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!

Thank you both. I agree, I think it probably is the extra exercise so I might add in extra calories in the form of an added protein snack on the days I'm exercising more and see how that goes. I feel great this morning and exercising felt smooth this morning.

@usedtobeaylis impressed with your exercise! I will do some this week! You are motivating me to get off my bum!

I have a huge NSV to share with you all: I interviewed for a job today. 6 months ago there would have been no way in hell I’d have put myself out there like that. I was still totally bricking it, but I felt confident in my skin and that is just massive.

I don’t know if I got the job or not yet. I’ll hear later this week. Crossing my fingers.

Well done @Mounjaroday!

I am away for work today and tomorrow and normally jab first thing on a Monday, I forgot to do it before I left so won't be able to until tomorrow evening now- hoping it won't derail things too much. Although I have been weirdly ravenous all day, but honestly I think it's because psychologically I know I've missed a jab rather than all my old hunger returning in less than a day. Aren't brains strange!

@Mounjaroday That's amazing. I've been in my job for a long time and really want to think about moving on but I'm absolutely terrified of interviewing! Its fantastic that you can put yourself out there again.

Everything crossed for you @Mounjaroday!!

@Mounjaroday go you! Crossing my fingers for you!

@Mounjaroday that's awesome and so good you feel good in your own skin again. Fingers crossed for you 😀

Thanks everyone. Love this group! Not putting myself down but I don’t think I’ll get it. It’s a total wild card role. But until they tell me ‘no’ officially I’ll dare to dream!

Weigh-in day!
SW 103.9kg / 16.4 stone
CW 75.2kg / 11.8 stone

TL 28.7kg / 4.5 stone

Not long now!

@Mounjaroday whether you got it or not, it sounds like you have, and deserve to have, new-found confidence. I think for lots of us, MJ has helped peel away the layers (literally!) and show more of our best qualities. Well done in any case. Lots of new chapters beginning!

Totally agree @WoolerOwl

I went to see a client the other week. He outright said I had previously looked “frumpy” and “mumsy” and how it’s good to “see your cheek bones”. I realise now that he never really took me seriously.

Dick 😤

Hi everyone again ive been pondering alot today my goal weight was 10.5 just to be top end of healthy bmi but im unsure wether to go that low as I feel quite slimmish already im wondering wether to stop at 11 stone or maybe 11 stone 5.
Are you all planning on getting to healthy bmi ? Or have other goals in mind? 🤔

My BMI is currently 26.8, and I'm happy with this (it was 35 when I started). To get to the very top end of 'healthy weight' according to BMI I'd need to get down to 79kg (sounds like a lot still but I'm very tall!)- I haven't been that weight since I was about 15. I know that to maintain a weight like that I would need to seriously starve myself for the rest of my life, which I have no interest in doing. Currently I can eat what I want, just less of it, and if I have the occasional overeat it's not going to hugely derail things. I also don't want to keep replacing my wardrobe! So for me, barring the odd extra lb I lose here and there by virtue of being on the jabs, this is it. I don't put much stock in BMI anyway tbh.

Mines 29.9 at moment so just got into overweight. Yeh im thinking bmi is aload of crap myself. I can still eat what I want like you and just have less of it. My goal before was just to become more mobile which im smashing that one. Might just see where im at in august as would of been on it a year then.

My BMI is 26 now (from 35.9), so very close to ‘healthy’. I can see it’s mainly my tummy and there’s easily a stone that can go from there. But when is enough, enough?

Just ordered another dose. Have gone up to 10mg in the hope to just go for it, and get over that BMI line before hols in Aug.

Mine was 47 🫢 to 29.9 mines mainly my tummy i could prob lose a stone from there myself lol. Im on 10 mg but might go back down to 7.5mg

What a dickhead 😠

I’m aiming for BMI 26.1 then I’ll stop. It gets me down to my 2003 weight. BMI is currently 27.3. I’ve ordered one last pen, the last dose from which I’ll be taking 3rd Aug so I’m motivated to lose as much of the last 7 lbs as possible by early Aug because I don’t want more pens. I’ve had enough of this tbh, I’ve started to hate injecting even though I’m not squeamish at all.

