April 2025 Mounjaro Starters - Thread 5!

[Uninvitedleaf]

Hope I’ve done this right, I’ve never started a thread before.

@qs90 hope you don’t mind me starting a new one for us but thread 4 was full and I don’t want to lose my crew!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Increasing the dose a bit was definitely the right thing for me to do. Down 2lb at this week’s weigh in after being up and down for a couple of weeks so I am now 11st 2.6lb, have lost about 2st 8lb in total. I’m going to take around 6.25mg again today which will finish my current pen off and see how that goes this week before deciding whether to stick on that for a bit or go up to 7.5mg next time.

We’ve got a few nights out and social things this week so I’m trying not to get too excited about seeing 10st on the scales yet as that’s possibly a few weeks away.

@Squiffy01 i empathise, I think I would always have blamed not liking how I looked on being overweight - that’s why clothes don’t look good on me etc. Now I’m lighter I’m definitely more conscious of my height than I’ve ever been before, and sometimes I feel like I’ve just swapped to blaming that instead (so many clothes drown me even if they’re the “right” size). When I finish the jabs I’m thinking I might go for a personal styling appointment somewhere as I think I really need to revamp my whole view of “what I look like”.

Yep, I get what you're saying as a 5'1" shortie myself. I would never have looked at the petite section before as having a shelf bum and tum made longer clothes much shorter. Now I can't get over how much smaller I need things to be, especially dresses and skirts. Sticking to trousers mostly but floundering a bit and could probably do with a stylist too, never been sylish in my life!

Weight loss is really starting to show now and getting comments, which are rendering me a bit speechless when details are wanted. I don't want to talk about it especially as I'm getting that whole 'you only look good now you're slimmer' vibe 😟. Otherwise, I'm really happy with how things are going, a reasonable plod to the finale next spring.

That’s it! I hadn’t thought about it but you’re right - my stomach and backside obviously used to make longer clothes go out a bit so they weren’t actually coming as far down as they do now. Explains why suddenly I’m feeling like a midget 😂. Really struggling with trousers, I’m OK with basic hemming but proportions just seem all wrong.

Checking in again…

2lbs off this week which is a great feeling. Still got a long way to go though!

SW 16.6
CW 13.7

Listened the podcast from Zoe that someone recommended here a few weeks back.
Really interesting and definitely given me lots to think about and ways to move forward as I come off mounjaro.
Would definitely recommend others listen too if you haven’t already

We’ve just had an amazing day IRL at ABBA Voyage. (Just wanted to share that) I wore a borrowed outfit I NEVER would have worn before.
I also am finding as a shortie I am swamped in lots of clothes and actually bought some pleather trousers in size 6!!!! (but primark so in reality probs size 8-10😂) the 10s fit on the waist but drowned me everywhere else. It’s definitely presenting new challenges I’ve not encountered before. Lots of last years jeans and jumpers are too big and I’m pulling belts in even tighter. Luckily the oversized look is fashionable right now! I want to show off my new body, but im really confused as to what is age appropriate and what actually suits me! It’s still hard work! I used to think that some (lucky!) people were effortlessly slim and stylish - not so I think!! 😂

I think it was me who linked it, I agree about being mindful about the quality of the calories we eat. In fact, yesterday I ate crap (white bread, processed food) as we were travelling and I was hungry all day. I’ve eaten more protein today and lots less hungry. I really believe if you eat non processed foods there’s less hunger because your body recognises it as actual food and sends your brain “I’m full” signals.

Oh I also meant to mention that I’m using Alpecin caffeine shampoo and the Plantur tonic and I’m definitely losing less hair when I brush it in the morning. My hair feels better and I’m hoping will feel thicker in a couple of months.

I started using the Champo hair growth serum. Been using for a week... Maybe it's placebo but feel it is making a difference. I have curly hair so it does tend to shed, but less so.

Down to 12 stone 3 - just another 10 pounds left to shift 😂

NSV - tried on a beautiful dress that I have owned for years and love and it fits perfectly again. I was surprised that it did up so easily.

Hope everyone is having an ok week x

Contacted Dr about hair loss and am booked in for blood tests. (no idea what for though at the moment. Iv'e got to rearrange the appointment so I might ask what I'm being tested for.)
I hit 11 stone 0llb today, so am hoping to see a 10 pretty soon.

