Azure I’m on 10 and have been for months apart from a couple of weeks on 12.5 that didn’t agree with me at all.
I’ve been stuck for a few weeks due to my foot and generally not getting my steps in everyday because of the heat. I’m just not going out in it.
I’m also on 3 medications including Mounjaro that slow down the digestive system and over the last 5 days I’ve taken steps to sort that out included eating prunes and temporarily coming off my iron tablets whilst staying on my bladder ones. It’s worked. But what I’ve also found is that if I don’t exercise and that even includes getting my steps in daily then I retain lots of fluid.
Over the last few days I’ve really worked on my digestion as well as moving in general, I also did two heavy sitting down PT sessions (each came in at about 370 calories) as well as short home based sessions on the other days just to get rid of the fluid retention. Anyway I had a sneaky weigh in today and a kilo has gone in a couple of days. I was very surprised by the amount of weeing I’ve been doing and I know that going forward I have to excercise/move everyday or the scales will drive me potty - well have you been eating too much Weepixie - no love I’m just full of pee. Mind you people said I had lost weight even tho the scales said otherwise but I didn’t believe it - they were correct.
Ive no plans at all to stay on Mounjaro forever. In fact I can’t wait to get off it. But from day 1, and I’m sorry if this sounds critical of how others may have handled this stage of their life, its not my intention at all and anything I’m saying I’m saying with love. I made it a point of never going above my calories by celebration eating and drinking. I can even remember being shocked on other threads around Christmas time when people were going without a jab during Christmas and New Year so they could enjoy Christmas. My thoughts were, surely that helped get us here in the first place.
Anyway, in a nutshell, these are the points I make in the posts I’ve recently done for my gym - in no particular order.
From day 1 of Mounjaro you excercise/move more if you don’t already do.
From day 1 you think about the rest of your life without Mounjaro
From day 1 you put things into place so that when you reach target your new lifestyle habits are as close to being set in stone as possible.
The day you reach target is not the day you start thinking about keeping the weight off, and neither is the day you start putting the weight back on.
Over the last 11 months I’ve had Christmas, 2 Eid’s, 17 birthday teas, a couple of holidays and monthly family lunches/dinners as well as lunches out with my girls and grandchildren and if people around me didn’t know I was on Mounjaro no one would know looking at what and how I’m eating. It’s not been easy but it’s been doable enough to make me feel strong and empowered, to have got me here and not be afraid of not being on Mounjaro. Who knows though maybe I will fall flat on my face but I really don’t think I will as from the very start of this I knew it was my very last chance to get it right once and for all.
Im also lucky that no one around me would ever try and entice me into a bigger slice of birthday cake/roast potato/spoonful of rice than I said I wanted, and neither would they try and pressure me into a glass of wine/bigger glass of wine if I’d already my half a glass.
What helps me with my way of doing this stage of life? Well funny enough all of tips people have given us over the years when advising us to use weight have worked for me -
I practice mindful eating.
I chew my food really well so that the message gets to my brain that I’m full.
I eat on smaller plates and if I’m out I only eat half of what’s on my plate.
I never have 3 courses if out. I have my main and half a starter or half a dessert. I also share with my girls if we’re out together. Sometimes I’ll even go without a main if I fancy the starters and I’ll eat all of it then some desert.
I put my cutlery down between mouthfuls.
And I’d much rather eat my calories than drink them so I apart from a cuppa or a coffee drinker I now stick to water with the very occasional half glass of wine.
And I’m also big on eating ‘clean’ but I was even before Mounjaro. I hate calling it eating ‘clean’ but it is what it is.
There was no other way for me to do this stage of my life and there’s no other way ahead for me I to the future. And the plus sides of it that are even more than the weight loss - well that would the improvements in my health. The excellent blood sugar results - I’m no longer prediabetic, the slashed cholesterol, and the reality that in August I’ll probably be taken off my BP medication. And of course I’m loving being slim, especially when I saw my husband recently after about a year and when I greeted him he asked who I was 🤣🤣🤣.
Anyway, I hope some of this has helped but once more I have to say that no offence or hurt was intended, everything came from a place of love as well as it being my reality.
pls excuse the typos - there’s probably too many to go back and corrrct.