What an absolute tool, @Mounjaroday. Fucker.
Have you seen, btw, the delicious takedowns that Caroline Hirons puts on SM when she gets a trolling from men about her looks? She simply posts their comment, then their FB profile picture. Just that. It is side clutchingly hilarious, as they are all absolutely hideous.
The way many men seem to think women owe them an attractive appearance - it’s depressing.

@CoolLimeSheep , my goal is also 10.5! That would be healthy BMI plus some wriggle room. Although obviously BMI is junk as we know. Dunno though - like you, I can’t see where another 1 stone 9lbs is coming from. I mean, I’d like it off my belly and thighs but I can’t see me spot reducing just those areas!

An NSV for me today - 3 bras sold on Vinted - too big. And they are my replacement bras from the family sized hammocks I was previously wearing!
Plus a sleeveless dress with a cut out back (a cut out back!) arrived off Vinted. Christ on a cracker! I thought - no way that tiny thing is going on!
Reader, it fits. And looks great.

I have realised that I neither know or accept my new size/shape. Which might be feeding into the whole when to stop question..

So - will review at each half stone lost from now on (12 stone dead this morning).

Keep in keeping on, warriors! 💐

I can totally relate to the not recognising new shape I have to double take when I see my relection or me on ring doorbell haha.
That dress sounds absolutely lush so congratulations 🎊
Think I'll do what your doing and see how I feel every half a stone.
Thanks for being such a lovely and supportive group 💗

Hi Everyone

I'm halfway through my second week of no jabbing. Feel fine, normal (but not the nice normal that MJ gave me). Playing about with my calories as I'm STARVING on 1400 but I think my brain just doesn't recognise food 🤣. I could eat 5000 calories right now and be hungry at 5pm.

Weight is maintaining which I am very happy about. Head is a bit messed up, I know I'm a lot smaller now, I've got a small frame so I am small. Yet today I was in a restaurant which has floor to ceiling mirrors (why why why?????) and all I could see was big bertha. Fat pouring from my underarms, muffin top etc. I felt I had accepted the whole thing about losing weight being different to being slim but guess I'll just always hate the mirror.

Relate to that a lot. My goal is to lose about 6 more kg but I'm starting to taper now. Plus I was only ever on 1.75mg every 5 days (works out at about 3-4 mg) so I'm microdosing already by most people's standards.

I'm not convinced I won't regret it and if I need to I'll go back on a very low dose of Mounjaro until my set point resets. For now though I want off.

Interesting posts about targets. I set my target as 10st - I'm currently 11st 7, and started at 13st 4. BMI is 26 exactly. I still feel 'big'; there's a lot to 'pinch' on my tummy, and thighs still look big when I sit down, so I guess I'll keep going until I feel happier with those things. I always thought that my shoulders fitted perfectly into a size 10, so would quite like the rest of me to as well!!

Similar stats to me

Started at 13st 8, now 12st 1. But I am short so my BMI is 29.

I set a target of 10st initially - not sure if I will get to that as progress has been very slow - but I would definitely like to get to 11st. Will re-evaluate at that point

The main thing putting me off stopping is not be able to go back on them as my BMI is now too low- so I’ll probably continue microdosing indefinitely to ensure that doesn’t happen. Which feels a bit daft, when I don’t particularly want to lose more weight.

I still really don't know about my goal weight. My BMI is currently 28.8 I think and I'm about 3kg from my lowest weight about 3+4 years ago (everyone else gets baby weight... I got puppy weight when I couldn't walk as much because he was wee, and he woke me in the night 😂 then peri hunger/cravings kept it on). But even then I was still overweight. I'm not sure what my body will be like lower than that. My body has changed due to aging, and I'm also changing my body now I am doing weights on top of my usual exercise. It's therefore impossible to know what to aim for. I will just keep going until it seems right, knowing I will never aim for skinny as I am happy with my hourglass curves and having boobs and a bum, in addition to some bits of le being very muscular, means I might weigh heavy for my size