I've been at 66-68kg for about a month now, but my body is recomposing itself. My tummy is at last flattening out a little bit, and firming up a bit. I still have saddlebags etc, fat on all my fat bits. I don't have any excess on my "thin" bits, like my ribs or ankles or chin.

One of my friends who has just started on MJ was asking me all about it and keeps saying "but you look the same", which has been a regular refrain from my friends. I think it says a lot about how we see weight in others. Then she flipped from that to saying I'd lost too much and that my goal weight (it's not my goal it's just what it sets on the app that I was showing her) was too low. The app has set my goal weight to BMI 21, or right in the middle of the healthy range, which seems totally fine to me. I'm not chasing it anyway; I'm in maintenance.

I think that's really interesting, though. We talked about it (amiably!) and she said she felt no cognitive dissonance between her statements that she could not guess my weight reliably within even 50 pounds and feeling strongly that a specific number was "too low" for me. I don't know where we get these ideas. Where do they come from.

It seems like we really feel we know a lot about other people's bodies and we don't seem to be dissuaded by any evidence to the contrary. I see this a lot on these boards too! Off this thread, in the main bit, a lot of very confident advice is given out to posters on the regular, and when those posters reply that these things don't work for them, they are just told they are liars or incompetent or weak, basically. There's no sense on the advisor's side that maybe their information is incomplete or not applicable. Why is this, do you think?

Just been having a read of another thread about the switch to Wegovy. Seems it's not on a par with MJ and people are heading back, despite the price. That's my mind made up.... My health is worth the extra, so ordering another MJ.

@lundier do you think it is to do with protecting/projecting how we see ourselves and a bit of needing to see that we are “normal”? I know I have always been very bad at assessing my actual size in comparison to others and mostly coped by thinking of myself as looking OK even at my heaviest. While occasionally shocked out of that by seeing a photo or finding that a size 18 didn’t fit me I could usually explain that away with ‘it’s a bad photo’ or ‘the sizing on this is all wrong’. Is your friend maybe reflecting back what she thinks about herself rather than how she actually sees you? So - no one could really guess how heavy I am because it’s not that obvious, plus if I got down to that healthy weight I’d be skin and bone and look dreadful. Maybe she’s just saying that to you rather than herself!

The prevalence of overweight/obese people around us really doesn’t help with a view of what’s “normal” either. I’m suddenly noticing how big a lot of people are in comparison to me now - no judgement, just comment - when before I would just have been the same so wouldn’t even have registered it. Now I’m one of the smaller ones (and i’m still verging on obese!) it’s very strange to be aware of how much bigger a lot of people around me are e.g. on public transport.

@Uninvitedleaf It makes sense. It's really curious to experience - I know my friend is a very wise and rational person so it's odd to hear her saying such illogical and contradictory things. I said this to her and she couldn't see my point at all.

I maybe shouldn't have conflated that so closely with people on here behaving a bit badly, but there seems to be some throughline. Online and to strangers, people come off as unkind or hostile, but I'm sure they're not actually horrible people - it's just that we get into these habits somehow, when we're motivated to defend an emotionally powerful idea.

If it's really a projection about yourself onto others, that makes sense. If I need to think I am a healthy weight, or it's not too bad, then everyone else needs to be recalibrated too. If I can't be fifty pounds overweight then one way to do that is to mentally increase everyone else's def of healthy weight so I'm "normal" again. We're grading on a curve.

Which is probably an emotionally healthy self-deception if losing weight is so hard as to be practically impossible! It's better to make some kind of mental accommodation around hard facts that are hard to change than spend your whole life miserable, after all.

I’ve come to the same conclusion. I am going to stick with Mounjaro even if I have to give up other things to afford it. It’s done wonders not only for my weight and blood pressure but also my chronic inflammatory pain and my mental health. I don’t want to risk messing with any of that.

is anyone here using an Oushk maintenance plan? I’ve got a call booked with them on Monday to ask some questions about their Conti plan. Or if you’ve done your own tapering and maintenance plan, how did you go about it and find the right dose for maintaining your weight?

New thread for when this one fills up as we're getting close!

Think link is maybe waiting to be approved (I am such an amateur 😂) but if it doesn't work it's imaginatively titled April 2025 Mounjaro Starters - Thread 6! so it should be easy to find.