Mounjaro 10st or more to lose - Thread 5

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Come and join us!

It is a long journey but one I feel we are making good progress on. Destination is over the horizon but where we started from is getting further away.

For me this is the start of a new way of life. My diabetes will always need to be controlled. For the first time I actually feel like it is under control. I know I am fortunate that mounjaro works for me. It doesnt work for everyone.

Yes we are the lucky ones in that respect aren't we. I think those first few months kept expecting something would mean I had to stop and panicked every twinge was a serious side effect or soemthing that meant I wouldn't be able to continue.

We've come so far ❤️.

Week 20, 7.5mg

SW 19st 4lbs (Jan 2025, pre-MJ)
SW on MJ 18st 8lbs (1 Mar 2025)
CW 16st 1.25lbs
Loss this week 2lb
Total loss 44.75lbs

I’m slightly annoyed as I seem to have gained a pound between Tuesday and today. Oh well. It’ll be off next week!

Have a good losing day! Eyes on the prize and all that.

I think it is very easy to see every new thing as a side effect of mounjaro. My conclusion is that I already take medication for a few conditions so there are bound to be some odd interactions both with medication and the conditions themselves.

I was talking about this once with a colleague who is also on a range of things. We both said that every now and then we would experience days where all the negative side effects and interactions would hit at once.

These were the days to sit quietly and wait for it all to pass!

I didn't lose a thing again, I'm definitely doing 12 next time to see if it helps. Eaten the same as usual, done the same as usual :(

Weigh day isn't until tomorrow but I feel it's going to be bad, I feel chunkier and my stomach fat has gone all weird and jiggly. I haven't deviated from plan even a little bit (ie I have stuck to my calorie deficit) but I just feel really negative for some reason.

Maybe it's the heat, feeling generally unsettled and a bit miserable lately 😞

@Fffreeeeezing I suspect that the jiggly fat is that your body is getting ready to use it. Quite literally softening it up.

I predict a weight loss in your future. Not immediately but very soon.

Yeah @Fffreeeeezing that's called recomposition. I dropped a dress size overnight when mine did that. Better than weightloss in my eyes.

Weigh in day tomorrow here too - I seem to have slowed a bit (but it's relative - I was losing 1kg a week on average) and need to decide what to ask for for next pen tomorrow. I don't think I'm eating enough so not sure more suppression would be good. Not really sure what I'm doing.

I'm quite low at the moment. Not sure quite why!

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden I’ve read that not eating enough can contribute to low
mood. Do you want to post what your day’s food looks like and someone more experienced than me might be able to advise?

I could have written that exact same post. I've got my 7.5 pen ready for jab day tomorrow, but am dithering over whether to stay on 5 for a bit longer.

I've also been feeling quite low this week, with no reason. I just wish my belly was as flat as my mood!!

Think I'll camp out in the warm, fluffy, understanding bubble that is this thread for a while. The May Starters thread is grinding my gears and I'm feeling massively intolerant!

Hello @Quitepossibly

Are they all approaching 8 or 9 st after six months? 🤣
That's what made me abandon the thread I started out on.

@Billybingbong oh if only my stomach was as flat as my mood!! That made me smile 😊.
I did jab 27 today so exactly 26 weeks in/half a year.

I've lost a pound this week which I know means I'm still losing but it's slowing down to about a pound a week and I've still got 7 stone to go 😳.

I've been on 7.5 for 11 weeks. I've left it to the clinicians on my program to decide if I go up or not as my brain can't handle the pros and cons currently!

I don't work in the school summer holidays (but also don't get paid) so my stress levels might reduce but I have huge Wtf am I doing with my life and related financial worry at the moment which is probably why I'm low.

My side effects aren't so bad so maybe it's just the initial "wow this is working" euphoria has worn off. Or maybe I'm not getting enough of some nutrients. I really don't know. I think more sleep will help and I should get that in 2 weeks!

@Quitepossibly oh I love this thread for so many reasons and that's one of them! At 6months in now many who started with me are at goal. On the fb group I'm in there's people showing pictures of a flat stomach (flat I tell you) with some wrinkles asking if they should get a tummy tuck.... 🙈. Or again the starting pictures that are around where I hope to be after a year with all the comments about how fat they were.... I compeltley relate!!

And a huge thankyou to @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne for organising us all. I'm so glad you have this thread ❤️❤️❤️

All solidarity @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden intellectually I know the right things to tell myself. Emotionally I just get so frustrated by my fucking body!

Tuesday and Wednesday was showing good progress. WI yesterday showing a gain. Today, all good again. And it doesn’t matter what day I set as my WI day, the bloody gremlins STILL fuck it up for me! It’s infuriating.

I didn’t join the starter thread for my first month, for that very reason @Quitepossibly

This group is where I’m staying!

They my know. They know... I wonder if it's the drug wearing off or soemthing.

Morning everyone. Waving to fellow Friday weighers.

