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.

Late to the party of this new thread, but have caught up. Congratulations everybody, it sounds like you are all smashing it!

I am, at last, 5 stone down, today. I was in the 14's for a looong time and was getting so despondent when the scales would not budge, but plodded on and here I am! I was racking my brains trying to decipher where I was going wrong, but in all honesty, I wasn't doing anything wrong and the only thing different was I upped my activity and have been swimming regularly. I think it was my body just taking time to do it's thing, so I need to be more patient and trust the process.

Anyway, 5 stone down feels amazing. I have a new job where I get to dress nicely every day (I don't think I would have got the job when I was 5 stone heavier, which is sad, but truthful, and in honesty, I wouldn't have applied). My new colleagues just know me as who I am now. It all feels a little odd.

If someone had told me this time last year I would be 70 pounds down, I would never have believed them. Thank God for MJ and you lovely people who I have followed since @VelociraptorsVelociRapping started the original thread and now kept going by @MooBaggage Thank you.

SW: 18 stone 11
CW: 13 stone 11
GW: 10 stone 11 (so, 3 stone/42 pounds to go)

I am fitter, sleep amazingly well, my skin is glowing, my hair and nails grow at an extraordinary rate and I have a lovely hour glass shape emerging (not so much the belly, but hey!) I realise too I have a small frame which is actually a bit of a mind fuck. I have always had very slim wrists and bottom arms, but my shoulders, etc are quite narrow now. It's going to be interesting to see where I end up. Still obese (BMI 32.5). 6 weeks to go to a year on MJ, so be nice to get a bit more off by then. My fabulous scales are saying my visceral fat is down to 11.

My goals are to swim at least 3 times a week. Walk more. Get some weights for better muscle strength and work on my loose upper arms. I don't have much loose skin anywhere else (even my thighs look a lot better than they did). I think it is because it has been a relatively slow loss? Not sure. I haven't lost any muscle (as far as my scales say). I aim to stay on keto for life, whether or not I need MJ for life is too early a decision to make. Not having suppression makes it easier I think (as I am not panicking about being hungrier or cravings as keto gets rid of those) and I fortunately never had food noise. I won't drink alcohol again - very glad to see the back of it, as I would have described my relationship with alcohol as problematic (it took a lot of effort to stop drinking (MJ didn't affect it), but now I have, it feels great and I never want it to take up my headspace again.

What a journey we are all on. Keep going lovely losers.

@NewbieMJ the small frame thing is a complete mind fuck. My entire life I have been convinced and vocally adamant I have large hips, big boned and so on. Turns out that’s really really not true. Now there isn’t a foot of fat padding them out I actually have quite narrow hips, and I can easily do that thing where thumb and middle finger touch when you wrap them around your wrist. Also I have smaller feet than I thought. I was wearing size 9 shoes, now I’m size 7 or 8 depending on the shop.

Who knew???

@MooBaggagedefinitely insist on pain relief, the fact that it isn’t automatic when women have procedures like this is abysmal. Does anyone think a man would be expected to have something shoved into his penis and swiped around to scrape the inside without being completely numbed up or put under general anaesthetic first?

Yay!! @NewbieMJ What a brilliant post! 😍😍😍

I love posts like this - you're paving the way ahead for the rest of us, following in your footsteps 😊

Onwards and downwards for all of us 💪

There is a campaign called "Campaign against painful hysteroscopy" on facebook and a good number of threads here on mumsnet. Loads of accounts from women describing horrendous experiences and a real drive to stop this nonsense. Emerging evidence too that ineffectual pain relief is counter-productive, as it is resulting in insufficient biopsy samples, full polyp removal, etc, so women are enduring even more invasive procedures due simply to inadequate pain relief in the first place.

A lot of women are opting for (very straightforward) general anaesthetics - painless, relatively quick and out the same day with no pain. It should be routinely offered now, but sadly a lot of women are still having to push for it. (They are supposed to offer it or local anaesthesia at the point of writing to you to give you an appointment). Have a read of the threads on here and/or the campaign, and definitely insist on a spinal block if this is your preference.

I hope this helps.

Thank you @MooBaggage. Lovely of you to say that.

@InfoSecInTheCity - agree with everything you say. Very odd to realise that we are not "big boned" after all. My daughter has said she thinks I actually have a petite frame, and there is no way I would have ever described myself as petite!

I catch my reflection in the mirror and sometimes don't recognise myself. I am already getting the "don't lose any more" comments which is madness as I am still obese. I am not coming this far to stop at size 16/18.

Interesting about your feet size too. I was always a 6.5 when I was younger but went up to a wide fit 7. I am now in an ordinary standard fit shoe (which is great) and my knee length boots swamp me now. I will report back when I get down to target.

