Auggies mj thread 15

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This is our 11th month - gather round my little auggies 😍 and we are all doing amazingly

some are at goal - and working out maintenance

some nearing it

some still have weight they want to lose

Some have stopped and blowing baby dust your way or money and can start again

but ALL of us have lost weight and I love the fact we are all so supportive to each other over weight and our general day to day lives 💖

only 2 words to say

🐘 Elephant Penis 🐘

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so all can find easily I shall add this to first post

1 lb = a Gunea pig
1.5 lbs = a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts
2 lbs = a rack of baby back ribs
3 lbs = an average human brain
4 lbs = an ostrich egg
5 lbs – a Chihuahua
6 lbs = a human skin
7.5 = an average newborn
8 lbs = a human head
10 lbs = amount of chemical additives an American consumes every year
11 lbs = an average housecat
12 lbs = a Bald Eagle
15 lbs = 10 dozen large eggs
16 lbs = a sperm whales brain
20 lbs = a car tire
23 lbs = amount of pizza an Average American eats in a year
24 lbs – a 3 gallon tub of super premium ice cream
25 lbs = an average 2 year old
30 lbs = amount of cheese an average American eats in (1) year
33lbs – a cinder block
36 lbs a mid-size microwave
40 lbs = a 5 gallon bottle of water or an average human leg
44 lbs = an elephant’s heart
50 lbs – a small bale of hay
55lbs a 5000 BTU air conditioner
60 lbs = an elephant’s penis 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
66 lbs – amount of fats and oils an average American eats in (1) year
70 lbs – an Irish Setter
77 lbs – a gold brick
80 lbs – the World’s Largest Ball of Tape
90 lbs – a new born calf
100 lbs = a 2 month old horse
111 lbs = amount of red meat an average American eats in (1) year
117 = an average fashion model and she’s 5’11”
118 lbs= the complete Encyclopedia Brittanica
120 lbs = amount of trash you throw away in a month
130 lbs = a newborn giraffe
138 lbs = amount of potatoes an average American eats in a year
140 lbs = amount of refined sugar an average American eats in a year
144 lbs = and average adult woman (and she’s 5’4”)
150 lbs – the complete Oxford English Dictionary
187 lbs – an average adult man
200 lbs – 2 Blood hounds
235 lbs = Arnold Schwarzenegger
300 lbs = an average football lineman
400 lbs – A Welsh pony

You could try taking it 6 days apart?

how is everyone doing with loose skin? I think mine is looking a little better!

that walk looks gorgeous. I had tears this morning about not being able to get out and go for a walk. I’m trying to do lots of my physio exercises but it’s leaving me in a lot of pain. I’m trying to keep pills to a minimum until after my blood tests tomorrow.

@Azuresky68 I dont know if it would help your back but I have just purchased a big pregnancy pillow, theyre also advertised as back support pillows. I have slept on my side with two pillows crammed into a pillowcase for my top leg to rest on which has helped relieve my disc pain, but with this big pillow I can have it wrapped around me to support my back as well, I wonder if that might help your back muscles?
I use it upside down, not like in the photo.

66 inch full body g shaped pregnancy pillow ultra soft maternity support for legs abdomen and relaxation for expecting moms - baby & maternity - Temu United Kingdom

@MabelSpan thanks so much for thinking about me! I will have a look

@FurForksSake thanks for your reply.
Yes I have been spacing jabs 5 or 6 days apart. I am going to really try hard to maximise weight loss in August as I have no big events or holidays..it feels so hard to get back to the 8 stone 7 pounds I got to in June. I was thinking maybe I should try for under 8 stone 7 as then I would have a bit more wriggle room for next holiday. I might even try upping my dose next week to
12.5 mg. My average daily calories have been 1250 but I know I have to be on 1000 to lose weight especially now my BMI is around 24 9 and 24.6

Baggy skin and wrinkles are here to stay as I am 69 now.

I could feel sad because I rarely had a bikini body in my life.and now I have lost weight I still don't have one! No stretch marks though just poor muscle tone and I had 2 C sections (no scar)

I look better with clothes on but my arms aren't great.

At the end of the day I am still going to wear a bikini and sleeveless clothes despite the wrinkles!

At least my face is pretty good as I use 50 SPF and I have never had a thin face.
How are you doing? I am sorry but I forget at what age and stage we are all at! But you are on maintenance now aren't you?

@FurForksSakeso sorry you can't get out and about. Sending hugs xx

Really sorry to hear about all those who are suffereing from pain

I'm going to have a week off MJ. I had a terrible week last week - one night when I felt awful and nauseous all night, then a couple of nights later (visiting a friend) when I felt awful again and then eventually was terribly sick about 6am. Despite my low dose (5mg) I've been feeling generally worse over the last few weeks, maybe my smaller body and the cumulative increase is just making it too much for me.

It's my birthday early next week and dh and I are going away for a couple of days. I just can't risk feeling sick then. So I'm missing one complete injection then returning at the end of next week with a lower dose.

