Mounjaro/Wegovy with > 5 stone/30kg to lose - thread 9!

[MooBaggage]

New thread for anyone with more than 5 stone/30kg to lose. All welcome, whichever part of the journey you're on.

We have kiwis, hammocks, weight loss charts, an unhealthy obsession with Vinted and enough water to sink several ships 😊

No discount codes please - there's a separate thread for those.

Kicking off with a 1lb loss to report - finally!! No loss for the past 2 weeks, which I know isn't long but has felt like an AGE.... 😁

13.1.25 SW 20st 3lbs BMI 43
8.7.25 CW 16st 6lbs BMI 34.9

Oh yes - I am now just your bog standard run of the mill obese - hurrah!!!

Am beyond excited about this 🙄😃

Checking in, thanks for the new thread @MooBaggage

Thank you @MooBaggage and congrats on becoming obese! 👏👏

Thanks for the new thread, and congratulations on getting under the 35 BMI mark, @MooBaggage !

Checking in! Well done @MooBaggage !

and here is @InfoSecInTheCity 's brilliant weight loss tracker

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mjaVTijjOxYjXruqLq14A113BVyhDBph/edit?gid=566772975#gid=566772975

It's amazing - and I am finally on the right hand BMI column 😁

Thanks for the new thread @MooBaggage & congrats on the under 35 😁🥳

Thanks for the new thread @MooBaggage

Ooh hello new thread - I've lost some weight!! After a big plateau.
And I've not been drinking enough - why is something so basic so hard?

Today I weigh 88.7kg - that is a 2kg woosh in a week after plateauing for weeks & weeks. I'm astonished to be properly in the eighties, and now I can see that I can absolutely reach a healthy BMI weight. This was unfathomable at the beginning (nearly a year ago).

SW 124kg
CW 88.7 kg
SBMI 42
CBMI 29.3 OVERWEIGHT NOT OBESE!!!!!

Loss to date: 35.3KG/78lb/5.5 stone

Yay for the whoosh @RobinEllacotStrike !!!! And congratulations - isn't it just such a fantastic feeling to move downwards into new categories 😍😍😍

So pleased for you - keep eating those kiwis...!

Congratulations on your basic bog standard obesity @MooBaggage - we are smashing all these fab milestones.

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I've just had a flashback to the last time I knew my BMI was 34 - it was when I was 9 months pregnant.... 🙄 I'd lost weight and was on Metformin to try and get pregnant and had managed to get my BMI down to 29 (from hazy memory!) and finally was pregnant after over 2 years of trying, then remember being weighed right at the end of my pregnancy and getting dark looks from the midwife as I was now BMI 34...!

So here I am, 22 years later - time to get rid of this baby weight then 😁😁😁

Checking in! Thanks @MooBaggage and well done!

I've been using this religiously. I'm a daily weigher so mine will look a little diff, but same outcome hopefully.

Thanks for the new thread, and well done on the loss!!

W6 D1 for me - went up to 3.75mg last night. I've noticed on jab evening I end up going to the loo about 4x during the night, so a little tired today, otherwise ok. Suppression in action! ☺️

SW overall: 119.9kg (18st 12.3)
Lost 5lbs on my own
SW pre-MJ: 117.6kg (18st 7.3)
CW: 110.8kg (17st 6.3)
GW: 93kg (14st 11) - initally, then review.

Total loss so far 20.1lbs 🎉

Overweight rather than obese is brilliant @RobinEllacotStrike. This is one of the reasons I love this thread, everyone gets how important each of the stages are when you start off with more weight to lose than average.

My current stats:
SW: 119.3kg / 43.8 BMI
CW: 101.9kg / 37.1 BMI
Total loss: 18.4kg / 40lbs
Interim goals: 99.3kg for a 20kg loss then on to 90.7kg to get under 200lbs for the first time in at least 15 years I reckon.

Congrats @RobinEllacotStrike what an achievement!!

I love how we all start out with "interim goals" as @Sam187 & @ANutAsBigAsABoulder mention above.

When I logged todays weight into MFP it gave me fireworks and said I had reached my goal. I had set an interim goal of 90kg in MFP which seemed like a distant unknown land when starting out at 124kg. I couldn't really fathom getting to 90kg, let alone maybe reaching a "healthy" BMI.

Now I have my eyes on an end goal of 74kg and I now feel like it is very possible. I've no idea what that will look like, as its been several decades & I have no memory of ever being a healthy BMI.

As of this morning I have now lost 10kg and I finally feel like I’m starting to look smaller. No one that I haven’t told has noticed yet but it’s so nice to be able to fit into some of my old clothes. I dont even mind getting my enormous thighs out on show in shorts. They are still huge but they look smoother and a bit leaner so I don’t feel the slightest bit self conscious about them. Maybe the moisturiser and skin brushing is also helping. It’s really lifted my spirits after a shitty week with my daughter.

