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!

@Zibb thank you your absolutely right this group is amazing and the success of everyone is amazing. I wish some of you had more support outside regarding people turning nose up at weightloss injections but we cant change people's opinions! Im currently stuck on losing pounds but have lost a couple of inches so just going keep rolling with it! Well done everyone like zibb said 😊

It's scary isn't it, the hair loss. Every time I wash my hair I think, surely not this time. But where is it all coming from, how is it possible that the plughole is blocked but I've still got hair on my head? Is my hairdresser going to notice and say anything?!

Thanks, I agree - I absolutely love swimming which is my thing. Never feel better than when in the water, even when it’s 5 degrees! I never think ‘oh god, must I?’
There is a definite high with it.

Lifting weights? Hard, unpleasant and leaves me feeling weak and wobbly! That’s the bit that I hope will get better. Because I need to build strength.

Also, can you advise - kit. Must it be the tight leggings thing? Are they serving a function (compression?) I mean, they are hideous. Even on the slim 😂

Thank you!

@SpiralSister Re the gym, I have been a member of a gym for probably 20 odd years and can count the number of times I have used the 'gym' on one hand. I agree with the previous poster about finding what you love. My gym has an outdoor heated pool and I'm in all year round. I do extra at this time of the year because it's gorgeous in the sunshine and they have loungers if I want to hang around with a book between swims. I get along better in classes as well. I like having direction and music. I also quite like instructors that are more like coaches and shout at you a little bit to keep going/do more, but in a supportive way. I love pilates, yoga, spin and body pump (although shorty yoga instructors wouldn't really work 😂). I don't love all classes and hated quite a few, such as strength and condition which is far too much running around and doing Burpees.

You definitely get those endorphins/high when you find the thing that suits you

I guess this also answers the question about flappy arms and bingo wings. I am losing weight slowly and doing pump twice a week. I have a great instructor who makes sure your tech ique is right and pushes you towards progression with increased weights. She does not let you slack off or stay on the same weights, but also makes sure you don't injure yourself. I am really noticing a difference in my body. You really do need to keep increasing weights and do it several times a week though

Thanks, @PurpleCoo! This is a strength class I am doing, and I actually really like my instructor thankfully. He is firm but fair! I guess it’s early days, I might build up to more classes, and hope to enjoy them more..

It’s all completely alien to me at the moment. I’m a walker and a swimmer, and this is out of my comfort zone..

I actually love the fact though, that thanks to MJ I have been willing to at least try!

A very weird NSV- my knees are now so nobbly that when I lay on my side in bed it’s uncomfortable to put them together! Didn’t think I particularly needed to lose weight from my knees, but here we are.

I also look like a melted candle with no clothes on! And have the knobbly knees problem.

This happened this morning! No longer obese, just overweight.

I know BMI is flawed but it is a good feeling since I started at a BMI of 42.5.

Yay @Zibb! Fantastic achievement 🥳

Well done @Zibb great achievement 🏆😊

@sweetpickle2 @WoolerOwl me too I have put a pillow between my knees and sitting on plastic chairs hurts my bum as there so bony. Ive never had a bum but geez 😆

First check in, second jab just done . Lost 9 pounds first week so very pleased

Incredible start, @Mogamb!

I’m sure there must be a June starters thread on here - that might suit you better perhaps, as we are all 4-5 months into the journey in here!

It is! Im going to book a haircut soon and might mention it to my hairdresser but say it's due to peri menopause!

Well done @Zibband @Mogamb!

I'm ordering 10mg now as I just feel normal on 7.5mg and have stopped losing. Want to eat everything and have eaten sooo much today including chocolate and crisps.

Going on holiday next week. Still jiggly but you know, i just keep reminding myself- im smaller than i was and at least i wont look as bad as i did! 😂 plus side, no holiday shopping for me, ive got enough with all my old clothes i can now fit into! Hoping to eat well on the all inclusive and continue to be mindful of healthy options and eat lots of protein! 🏖️

I really ought to jab today. Should have been Sunday but I keep putting it off. Anyone else feel the same?

I have to be careful of stone fruit season. I know that makes me sound like a twat but I could happily eat a pack of apricots a day. Not a real problem calories wise but the costs add up!

You are going to look gorgeous! Hope you have a fab time!

I had some really horrible comments from customers today. Like not even people I actually know, just people who buy bread and pastries from me a few times a month.

Started off ok (but still a bit inappropriate) commenting on the weight loss but then it turned into them basically telling me how disgusting and vile I used to look. Wtf. Multiple people did this to me!

I'm still the same person I was before. My personality hasn't changed, I've not turned into someone else. So why do these people feel it's okay to gossip about how awful fat Zibb was to smaller Zibb? I don't know what the hell they expected me to say to them. "Oh yeah, you're right, I was absolutely repulsive, sickening" ??!?? No. I was awesome then and I'm awesome now, my body looking different hasn't changed that.

Also I am soooo sick of customers wanting to know exactly how much I've lost. I think that's rude. If they absolutely must comment about the weight loss, fine, I can deal with that. But wanting exact numbers is just wrong and they will ask repeatedly. I'm not answering so stfu.

@Zibb I'm so sorry. That was disgusting behaviour.

Wow this is so unbelievably rude. I'm so sorry. What the hell do people think when they're rude like this.

Fuckers. Sorry that happened @Zibb. People are so rude.

Huge congrats on your milestone btw!

God, @Zibb that is appalling. I’m so sorry that happened to you.

I’m glad that you know that you are awesome.

Bloody hell @Zibb that sounds absolutely awful, what absolute bastards! What the hell is wrong with some people?!