June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 3)

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Roll up, roll up June Jabbers!

Let's become true losers!!

But surely you wouldn’t be able to take it on a plane like that unless there are no longer liquids restrictions?

You could take the pen in your 100 bag and take the water bottle through security empty. Just ask at a bar airside for ice

Week 4 jab done for me. I have found out that a single prune is 20 calories - and I have been eating 10 a day to try and combat the constipation side effects. That seems like a lot of calories! But it works, so, I guess I’ll keep on them.

@Meowmy I have just travelled to the US. I bought a case from Amazon with freezer pouches (circa £10). I put this in my hand luggage and at the airport put the case in the tray with my liquids and iPad etc ( did not remove my pen from the case) No one questioned it and then I have just put it in the fridge in its little case at each stop. No issues at all and safer than putting in the hold as can be too cold on a long haul flight. Hope that helps! Have travelled a bit using this same method.

That’s really interesting @SunandMoor because really security should have picked that up - both the pen and the gel in the pouch should be in the liquids bag. But hey, I carried a pistol through security once and they didn’t spot it! (I was cabin crew, and the head of security asked me to do it as a test for the staff. He then anounced to the security that I had a prohibited item on me that they’d missed, and sent me back through. They still didn’t spot it!

I think that if you can get your supplier to give a copy of the prescription you can keep the pen aside from your liquid bag legally anyway.

@FattyBumBum17 yep. So dry! It’s making me drink loads more than I normally would. I am usually terrible at drinking water.

Sleep has been the biggest casualty for me - waking every night for a couple of hours at the moment.

I’ve gone for 2.5mg for the second month. I don’t feel like I need total suppression, just enough to take the edge off and find a balance between normal eating and weight loss. My total weight loss in the first three weeks is around 9lb - if I can do another 1lb or 2 this week and keep that up consistently next month, I will be happy.

Thanks for posting this. We go on holiday tomorrow and I’ve read a few accounts now of nothing happening at security which is reassuring.

Although my biggest concern isn’t so much about security stopping me per se but more the kids being in ear shot!

I have young teen/tween daughters and have tried to always maintain a body positive front for them - no talk about weight or diets, no fat shaming etc etc - and they don’t know I’m taking WLI or that I’m desperately unhappy with my appearance and weight.

So I’m just hoping to not get stopped so I don’t have to explain things in front of them…..

Enjoy your holiday!

W3 d1 2lb down = total loss of 6lb 😀
Just done 3rd jab. I've had an email from provider about ordering next pen, so do zi order now or wait until I do the 4th jab?

I would order now in case there is a delay. I ordered my second one at the end of week 2.

W4D1 I actually jabbed yesterday afternoon as trying to move it back to a Monday morning.

SW 88kg
CW 82.6kg
GW 70kg (65)

I’ve lost 0.4kg in week 3 which I’m happy with. I wanted it to slow down so as not to lose muscle. 5.3kg overall which is 12lbs!

I’ve broken the 100kg barrier! 99.45 this morning. Hooray!!
Any other celebrations this morning?

8.6lbs down after the first four weeks! Haven't noticed any changes yet, but do feel better overall. BMI reduced by 1.5 too so little wins all round :)

Amazing @MissMogs and @DD517

My BMI is now just below 30. So I’m now only overweight and not obese!

@FoxRedPuppy well done! This is my next mini goal to work to, 6 lbs to go for me to be overweight

Week 5 day 1 and a further 1lb off but I've just got period so I'm happy with that! First 5mg jab this morning, hoping it's not too rough on the side effects!

Well done everyone! A week into July and it’s clear that starting last month is already paying off!

Oh, my days. Having been all gungho about no side effects, this morning I was caught short. I have never run so quickly into a supermarket loo in my life. Thankfully it's where I drop the DC for their school bus, they were just opening up as I realised I didn't have time to get home.

I couldn't leave for 45 minutes. I don't actually know how I'll be able to go back, and it's my closest supermarket so I nip in a lot. They had staff checking on me and everything. I had to ask for bleach and extra loo roll.

Ate 1,300 yesterday, lots of veg, did my exercise, drank loads of herbal tea and water, no alcohol since Saturday, nothing too sweet or heavy or fatty.

Mortified.

@LongGinShortTonic that sounds awful, I hope you are feeling better now. More people have experienced similar in their life than you'd think so I'm sure the staff will have thought nothing but sympathy and empathy for you. No need to worry about going back to the shop ❤️

W5D2 6.5lb down. I had my first dose of 3.75mg 2 days ago. Found I was not getting any satiety effects or food noise suppression on the 2.5mg for the last 2 weeks after day 5 and I don’t know if that was because of leakage after injecting or not. Didn’t use golden dose- bottled it and wanted to up my dose! Stretched my skin as I injected this time and pushed the plunger even slower and no leakage, so I’ll keep doing this in case it was a technique thing!
Something that put it more into perspective for me- 1lb fat is 3500cal which means to lose 1lb in 1 week you have to eat 500cal fewer a day, which I think is quite a lot. I them put my weight height age sex into chat gpt and asked it to work out my bmr and my tdee- well that was depressing!!! I need to do more exercise!

Period started today (a bit earlier than expected; my cycle is a bit off as I’d taken a suppressant while on holiday a few weeks back).

Perhaps that’s part of the explanation for the above.

Popping on to bookmark - but looks like this thread will be full too soon.

Went away for long weekend to Milan - ate, drank, partied. Still had a very small loss as walked loads so pleasantly surprised. Had to delay my injection by a couple of days till back - surprised to see the supression continued despite delayed dose (now on 5mg) but have had heartburn and digestive issues since the injection...

End of week 7 for me and I’m 21lbs down. Still feeling positive and eating lots of healthy foods. Fingers crossed that it continues. It’s usually at this point I start to fall off the wagon.

@Gingercar I was told they are used to seeing “pens” and the airport staff told me not to put it in the plastic bag at Heathrow. So I continued doing that through each airport!

That’s good! I haven’t flown since covid so it’s probably all different.