We cross posted re hysteroscopy, and are saying the same thing - bloody disgrace that no pain relief is offered - to the point of women fainting. Usual appalling treatment of women's health and agree that men would never be expected to endure biopsies without pain relief or removal of polyps without anaesthesia. Makes me rage. Hope you get a resolution in place @MooBaggage so that you can go to your appointment without that horrific feeling of trepidation, knowing it will be pain free and less of an endurance.

@NewbieMJ Agree with so much you have said here. Years ago my mother made a comment about barely recognising the teenage me on photos as I looked "so slight" and I am now getting comments about being so much smaller framed (with collarbones no less!)
I've also noticed that even the small sizes at Yours are now way too long which I think is because, even if they fit in width, I have lost all the padding over my shoulders, arms, back, etc which lifted everything up.

I've also had the don't lose any more comments which worry me a bit because, in my mid-60s, I do want to keep enough fat to not age myself but I am still 2 stone above the middle of healthy weight with no idea at all where my goal is.

I have had an absolute shitter of a day today which I would love to regale you all with but daren't as it could out me (I know DD1 and DDIL are on MN and, although they have both promised to never look for me, I'd hate to lose this username). It was nothing hideous although there's a risk DH, and possibly DS1, may be under a patio soon. The big plus is that I haven't resorted to gin or chocolate though...

@MooBaggage definitely get the anaesthetic, I had a dreadful experience of a hysteroscopy to remove a polyp in 2022 with only a local into the cervix which was dreadful in itself. I would never have another without an anaesthetic. It is barbaric what women have to put up with, coil insertions are another example.

Sorry you’ve had a shitty day @QueenOfHiraethwhile I fully understand how frustrating DH and DCs can be, and the temptation to disappear them under a patio, I would caution against that action.

a) it would be good exercise I suppose, but it seems like an awful lot of hard work
b) very messy, just think of all that mud, and the bugs and worms!
c) if your garden is anything like mine, you wouldn’t make it a foot before encountering a layer of random rubble and crap previous garden owners have used as filler material.

Have you considered an air embolism? We have access to syringes!

Morning all,hope you are all good?

Well I've finally managed to stop exercising quite so much! I now go the gym 4 times a week and I've stopped most of the exercise at home so much.
Was it you @taylorswift1989 who mentioned writing in a journal my hopes and fears? If so,thank you it's worked a treat! I write maybe a page a day and then rip it up and bin it. It really has worked for me.
My nsv- I can finally fit comfortably in a size 16 bottoms which seems to have happened overnight. Last week the size 16 was a tad tight over my belly but I tried them again last night and they fit!! I'm so pleased with myself. Even though the scales haven't budged from 99kg for about 4 weeks I'm still losing in dress sizes which is odd to me as I would've thought I'd lose on the scales front. Not that I'm complaining as progress is progress after all.
@MooBaggage I'm so sorry you had to go through that pain with your hysteroscopy,make sure you insist on a spinal block for next time. I had a hysteroscopy a couple of weeks ago and fortunately for me it was pretty painless,it did say in my letter to take paracetamol before the procedure,which comes across a quite patronising after reading other people's experiences of it.
I'd never heard of it before a few weeks ago and didn't research anything about it either,which I'm glad about as I wasn't expecting it to hurt like it has for you.
Anyway,I hope You're feeling better now?

Good morning losers - its my first Mounjaro birthday - one year to the day.

Starting weight - 124 kilos
Starting BMI - 41 "morbidly obese"

Current weight - 87 kilos
Current BMI - 29 "overweight"

Loss to date: 37 kilos / 5 stone 11lb / 81lb

Goal - 74 kilos. This will be top of "healthy" BMI. I'm 174cm tall (5'8" ish). That is a further 13 kilos / 2 stone to lose. Maybe by Xmas? I'm in no rush.

Hot Pod Yoga classes since starting mid November 2024 = 206

I'm very happy. I feel wonderful, strong, healthy, glowing even.

Side effects - I feel cold much of the time & all this talk of an alleged "summer heatwave" is a bit perplexing.

I have learnt I am an unreliable narrator when it somes to my body. As much as I can see & feel the changes, in many ways (this is difficult to express) my internal dialogue about my body is unchanged. So while I see & feel many many changes, I also feel the same. What I am taking from this is I have some strange ideas embedded in my head about myself/my body that are inaccurate & harmful - so I am now aware of them & can deal with that. I counter these embedded ideas with facts - the scale numbers are helpful. I've learnt to weigh myself without drama or judgement.

I love how calm MJ makes me feel. After all the initial getting started & "oooh it bloody works" excitement I have really loved being able to settle in, chat with you lovely lot, get on with my life, while losing weight at a steady reliable pace.

The kitchen roll effect is real and I see it more & more each day now.

