January 2025 Starters - Thread 10 - Onward & Downward Losers!

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thread 10 already!

Oh wow @MJalltheway! We didn’t get Finneas, very jealous! Glad you & DD had a great time. Presume she had a similar centre stage like at the O2? What is with all the people doing laps around the stage? At one point I thought they were going to form a conga! I must be showing my age 👵🏻😂

Morning, early train for me today but checking in quickly to say that I seem to be weighing in at 5lb less than this time last week despite still being constipated. What a strange thing bodies are. I am not doing anything differently to when I had what was more or less a two month plateau.

Weigh in day for me. I have lost about a lb, smidge under in 9 days (god my weight ins are sporadic!). Actually not unhappy with that as my peri meno period is dicking around and I can feel it lurking so I feel bloaty and achey. I only weighed today as I need to re order. And my cheapy scales always do that thing where they flicker through weights before they settle and the flicky weights were lower than settled weight. So in fact Im clearly pounds and pounds lighter and it’s all the fault of the scales…..

i am starting to struggle a bit on 7.5 now I think after it being my good dose for a few months. Time to move up I think.

@MJalltheway sounds like a fabulous concert!

@PenelopePerseveres how strange! (But good👍 ) you are right, bodies are a very strange thing

@myladyjane I had scales like that! I could make them go up or down about 5lb by standing more on one leg than the other 🤣
I wonder where I put those old scales! . . .
My weigh ins have become daily as I obsess about meeting my goal weight before my birthday 🎂
This morning I am quarter of an lb off. So I just need to lose that now. 🙃
After this goal and my birthday I am going to stop the daily weighs as its not good for my emotional health.

@BreezyPeer mate that’s just a good poo! You will 100% get there.

I find weighing very emotive. I know some people need and thrive on daily weighing and when I stopped weighing altogether and it made it easy to deny my weight gain. But daily weighing definitely impacts my well being in a negative way. Similar to the days where I am so suppressed I don’t eat - a part of me still thinks yay. Bloody phycology around this stuff

@myladyjane I'm hoping that if I just breathe out really hard and do a big wee that will be enough!
Weighing is psychologically interesting isn't it? I've been fine all through this journey as I have consistently lost with one mini plateau. But I don't want to be hung up on it for ever. Once I meet my goal, (top end of healthy BMI) I am going to increase exercise and calories and aim for a slower weight loss in the next 21 weeks to get me to 22.5 BMI. In this phase I am going to restruct weighing yo twice a week and see how I get on. ( well, that's my theory 🤣) xx

I’m really struggling to lose the final half stone. My BMI is 23.2 but I feel I need more of a cushion before I attempt maintenance.

My birthday is at the end of September so I’m setting that as my target date to lose the final pounds. I seem to have a lot of lunches and social engagements at the moment, and it’s hard to find a good way through. I need a few weeks where I just sit at home with my protein yoghurts and salads with no distractions!!

I’ve been a daily weigher for years. It’s just part of my routine like brushing my teeth. I probably got it from my mum.

Great to see your perseverance has paid off @PenelopePerseveres. A 5lb drop is very impressive.

I know the feeling @BreezyPeer. I was 0.8lbs above goal at some point last week but you are so close! Looking forward to hearing about another one of the gang hitting goal.

I’m still faffing about and fluctuating between 9st 1 and 9st 2.4. It’s textbook maintenance really. Half doses every 5 days are really suiting me in terms of the IBS perspective but not as much from the weight loss perspective. I can’t go back to the side effects though so I’m thinking about how to divide the doses in my new pen which I’ll start next week.

Arms now look horrific in certain positions and while doing a seek and destroy mission on chin hair yesterday I noticed that my face is also showing signs of loose skin but my health and stamina has improved dramatically so it’s a fair price to pay

yes, central stage but no conga for us! 😄

Staying at my parents and my DM has a renpho scale so had a cheeky weigh this morning, renpho has me on 79.3 which is exactly 70% of the way to goal!

@PenelopePerseveres perfect example of persevering through a plateau!

@myladyjane i always find when the scales do that flickering that the next day I'm decidedly down, so sounds good to me 👍

@BreezyPeer 1/4 of a lb is nothing! Body weight can fluctuate a couple of lbs in the course of a day, you've definitely got this.

