Mounjaro -10 stone or more to lose - Thread 4

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

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All welcome.

Im loving all these alterations tips. I can't wait until I need to buy a whole new smaller wardrobe, but it would be great to adapt things along the way. I do have a sewing machine, but ive never really taken to it, and my skills are very basic. Maybe it's time to learn

Thank you all for the sewing and alterations inspiration. I've been looking at patterns that have different bust options. I like the modern patterns that have lots of options of necks/sleeves etc. Dressmaking: The Easy Guide looks like a great book.Thanks @GnomeDePlume.

I've seen youtube shorts about easy ways to take in jeans at the waist. It's two v shaped darts done with needle and strong/thick thread. I haven't done that as I don't have the right needle and I'd need to keep redoing it. My thighs aren't slimming in line with my waist so I still need the 24s. I use a cheap buckless belt I boght years ago instead - picture attached which may take a while to post.

They have elastic between two popper closings that you use on the front belt loops. There's an adjuster so you can shorten the elastic belt as you shrink. It keeps the front flat by pulling in the waistband around the sides & back.

Changing the subject, here's Jenni Murray on MailPlus on taking Mounjaro. She started in September last year, at 16 1/2 stone and is now at her goal weight of 12 stone. It's a bit confusing as she also talks abt weight loss slowing - so maybe she wants to go lower now she's at goal. She's going to stay on MJ. https://archive.ph/1kvo0

Weigh in today and jab 4:

start weight and BMI: 131kg (46.6)
current weight and BMI: 127.5kg (45.4)

Loss of 1.6kg this week and 3.5kg overall. Still need to decide what to do next week with my 5mg pen!

I normally just sew the side seams at the waist band and down a couple of inches! If I need smaller still I do the same in the back waistband seam.

It’s a hack job but it works!

My new dresses have come (I LOVE next-day delivery!) and are PERFECT for bust, waist and hip. Still pretty long so I might well take the hem up. If I do I’ll just fold it up a couple of times. Nothing fancy and no cutting shorter.

I. Am. Overjoyed. I’m wearing a large with no additional X-s!! Bloody marvellous!

Awe 😍 🫢 😍 🫢 😍 huge congratulations 👏 🎉

I've found the same I've hit 6 stone loss and it's very very slow now ,and I need to loose a minimum of another 4 stone ,if not another 6 to be thin ISH .
It's very depressing,

That is marvellous!

I am eating so much more healthily now. Lots and lots of vegetables, fresh from the allotment where possible. My processed carb consumption has really dropped. The weird thing is that I am enjoying it.

It is insane that one tiny injection which I can barely feel is having this effect. Is this all that was wrong with me?

All those decades of struggling to lose weight, hating every diet. Hating having to constantly police myself. Hating myself for failing.

All the talk about rekindling a love of clothes is inspiring. I have never had a love of clothes for myself. Never established something which could be called a style except in the sense of 'I can get it on so I will wear it'.

Now I am starting to look at sewing patterns and wondering if it will actually suit me. Not yet but soon.

I’ve been ‘off grid’ for a couple of days so it’s been nice catching up with the chat.
@Weightlossprincess omg! That’s bloody awful and it must have been so humiliating for you. We always think of responses too late. You must complain, she can’t be allowed to speak to people this way, it’s a caring profession not a humiliate and judge people profession. I had a similar experience a long long time ago when going for a smear test and it took me about 5 years to pluck up the courage to go back. Luckily it was a completely different experience when I did. Much love 🥰

@Doggymummar im sorry to read that you’re at risk of redundancy, I think MJ would be the first thing all of us would panic about! I haven’t heard of Whatnot! Am going to have a look later, will I regret it??!

@Povertytrapped bread was my biggest downfall, I used to study and pick out a loaf of bread like some people pick a good red wine, has to be the right colour, squishy sides, can’t be too dark on the top 😂. Making sourdough so I could have a thick slice toasted, now I can take it or leave it. I have a wrap occasionally and I do have a bread roll on a Friday or Saturday and that’s all I need, it’s wizardry.

Well done to all the losers!

@MummyInTheNecropolis don’t ever be worried about posting your stats on here! We are all in this together and need to celebrate each others journeys no matter how different they are, congrats on dropping into the 30s!

I totally agree on the bread. Now I barely have it.

I think I have a carbs problem. I always show a gain after eating them. Today it’s nearly 2lbs after having potatoes last night. Problem is my husband is veggie and I do cook pasta and potato dishes for us because he’s tall and need fuel. Beans are great but don’t always fill him up enough (which they should because protein, but he likes bulk!).

And anyway I was under my calories last night!

This annoys me!! I need to review what we eat in a wider sense. Ah well. I am always up for a food challenge!

