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

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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.

@RobinEllacotStrike I got the whole teens nicking your stuff thing nailed. Everything I own gets the word Mummy written all over it. Even my stationery in my pencil case gets it.

Since doing this my property remains my property and my kids leave it well alone! I'm told I'm not funny but I couldn't care less.

Great to hear all these NSV’s 🥰

@akaFrosty I've sent you the link to the Gallbladder formula I mentioned. It really is excellent and the reviews are great. Apologies for the delay.

Quick read to get updated on the thread. Well done everyone. [I am desperate to get to the pool before the "lane swimming" slot starts -- I am far too slow for lane swimming😂]

Weight is falling off me this week. No idea what is going on, but will take it! Reached 13 and a half stone which feels like a nice milestone, so I am well chuffed, and seem to be firmly in a size 16 category now. Hoping the 13's don't hang about as long as the 14's and I haven't tempted fate by writing this down.

Onwards and downwards lovely losers.

@NewbieMJ I've just seen your messages. Thank you so much, and congrats on your new milestone!

Genius & thank you.

They've only gone on holiday to France WITH MY CLEANSER!! When they return everything will be labelled.

@TryingAgainAgainAgain @RobinEllacotStrike thank you both, I will have a look at those!

@OnwardsDownwards Worth noting the capsules posted by @TryingAgainAgainAgain are digestive enzymes which actually assist in breaking down food for you whereas the ones from @RobinEllacotStrike are probiotics which are to maintain a healthy gut microbiome. They are both useful for good gut function but work in different ways and may be more or less effective for different symptoms.
I have taken probiotics for quite some time, probably since Tim Spector started all the gut health stuff, because I don't like fermented foods and lots of things that are good for the microbiome but I haven't investigated and just take BioKult Everyday after a friend said she took them

Weight loss is so weird. I weigh every day. I dropped 1.6kg overnight on Tuesday, stayed the same Wednesday but gained 2.6kg overnight last night. I know it’s not real but the smart scales seem to think I gained 0.4% body fat overnight which is ridiculous.

Scales are very strange. We have two sets at the moment. Upstairs in kg and downstairs in stones. Sometimes one set thinks I’ve lost and the other doesn’t. I use the downstairs ones as my official weight. I peek most days upstairs. Sometimes I don’t think I’ve lost anything but when I get on the downstairs ones I’ve lost 2lbs.

I've just been looking though some old photos.
I though I was at my biggest when I started MJ back in July 2024, but I'm now thinking I probably weighed a lot more back in 2020. I didn't recognise myself in some of these pics - which is a change from being horrified I guess.

MJ really is a life changing journey.

I’ve hit goal and feel oddly deflated. I’ve lost 100lbs in 54 weeks and have a BMI of 20.7. I know I need to give myself a shake and work out maintenance (I’m moving down doses as of this week) I think I’ve been aiming at this for so long it’s almost like I don’t know what to do now… appreciate a lucky position to be ok and hopefully proof for everyone here how we can all so this !

That’s just amazing!! Well done. 👏👏👏👏

Well done @Jfw82. Amazing loss though I do know how you feel. You expect to feel elated but don’t. I’m the same as have lost 9 stone in just over a year but feel as you do this sense of bewilderment. I am struggling to recognise the new me. I hope in time I will feel normal at this weight but for now it is taking some getting used to.
Think our brains need time to catch up with our bodies. It is hard to admit we aren’t jumping for joy happy as I am but it is a very strange feeling.

That’s brilliant @Jfw82!!!!

I hope you can find a way to celebrate your achievement.

I agree the head stuff is a big next challenge & it will be an important part of successful maintenance.

for me this process is highlighting a big & possibly decades old (originating in childhood?) disconnect between body, mind & soul. I’m working on that daily now.

Congratulations @Jfw82 I’m having a very similar struggle. I’m 1.5lbs away from hitting my “Ultimate goal” but 8m really not sure it will be. I still think there’s room for a bit more off my belly and arms, but I’m not sure how much of that is:

• skin that dieting just won’t shift
• in my head
• space that could and should be filled with muscle.

It’s a bit difficult to process, and honestly I’m not good with feelings stuff so I tend towards pushing it to the back of my mind and starting projects that keep me mentally occupied instead. I think I probably need to address that, I’m just not sure how.

Weighed myself this evening.

CW 225lbs

So another 4 off. 35lbs down in total.

Dead chuffed, but I am out for a posh birthday lunch tomorrow for a family member so will no doubt put at least 2 of them back on 😁

Must also try to refrain from buying so much on Vinted and get rid of some of my size 24’s.

I have purchased the book you mentioned @RobinEllacotStrike (in audio version). Your posts always resonate with me and I find them enlightening and informative. I think I too will have to embark on a journey (that I never fully appreciated I needed). I have never felt better physically and emotionally I am an optimistic, genuinely happy person, but I have some deep seated trauma (from childhood) and I do need to remind myself, at times, that I am enough. The links to life long obesity, are becoming more evident and your post brought this to the fore for me.

