June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 3)

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Roll up, roll up June Jabbers!

Let's become true losers!!

@NigelAdjacent 😂😂 I don’t even know why I hid it really like some kind of naughty school kid 😂

🤣🤣sorry I was meant to tag another post

My 8yo and I had a little shopping trip last night since his shoes had pretty much given up. I gave him the choice of what to have for dinner: Five Guys. Ate 3/4 of the smallest burger and 3 chips, and a water. Felt mildly gloaty about being moderate. Felt ok afterwards but had horrendous diarrhoea this morning.

So….fatty food and alcohol are most definitely out for the terrible nausea and diarrhoea.

I’m on 5mg and although I have zero desire to eat anything sweet I am having to take care to listen to my stomach and stop eating as soon as I don’t feel hungry anymore (which frankly if I was any good at I wouldn’t be in this situation would I?!). So for the first few weeks it all felt quite effortless but now I feel I’m having to work a bit harder at being intuitive, which tbh is probably for the best 😳

This was meant to be a reply to @Xmasfairy86

Ah, we all need to feel the thrill of rebellion 🤣

That just makes it a no brainer, doesn't it!

And, actually, like @MsRinky in the post above yours, I'm away at a time that makes ordering a new pen awkward, and the golden dose would just sort that nicely.

Do suppliers notice if you go 5 weeks between jabs and ask questions?

That’s really interesting about the effort / intuitiveness a few weeks in…

Before starting wegovy my weight was around 12st 12lbs (180lbs / 81.6kg) but did see it flash to 13st at one point and that was my break point.

My official starting weight on the smart scales my provider sent me was 12st 9lbs.

This morning I weighed in at 12st 5lbs 🥳 That’s the lightest I’ve been for ages. Feeling very hopeful. Early days, but still hopeful.

Happy jabbing to all!

My 4th jab will be tomorrow. I've got my next pen, I stuck to 2.5.

I still have a lot of suppression and often find food a real chore. I'm thinking about food a lot. I want to really enjoy a lovely meal and I miss that. Mentally I crave it but I'm physically slightly repulsed. Not sure this makes any sense to anyone?

I feel irritable a lot lately, that feeling when you haven't eaten enough, hangry I suppose.

I'll persevere as my goal is to lose weight. Food is just fuel at the moment and that's no bad thing. It's a good reset I think.

Still off the booze, no desire for wine. Couple of canned cocktails on a Friday night does me.

I think Five Guys had a role in my diarrhoea last week 😳and I didn’t have chips, just the smallest burger!

Mentally I crave it but I'm physically slightly repulsed. Not sure this makes any sense to anyone?

deffo makes sense @Thornrose ok I’m only a week in so hardly a pro, but had this same thought at some point. Like the mental habits are still there even if that physical ones aren’t there thanks to the WLI. My whole problem is discipline and consistency - am totally shit at both (poss undiagnosed ADHD, but that’s a different thread) - so hoping the lack of need for motivation and willpower will get me through and help establish new habits so the mental bit shifts too.

Ugh. W2D3.
Bit of acid reflux this week. So far very tiny loss, after insane 7lbs last week, so happy with that.

Feeling a bit hungry, and so tired of endless salad, I've just had a small portion of roast chicken with pan fried (in the chicken juices) tenderstem broccoli and one air fired tiny new spud.

Oh, I feel so sick 🤢

I’m taking jab 1 of my 2nd pen (still on 2.5mg) tonight (took the golden dose from pen 1 last Friday). 5 weeks ago I was a stone heavier than tonight. However, I have lost nothing since last Saturday so a smidge disappointed. Wondering if I should have gone to 5mg. I am 100% in a calorie deficit each day, i record every single thing I eat or drink down to the drop of olive oil or teaspoon of mayo. I’ve been eating no more than 1400 a day, some days only 1200.

So my W5D1-3 diarrhoea turned into constipation as I was not going to risk prunes/chia/movicol. Second jag of 5mg due tomorrow - I've cleared Sunday and Monday in case. It's the last chance for 5mg and I'm happy (well, Ok ish) to try it as the rest of the week has been great as I've walked away from food when I've been full.

Glad it makes sense, discipline and consistency are huge issues for me too.

I often use food and alcohol as a reward. Tough week, I need a drink. It's Friday I deserve a nice meal, type thinking.

Weekend food has always been totally different to week days. I would eat well and lose Monday to Friday and put it all back on over Friday evening to Sunday.

I haven't always been like this. I was slim and healthy in the past so I assume I can be again.

It’s quite common that people’s weight loss stalls after a few weeks. Your metabolism is reassessing your food requirements. You’re lighter and there are less calories coming in. The weight loss will start again if you stick to your plan, just hold your nerve.

Very similar here. The structure of the weekdays helps as I work FT, so whilst no angel food-wise in the week, the freestyle of weekends often sends me down the crisp aisle, plus more eating out with DH and the kids.

I eat out of boredom too and once I’ve had one “bad thing”, that’s it, the seal is broken, and I think “oh sod it may as well call today a write off and finish the packet”. And reaching for junk instead of healthier snacks.

So am counting on WLI to get out of those habits and hoping the losses motivate me enough to never go back.

Hi
Started my 5mg pen on Tuesday, has anyone noticed a lack of food suppression when moving up? I’m drinking plenty but still feel like I could eat everything in sight. Willpower has helped and the fact the food noise is non existent. Hoping it’s my body adjusting, don’t want to jab sooner but if I have to I suppose it is what it is

Does anyone need to wee loads? To the point I’m worried. I’ve always drank 2-3l water so it’s not that necessarily. Always had a bladder of steel. But now it’s constant and urgent!

Had blood results back . Thyroxine levels down but still within therapeutic range
Good news . Also liver function has improved as have cholesterol levels .
This is all due to jab as have not made any other changes. Very pleased x

Having a rough day today, kids have been unwell this week and I've caught it and been in bed with chesty cough and fever 🤒

Diet totally gone out the window my body has been screaming for carbs carbs carbs. I dont know if me being sick has stopped the mounjaro working or my body is just overriding it to get me better.

Its jab day for me tomorrow I dont know whether to delay it until im better and temperature has come down, what do you think?

So I’ve enjoyed my fallow week this week. It’s almost 2wks since my last injection and I’ve enjoyed the relaxation of the suppression which has enabled me to eat more and feel healthier. Despite skipping a week, the food noise hasn’t really come back other than a little tonight. Nothing I couldn’t manage.
So I’m moving on to jab 2. I ordered a 5mg (before I realised the suppression was too much) but no way will I be taking 5mg. I’ll be taking 2.5mg tomorrow but if the extreme suppression returns then I’ll drop down to maybe 1.25 every 5 days and see how that works.

@flameprincess, hope you feel better soon!

Yes, always gone a lot , but even more now. Suppose i am getting exercise going up and down stairs hundred times a day ( and night )

I have done two weeks and had 1000 calories, every day , occasionally less and still not lost more than 1lb . Maybe i should try eating more ?
Weather hasnt helped me as i hate hot weather .

I take my 3rd Jab Sunday of 2.5mg but will be doing it again on Wednesday next week and the golden dose Sunday .
My 5mg pen will be here next week so will do twice on 2.5 next week , then the following Sunday 5mg and stick with that as long as possible