@Azuresky68 yes I def think er get used to a dose. I thought 10 was good. Then after ordering 2nd one I needed to do 12.5. That was the only time I didn’t go up every month

def take something at night

hopefully you would have lost a lb tom @Azuresky68

@FurForksSake I don’t like my arms and top of legs but that’s only really seen for 2w on holiday 😂

@FurForksSake sorry you can’t get out - can you walk at all or in wheelchair 99%

@20bloodypounds sorry you had a bad week

makes sense to skip so enjoy bday and away

@Blondeshavemorefuni can walk around the house or round a small shop, but that’s about it. With it being my hip the only comfortable position is semi-recumbent so k feel like a wheelchair would be really uncomfortable? I have crutches for outside the house, but it just exhausts me. I have my injection in 11 days, I am trying to do all I can to maintain some muscle so that afterwards I can get some stamina back and muscle. I’m very likely from the X-rays to have surgery at some point in the next year. Last time that gave me 7 good years. I’ll still have a knackered back, but I can manage that a lot more than this.

the pain and leg collapsing is so blinking tiresome! After the injection I will still have functional issues but hopefully a lot less pain.

Sounds awful 😢😢

I feel I have eaten lots this week. Doesn’t help with summer holidays so more days out /picnic etc

so prob gain Tom but that’s fine as I’m way under what I wanted to be

I’m with you, I feel like I’ve eaten tonnes this week. I’m sitting here definitely feeling I could eat something. Jab in the morning and I’m going to aim for three meals tomorrow instead of the high calorie low satiating grazing I’ve been doing. I directed big son in scone making so had to have a couple, I got him to make them petite but still with a spoon of clotted cream and jam… delicious! I’ve also had a Cadbury delight bar, definitely worth the 90 calories.

dinner tomorrow is belly of pork and we will have lots of veggies my mil harvested from the allotment.

Back on the subject of pain relief do you think codeine and paracetamol is equivalent to co-codomol? I have made an appointment with my doctor to discuss pain relief.

Considering topping up my 10 mg with 2.5 mg tomorrow.

@FurForksSake I am so sorry to hear how things are for you right now. I really hope that the injection helps with the pain. Scones sound a delicious treat!

Cocodamol is just paracetamol and codeine. It’s 500/8 or 500/15 or 500/30 the paracetamol is fixed but the codeine dose varies. Depends which cocodamol you take.

i would really push for a referral to a pain clinic. I know you have tried a lot but there may be a combination that’s a sweet spot or some further testing they can do to see if there is anything else they can do.

Codeine And paracetamol is the same as Co-Codamol. Or so they say

Hugs to you @FurForksSake
Xxx

Thanks all, husband is going to take me for a five minute walk tomorrow. I’ll take it slow and if we need to we’ll turn around.

@20bloodypounds Im sorry you’re feeling so poorly and I hope you feel better soon.

I quite often think you’re my twin on this journey, our weight loss pattern very similar though I am on 10. I couldn’t cope with 12.5, I felt so unwell for the 3 weeks I persevered with it thinking oh, it will settle down. It never did and one day I just thought ‘I’m done with 12.5’.

You said Despite my low dose (5mg) I've been feeling generally worse over the last few weeks, maybe my smaller body and the cumulative increase is just making it too much for me.

I identify with that so much and I’ve said it often, the most recent time being yesterday when I cancelled my PT session because I felt unwell. Anyway it turned out my blood pressure was 117/51 and I can’t wait for my check up at the BP clinic on the 14th because something has to give - either my Mounjaro goes or my 5mg of a Bp medication does. Perhaps my BP is normal now and my BP medication is making it go too low.

I also have occasional bouts of low blood sugar and even though I know what to do when it happens I can see my body is telling me I’ve come as far as I can on Mounjaro. Or perhaps that should be I’ve come as far as I should go on Mounjaro. My personal target was always 85kgs and I’m 2 weeks away from that, but if I was going by BMI I’d still have about 9kgs to go and I know id be coming off it. I’m tired, my hair’s falling out again, it’s dull and is no longer what people called my crowning glory. Not that anyone’s told me that - I can see it.

Anyway, again just to say I completely agree with you about Despite my low dose (5mg) I've been feeling generally worse over the last few weeks, maybe my smaller body and the cumulative increase is just making it too much for me

Before I forget - I’m now back to using the Shotsy app and even although I knew about the half life of Mounjaro I was shocked to see that after taking my 10 on Wednesday my drug level was said to be 13 on the Thursday and just a bit lower on the Friday. And of course that ties in with my BP yesterday and the low blood sugar I’d have when out with my girls on a Friday which is our weekend. I was blaming being in a particular mall for it but it wasn’t the mall - it was my blood sugar and we’d just happen to be in that mall having our lunch.

Ive gone on a bit but I think it’s important we share our experience with each other, even with random visitors to our board because we never know who might have their lightbulb moment after they’ve read something here.

Do I regret Mounjaro? Well the answer to that is a big fat No! No! No! I’ve transformed my health, I’m a different woman health wise in real terms, Im happy, I’m different, I’m looking great, and life is good. ❤️

And just to say once again, that I hope you feel better soon. 💐

I second @FurForksSake suggestion of a referral to a pain clinic. In fact I did a post about them yesterday and must have forgotten to post it after editing it and it’s disappeared into the ether.

