnancies aside, I spent many, many years smaller than DH!

She always has been a bit of a bitch, mind 😆

Right, I have 30 mins to spare until my meeting. I am diving into Oliver Bonas for a quick browse!

This is so true.

I have lost 15% of my body weight in 18 weeks. But since going below 80kg, the loss has been slower with more plateaus. I’ve been stuck at a stubborn set point for nearly 4 weeks. I think my body really likes being 77kg, but I suspect it will finally shift down a bit next jab. Still, the trend is a slow and steady downward, just not the big losses of the first few months.

Even % wise doesn't really put mine in a much better light - 9% lost. Which is much more than it would have been without MJ but is still very slow

Two people have noticed my weight loss and both congratulated me on not using WLI as obviously that would have been a much faster loss! 😬

I need to get back in gear and start tracking again - since being ill last week my weight has been yo-young up and down by a couple of pounds. I’ve massively upped my water intake over the last 2 days but unfortunately I can’t leave my desk that often as I’m on calls, so that’s proved tricky!

I’ve also drunk too much wine this past week for peoples birthdays/ solstice parties: evenings out etc. It hasn’t made me want to eat more, but the wine calories in and of themselves won’t have helped.

I like the idea of shopping week! I’m not buying much at the moment as I’m in an Inbetweeny stage of trousers getting baggy but not yet impossibly so, so I’ve been looking on Vinted - can spend happy hours on there!

I bought a pair of trousers from there in a size 14 - an identical pair to one I have in an 18 that is falling apart ( full of holes, ripped at seams etc). I suspected they would be a bit snug when they arrived, but actually when I tried them on I wasn’t as far off them fitting perfectly as I’d expected! So that was nice.

well done everyone- so great to hear all your news - and yes @Zibb please try not to let it get you down too much - you’ve absolutely got this. You’ve made amazing progress and have come so far. You’re being incredibly hard on yourself, try and be a little kinder in the way you think about your achievements- you can turn around moments of self sabotage like this and hopefully see them for what they are - blips.

Sending you unMNsnetty hugs 🥰

Thank you @SansaClegane . Honestly, I'm actually doing ok, feeling ok. I don't mean for my posts to sound worrying!

Mounjaro does cause anhedonia for me. So I am struggling but not like I was before. It's why I stayed on 2.5mg for so long, the low mood and the inability to find pleasure in anything. I'm on 5mg right now and going up to 7.5 on Saturday. I was hoping it would improve the longer I'm on it but it doesn't appear to be. But the benefits still outweigh the negatives at the moment. However the quicker I can get to goal weight and taper back down the better I think.

I ate all that stuff despite my stomach hurting like hell. Just forcing it in. Old, bad, behaviour making an appearance because of the stress. I don't have any support system IRL which doesn't help but I've never had one so I'm used to it I guess?

I don't usually have this much crap to deal with!

If I could just get my youngest the help they need it would help so much I think. But dealing with CAMHS is a special kind of torture.

Anyway, that's enough of my moaning! Thank you for the hugs and the support, I really do appreciate it!

I am honestly doing ok, promise!

Yep saw that afterwards, so actually not many people will qualify. But at least a small number of people really in need will get it now rather than waiting on Weight loss clinics in the NHS.

I read there is supposed to be a pill form of Ozempic in the next couple of years so maybe they will use that for more widespread use?

Brill will see if I can get one thanks

Love that skirt, @Mounjaroday ! It’s great to feel that you can wear things that are not just a smaller size, but a totally different style, isn’t it?

I’m loving all my new clothes, nearly all from Vinted. I have bought a couple of one shoulder tops to try. This would have been unthinkable before. Also a white sleeveless dress. Jeans in pale wash. I still can’t really believe my size, tbh. And I can’t see myself much smaller - perhaps a 12?

I have become a bit of a joke between the local PO and my postie - I’ve Vinted nearly my entire (extensive) wardrobe, and replaced it too!

Weighed this morning and I have been exactly the same weight for 5 days. To the precise ounce. I don’t understand weight loss at all. How can my body calibrate itself so finely despite the difference in what I eat/ how much I poop/ how much water I drink/ exercise I do?
it’s so tiresome waiting for a whoosh