May 2025 Starters Thread 5

[FlorenceNightshade]

I noticed we were almost full (again!) so took the liberty of starting thread 5 now so I don’t get confused on nightshift and can’t find you all!

Oh frustrations today at PinkScot Castle! Was told by Asda I was expected a delivery today of my two pens, result 🙂. So I stayed in all day by the front window so not to miss the dpd van, I usually get click and collect but that option wasn’t given this time, so I was a little anxious. Come 4pm I started to get misgivings, tried to track my order, nothing, no message from dpd, so I rang Asda their line is switched off due to excessive calls (wth). I messaged them and got a response saying 2-3 days for a reply. Nothing delivered.
jump to half past six, I just got an email from dpd saying they’re about to receive my parcel and will be in touch! I’m guessing tomorrow is another wait by the window day 😂😂😂.

@PinkScot i feel your pain!’ After my approval with asda yesterday had a message to say delivery next day before 12 then an email off DDP to say they were waiting on it, nothing has arrived today 🤦‍♀️ I have also only collected previously but didn’t have the option this time!!!!

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 we both have a more positive delivery story tomorrow!!!

it’s stressful given how much we spent on them & knowing they may be my last!!!!! 😖

My pharmacy have approved 1 additional pen in a higher dose, hurray! However I'm now in the same pickle as @ElsieJay because it is due to be delivered tomorrow and we're going away tomorrow for a few days.

With the two 7.5mg pens I already have and the 10mg coming, I won't need to order a new pen until the last week of November, golden doses permitting, and I can hopefully save up for the next pen so it doesn't wipe out my Christmas budget. We previously had a cleaner. I was finding cleaning absolutely knackering and mentally I felt defeated by it because I'm the only one that cleans. It cost around £140 a month, so if we can do without until I come off Mounjaro, that should help us to fund it. Our new house is a 3 storey townhouse like our last one and it's the stairs that are a killer to hoover.

My new job came with a payrise but I was hoping to use that to fund one amazing holiday in a couple of years. I'd have to really save, but I would love to take the kids to Japan or Africa. I don't want MJ to eat up that budget. At £300+ per month that's potentially a fantastic holiday in 2027.

Anyway, I'm gibbering. I need to pack. Come on woman.

Just saw this on Facebook…

Was it a naughty pic @Gingercar???? No sign of whatever you posted yet 🤷‍♀️

I went to enquire at my doctors dispensary about my repeat prescription as I’m due to collect it next Friday. They said they can’t get hold of it 😬 so printed me out a prescription and then went to boots to see if they could get it. Really unhelpful lady there was really blunt and just said no, not offering to help me or suggest anything else. I left feeling a bit pissed off and the manager came out running after me to apologise for her staff member being so rude and unhelpful! When I explained that after tomorrow I would have nothing and I’m going on holiday next Saturday, she said that boots have done a deal to stockpile MJ. So in the end she dispensed me one that had been ordered for another customer who had ordered 2 as she said they would be getting more in over the next couple of days. So I came home with one which I’m relieved about! So I don’t know if boots offer it privately but that might be somewhere to try??? I think the first assistant had an issue with me because I was asking for mounjaro, shouldn’t have to justify it to anyone like your lady at Asda @ElsieJay plus I’m diabetic so all in all it’s very unprofessional!!!

in other news, I’ve been picked to go to London to an awards ceremony with work next month and have had to panic buy dresses on the Next app and I’m delighted to report the size 16 dresses look like a sack of potatoes on me yay!

Japan or Africa. There’s a contrast! I’d pick Africa any day, but it depends where. You’d be skinny whichever…
I think you’re similar weight to me, and if we do 2lbs a week we’ll be there by March, I think.

I wonder if I didn’t attach it. Or they’re just slow approving tonight!

@Gingercar Where would you go in Africa? I am not well-travelled and would like to be.

Despite achieving a 2lb+ average weekly loss, I feel like achieving the same from now 'til March is somehow out of reach. I get too in my head about this stuff. I was thinking about it today when I had a protein pot for lunch, it's something I would have looked at pre-mounjaro and assumed that was for people that go to the gym. Almost as though I wasn't allowed to buy it.

My nutritional knowledge seems to be built upon the 90s, which was a time heavily geared towards Kellogg's, rice cakes and Kate Moss. I don't think anyone was talking about protein, unless of course one veered 'off course' towards a vegetarian diet and needed to be saved from themselves. Will I be keeping an eye on my protein intake forever? But why not?

Anyway. Africa.

@DidILeaveTheGasOn we are of a similar vintage. Low fat yoghurt, Flyte bars and never, ever, ever under any circumstances eating an avocado, known to be the most fattening natural object known to humankind, closely followed by the banana.

@DidILeaveTheGasOn South Africa is amazing. We did a month there and went to Draakensburg for hiking, to Kruger National Park for safari, to Salt Rock (near Durban) for beach fun, Mbibi for snorkelling, and Cape Town. Jo'burg has some great anthropology stuff (earliest human remains etc) but isn't that great to visit if not bothered about our archaeological/anthropological past!

Hubby did safari in Kenya and said it was great, but that South Africa was better

another one here with that type of ingrained food knowledge!!! 🙈 I do remember having a felicity Kendal work out cassette as a teen with accompanying poster to see the moves!! I think it was called the kiss workout 🥴

good news here on delivery from asda front have had an email with an hour slot this morning so that seems more promising!! @PinkScot & anyone else waiting I hope all goes to plan today!!

