Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 7!)…

[Mounjaroday]

Well my goodness. Thread 7. Warriors, we are 6 months in! How life has changed.

To all of you who have made it: many, many congratulations and good luck with the continued maintenance. To the rest of the team still climbing that mountain: we got this, let’s bloody go!!

SW 103.9kg / 16.4 stone
CW 73.4kg / 11.6 stone
TW 72.2kg / 11.4 stone (top end healthy BMI)
Dream weight 68kg / 10.7 stone

Reeeeeeally want to get to target weight before holiday in 10 days time so time really is ticking now! Feel like one of the Lionesses: must keep my cool, bang it in the back of the net and get the job done.

You are all absolutely amazing and the continued support on this group is incredible.

Onwards and downwards! Godspeed for thread 7! xx

P.S. have clearly plagiarised some phrases from some of you good people. Hope you don’t mind: feel they’re part of our thing as a group now so please take it as flattery!

Some positive news this week despite everything- I’ve been taking iron supplements for the last week or so and I’ve noticed a marked difference in the amount of hair loss, so that’s something!

@sweetpickle2 which ones are you taking? My hair is still falling out a lot!

Morning warriors! I’ve been having a bit of a ponder on the experience of becoming thinner. I am, obviously, delighted to have lost 4 stone and look and feel so much better, not to mention becoming so much healthier and less likely to die early etc..

But, it’s a definite adjustment, isn’t it? Perhaps because I was fat for so long.

And it’s not all completely great - I don’t like the loss of padding on my arse; I don’t like feeling my bones from the outside, as someone memorably said; I don’t like the loose skin on the underside of my arms and thighs; my lower belly - darlings, the sight of it!😂; my boobs are deflated and non inviting and yet still big enough to make buttons gape.

And I worry that I’m not as comforting to hug. I’m no longer lush and rounded, womanly. Check out the internalised societal norms right there! Or are they? Have I lost something valuable? Oh balls, I don’t know.

What do you think?

@SpiralSister We have the same sorts of stats, I think, so I understand where you are.

I also feel the bony bottom problem. And my knees, when they are together and I am lying on my side in bed, feel very knobbly. Saggy and deflated elsewhere, yes and always a bit of a shock in the bathroom mirror. My lower belly is a horrible gelatinous mess.

On the other hand . . . I couldn't even bear to look in the bathroom mirror at the beginning of the year. My face and arms are ok, maybe because I have been religious about taking collagen every morning, or maybe I just got lucky with the genes.

I know I look so much better now with clothes on! I have also got better at self care. A lovely body oil that makes my neck and shoulders gleam is doing wonders for my self esteem. Good moisturizer for my nicely shaved legs. Clear nail polish. An organized wardrobe with all the old tents of clothes gone to the charity shop or online to sell. My joints don't ache like they did.

I am also wondering what I'm like on the inside, especially whether I have lost the visceral fat and fatty liver . . .

@MynameisJune I'm taking these https://www.nutritiongeeks.co/products/iron-energy-high-immune-support-complex

I have a probably stupid question about microdosing- does the pen lock after 4 jabs no matter how much is left in there?

Weigh day for me and I've lost another kg-

SW 107.8kg
CW 82kg

Really glad I went back down to 7.5, no side effects for me and obviously its working. Hope I can figure out my next pen and stay on this dose for a bit!

@SpiralSister I always thought I was really frumpy and while I don't think I wasn't now (I really was), it's also crossed my mind that this body has been my daughter's comfort for her entire life. I'm still squishy because I've still got ages to go yet before I'm anywhere near an overall goal weight but I wonder if I'm not quite so 'mama' now.

I also hate the lower arm flab, and while my stomach is obviously still fat I actually don't mind it because for the first time ever it is a lot more in proportion with the rest of my fat. Bit less weebly.

The bit I really hate is the 'hump' at the bottom of my neck. I know that's not solely down to flat and needs to be addressed in a different way but I feel it's really pronounced with the rest of the fat loss from my back. For every pound of fat shame lost, something else rears it head 😆

Only if it's four full doses. I currently get 5 doses from my 10mg pen as I take 8mg doses.

@MynameisJune each pen has 240 clicks so 4 times 60 is 4 full doses of whatever mg is stated on the pen. A half dose is 30 clicks so in theory you can get 8 doses from a pen (albeit that goes beyond the 30 days). Some people manually extract the “left over bit” referred to as “a golden dose”.

Thank you- that's interesting because I did my 4th dose today and it feels like it's locked up! I'll order some syringes just incase but I wondered if that was what happened or not.

As @SunandMoor said each pen gets 240 clicks so as long as it’s under that you should be able to use it more than 4 times.

I’ve been thinking about all this too. Am no longer fat (was never huge, 2 stone too heavy, overweight but not obese). I’ve gone back to my “default” body from my 20/30s (in my early 50s now), which is kinda boyish, I guess. No bum, slim hips. Also rocking short hair, so I feel a bit boyish too. I didn’t love my body when I was kind of “matronly” - the big boobs and chunky arms etc. but not sure I love it now, either. I’ve also succumbed to the societal expectation, but from the other side. Dammit. When will I ever learn to be happy in my own skin?!