@myladyjane you need to do what works for you and if that's weekly or monthly weighing, so be it.

@Zempy is it usual for you to have so many meals out? If so, you might need to figure out a sustainable plan for this once you're off MJ? Other than holing up with protein yoghurts and salad!

@myladyjane 7.5 is the only dose I stayed on for more than 1 pen (I think I did 3 in the end) but I’ve just moved up to 10 and I’m really pleased I did! It’s made me feel back on track and a lot more positive. Well done on your loss!

@BreezyPeer a quarter of a pound is sooooo close. I agree with others you need to do a big poo 😂 Remind me when your birthday is again? I was a religious daily weigher but have stopped now because I think I was getting too obsessed. It was the first thing I thought about as soon as I woke up!

@Zempy it’s hard when you have so many outings to take part in. I don’t tend to go out very much but weirdly when I do I always end up having a few meals booked in close together and it feels never ending, especially when you’re trying to keep on track food-wise. Hopefully there’s some good options for you to help you on your way!

Morning! Just catching up on the last few days, notifications are a bit hit and miss at the moment!

@myladyjane and @Jins I'm a mostly daily weigher. I find if I weigh daily I'm on the straight and narrow and if I don't I'm on a gaining path. I haven't found a good alternative yet, I seem to be mostly weighing daily and if it's up it's bad and if it's down it's good. Maybe one day I will be able to extend to once a week, but I don't trust myself yet...

@DGonMJ I am also now buying stuff I think it's from lowering the dose. I'm also eating loads of sugar again. I've upped my dose to 3.75 on Monday although still eating rubbish. Hopefully it kicks in soon. This morning I gave myself a talking to, I will not eat loads of cereal bars today. I can't remember who mentioned it but I am also struggling with the suppression being a good thing. This maintenance thing is hard... The scales are up this week, I know why but I don't seem to be able to deal with it (hence upping my). I would like to control it myself, but perhaps that's not realistic and I will be upping and lowering the dose from now on based on eating habits and scales?

@discov and @2025istheyeari I hope that you're feeling better now! Best of luck with the interview!

@mince3point14159265 and @Jins I love the front of my arms but my bingo wings are horrendous... I think I will have to practice how to stand so they're never hanging. They've always been bad, just more noticeable now the rest of me is smaller! I just need to learn to live with them, dress for them, as I'm not getting surgery. Thighs are the same. I'm comfortable with my wrinkly stomach as I've had two babies and the C-section overhang is annoying but I have two beautiful girls.

Well done everyone on the weight loss and meal planning!

@tinyemmy I’ve practiced the arm position thing and if I keep them close to my body and towards my back they are pretty well disguised. I’m just getting on with it tbh - most of my tops are sleeveless as I don’t get on with sleeves and surgery isn’t an option. They’ll either improve or they won’t but I’m over 60 so I’m not expecting much. Annoyingly though I have the torso of a much younger woman. Not a scrap of loose skin on my stomach and boobs aren’t bad. Shame I can’t swap things round.

I’ve sat with my calculator and Shotsy app open and I’m going to take whatever is left in my current pen on Saturday which should be about 3.75mg and start my next pen with 40 clicks (5mg) every 5 days. Hopefully I’ll tolerate 5mg ok and that will take me through the last push to goal.

@Jins I did not win out in the body department, boobs are just a sack, but can be hidden. I shall work on keeping arms close and back 🤣
I look good in clothes, it's just off / bikini but so much healthier so let's go with it!

@tinyemmy I am the same - I look great in clothes now but not great without. But it is what it is and I am just trying to make peace with it. I have another 7lbs to lose until my new goal weight and can’t imagine it will make a huge difference as it’s more saggy skin which is the problem rather than fat. Maybe things will improve with time but I can’t guarantee it. But we have to remember where I started and how much progress we have made!!

Add some triceps exercises to your routine, does help a bit. Extensions, dips and tricep push ups.

I could be maintaining now, but have that surgery scheduled and gym manager warned me not to come back too early, so together with some travel, I'm looking at a month without a proper exercise. So I think I need a couple of kilos of buffer.
It is still so weird to be in a place where I don't need to lose weight. Brain can't comprehend.