Thank you to everyone on this brilliant thread for all the support, chat, encouragement & laughs.

oh & I am taking my DD's to Kendrik Lemar/Sza in London tonight & I am going to wear an outrageous one piece striped long leg body suit with a sheer black shirt over it. Red lipstick. Its going to be epic. Last day of school, ist MJ birthday celabration.

I am not small framed inside. I have the shoulders & thighs of an All Black 😁

What a wonderful anniversary post to read @RobinEllacotStrike . You've done amazingly well and hearing all the benefits it's brought is inspiring, especially to a fellow 5'8" er with a similar goal.

@MooBaggage medical misogyny gives me the rage and you absolutely should demand full pain relief next time. What women are expected to just put up with is disgusting.

@Amarajean glad you've been able to rein in the exercise a bit!

Happy Mounjaro birthday, @RobinEllacotStrike. I have loved reading your beautiful, reflective posts.

@MooBaggage absolutely insist on anaesthesia and pain relief for your next procedure. I’m reading a book about medical misogyny at the moment and I have to keep putting it down because it makes me so angry. My DD recently started her periods and I’ve considered it a genuine feminist act to teach her how to use painkillers safely and effectively. I absolutely despise the idea that women should have to suffer through pain.

Congratulations @RobinEllacotStrike
Enjoy the gig! 🕺

So sorry to hear you've got to go through all that again @MooBaggage ; wishing all the luck and anaesthetic for a more positive outcome this time. 💐

What fabulous statistics to celebrate your mounjaversary @RobinEllacotStrike ! 🎉
Congratulations and hope you all have a fabulous time at the gig tonight! 💃

@MooBaggage your hysteroscopy experience sounds awful, shocking they do this. I don't understand why they don't as a minimum give patients multiple painkillers that can safely be taken together tramadol + ibuprofen + paracetamol before the procedure and have gas and air also available as needed so there is the best chance of getting through it first time.

My SIL was similar and extremely painful. That convinced me, after hearing from her, I would be asking for a GA if I ever needed to do one, especially as I have never had a vaginal birth before. The thought of it almost put me off rocking the boat and starting HRT incase it triggered needing one.

Hope you manage to get, insist on it, the appropriate pain relief for the next one 💗

Hello all, hope you are well. I am still plodding along on 6.25 from my 5mg pen. Still sitting between 190 and 193, extremely annoying.
Could someone please post a link to the correct insulin syringes I need? I’m about to run out and can’t find the ones I bought on Amazon from previous orders. I don’t want to order the wrong ones! Thanks!

@alwaysscared these ones? https://ukmedi.co.uk/products/fms-micro-syringe-32g-8mm-1ml-fms-fms-32g-10ml-ukmedi-co-uk?variant=53484951077243

Any 1ml syringe with 6 or 8mm needles, 30 to 32g gauge would be fine.

@SilenceInside yes perfect, thank you

Thanks everyone for the lovely comments and support - I'm going to phone the hospital on Monday and ask for a spinal 😊💪

It was my son's graduation ceremony today and it was such a wonderful day 😊. Am a bit down because the photos of me and DS still show me as looking really big... I can't believe how big I must have been with 58lbs more on me!

Trying not to get too down about it though - it was a fantastic day and I look how I look.... Next year, hopefully any photos of me will be very different!

Just in case anyone else might find it useful I bought a healthy eating plate in Home Bargains today, annoyingly I can’t find it online, but it was definitely less than £5. I feel my portions need to reduce a bit and thought it might help.

Brilliant! I'm so glad journaling is helping. Such a simple thing that seems like it couldn't do much but when you try it, you realise you're letting go of so much stress. I'm glad it's working and sounds like you are doing great!

Massive NSV for me

I'm only bloody wearing a pair of size 16 jeans!!!

I was in a size 24 in January 😮

Admittedly they have plenty of give in them and I know I am wearing them - but they're a size 16😆
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I was wearing the same jean in a size 20 yesterday but ordered an 18 and a 16 to be delivered as the 20 kept falling down. Came down stairs in my bra and pants this morning and just pulled out the 16 and thought - ooh these look small, but I'll give em a go. They only bloody fit!

I'm so chuffed with myself

That is freaking amazing progress, @CanIGoHomeNowPlease!

(I feel like ordering the exact same ones to see if the magic will work for me... That's how this works, isn't it? 🤔)

I made a big mistake in booking a cordon blue cookery course for 2 weeks as my summer holiday. By day 3 of profiteroles, Greek lamb with feta, steak with garlic butter for lunch etc etc I ran away and had acheese salad at pret in armchaired peace. Why did I book it? It's full of students learning yo cookery before going off to uni. I now have a fridge full of rich food and a craving for salad and pickes!