June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 2)

[SomethingAboutYou]

12 days and we've filled a thread! Welcome to old and new june jabbers!

I'm not the right person to answer, because I'm only on wk 1, but is the 2.5 working for you?

Oops just realised I was posting on the old thread 😬

Also week 3 day 2 today and there seems to be a bit more "food noise". Was hungry about 2 hours after waking, had a protein shake and it seems to have helped but I'm a bit worried as usually I don't have any of this?

@MtKiloMounjaro- LOVE your username!

This is what I’ve found out so far about hydration and nutrition targets but I’d love to find out what has worked for everyone else:

For hydration generally (but not specific to Mounjaro), I’ve seen a few sources recommending to drink 22ml of water per kilo of body weight. I think I will aim for 3l a day to try to avoid constipation.

For calories, the BMR calculator will give you your Basal Metabolic Rate (I.e. minimum calories your body needs to perform basic functions ) - what I’m not clear on is whether people are aiming for this or deducting from it?

https://www.calculator.net/BMR-calculator.html

Its also important to eat enough protein, a calculation I’ve seen is 0.8g - 1.1g of protein per kg or body weight per day. For people trying to lose weight use the goal body weight rather than current body weight.

Im
listenifn to this book about food, ultra processed food and obesity management with GLPs. “Diet, drugs and dopamine”. David Kessler. He says some
perople behave like anyone with an addiction - that’s why we should have an approach like managing smoking, drinking and drug behaviours.

i think some of it is probably on point . Much of it isn’t new, but it’s good to reinforce that I am simply unable to manage my diet alone.

open.spotify.com/show/2SRifZGIJKLqAhlEgkDaYP?si=Fy-zbZmaTZ2q_X9WM5VzJw

Also trying to decide that @BadgerFace - will see how this week goes and if weight loss is still there then I might stay at 2.5. Indecisive at the best of times 😂

Just start. If you don’t feel like eating much just say you feel a bit ‘funny’ today or something

Hi all, just had my very first dose of 2.5, I’m wondering - with the pen it’s supposed to have 4 doses of 2.5 in it right? A PP mentioned a ‘golden dose’ - can anyone tell me what this means please?

Hopping onboard!

I started with 2.5 last Friday 6/6 with starting weight of 17 stone 1 lb 🫣
This week has been a revelation - zero hunger, zero cravings! Marvelling at small things - for instance I have a brownie company I've ordered from before who advertise weekly drops on social media - previously (many many times!) I'd see the post and literally not be able to stop thinking about it until I gave in and ordered. This week, I could look and think yes that looks nice but I don't want it and move past it. Amazing!

I have lost a crazy 9lbs this week - now 16 stone 6. I'm fully aware a lot is water weight but still buzzing at such a boost to start me off. First week I felt a little nauseous some days and slightly light headed (probably as I didn't honestly eat enough- I will get that in check I was just allowing it for one week to see how I settled).

I'm on this journey to lose enough weight to qualify for NHS IVF - so BMI below 30 which is under 13.8 stone for me. I lost lots of weight on my own in 2019 - 6 stone - and had got to 12.8 (my lowest weight since I was probably about that age!) And then gained 5 of it back. I constantly kick myself for allowing it to creep back but no point dwelling on it now.

Did my second 2.5 jab on Friday and so far good suppression and no side effects - I feel completely normal just with absolutely no appetite. Here's hoping that continues!

For hydration generally (but not specific to Mounjaro), I’ve seen a few sources recommending to drink 22ml of water per kilo of body weight. I think I will aim for 3l a day to try to avoid constipation.
I just can't believe this is correct.
If you're proper big, which many of us are, you're potentially drinking 4 or 5l a day under this.
I can't think that would be healthy

Afternoon and thanks you to @Nerdippy @Shwingbada @SomethingAboutYou and @Lifecircle for the support and advice about how wk2 has started. You’ve all made me feel so much better. I’m not feeling the suppression the way I did last week but I ate far less at lunch and I’m still craving healthy snacks like fruit so I wouldn’t say it’s having zero effect, just different from what I expected after last week. Interesting to read that this is just a low dose to get my body used to the drug before having 5mg. I’m worried about moving up and potential SEs.