@HeidiNotSoHeavy I find the whole thing mind blowing as I’ve spent the past almost 20+ years thinking about losing weight 24/7. So to be at a point where I don’t have to think about losing any more is just wild to me. What will I think about instead?! (Fear of gaining it all back probably 😂)

Just reading/catching up. I bet no one else thinks the same thing when they see everyone’s various body parts.

My arms are ok, years of rowing I reckon. The cellulite on my legs/bum is another matter but I’m planning on styling it out 🤣.

My legs and arms are currently on fire 🔥, I fitted in another Pilates session this evening as something has cropped up on Friday so I can’t go.

Daily weigher here too! I quite liked not weighing when I was away tbh, I think I became a daily weigher when I started to gain during my illness. It will be interesting to see whether I stop doing that in due course.

I hope that our poorly people are feeling better.

@Jins I think that you recommended the H&B constipation stuff. Did it give you indigestion? I’m not sure if it’s that that’s given me raging indigestion (happened within an hour of taking it yesterday) or if it’s just my stupid digestive system.

Evening losers!
Did a mid-week weigh and I’m 59.5kg, so seem to be maintaining well on the 3.33mg dose.

I went out last night with old school friends. Two of whom I saw back in April but neither of whom noticed any weight loss back then. However this time they all noticed. Asked how I did it and I said I’d been on a diet, one of my friends said ‘the Mounjaro diet?’ and I fessed up! Ladies, I am not ashamed anymore. Also did not hate myself in the all photos shared afterwards. No judgment from anyone other than lots of them saying they didn’t think I was that big before. However, I assured them that I was officially obese when I started, and felt a whole lot better now.

Well done on the loss @PenelopePerseveres!

@tinyemmy I could do with some tricep toning too, my biceps have been visible for a couple of months now, the bingo wing has reduced a little but it’s very soft. Now the fat cells have shrunk it’s not a solid arm anymore. Same on the bum and hamstrings. Soft and squidgy 😂

@BreezyPeer 0.25lb to goal…SO CLOSE!

Am not regretting the clothing splurge, more house repairs needed. Need to find £3k to fix some roofing. That’s two romantic weekends away, or a luxury family cottage in Devon in a half-term, or the rest of my new capsule wardrobe…urgh.

Sorry about the unexpected roofing expense @DGonMJ ; guess you need it to protect your new capsule wardrobe, so probably essential!

I’ve never had indigestion after those tablets @PenelopePerseveres but anything is possible.

@DGonMJ I hate those kinds of works. Need to be done, bloody expensive, but boooring, they bring no joy. Very much resent every penny spent.
Now travelling, that I am happy to spend on, easyjet just released their next summer's flights so we have that holiday already booked 😀

Thanks @Jins, it will be my damaged GI tract. I've had two so far, nothing to report 😫, I might try one more and see how I feel/whether it works and then revert to movicol.

@BreezyPeer keeping everything crossed for you today and HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎉.

@DGonMJ i too hate that kind of expense, completely necessary but so boring and annoying. Hope you get it sorted soon. Well done on fessing up, I’m still not!!

@PenelopePerseveres well done on pilates and your amazing loss, bodies are indeed weird!! Hope you sort your constipation out soon.

@MJalltheway concert sounds fab and well done on being 70% of the way there!!

@discov and @tinyemmy my arms are bad but it’s my upper abdomen that’s the worst, omg!! Cellulite legs too, noticed that on holiday 🫣. Like you say though, look how far we’ve come and soon enough summer will be over so no one will see 🤣.

@Zempy you will do it 💪🏻. Re meals out, can you find menus online and pre plan what you’ll eat maybe? I’ve done that when I’ve had a busy few weeks and it just makes me feel a bit more in control. Good luck and enjoy!

Im feeling a bit better thanks, and my weight continues to go down this week ( like I said, bodies are weird!!). I tend to retain lots of water after flying and my body clock is all over the place so I’m probably not eating as much as normal. Anyway as of this morning I’ve lost 5 stone, 70 pounds, 31.7kg! 7 1/2 pounds to go to my potential goal of 10 stone 10, BMI of 22.8. I’m going to see how I go, last time I got to 11 4, I struggled to maintain, I also don’t want my face to look drawn, let’s see!!

have a great Thursday losers!