I woke up starving this morning and craving white toast 😱 not happened since MJ!!! 🤣 pushed it down & did my jab instead of waiting 8 days (tomorrow) as planned and holding out for my smoothie later!!

freaks me out for the future when things like this happen 🫣

anyway hope everyone has an onwards & downwards kind of day that is totes protes and full of fibes vibes 💞

I agree, South Africa is amazing- around Cape Town. Kenya is nice but I preferred the lesser known countries around it. Tanzania, Zambia, Lilongwe, Uganda. The people are so lovely. Further north Ghana has amazing beaches but might not be a holiday destination. I loved Zimbabwe before Mugabe ruined it. Not sure what it’s like now. I just loved Africa in general, the colours, the heat, the animals etc. But I haven’t been for years. Japan didn’t do it for me really, but I only ever did Tokyo. (this is cabin crew experience, not holiday).

I had a random Biscuit Attack the other evening, @Seahorsesplendour , a bit like your toast craving. I had eaten five three bourbons before the ‘hang on a minute!’ MJ feeling kicked in. It’s like the MJ decided,’She’s alright, it’s all on track…I’ll nip out for a cigarette whilst things are quiet’ and came back to biscuit mayhem.

@DBatteryBand its strange isn’t it!! That’s just what it was like!

it made me think I may need to go up a dose but that means it won’t last me as long!!!

Going to see how this week goes then have a
debate with myself… is it better to be on a very effective dose for shorter time or a less effective dose for longer…

I’ve not really had any negative side effects so that’s not part of the equation

I’m sticking with 5mg for my next pen, but will squeak up to 7.5mg after that. I don’t want to risk any more bourbons getting in under the radar.

@Seahorsesplendour @DBatteryBand I find drinking lots of water can stave off the munchies. I did succumb to some fresh white bread with butter and homemade jam the other day though. 😬 I stopped after two thick slices, so I'm counting that as a win. 😆

@notgonnafail and @Gingercar You've made my mind up - Africa sounds amazing.

@DBatteryBand What was it with the avocado?! I have a deeply-entrenched fear of avocadoes to this day!

Made me smile to think of Mj nipping out for a crafty cig. Wonder what sort of accent Mj would have. Saarf London, bit of a geezah, wotcha boss, put the bread daaan. Or maybe American and very dry, Christine Baranski, a slight eye-roll when we sneak a biscuit.

Weigh-in day today:

SW: 240 / 17 stone 2
CW: 200! / 14 stone 4
GW: 140 / 10 stone

I've lost 40lbs! The scale briefly flickered 199.8 and then settled on 200. I could be under 200lbs soon! Aaaaah.

@DBatteryBand and @Seahorsesplendour another of that crew here - I was of the age where avocados practically came with a poison warning for calories!! Also bourbons are sneaking in here too - perhaps there is an evil bourbon king looking to reassert their dominion over us as they fear their power is dwindling…

I’ve just taken my jab this morning and could do with some opinions here if you have time? This is my third 5mg pen, dose number 14. I think I’m a middling loser, 28lbs in 13 weeks but I have a long way to go, about another 40lbs to go. Question is, do I go up to 7.5mg? I don’t know if higher doses mean you lose faster?

Finances are tight so I don’t know how long I can manage after the prices increase and because I’m with a local pharmacy, I haven’t been able to start as a new customer with any online suppliers for a cheaper price.

so what would you guys do? Go up to 7.5mg in the hope of faster weight loss? Or stick with 5mg since it’s been a 1.5-2lb a week?

thank you for reading this mammoth essay!

@DidILeaveTheGasOn congrats!!! So pleased for you with even seeing the flicker on 199!!!! Next week FOR SURE!!! What a landmark!

Well done on the weightloss @DidILeaveTheGasOn. That's fantastic!

Wonder what sort of accent Mj would have. Saarf London, bit of a geezah, wotcha boss, put the bread daaan. Or maybe American and very dry, Christine Baranski, a slight eye-roll when we sneak a biscuit.

My MJ switches between Harvey, the American marine from Fat Club (weightloss reality series from the early noughties). 'MOVE YOUR FAT ASS!' etc. And the Dowager Duchess from Downton Abbey - a closed eye shake of the head and a firm, but quietly appalled, 'Oh no. Good lord. We don't eat that.'

I wouldn't want to lose more than 1-2lb a week so if it were me, I'd stick with 5mg. I'm still on 4mg and have been on mj for 18 weeks. But I would be very tempted to get a 7.5mg pen and count clicks - that would also give wiggle room if you wanted to move up at any point during the month.

@HKG You may be right about the bourbons. I can hear them calling from the biscuit tin, ‘Don’t leave us here in the dark, all alone!’

Manipulative little bastards.

The avacado message deeply entrenched here too I can practically feel my cholesterol rise when I dare to eat it!!! 🤣😂🤣

@HKG i wouldn't necessarily base my decision on losses alone … if it’s just on that I’d agree you’re losing well!

for me it’s about not having to have the constant little battles throughout the day!! It’s so freeing!! So once that food noise builds up I’ve increased. I’m hoping somehow somewhere along this journey that my body resets itself and enjoys its new end weight whatever that may be so I can take over where the medication leaves off.., it may be a vain hope (and when I get cravings that what worries me!) but there it is…

i have had a life time of daily battles and to not have it is what is helping me heal a bit I guess although that sounds ridiculous!!!

so I suspect in the end I will increase but think I’ll do smaller step up to eke the length of time out too.

my life is busy I work full time, have 7 year old with SEN & am doing a masters degree. I don’t have time or brain space to fight myself which is why I was the heaviest I’ve ever been & why MJ has been such a gift.

Sorry as I’m not sure that helps you make your decision but thank you as you’ve helped me make mine - I think I need to find areas to cut back even more to be able to keep doing this as am terrified of ending up back at the start before I even get to the finish line!!

MJ arrived cold & safely in fridge!!! Very relieved!!!!! @PinkScot any sign at your end?