I lost 7 stone on MJ and had an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) .. to me it IS a miracle drug.

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I can’t believe how much my life has changed. This drug has changed my life. I was a really fat sad human .. I was a slim child, slim teenager with lots of sport in my life .. but my last pregnancy at 39 changed all that. I developed an underactive thyroid which went undiagnosed for 3 years. Went from 8st to 16 st in 3 years.. and just increased.. and I became a fat inactive blob.

My actus recti muscles separated and I just looked 7 months pregnant for the whole of my 50s .. I was lucky enough to qualify for weight loss surgery on the NHS and took my (by then ) huge weight back down to 15st from 21st.. but there I stayed .. until MJ .. I reached goal in November after 21 miserable years of obesity, I am back to me. I feel like I had been trapped in an alien body for two decades.

I no longer start the day with a handful of drugs to keep me from having a stroke. Even my thyroid medication has reduced. Instead I am riding again three times a week and take the opportunity to walk whenever the opportunity presents itself. I now park at the far end of the supermarket rather than try to find the closest space to spare the pain I used to have in my knees ..
I even played tennis yesterday for the first time in 20 years.

Before this I had done the nhs tier 4 weight loss service. (Unbelievably useless and infantile - yes I do know a Cornish pasty has more calories than a salad !) ..
Also God knows how much time and money at weight watchers/slimming world/ Cambridge diet /Atkins/Keto/ fasting .. you name , I’ve done it ..

After 7 months at goal I treated myself to a tummy tuck as had rolls of excess skin. I now just get up in the morning and put on clothes that I like - rather than spend hours trying to find something to wear that doesn’t make me look like a ship in full sail.. best of all , I like me again .which has had a hugely positive effect on my whole family. It has literally given me a complete new lease of life and I am so thankful to the amazing scientists who made this possible.

Anyone else out there with similar life changing experiences from this incredible medical breakthrough ?

AIBU when I say this IS in fact a miracle drug ?

Haha, absolutely! Calorie counting, eat less/move more has a demonstrably enormous failure rate on its own. As you say, fat people know all there is to know about healthy eating and exercise. That doesn't make it achievable. WLI do.

I'm so happy for you OP.

i tried mounjaro and wegovy and both landed me in hospital very poorly.

ive just had a gastric sleeve.

good luck with your fabulous new body!

On a fucking 14h PONY no less .. without guilt I was a burden 😂😂

Absolutely !! DO NOT BUY FROM ANYTHING OTHER THAN A REGISTERED PHARMACY !!

https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/patients-and-public/standards-you-can-expect-using-pharmacy-services/check-registration-online-health-services

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Well done OP!

I am on a similar journey 😊
had Sleeve privately.

then had DS and weight crept back up and settled at just over 14st - couldn’t shift it no matter what. would lose and regain the same 3lb or so.

now 3st down - got another 1-1.5st to ideally lose. Currently on 7.5mg

It was good hearing about your maintenance as that is something I’m a little worried about. But so far so good 😊

I would love to have plastic surgery on the flappy bingo wings! At my highest I was 21st so a lot of loose skin sadly.

I am so happy this drug exists. I'm not massively overweight but have lots of friends who are. Some of them have lost life changing amounts.
The reason we have suddenly as a nation got overweight is in the main because of shite addictive food that has been pushed at us through heavy advertising and the only places we have access into he main to food pushing it more. It's like allowing drug dealers to open sell in supermarkets and then be surprised when lots of people get addicted.

I wish everyone well on their journeys 🎉

This is amazing well done! Now you are where you want to be so you need to continue to take the drug? Is it a for life thing?

Like a previous poster I am thinking of trying this after starting yet another diet. What is the monthly cost realistically?

I agree with everything you've said. I've been obese my whole adulthood and currently over 4st down. 1 more to go to be a healthy weight.

I'd budget around £150pr month but you may get cheaper than that.

I've been on MN for years and I've been on the diet threads, the Low-carb, the intermittent fasting and so on. I used to find it so depressing when the low-carb one would start up again and again and again on the same people would be back on it having regained the amount they lost previously. This is the first time I know I won't put weight back on and that is absolutely life changing. I feel the benefit of this every single day, 4.5 stone down for the first time in absolute decades.

I've lost 3 stone on mounjaro and it's been a bloody revelation. I've battled my weight since childhood - worked out the other day that I've lost and regained my entire body weight and then some over the years.

I'm almost to my goal - 2.5lb to go - but I knew in the first week that I'd always need the drug to keep the weight off. I'm ok with that though.

