Mounjaro 10st or more to lose - Thread 5

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

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I've hit a bit of a plateau. Been back nearly a week from a week of trips. Haven't put on weight but haven't lost it either. Going to put a big effort in for the next week as it will be my one year anniversary of being on MJ.

Oh look after yourself. I think its a good idea to get your GP to do some bloods if you can just to check everything is OK. Hope you feel better soon.

This is a very specific NSV but I have a condition where I leak fluid from around my brain it can cause massive headache issues. I have to have regular MRIs, there is a BOLD note on the forms saying please notify the reception staff immediately if you are over 20 stone due to the diameter of the Mri scanner. Even at my largest I still just about fitted in but it was so embarrassing. My latest appointment came through for September and I realised I might be in the 14s by then!

Inadvertently you have just terrified me @WafflingDreamer
I have my first ever MRI tomorrow and have already been panicking I won't fit!

My mum told me to not be so silly as 'I'm not 'that big' 🙄. The Consultant who said I need an MRI didn't say anything when he took me to the MRI dept to have it done (I couldn't have it done at that point though, hence it being done tomorrow) I've been googling it and it says it has a 60cm opening so I think I'll be okay but can't lie, the anxiety is high about this!

Oh no, I'm sorry. I was 21st 9lb and I did fit it was just quite close on my hips when I needed my full spine done but I have very wide hips. I had awful anxiety every time but im sure you'll be fine. My dad fitted when he was close to 28st. Are you only having your knee done?

Post holiday weigh in today, and by some miracle I’ve lost 2lbs! This is the first time in my life I’ve ever lost weight on a holiday. I ate and drank well and really enjoyed all of my meals, it just feels so liberating to know that I can still enjoy a holiday, eat food I enjoy and not gain any weight.

Yep just my knee, does that mean I don't go all the way in the machine?!
I'm sure it will be fine and it's just one of those regular worries us lot have, is that chair sturdy enough, will the seatbelt do up etc etc
I'm sure the hospital staff have seen it all and will be super nice

I feel ok ,now .I'm really bad for anxiety and blowing things up out of proportion in the middle of the night ..I think it might of been hunger I was feeling..I forgot I only ate a salad yesterday..very unusual for me as I like my food .
I last jabbed Tuesday...so I will see how I go between now and next time I jab .
Hunger anxiety and stomach pain all feel the same to me (autism)..I don't want to ring the doctor if it's hunger ..ok for now , though

I've had a knee MRI and only my legs went in the scanner.

Week 23, 7.5mg

SW 19st 4lbs (Jan 2025, pre-MJ)
SW on MJ 18st 8lbs (1 Mar 2025)
CW 15st 10lbs
Loss this week 0.5lb
Total loss 50lbs

Interim GW (set by Nutracheck!) 15st 8lbs

My hand wobbled as I was doing the 5th dose so I think I might have jabbed more than 7.5mg! Hey ho for extra effect!!

I hope you’re feeling better @Bulldogsummer - one of my friends has pancreatitis and it’s been miserable for her.

In other news, I’ve been crossing my legs quite a lot which is new!

I often think there's a really interesting dissertation to be written about mums and their daughter's bodies. Mums who love their kids so much can say the most damaging things, seemingly with no idea of the damage they're doing.
My mum died over a decade ago and I've wondered a lot over the years what my 'weight loss/ gain journey' would have looked like if she was still around to tell me 'but you look so much better when you're thinner'.

Interesting
I have two friends who are fat like me
We all had very thin mums
All our mum's in different ways hugely resisted food when pregnant,one ate like a bird ,one lived of one jam sandwich a day (mine) and one lived of riveta and similar low fat foods .
We were all under weight as newborns ,I had to go in an incubator
But by late childhood we had put weight on ,by teenage years we were very fat .
There's a photo of me age 7 sat on my mum's knee ,you can barely see her ,I completely cover her ..yet I wasn't particularly fat then .
I remember her saying how when I was a child ,after school our dinner was a ready meal ,we had half each .
Half a ready meal for my evening meal at 7.
I don't know ..but I'm sure there's a deep link somewhere

I also remember hiding empty bowls and a spoon under my bed , because I was worried she would see I had eaten a bowl of cereal..
I think being under fed as a child and newborn made my body store fat when it finally got enough food

Just hit a major milestone 19 stone 13.8 pounds - I'm officially under 20 stone!!!

I started in July last year at 26 stone 9 pounds so its taken me just over a year to reach this point.

Im hoping by October I'll have reached my next target of bmi under 40.

Re MRI's - I had a breast MRI about 7 years ago when I weighed 22 stone 7 pounds and it was really embarrassing as I only just fit in the machine and they had to remove some cushions for me to do so. I was panicking the whole time that id get stuck and the whole experience was traumatic and degrading (not that the staff said anything, they were all lovely). Im meant to have annual MRIs but haven't been able to convince myself to go back - now for the first time im thinking I might be able to do it in the next few months (still working up the courage to make the call)

@Janie934 fantastic milestone, well done!

I’ve not had an MRI while big but I had a CT scan and I was worried I wouldn’t fit through the big polo. I did though.