I suggested it because where I live no one would be on long term painkillers without also being under the care of the pain clinic, they go hand in hand and can offer so many additional things alongside taking medication. They’re very good thing to have access to.

Tramadol has been mentioned a couple of times and here it can’t even be prescribed by a GP for longer than a few days. They don’t treat chronic pain, you’re transferred to the specialist care clinic/polyclinic each area has where you have long term care, but chances are you’d also be referred to hospital out patient care.

But back to Tramadol type meds - I’ve read up on them in the past and decided against using them after my knee surgery because of how easy it is for people to become addicted to them. Anyway - it got me to wondering how many people do become addicted to them, how many of them are women, and is it possible these medication are now the equivalent of what Valium became to women years ago having been seen originally as a good medication?

@Weepixie thanks for your insights. You shouldn't apologise for a long but informative post.
I attended a six week course ran by an NHS pain clinic in my 40's and it really helped.

I don't think I would qualify now or if I did the waiting list would be very long. I will ask my doctor at my appointment next week.

Last night I topped up my 10 mg jab taken on Monday with 2.5 mg. It's given me tummy ache but I don't feel hungry.

I needed to have a word with myself to get back on track with positivity..hope you don't mind me sharing these thoughts.

Maintenance
Just been looking at my weigh in statistics and I have been under my original goal of 9 stone since 15th February.

I lost a further half stone for my daughter's wedding in June which took me to my readjusted goal of 8 stone 7. BMI 24

I only really stayed there for a week.

Since then I have stayed pretty much around 8 stone 12 - BMI - 25

I was getting cross with myself but need to turn this into a positive!.

POSITIVES

1. I have maintained under my original goal weight since February
2. I am now in size 8/10
3. I like looking in the mirror.

BUT

1. I can continue on 10 mg/12.5 until I drop down to 8 stone 7
2. I can afford to stay on MJ for as long as I need to because I have cut back on spending on clothes, food and alcohol.

Guilt and inadequacy

1. Part of my desire to get to goal was to stop MJ because I felt guilty about spending the money but now.I realise how it's transformed my life I am going to stop the guilt.

1. I also felt guilty because I am blaming myself for struggling to get to my revised target.

1. I spent my life pre-MJ feeling guilty about eating.

1. I have started to feel inadequate about not getting to my new goal.

1. Started comparing myself to other people who seem to be much better at maintaining.

SO I have just swapped the things I feel guilty about.

NEW ATTITUDE NEEDED

1. Stop feeling guilty as my actions don't affect anyone else
2. Be happy about maintaining
3. Aim to get to 8 stone 7 - however long ot takes.
4. Stop putting a time limit on the MJ as I have built it into my budget.

Hope these thoughts are useful to others 😊

Good luck to anyone on Friday WWJ 👍💐🤞

Great post @Azuresky68 On MJ we can lose weight. We can learn new eating habits (portion size, different food stuffs). Changing how we think is much harder and I like your reframing.

I have ALWAYS compared myself unfavourably with my sister (well, my parents did, so why shouldn't I join in?). dsis has a horrible food allergy and as a consequence has a restricted diet. It means that she is very thin. And for 20 years I have compared my plump healthy body with her thin, rather sickly one. And I have hated my curves. Nothing about my new size will really please me unless I stop the stupid useless comparison ditto the comparison with her career, her life, her family

@20bloodypounds many thanks. It just helped writing it down and sharing with people who will understand.
I have written it down in my weight loss journal and will revisit regularly.

Sorry to hear that you haven't been well and good luck with your MJ break. Enjoy your few days away too.

Sister issues can be tricky can't they.

Can you refrain your thoughts the way I did mine?

I keep a journal but not on a daily basis at all, but it is useful to revisit sometimes.
Look forward to hearing about you progress 💐

@Weepixie all sounds horrific - I sailed through the doses and even 15 didn’t feel it did much

very rare queasy day. Maybe 2 times in 11mths and haven’t lost hair or felt shit or has faint feelings etx

very strange how some find 2.5 hard and me 15 easy

equally I didn’t have any issues like bp tho the anaemia with bruising and tiredness takes it toll and I do have anal here and there

@Azuresky68 it’s fine to feel hunger. It’s good to feel hungry and appreciate when need food

everyone’s thoughts are valid and good to read about how difference it can be for everyone

you have done so well and lost weight and in 8/10. Does it matter your bmi is 25

seems so weird bmi for some people

there is a lady on the 10s thread and she is think size 8/10. Looks very slim get bmi is 29/30 and tech obese still

she is meant to lose another 1.5/2s to get to top end of healthy bmi but looks great the way she is m
maybe for some bmi really doesn’t work

@20bloodypoundssorry your mum and the way she has made you feel via your sister

@Blondeshavemorefun what is the 10's thread?

I am OK with my weight and how i look but would like to stay around 8 stone 7 as that feels right for me. Defnitely not less than 8 stone though!