Over 50 and depressingly slow weight loss!

[Mezzoprezzo]

Anyone else? I'm on 5mg and finding it easy to stick to 1400 calories a day which should be a good deficit. (Exercise 3 times a week and 5 stone to lose). But I haven't lost anything for 3 weeks. It really is a different ball game when you're over 50 / post menopausal.

If you only weigh once a week then staying the same for three weeks can be completely normal. For example, if you weigh every Saturday then you might have missed a loss on Wednesday. Because on Fridays you eat pasta and carbs will increase water weight. Just one of the many reasons a loss doesn't always show.

If you are exercising and knowing for sure that you are in a deficit then you will be losing fat. The scales won't always reflect that due to water retention, muscle gain etc.

Take your measurements (thigh, waist, arm etc.) as that will show results even if the scale doesn't.

I'm hoping it's that, normal fluctuations and also hot weather. I've lost 18lb in 14 weeks but it practically all came off in the first couple of months.

To be blunt, you need to reduce your calories, I was the same, not losing, thinking well I'm definitely not having more than 1200 a day, so I cut out breakfast, and all carbs, and boom losing again, also on 5 mg, I've lost 2 and a half stones in just over 3 months, and I plateuaed mid way through those months. I didn't start off at a really heavy weight (12 stones) so I know that can make it slower. I know it's bloody hard in your fifties realising how few calories you can eat to lose weight and those calories have to count, so absolutely no empty calories it's all high nutrition protein and vitamins, plus exercise isn't really carte blanche to eat more, unless you're doing Olympic level training, it just means you are going to be more toned.

I'm going up to 7.5mg with my next pen in a couple of weeks so plan to drop my calories then. It's hard to understand though. My BMI's 38 and all tdee calculators say I should lose on like 1700 calories a day! But I'm 57 and short (5"3) so just need a lot less than I realised.

@Mezzoprezzo yep, I'm also 57 and 5. 4, if I eat over about 1000, cals a day I'm done for, and 1000 cals a day really isn't very much is it? If it wasn't for the mounjaro I'd be starving. I didn't eat a lot before but it was enough to keep slowly putting on the pounds, til I thought no more, I looked hideous in everything I wore, I feel much more like me again.

Came of the jabs
felt tired and miserable on them... so glad I did try them though as would always be wondering should I shouldn't I

Yes it is a different ball game after 50. A slow and boring ball game. I’m not in jabs but doing all the things I did in my 30s and 40s just doesn’t cut it any more. It’s very disheartening.