3lb off this week. Delighted with that. I’ve been trying to focus on protein and drink a lot more water especially in this wretched heat.

I so relate to feeling frustrated by those who only have/had three stone or so to lose. I’m not saying it’s not hard - if it were easy I would have done that instead of piling it on until I had fifteen stone to lose - but it’s not comparable really. I’m so grateful to have this thread.

Wondering how many people you know IRL who are also on the medication? I know my mum, my cousin, her husband, my other cousin, and my auntie! It’s a family affair haha.

I've lost a grand total of 1.5 pound since June 8th. It's a bit infuriating paying £189 a month, especially now I am redundant but I know it would be a gain every month without it. I'm 90lb down as of today BMI is 27 down from 42 but it's slow and expensive now.

I spoke to my doctor about low mood on MJ and he wasn't really bothered. I am just to flat and lots of people on Oushk FB page saying the same. I'm having to really force my reactions. Oh bought me a new laptop as a complete surprise and I just felt meh. Had to fir e myself to even say thank you. Then I cry at wedding videos. I dunno what's going on.

Week 14, 2lb off, and I've hit 3st loss. I kind of knew that anyway, as I did a cheeky mid week weigh, but it's always nice to have it 'official'

SW 22st 8lb
CW 19st 8lb
TW 11st 4lb

My next mini target is to get into the 18s. I seem to be consistent with a 2lb loss every week, so should be there by early August 🤞

I must admit, I didn't join my monthly starter thread for all the reasons mentioned above. I am so glad I found this one instead, it really feels like I've found my belonging here, among others who truly understand. I would love to have only 2 or 3st to lose, and genuinely wish everybody all the success, but our journey is so very different, as we all know.

I think the realisation of how different (and so bloody long) my journey really is, has hit me this week, and has left me feeling quite miserable. I'm 3st down ffs, I should be elated. Instead, I'm just a grumpy fecker who wants it all to happen overnight. Time to give my head a wobble and stop being such a divvy.

Have a great week everyone. As always, onwards and downwards x

Sorry to hear that @Quitepossibly . I'm a May starter and have 2 or 3 stone still to lose. I don't tend to put numbers in my posts as people are at such different stages.
Don't desert us!

@Billybingbong I’m the same, if I think about it too much I get overwhelmed by how much I still have to go. I was out earlier this week and I went from walking along thinking “I’ve lost 3 stone and I’m feeling good” (insert the music 🤣), caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window and “ah you’re still morbidly obese 🤦‍♀️”. It’s a long journey but we didn’t gain this weight in a year, so realistically it’s not going in a year either.

i gained 2lb this week too on the scales but I know I’ve not had a great week, not drinking enough water, and not been swimming. Up until now I’ve been passively losing weight, just allowing appetite to reduce what I eat. I now think I need to actively try to lose weight, count calories or follow some sort of diet.

@afaloren my sister has started MJ and as she’s still a SW member and able to follow it she’s losing weight really well. And a friend started it after I did and another is thinking about it.

So as predicted was not the best week for me. Week 17 saw a 1lb loss but only just, it took all the clothes off, then the hair bobble off, getting dressed, taking the dog out for a walk and then stripping again to get the scales to say 1lb off. My lowest week in 17 weeks and as I said yesterday, I feel chunkier and really jiggly. The only positive I can take from this week is I'm now in the 130's kg wise and I'm only a mere 5lb from 4st.

Starting second 7.5mg pen today, hopefully I won't regret not moving up to 10 sooner.

Happy weigh days to the rest of the Friday weighters, onwards and downwards.......

I have stalled this week, but my clothes are looking better and better on me, so I'll take that as a win.

However, I'm sorry that so many of us are feeling down

Maybe we need to reframe our thinking. None of us are reporting serial gains. We're all gradually losing the weight. Absolutely nobody is posting that they're getting bigger and bigger, week on week.

So yes, it's slow. Agonisingly so. But it's not like we're all regaining the weight we've lost. Also, everyone is reporting that their shape is changing for the better.

I get it. Honestly, I do. From the beginning, when we were all losing a stone in three weeks, we probably thought , "oh, this is easy - I'll be a size ten in a few months" but that is so unrealistic. We're not like the people who started at 12st. Most of us are 10st heavier than that.

It took us years and years to get to 20st and beyond. We've all been on useless diets for years and years, too.

Let's devote two years to undoing this. Two years is nothing. I've been steadily losing weight for 18 months. I think it'll be another 6 months before I get to a normal weight and that's fine. It'll happen.

My 53rd weigh in today, and I have dropped another pound this week, to make me 12st 13lbs with a BMI of 29.8. This is the first week I have officially been under the 30 BMI boundary and so I am currently just overweight and not obese. It's been a long time coming from starting at BMI 50 and 22 stone.

I think, looking at the predictions on my spreadsheet, that I might be at my target weight by Christmas, maybe... we'll see!