@Lovelesslily wow, that’s an amazing loss in just a week! Well done resisting the brownie too. I can, and have eaten 4 in one sitting! 😔

Yes, as disappointed as I am not to feel the same suppression as this time last week, I’m still going to wait another week before deciding whether to move up or not. If it was 3.75, I’d do it without thinking but it seems such a big jump to 5!

Hello everyone 👋.

This is a huge step for me as I've been losing by myself since 1st Jan (have lost 16lbs), but have stalled completely these past 6 weeks. This is despite walking fast for 1hr daily & watching what I eat. I think it's menopause affecting it. I've put on these extra 3 stones due to ruddy peri/ menopause these past 3 years.

I think I'm now at the stage of trying Mounjaro. My sister has just confessed she's lost the 1.5 stones she wanted to on it. She looks great.

I'm 13 stone exactly, but would like to be a healthy BMI at 11stone or just under.

I've found the Weight loss threads brilliant & hope this is the same.

Can anyone direct me to the thread where the cost comparisons are? I'd like to be as cost effective as possible. Thanks so much in advance.

Thank you!
I would absolutely eat 4 brownies in one sitting previously 😵‍💫 It was really out of control! I think that's what I'm really enjoying so far, actually feeling in control and not ruled by intense cravings.

Hey all just took dose 4 of 2.5 slow loss for me but going with slow and steady wins the race only 4lb down since I started

Hi, I have my pen in the fridge and waiting for the right moment to inject. Terrified of side effects as I have a long commute to work. How did others cope ?

I think someone else mentioned this but I've ordered a 5mg pen with a view to either continuing on 2.5 (and potentially - controversial, I know - keeping it in the fridge and using it beyond the 30 days) or being able to have 3.75 or 5 as required. It's only £10 more than the 2.5 pen. There's a chart showing how many clicks are required for each amount.

I do mine late at night, and go straight to bed. No SE to note to be concerned of. Bit of a gurgly belly and loose stool but not the rush to the toilet movement that diarrhea brings. But that was probably WK1 D 3/4. And seemed to be a one off for the day.

@Xmasfairy86 Thanks, I have IBS which swings between constipation and diarrhoea so I’m expecting it to affect me in my bowels one way or another!

As I am in wk 5 now, I recall feeling very hungry on wk2.i barely lost a 1lb that week, but by wk3 weigh in I seemed to right myself.
I am 2lb short of a stone loss across 5 weeks now.
No food noise.Ive even been on holiday and did not want hardly any food, I had to force myself to eat.I have not eaten a single crisp or chocolate in those weeks, which were my nemesis! I only fancy fruit or green stuff! I am on 1200 calories on nutracheck , which is brilliant app. I do 3 classes a week and seem to loose more on those days than rest of week.
The food noise will go in wk3 I think for those worrying on week 2.Fingers crossed.
I feel like a different person with far more energy and good mood .

I'm due second jag on Tuesday. Did a sneaky mid-week weigh-in yesterday and I'd lost 3lbs and was thrilled with that. Main thing I've noticed is just not thinking about food all the time - that's been a revelation. Hope, when I weigh in properly on Tuesday morning, that I've lost around 4lbs, and hope too that week 2 goes as well as week 1 has!

Hi all,

I know it's a Sunday & Father's Day & folk are busy. I'd just like to get recommendations of where to go to get started? Which provider?

Thanks

W2 D2 l am feeling much less suppression too. I succumbed and bought a choc bar today. I ate it but didn't taste half as good as previously.

I think I will be moving up the doses as planned but annoyed for giving into temptation.

I shopped around and found Med Express best taking into account future doses and orders. You can get some cheaper for the first order but then price jumps up. Hope that helps!