Thanks for this! Just made a copy ☺️

@Darlinghag posted this on the previous thread which really ressonated with somethings I have been mulling over:

"i was thinking 50kg was low but its actually not!! Just googled my idel weight at each bmi point between 18-25 and BMI 18 at my height is 46.08kg or 7st 3.6lb, which is almost bang on the weight I have already lost. Wild to think if I got there, which feels unfathomable, it would mean losing almost two thirds of my highest weight!!
i think i have normalised obesity so much that 7st something feels underweight when its really not!"

I seem to have completely lost reality with how I view my body.
Or more correctly - I have never had a realistic view of my body.

I can see my entire collar bone now and I have lost 5 chins. I can feel my jaw line - its incredible. I know I have lost a lot of weight, and I see it, feel it. Other times I catch sight of my belly or thighs and I feel like my body is the same as when it was 35kg heavier.

I also cannot tell who is "normal sized" or more like who might be a healthy BMI. I simply cannot tell.

I guess my point is this is a head issue - this is an issue in my head that I don't seem to be able to correct. I see myself as fat all the time. I've always believed myself to be fat. As a teen in the 80's I was told I was fat (I wasn't - I was tall and always fairly solidly built), but I took that on and I became fatter and fatter - like a self fulfilling prophecy.

Thinking on this it seems to me that I cannot be trusted to make judgements about my body. Its all over the place & often not grounded in reality. And now I am getting attention over weight loss etc - its all the same. Feeling happy & pleased with weightloss, seems to be simply the other side of the same coin of being dissatisfied & judgemental about my body. All involve judgements about my body that I know can be very incorrect and also lead to harmful behaviour.

I don't really know where I'm going with this but have decided to apply some kind of radical acceptance to myself and I hope that this will help me. If I feel myself making any kind of judgement about my body I try and intervene & focus on little mantras of self acceptance. I know years of therapy etc hasn't made a blind bit of difference to these destructive, warped and incorrect ideas I have in my head about my own body. I am now focusing on things like how powerful my body is in yoga, or walking up a hill, how much I enjoy dancing and free movement of my body etc. I'm focusing on simply noticing & accepting rather than making judgements. I can't keep going round and round in my head with this - so I'm trying on repeating messages of radical acceptance.

I don't know what else to do but I do really need to address this. I feel like this is going to be vitally important when it comes to maintenance.

@lifetheuniverseandeverything42 sorry you are having a hard time with your daughter - they can be bloody brutal can't they? (I have 2 teen girls)

I'm skin brushing too - I've kept going with it for several months now and I really really enjoy it. I can get quite vigorous brushing now and my skin loves it. Then I shower & moisturise all over - another new habit (the moisturising not the showering 🤣).

I don't know if it helps with crepey skin or not, but it feels really good and my skin is in tip top condition all over now.

I find it to be a very enjoyable self care habit.

and congrats on the 10kg!!

I think you’re absolutely right @RobinEllacotStrike that focusing on how you feel and what your body can do is a better strategy than focusing on how it looks (which is really about what other people think, and therefore much less useful for motivation).

It’s the difference, potentially, between celebrating being able to run / swim / lift weights / get in and out of the bath / sleep well, pick up a child, reduce medication etc etc - and feeling down because despite amazing weight loss you’re now sad about loose skin, or because not enough people are commenting, or when they are, they’re not saying what you want to hear.

@RobinEllacotStrike what a brilliant post - thank you for explaining how you are feeling so well. I resonate with the inability to view my body for how it actually is - I didn't lose anything for 10 days and had convinced myself that I was as big as I was pre-MJ.... 🙄 I've even not been wearing my smaller jeans for the past few days as I was sure they wouldn't fit now - just why.....??!

But now the scales have moved down, I can see it again 🙄 This is such a psychological battle we face, as very long term obese/overweight people, I think. MJ has given us the chance to lose this weight in a measured, much 'easier' way physically, but the mind games are another thing all together.

I think of you a lot and what you say about seeing your muscles under your skin, now that I'm doing hand weights every day - I can see it in my arms too and I love this difference. I can get up off the floor without using my hands (tried it a couple of weeks ago!) and out of bed so much more easily. I can walk up slopes and steps without wanting to have a lie down 😃 but I'm still between 4 - 6 stone overweight, technically...

I can't picture what I'll look like if I get to a healthy BMI, but I'm interested to see it - a completely different me?

Hi, just checking in.

End of week 7 for me and 21lbs down. Still feeling positive!🤞🤞