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!

Thank you @ElsieJay!

are you off out for lunch today? Perhaps you could have forgotten a vital something to take with you? Or an ingredient if you’re eating in? In our house it’s always tea bags - if we are out of tea bags, DH will be out like a shot no complaints to get more! 😂

Yea, throw the coffee/bread/teabags away?

@ElsieJaysend him to buy the papers and then some obscure ingredients in a far away shop!

@HKGsorry to hear, i hope you feel better very soon

i used to weight in the evening but today i took the plunge and weighted first tbing in the morning. I am obviously showing a small loss as morning weight is always less than evening weight.
i think i am not far off being overweight… maybe next week!! Yip yip!

Aha, excellent !!!
We’re going to see DS’s new house later, followed by a pub lunch, but he and his DGf have decided to do a roast instead.
Maybe they urgently need Oxo cubes?
Bit random, but think our village shop will have them - bread might not be a possibility.
on a Sunday morning.
Luckily their new place is even worse off for local amenities than we are here, so fingers crossed it won’t seem too far-fetched.
Thanks ! 🙏

@tostaky - don’t want him venturing too far, as we’re going out later - he has a habit of getting distracted if there’s any fishing lakes he can look at en route ! 🙄

A little win today. My BMI is 24.9!!!!!!!

The last time I had a BMI this low I had a bubble perm and Margaret Thatcher was PM.

@HereIGoOnceMore Woohoo!! Well done

Well done @HereIGoOnceMore a healthy BMI! ♥️

Great work , @HereIGoOnceMore ! ⭐️

Back home after a lovely afternoon with roast dinner and grand tour of the new house .
Little stroll around their village afterwards which I’m hoping will have slightly counterbalanced the lemon 🍋 cheesecake dessert ….. 🙄
Feeling rather bloated so no more food until tomorrow.
New kit safely secreted in the “ overflow” utility room fridge , DH none the wiser thank goodness .

@tostaky @HereIGoOnceMore well done on the losses!!!!! 😆

@ElsieJay hurray for delivery did you manage to get it ok without detection??

@HKG sorry you’re feeling rough!! Hope you got the Imodium & it’s worked!!!

I’m so glad it’s bank holiday Monday tomorrow!!!

@Seahorsesplendour yes, thank goodness - sent DH out for OXO cubes , and kept my eyes fixed on the DPD app so I could intercept the driver before he was in Ring camera range !
Felt like Keira Knightley in an episode of Black Doves !
Sadly the resemblance ends there …..😢

Loving the deception. ElsieJay. Enjoy the bank holiday tomorrow.

@ElsieJay go you!!! Maybe you missed your vocation as a spy 😂

Love this!

@HereIGoOnceMore That isn't a little win, that's a huge and mahoosive win!

@ElsieJay the Secret Service will want to recruit you 😂

I would tell DH , but know he’d be fussing about is it safe, what about the long-term side effects etc etc , bless him - and I just don’t want to have to cope with that .

Maybe a couple of months down the line when you're healthy, happy and lighter he'll be able to cope and worry less?

Obviously you have the right not to tell him! But I'm just trying to think about your career as a secret agent, it might be a bit stressful long term.

Well done @HereIGoOnceMore on reaching ‘healthy’ zone!!

I just spotted this recommended on Reddit https://www.vrgrowth.co.uk/mounjaro-clicks
It looks good you can set days if you want to dose more or less than standard 7 and give you all the clicks. Apparently it’s by “fatoldclimer” whose on YouTube so away to nose. But this will be so handy I think when microdosing from bigger pens/planning how to use pens/maintenance etc

That’s really useful. I’ve got a bundle of bigger dose pens than I use in the hole of spreading it further.

I'm impressed by the click and dagger skills, @ElsieJay

I have a startling NSV to report. I have a stupid dog that likes to roll his ball under the furniture, where it invariably gets stuck. I always have to lower myself carefully onto the floor, crawl to retrieve the ball then crawl across the floor to the sofa to heft myself back onto my feet. This evening, I retrieved the ball and just stood up! I didn't have to clamber or crawl anywhere....I simply stood up! Astonishing.

Fed up. Got up early to book Ds driving test and it appears I have put on 3lbs in one day just by eating cake and sandwiches at ds birthday party. Please tell me this isn't possible?

I have put weight on over the summer then lost it again due to AI holiday abroad.

Not sure if I need to up my dose or wait until the kids are back at school and I'm eating more normally for me?

I have also moved up pens but right now still injecting 5mg because for the first 4 days I get the sulphur burps and heartburn. By the weekend it's starting to wear off. Hence I could eat cake ( which was yum!) I could take it or leave it emotional it it wasn't a birthday party.

@NotPerfectlyAdverage I find it helps to track the amount of drug in my body - you can use shotsy or I just use excel. As soon as the amount of drug drops below 2mg, I'm hungry again.
I'm going to play around with forecasting, but I think I need to move up slightly from 2.5mg/week, maybe to 3mg, otherwise I'm struggling by day 5 each week.

Thanks. I'm 3.17mg currently and tomorrow is shot day. I'm not hungry. But at the same time I can eat bigger portions three days before. On the first four days I'd get full up quicker.

I don't feel hungry at all still. Occasionally I think "oh it would nice to have x as I haven't had that in ages" but I don't eat x as it's say KFC or Chinese and on MJ I'd pay the price with some kind of side effect. So I don't want Chinese enough to be on the loo all night.

I might write down my levels from shots every day and how I'm feeling this week

I too track with Shotsy and also lose suppression below 2mg. Above 6mg, and I start to lose my appetite completely and feel exhausted. I have found taking 3.5mg every 5 days keeps me within a steady and effective range. This is obviously a very personal thing, but I have found using a tracker has helped me to find the level that works well for me.

@NotPerfectlyAdverage i get how you feel - sometimes i think maybe i should increase the dose because im not losing or ive gained a bit despite “being good”. It is frustrating.
then i think that actually, i have eaten properly, no snacking, no take aways, no second servings and i am teally proud of myself. This is already an improvement. And so who cares whether i have lost or gain, weight do fluctuate and i am on the right path, the weight will go in the end, my body is probably adjusting. I want to work with my body and let it do what it needs to do, its ok if today is higher, maybe next week it wont be.
also im with you: kids (and DH!) make it all a lot harder!
Hang on there, be kind to yourself