Mounjaro -10 stone or more to lose - Thread 4

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Come and join us as we carry on with our journeys.
All welcome.

You're absolutely right @PearlsPearl - I would have gone up and up. My heaviest ever was 327lbs a couple of years ago, I'd lost a bit of that by the time I started on MJ, but knew it wasn't sustainable and that I'd just repeat the same old cycle of loss/gain/loss/even more gain, and all the self-loathing that comes with it.

Thank you @Iwouldratherbesinging and yes, each little target feels great! Congrats on your consistent loss over so many months, that is amazing!

Clothes and sizes are weird. I'm now getting into an 18 in some styles/fabrics, but will undoubtedly still be a 22 or 24 in jeans, which have never been my friend. I've made a strategic decision not to even TRY them until I have lost significantly more, because I know from past experience that I can be feeling great about my weight loss until I try and squeeze my mammoth hips into jeans...and then I am very down! I think I just have naturally wide hips ('child-bearing', as they'd have said in the olden days!), and also carry a lot of weight on my lower belly - getting lower by the bloody minute, I'll need a support hammock soon! - so jeans are tricky. But in dresses and skirts not so bad, and the supermarket sizes are actually quite reasonable. I tend to use Next a lot because you can order for the next day, try it, and return it - I think they dread seeing me walk into the shop with my big bag of returns! I suspect all of us chronically long-term fat people have all kinds of hang ups about the way we look and what clothes to wear/hide ourselves in - it'll be a period of adjustment for sure!

Little NSV. I’m at the opticians. Sitting in a bucket chair. comfortably. Not even squished into it!

Hurrah!

@TragicMuse that is an excellent NSV

Brilliant, I love these little NSV's ❤️

It’s also my jab and WI day.

Week 17, 7.5mg

SW 19st 4lbs (Jan 2025, pre-MJ)
SW on MJ 18st 8lbs (1 Mar 2025)
CW 16st 6lbs
Loss this week 1.75lb
Total loss 40lbs

Thanks great to hear how people have found it - thankyou! I'm hopeful my loss wont slow down too soon (7stone to go!).

I've taken the plunge and ordered some new bras. I haven't a clue what size so ordered 5 different ones from Yours in a similar style to the ones I have.. Most of my clothes look fine with my weight loss but the bras are baggy on top (typical!)

I know it wotn be my final size so it's hard choosing. I guess when they arrive I'll want them a bit tight??

I know what you mean about bras @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden . Mine are starting to look like vests!

Moving up to 12.5mg for my next pen. The prescription finally came through.

Weigh in and jab day.

SW 137kg BMI 53.5
CW 111.0kg BMI 43.3
GW 63kg BMI 24.6

So that's 4 stone 1 lb lost. Finally, officially, made the 4 stone mark. Started at 21 stone 8 lbs, now 17 stone 7 lbs. Goal is probably about 10 stone. Strange to think, the last time I weighed 10 stone I was ashamed of it. Now it's a target.

The last time I achieved significant weightloss was on LighterLife. Hell's teeth, that was a hard diet. Total meal replacement. Two shakes and a chewy bar each day. I couldnt stomach the soups so I only had the chocolate flavour, I didnt blend it thoroughly so that I could enjoy the lumps for a bit of texture. Lost about 7 stone doing it and got down to around 11 stone 7 lbs in about 6 months.

Gained it all back within a few years then added 3 stone of interest.

This feels different. I'm eating properly healthily, enjoying my food. There's no denial in it, I want different things.

It is easy for us to incorporate my new way of eating into the household because it is just what we did before with more vegetables and a lot smaller portions.

DH is also feeling the benefit, putting less on my plate means he is putting less on his plate. He has lost about 10 lbs since I started. A mounjaro premium!

Weigh in number 37
SW 21st 9lb (BMI 44.7)
CW 16st 5lb (BMI 33.8)
GW 11st 9lb (BMI 24.1)
1lb down this week
Losses so far; 4, 1, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, +3, 5, 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 0, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 3, 1
Total loss 74lbs / 5st 4lb

I started doing Joe Wicks in Feb and these are my latest stats. My Jelly arms as the kids call them don't want to change but everywhere else I'm smashing it!!

Wow, massive progress there @WafflingDreamer espeically your hips and chest!

What app are you using please?

Well done to everyone with both NSVs and actual weight loss!

I have a NSV. Went out for a few drinks with colleagues after work late yesterday afternoon. Sat in the sun, it was 27 degrees. I wasn't uncomfortable or sweaty. Even managed to sit on a bench and then get up and swing my legs over easily to go to the loo without having to ask people to move.

This time last year I would have refused the invite as I would have had a miserable time being hot and worried about how to move past people.

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden bras are definitely meant to be tight! When I had a fitting at Bravissimo a few years ago I felt as though I had a straight jacket on for the next few days 😂

@eibbed999 I am feeling exactly the same as you re clothes. Went to m and s and tried some trousers on and they all looked rubbish on me. I have a really big stomach still. Am currently wearing size 20 and 22 skirts (the 22s are too big really), size 20 tops apart from m and s where I can still wear size 24 t shirts, and size 18 knickers 😂. I have size 16 baggy style linen trousers from Next which are perfect on me. I am hoping to move down sizes soon. But even at size 20 there is so much more choice of clothes than when I was size 26/28.

Wow waffling that's impressive!!!! Love the change in stats there.

Yay for moving - especially in the heat!