The separate challenge today is that my boss has bought a bakery pork pie for today. I love them. So I shall have to negotiate that. It’s just us in today and no one really knows I’m either dieting or on MJ. I’ll have a small bit but I can’t eat half of one, that’s half my days calories in one thing! We’ll see!!

Have a good day everyone!

So lovely to hear how everyone is. @Weightlossprincess that consultant was so unprofessional. How awful - I'm so sad for you.

I'm on awe of everyone who is making clothes. You're all so clever!

@GnomeDePlume I completely relate to those feelings. I'm both so happy this year is different for me and that this is working... And so sad that for so long I thought it was my fault and I'd traispe back to the Dr each year trying a different antidepressant or a different diet and feeling such a failure. Failure was literally what I went into counselling for (in all areas of my life tbh! But weight is such an obvious one to a judgy society isn't it).

I so wish it had elicted compassion from people, compassion from medical staff, friends, society etc. Instead the huge chunk of our lives living under this shadow.

BUT this year is different... And hopefully as long as I can afford the drug (I try not to think of blackmirror!) I will have such a different second half of my life. I feel sad I wasn't able to do things for my kids most active years. Each year I'd want to lose weight "for them" and be convinced in a year or twos time I'd be able to xyz with them... It's heartbreaking.

But "from now on" (breaks into the greatest showman) things will be different.

I weighed in today at 17 stone 11 which means I've hit FOUR STONE!!!! And only 2lb away from not being morbid... I'm so very close!

I did my refill questionaire today and I'm going to stay on 7.5 for another month. I'm on week 23 and each time I worry should I be going up faster to get "most effect" or slower as its working and as I'm losing about 1.1kg a week I'm sticking but I'm never sure which is the better route. They've not studied it as the trials had groups put randomly into the different doses and there wasn't rhw chance to adjust.

I've not been walking this week. I've been working evenings on a project on top of work and duaghter is doing GCSEs and I feel burnt out. I don't want to go to work today 😬 but I will. I hope this weekend I recover. Ive not been sleeping well and hope to have more time to catch up. I feel behind on everything.

Oh and I weigh often - the last 10days I either stayed the same or had a blip where I put on... Then period came and today it dropped 1.1kg "overnight ". Womens bodies are strange.

@Iwouldratherbesinging I don't if you'll regret it, but it can be a time sink. It takes a while to find good people to follow and there are some terrible hosts but you can generally tell in a minute or two if it's for you. There's Basic Woodbridge which is usually on today at 10 or 11, they are a charity by the coast somewhere and have a lot of sea Salt joules fat face donated to them which you can get from £1.

Looseinachazzashop is a charity shop in Weymouth that is usually on around 7pm and she sells stock from £2 and ragbag items from £1.

AR wholesale is a place that charity shops sells everything they can't sell in the shop to and they sell individual items for £1 or bags of 10kg from 30p an item.

Then there a people like us who are selling their own wardrobes and they are more hit and miss. It's a great community, I only started maybe three months ago and I love it. Loads of people on MJ and some on Herbalife doing really well too.

There are also specific shows for p,us size. Kids, designer, food, gadgets, etc. I don't have the confidence to be a seller but I like watching, and sometimes buying.

Anything I don't like or doesn't fit when it arrived I pop on eBay to sell. I got a Ralph Lauren dress for £10 on Sunday and some black Mint Velvet jeans for a quid. Postage is reasonable too.

@TragicMuse Carbs have the same effect for me too. It's like I can almost undo a week of weight loss just from one serving of simple carbs. Even wholegrain varieties. If I have them I always wake up feeling sluggish the next day too from the sugar crash.

I haven't cut out carbs but I am doing low carb meals as much as possible and I feel much better for it. Bread, rice and potatoes I can take or leave but I love pasta so it's been an adjustment.

It's just me and DH I understand what you mean about catering to them as well. To avoid having to cook two totally separate meals I take whatever protein he's having with the carb and put it with a low carb option like cauliflower rice, or a big salad. Would that be an option for you?

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden I agree that our bodies can be weird. I've discovered that my body can fluctuate about 1.5kg (3lb) in a day! And since my period last week I've had a whoosh and lost another 1.7kg!! To me it reinforces how important it is not to get hung up on the scales and just trust the process. Eventually it will come off if I pay attention to what I'm eating and how much I'm exercising.

But you know all this of course, because you've lost an abstract amount of weight! Congratulations 🎉 Stick with it and the weight will start to come off again soon

Good morning lovelies. Week 10 weigh & jab day for me (I can't believe it's been 10 weeks already!!), and another 2lb off. I'm on my 2nd 5mg pen, and have had quite a bit of food noise creeping in this week, so have had to reach for the willpower a little more than usual. Also, my suppression seems to be a bit less, so we'll see how things are this week, but i think it might be time to move it up to 7.5.