I've also had lots of other "good side effects" with mounjaro. My migraines, anxiety, peri and ADHD symptoms have all reduced.

I wish I was eligible.

i have 2 stone to go but as i did the previous 2 on my own i am no longer eligible for wld.

i’ve been stuck at this weight for 2 years, gaining and losing the same half stone.

jealous of those who can get the drugs…I’ve thought a few times about regaining the 2 st but can’t bring myself to.

I’m just over 10 stone down, now a comfortable 10/12 - another half a stone then onto maint, currently contemplating surgery for the loose skin. I now go to the gym 3 times a week circuit training

Well I’m the idiot who had a breast reduction and tummy tuck 5 years ago and THEN put weight on! I can confirm that it’s impossible to put weight on your stomach again after a TT (due to removal of the fat cells) but you sure as hell can put it on elsewhere. I legit looked like a parsnip

Anyway, been on MJ over a year now and lost 5 and a half stone taking me to 9 and a half stone and by some miracle, I didn’t mess up the results of my TT so it’s all good

and yeah, I feel glad I did it. Just wish I didn’t have to take a maintenance dose but that’s the way it is. I know full well I’m incapable of keeping the weight off without it - it’s not about ‘learning good habits’ etc - I could write a book on all that. So I’ll just keep on, taking as little as possible dose wise

Well I’m the idiot who had a breast reduction and tummy tuck 5 years ago and THEN put weight on! I can confirm that it’s impossible to put weight on your stomach again after a TT (due to removal of the fat cells) but you sure as hell can put it on elsewhere. I legit looked like a parsnip

Anyway, been on MJ over a year now and lost 5 and a half stone taking me to 9 and a half stone and by some miracle, I didn’t mess up the results of my TT so it’s all good

and yeah, I feel glad I did it. Just wish I didn’t have to take a maintenance dose but that’s the way it is. I know full well I’m incapable of keeping the weight off without it - it’s not about ‘learning good habits’ etc - I could write a book on all that. So I’ll just keep on, taking as little as possible dose wise

For me yes .. 20 years of yo-yo dieting has made me massively insulin resistant.. I got absolutely NOTHING from MJ until I got to 7.5 mg (9 weeks) and then I got the appetite suppression) .

everyone’s journey is different. I don’t have a sweet tooth.. I am extremely switched on to healthy eating and actually love it .. always loved beans pulses and cooking from scratch.. my issue was portion size .. and that is where MJ is amazing.

yes I think it will be for life … but previously blood pressure and cholesterol medication was for life .. if I have a choice of a drug that prevents me from having a stroke or a drug that prevents me from being in a position that makes a stroke, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s less likely… I’ll take the latter..

I am only 15lbs down so far after 9 weeks but really pleased with the appetite suppression and change to how I respond to food. For the first time in my life I can eat a square of chocolate from a bar and put it back in the cupboard for how ever many weeks until I fancy another piece. In the past, I would have cravings for sugar every day, and I would never not finish the whole bar, family size or not. Its been amazing, and as someone with 6 stone to go, its heartening to hear from people who are at the other side.

Lost 6.5 here. More a life long battle gaining and losing the same 1.5st every year until the menopause/lockdown/covid and issues with one of my kids converged and I developed full on depression. Started on ozempic, but moved to MJ when it became available. Am on a low/maintenance dose and plan to remain on it, but kept it off for a year now. My thyroid meds have also gone down, as have all my cholesterol readings etc.

Was so impressed my teen DS has also taken it (under supervision of an endocrinologist) and also lost 5st in 10m. Just has another stone to go, but his fatty liver scan at 14 was heartbreaking and his health, self confidence and self esteem are rocketing now.

Total miracle drug as far as I am concerned.

It could be me writing your post. I lost 2.5 stone on slimming world and as usual my depression reared its ugly head and the weight was starting to go back on so I decided on WLI and although rather rubbish at first, I’ve not looked back.
I’ve now lost 5.5 stone in total and my health is so much better and I’m so much happier.

Well done to everyone who has lost/is loosing on MJ. I know that there are ppl who it doesn't agree with but for the rest regaining confidence and living life more fully is such a motivator. I am hoping that as time goes on the drug will become cheaper and more acceptable to take and lots more ppl can enjoy the benefits of it. Maybe over time ppl who are Maybe a couple of stones overweight could take it with supervision, then the whole very obese scenario would be nipped in the bud. Fingers crossed 🤞