Eeek for straight jacket!!! I know the ones I had I bought when I was more than 4 stone bigger... So definitely too big. I think new ones will be a shock. I'm currently too big for bravissmo 😳. Or at least I was. I haven't checked what band they go up to but it will be a true joy to get back into a bravissmo shop!!

So today's pondering on weight distribution (whilst in the shower!) I think I have stomach dips... As in my stomach was round and dense and now I can grab saddle bags at the bottom (I think I mentioned last time I mused that it's like some of the fats just sunk!). But the reason I can grab love handles is that there's a gap above them

So from the side when I look my stomach still protudes - but it's not like the whole stomach - just the middle third (well and the bottom, like an upusde down T) I'm not sure I'm explaining myself well 😂.

But there's parts of "me" I can press now that used to be just layers of fat, like under each side of chest/rib area/side.

So maybe the 4 stone has come off from somewhere...!

I've been weighing often this week as I'm only a poundish really from being "not morbid" but last night had some bits from a Chinese takeaway (child's last gcse celebration yay!). I'm consoling myself that i ate far far less than I would normally. Truly did. And it's probably the sodium/water that means I weigh more this morning....!!

Its the Joe Wicks body coach app its a paid for one though. It has work outs and recipes, cheaper and more accessible at the moment for me than a gym membership.

Congrats everyone on the great progress, with weight loss, inch loss, and mobility gain! Brilliant to feel like we are coping better in the heat - I went for a walk in the sunshine yesterday and actually enjoyed it rather than felt like I might pass out any second, and be found hours later in a fat sweaty lump by a passing dog walker.

There is no sense to some of the sizing @Motnight and I do find trousers are especially weird. I guess our body shapes are in a state of flux anyway, so I'm not going to engage with trousers for a while. They make me feel bad, so I will pretend I don't want them! I'll probably give in at some point though and try some on and then cry - they're like a bad boyfriend, I know they're not good for me but I can't quite leave them behind.

I love your 'in the shower' updates @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden. When I am lying down now, I can feel actual ribs. I was very excited by this last night. It made me feel super slinky, but then I looked down and saw my hips are still as wide as a barn door, and my belly is still ginormous and wibble wobbling around like a giant jelly on a very large plate. Ah well - it's still nice to have ribs!

Amazing @WafflingDreamer - you should be so proud of yourself for sticking to it. I used to do masses of yoga, even when I was even fatter (I am very bendy, it is the one bonus I have physically!) but since I had my ankle surgeries I have felt very limited in what I can do, as it is still quite easily tweaked into being painful, and pain episodes can last a while so it makes me cautious. Hols soon, where I will be walking a lot, then when I'm home I'll put some more effort into getting back to the lovely Adriene (and her yoga). Your stats are inspiring.

Today I walked to a Co-op, about a 2.5 mile round trip, to buy some of their cheddar and jalapeno bread. This is God's own food as far as I'm concerned, and pre-Mounjaro I would happily binge on the whole loaf, toasted and slathered in butter. I avoided it for a while to start with as I thought it might trigger me, but now I can actually just have two small slices and leave the rest of it. Is this...could this be...is it possibly what being a 'normal' feels like??? They just eat a bit of something they like and go, yum, that was nice, instead of having a compulsion to eat ALL of it? And then feel ashamed of what they've done, and need a bar of chocolate or a whole pack of biccies to console themselves? Amazing!

NSV from yesterday, was in the office and went for a walk at lunchtime, no swollen ankles! In the past I’ve had swollen ankles from mid May through until mid Sept without any walking or warm weather! Think I’m starting to like the new me 😊

Weigh in today and jab 5:
start weight and BMI: 131kg (46.6)
current weight and BMI: 127kg (45.2)

So only 0.5kg off this week, but 4kg in total so far. New pen tonight and I'm still swithering about the dose! Might just bite the bullet and go for the 5mg.

Also have apparently lost 6.2cm from my waist measurement in the last month, although I'm not sure how much I trust my measuring skills even with the Renpho electronic measuring tape thing.

Also - this is ridiculous - does anyone else struggle working out how to measure their hips?? I feel like I have overhanging stomach in the way and can't work out if I should be going under or over it with the tape measure 😳

I'm on 15mg of mj
The nightmares are awful
Woke twice in a state last night
Why is it giving me nightmares,the other doses didn't do .
I don't ever have nightmares,so it must be the change in dose of mj

Well done Losers! Look at is doing well and losing!

I have another small NSV.

Posted a pic of new glasses to family chat, my sister said she could see my collarbones!! This is v exciting!

I think men wear their jeans under their tum ,but us ladies wear them over
So that might help with measuring

@Bulldogsummer I have had some periods of experiencing vivid and complex dreams whilst on Mounjaro, not nightmares as such but sometimes quite heightened emotionally. It isn't all the time, and I think it likely calms down when the dose that you're on reaches a steady state. Hopefully they will settle down for you.

What does NSV mean please?

I wish we could have a clothes swap! Somewhere nice, with good mirrors, drinks, comfortable changing rooms.

Like a personal shopping experience but without the pressure to buy.

Meantime I need to see if the jeans I altered can be unaltered! I changed the waist since they were baggy there but not on my bum and hips. Now they’re too big for me. But they’re a decent brand. And someone might appreciate them.

I need to sell stuff to control my Vinted habit!

Onwards!

Non Scale Victory. Those little (big) wins like finding out you can do something which you previously couldn't. It isn't a number on the scales.