In other news, I'm going to a concert tonight (I'm a tad excited, and may have already mentioned it once or twice 😀 ), and intend to be up dancing and singing the whole night, not sat trying to make myself invisible like I have previously. There may be wine involved, I havent had a drink in months, it may get messy, oops 😜

SW 22st 8lb
CW 20st 2lb
GW 11st 4lb

@Doggymummar You've got me intrigued, I need to check out Whatnot

Have a great week everyone

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Week 6 weigh in this morning and I've lost 1.4kg this week (3lbs). I've had a bit of a whoosh after TOTM last week. Total weight loss is now 9.6kg (1.5 stones)!!! Absolutely unbelievable to me.

Honestly I don't really know how I've done it, although I'm not complaining. I haven't been starving myself. I've been eating plenty - about 500-700 under my TDEE, 80-100g protein per day (I like to track in Nutracheck). At least 2 litres of water per day.

This was my first week on 3.75mg and I felt hungry a few times. I didn't do a good job of getting lunch items in my shopping last week so that's my focus this week. And water! It's going to be hot so I don't want to get dehydrated.

Only NSV so far is that I think the upper part of my B belly is smaller; at least I don't think it bulges over my waistband so much.

This is hard for me to say, but I'm proud of myself. I'm really glad I took the step of trying MJ. I'm having to make some financial sacrifices to afford it but it's worth it so far.

Me too…I now only weigh once a week at pretty much the same time every week to (hopefully!) get as accurate a measurement as possible.

Week 49 weigh in.

SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 84kg (13st 3lbs), was 85kg (13st 5lbs), last week.
GW: 81kg (12st 11 lbs) fifth interim goal

Current pen: 10mg, 5 weeks on this dose.

Another 2lb/1kg down this week, which I am very happy with. The 10mg seems to have put me back on track after a slow down on the 7.5mg. I have lost 8 pounds already in the 5 weeks I've been on 10mg compared with 4 pounds on the previous 5 weeks on 7.5mg.

I've just ordered my next pen with WePrescribe, as it was one of the cheaper ones for the 10mg. It was approved extremely quickly, minutes, after I uploaded the necessary photos, which suprised me a bit!

Soooo it's my 3 month jabiversary today (first jab was March 14th) so weigh in number 13 and another 3lbs gone bringing me to a total of exactly 3 stone, hurrah!
Just a mere 9 stone 11 to go to my target which is BMI 29.9 (current BMI is still over 50 🫣)

And to celebrate I went to my first GP appointment in several years which I've been avoiding for several years due to being convinced they would just blame my weight. Mentioned to the Dr about MJ and the 3st and she just said amazing. I did ask her before I left if she had any issue with me being on MJ and she said absolutely not, it's a medicine and it's obviously working well for me, she asked if I had any side effects (I don't) and she said she didn't know a lot about it as they don't prescribe it (which is fair enough) so she said she's probably not the best person to ask any questions about it to (I didn't have any questions about it anyway). Anyway, before I had left she had booked me in for blood tests 2 hrs later, a physio for this afternoon and another appointment with her in 2 weeks time, how efficient is that! The blood tests cover everything you could ever imagine, HbAc1, cholesterol, liver, kidneys, vitamins, blood count just a few of them, will be interesting if any anomalies come up that can attributed to MJ!
So all in all a not unsuccessful day so far, and MJ is on my records now, seems if my supplier even did send a notification to my GP, no one ever did anything with it as it wasn't recorded anywhere.

Onwards and downwards, that 4th stone is itching to be lost by the end of July

So ,I've gone from a size 32 dress to a size 24 dress ..so still a long way to go .
But I'm having a nightmare trying to find clothes
I'm still in size 28 jeans I can't keep up .
I must of ordered so many dresses ,but I just look wrong in all of them .
I thought loosing weight would help clothes wise ,but it's no easier.possibly when I get to a 22 there will be more choice as I can shop in supermarkets.
I'm so used to everything being baggy on me ,it feels wrong having anything fitted,so I keep sending things back .
Everything still has to be baggy on me ,and not cling ,merely skim .

How many pairs of jeans and how many dresses are you all buying, knowing your not going to be this size next year ,so will only get this summer out of what you buy .

I will be fine come autumn because I've a pile of size 26/28 jumpers I'm just going to wear baggy.
Summer is not my time to shine ,not in the least .I just get sweaty and irritable

@Bulldogsummer Have you tried Vinted? I've dropped from a 24/26 to 22/24 so can still get away with some of my bigger stuff, but I'm using Vinted almost as a swap shop at the moment. I've listed loads of my too big stuff, and using my balance to buy smaller stuff. I intend to do this for the duration until I reach my goal size (then I plan on having a made crazy shopping spree!). Also, Whatnot has been mentioned on a PP, always worth a look