My mum definitely passed on some disordered thinking around food and bodies to me and my sister and I'm pretty sure her mum had done the same to her. I heard a lot as a teen about the concave stomach she had at my age, which I was never going to have. I was always within the healthy BMI range as a teen but I was curvy, with a tummy and hips. I remember being told 'we all need to lose weight' when I was probably a BMI 23-24. Chuck in 90s media messaging about how anyone larger than Kate Moss was a gross heifer and it's a lot for a teen brain to try to rationalise.
Yes when I was a very fussy eater as a child she was great. Never turned food into a battle, just did some gentle negotiations that meant I didn't eat all the carrots but I did try one piece of carrot.
I've look a lot like her at different times and I wondered if there's something in that. That my weight in some way reflected,. literally, on her.

My mum would be beyond horrified if I ever told her and would deny everything and say it was in my imagination but I have zero doubt that she massively impacted/impacts on my weight.

My earliest memories are of her off to weight watchers and eating different food from my dad, brother and I, giving me smaller portions than everyone else, making me feel guilty about eating anything, me sneaking cooking chocolate out of the cupboard (we never had crisps or chocolate/sweets in the house).

She's struggled with her weight her whole life as well (although nowhere near as much as me) and is a competitive underwater which is hugely annoying ('oh I don't know how you could possibly eat a WHOLE brownie, 2 bites is enough for anyone' well no mum, I could easily eat the entire batch and follow it up with a 3 course meal if required)

The only time I get respite from the constant commentary/judgement is when I'm on a diet so currently she's being okay.

One day I must get round to that therapy.......

I’ve been lurking whilst in a very frustrating plateau , have trusted the process and refocused back onto basically just eating protein and fibre plus 2l of water plus 1litre with electrolytes - jabbing weekly again rather than every 10-14 days - I can’t quite believe I’m now 95lbs down and the next 5lbs off will take me to 7st loss and then my main goal of 100lbs loss. I’m still on 12.5, will try a 15mg pen on next reorder. 3 stone to go ! Mounjaro has been life changing for me . Dress size 18 now from 26 in September.

I remember being at college when Bridget Jones first came out at the cinema and she was classed at fat ,yet the same size as me .
It was quite upsetting as I'd lost a lot of weight to get to that size and was feeling great about myself.
It was like a slow realisation that society still saw me as fat ,and I will never be thin enough

Same ..my mum ate the tiniest jacket potato,a huge pile of veg and a piece of chicken every single day for the whole time I lived with her as a teenager.
Her stomach used to make these awful noises ,that she would say it was her food digesting
As adult trying to diet ,I realised it was her stomach rumbling constantly.

Is she very clumsily telling people in an insensitive way how proud she is of you for losing the weight and not considering how that makes you feel? I’ve always been made to feel unloved, unworthy and inadequate by my mother who used to proudly tell her friends every time I fucked something up, as if to say ‘see I told you she was a failure and she’s proved me right’, I never once heard her tell anyone how wonderful anything I’ve ever done is, I would have done anything to hear that when I was younger. Couldn’t give a toss now.
Don't feel sad or guilty Muse, your feelings are valid x

I had a talk with my sister and she said similar @Iwouldratherbesinging - I do think it’s her being a bit thoughtless, which is unlike her. But I hoped that after the last few years of body-discussion-moratorium she would have finally got it.

My mum does have a totally fucked-up relationship with her own body and food and everything, that’s true. And it has had a huge impact on both my sister and me. But as humans we are also learning creatures. We don’t have to carry the full heat of those things with us, we can work to change those habits or thoughts - it’s hard, I know that, but it’s not always impossible. And we should also acknowledge that what we do as parents affects our kids. And I don’t feel like she’s ever done that.

I know my own diet history was see by my own child and we’ve talked about it. I don’t hide or pretend it’s all ok because I didn’t know better or didn’t think. Fact is, I DO know better. And I have thought. So I have acknowledged it and we have come to understand it together. Ultimately I don’t think I have given my kid a dietary or body complex, luckily.

I suppose the difference is that I am aware of my role in how my child sees herself. And I don’t think my mum is in the same way for me.

I didn't learn how to eat healthily as a child. Too much food in general. Too much stodge. Too much cake (DM baked a lot of cake every Saturday).

I'm from the 'clear your plate' generation. If it was on your plate you were expected to eat it. A lot of guilt/rules/shame/conflicting messages around food.

But I have been an adult a long time. I am responsible for being this overweight. While I can see the roots in my childhood I can also see that my size now is the result of choices I have made. Mounjaro is helping me to make better choices.

I agree @GnomeDePlume. My mum (who I love very dearly) would feed me tea and biscuits in front of the TV for breakfast as an 8 year old, serve me the same sized portions as my dad with the "finish your plate" guilting, and so on. But ultimately I have had many years of independence during which I've made bad choices and not helped myself at all. I'm grateful to Mounjaro for putting me in a position to learn and improve.

She's also full of 'advice' which while well meaning is rankling coming from someone who eats well, healthily, happily, and has never been more than 8 stone. I inherited my dad's metabolism I think!

I'm also starting to wonder if I'm just an unpleasant person, but I just cannot bear people commenting on or asking about my weight, weight loss, exercise, habits etc. I'm certain people only want to make conversation but it feels like scrutiny and judgement of my life (very much a me problem) and I detest sharing personal information with anyone!