Thank you.

I've had a weird week this week - have lost the mysterious 2lbs I put on last week, so maintaining a 60lb weight loss, which is great.

It's been a stressful week at work though, and yesterday, for the first time in my life, I got to bed and realised I hadn't eaten food for the whole day 😮

This wasn't deliberate - I'd been travelling between meetings over lunch and tea times and just hadn't stopped. I'd had coffees and water and that was it.

But it's really spooked me - that I hadn't felt hungry/hangry - nothing told me to stop and refuel - so weird and so unlike 'me', whi couldn't go more than an hour without snacking on something.

So it's thrown me a bit and today I've had some crisps and am cooking a lovely tea. I don't want to not eat - it's not happened before and I'm sure won't happen again, but I feel like I'm in the world of the strange sometimes these days...

Not doing so well at the moment - 10 mg is doing nothing for me and I’ve totally gone off the boil…. Eating everything and no suppression. Cant be arsed to weigh or anything. Not sure what’s up with me.

I’ve got 2 more doses in my current pen. I’ll order 12.5mg next and see how that goes.

One massive NSV is that today we went to Thorpe Park I fit on all the rides. This time last year I had to get off a ride at Chessington as the safety harness wouldn’t shut I was so fat!

Thank you @NewbieMJthat really touched me.

I also have the audio book & it’s the way to do it I think. I have the physical book too but I couldn’t progress past the first few chapters. The idea that we aren’t the voice in our head but the one listening to the voice was so mind blowing I couldn’t move past it. No such worries with the audiobook & the rest of the book absolutely deserves to be heard. I’ll give reading the book another go now. I want to make highlights & notes all through it.

I am also in a gently starting co-counselling group. Learning the simple process of supportive talking, listening, being heard, no judgements is surprisingly (and interestingly) powerful.

and the sober dancing is a physical & emotional release. Dancing alone but also connecting with others. As Crowded House so aptly put it “Together Alone”.

and the almost daily yoga.

not too long ago I was living in a one bed london flat with 2dc, sleeping on sofa bed, going to office full time with mad school childminder run, insane traffic, no time to myself, no exercise, not having a dreadful time - we were happy despite the stresses etc. but zero time for me. I’m glad to have moved on from that.

I really feel like I’m hitting a sweet spot in life right now. DC older & I can go out without them. Curiosity reawakened, permission granted, feeling braver to just be myself in the world, no fucks left for others judgements or negativity, (Most of the time 🤓), healthy food, exercise.

@RobinEllacotStrike You go girl! Sounds like your life is heading in a good direction.

I wish I had spent more time finding my own interests and fun when I was younger. Having said that, we live in a retirement area so there isn't much aimed at anybody under 80! Consequently my friends and I end up going out for lunch a lot

I'm just listening to the audiobook of "Diet, drugs and dopamine" which is by a doctor who was head of the FDA over covid and has used Mounjaro himself. The information is interesting but, the narrator's voice is so robotic, it's a really tough listen.
My next serious read is "The Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukov. One of my friends read it years ago and said it changed her life, sadly, she died recently so I plan to force myself to put my phone down and read it in her memory.

Sorry about your friend @QueenOfHiraeth
💜

the voice is so important with audiobooks isn’t it?

I’m 57 so not Young - but I’ve always been a late bloomer. 😆

Thank you @RobinEllacotStrike I miss her dearly. It sounds odd but I feel as though reading the book will keep a link open between us.

I'm having a bit of a drama. I realised that I need to order my next pen this coming week but the earliest I can get it delivered is Tuesday and I am going away that day. I'm not about to run out just yet but like to keep a bit ahead as the higher strengths do tend to be in short supply and I don't want the supplier to run out again before I'm back. Aaaaaagghh!

I’m 2 months in and 2 1/2 stone down, just 5 more to go 🤪.
So all going well, apart from my face is starting to look a bit saggy.
Has anyone got recommendations for facial/jowl exercises? I know that might be a bit niche but years ago I saw a picture of George Clooney doing them 🤣 It was probably in Grazia or similar. It’d be good to have a more reputable source of information!

@nailslikeknivesI’ve found time and basic skincare have been the best things. I tried a whole load of face masks, exercises and stuff for a few months and noticed no difference, but did get into the habit of actually using moisturiser rather than just buying it and eventually moving it to a drawer. Now I use a daily moisturiser with salicylic acid (whatever own brand supermarket/boots/superdrug I happen to be in when I remember I need more) and my face and neck look somewhat less jowly. There will always be a bit of a turkey neck because I have some stretch marks and besides a facelift, nothing will correct that but time does seem to have allowed a little bit of shrinkage.