Have managed to order a pen from Lotus who are taking on new customers and have a 20% off code. Hoping they approve as the price was okay! Am going to microdose that one as much as I can and slowly taper down, then that will be it for me probably. I'm getting married next year and worried I will put it all back on before then but will just have to work really hard to ensure that doesn't happen.

I've never loved having bigger boobs either. I was the proverbial ironing board and two fried eggs for a lot of my life and I've struggling with with feeling shelved in the boob area since gaining weight and having a baby. I would be very happy if in the next three stone they all but disappeared - rather than feeling 'womanly' I've always felt uncomfortable and untidy with them.

Thanks for all your thoughts, warriors. Really helpful and normalising to know I’m not alone with this.

I do care for my body so much better now, I notice that. I think I was just ignoring it before tbh. Denial. And a faint hope that the weight would magically go somehow, when I didn’t need it any more.

I am miles happier at this weight than I was at my heaviest. But something I have worked hard on is accepting my body for what it is and I started that process long before I started mounjaro. My boobs have always been small and now they’re none existent and a bit deflated. My stomach is getting a bit of loose skin and doesn’t look great without clothes. But it’s birthed 2 kids and carried me through my whole life. It’s 41, it’s allowed to let go a little 🤣

I realised a long time ago that I tied my worth as a person into how thin I was and how society viewed me. And decided well fuck that, I’m worthwhile despite my weight or my cellulite, my loose skin.

We’re all worth self love and care no matter what size we are!

@SpiralSister your hugs are still comforting because they’re from you, not because you were squishier before!

Been on holiday and only just seen the news about price increases. Got approx 5kg more to lose. My supplier has emailed saying I can buy more than one pen. I ‘ve got one in the fridge and if I order two more that will hopefully take me to the new year (I’m only using 3mg from a 5mg pen plus bonus doses), which will hopefully see me to goal weight and maybe tapering off? We’ll see!

I thought I would like my body more if it was thinner.

I don't.

I'm just so very tired of it all.

I did type out a very long comment about also tying my self worth to my appearance but it got a bit dark so I'll save that for therapy.

I am going to try harder to practice body neutrality and also to just not give a fuck!

It’s hard, not giving a fuck is a choice I make daily now. This morning I got new shorts, they’re shorter and tighter than I was expecting, I very nearly sent them back then remembered I don’t care that someone else might have to see my legs wobble when I walk.

One of the biggest things to remember is that no one is looking at you! Everyone is so wrapped up in their own problems that they’re not bothered. And if they are then fuck them!

One of the biggest things to remember is that no one is looking at you! Everyone is so wrapped up in their own problems that they’re not bothered. And if they are then fuck them!

Yes, excellent point, and I try to remind myself of this every day!

When I'm out and about I rarely pay close attention to other people. I might think about how I like someone's dress or admire their hair.
If I do think something negative about someone else it's always a brief thought and always related to something about myself. So it's not actually about them anyway.
Eg. If I saw someone else with loose skin like mine wearing a vest top and letting their arms be free I would be jealous. How can they do that? I wish I could do that. That kind of thing.

When I look at other people's before and after photos I just think how gorgeous and happy they look now, how they appear more confident, how they've still got a beautiful smile or how strong their arms look etc. and I'm so pleased for them.
I look at mine and all I saw is all the flaws and how I still look miserable.

I never think cruel things about another person the way I think cruel things about myself. So why do I think everyone else is looking at me and judging me like I judge myself? It's this weird combination of self obsession and self loathing.

I want to stop. It's a terrible way to be.

I'm not quite ready for a shorts and vest top combo but maybe I'll wear a short sleeved tshirt out and about tomorrow.

Onwards and downwards and not giving a fuck!

Keeping myself accountable:
SW 89.2kg
GW 69.2kg
CW 68.3kg

I’m tracking slightly under my goal weight and have been bouncing around there or thereabouts for last few weeks now. Did I just inadvertently go into maintenance without realising it?!

Also, decidedly NON SV - my kid got their Oxbridge offer. I never thought I’d say that. Someone clap for us.

Celebrated with pizza and Prosecco. (But not too much of either!)

Crikey. 9mg feels different from 7.5mg. It’s just kicked in. Hardly any appetite all day and then could only eat half my very small portion of dinner. It feels like the early days of MJ again. Perhaps this will kick my butt to lose the last 8kg.

I’ve done my first 10, did probably 9 last week from GD.

10 is kicking my bum, feel so, so nauseous it’s horrid. If this carries on I will absolutely be going back to 7.5.

Congratulations! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Back from hols. Brilliant time. Purposefully relaxed the diet considerably, but importantly I felt great all week! I wobbled my jelly thighs, deflated bottom and little paunch around the resort with confidence. Had no chub rub to worry about, swanned about by the pool in floaty beachwear, and the pelvic floor held up when I attempted tennis.

So, the damage. Oopsie. 4kg ON. The cool beer was totally worth it.

SW 103.9kg
CW 77kg

I’m moving to Fast800 recipes for the next couple of weeks. That will sort me right out.

Xx

I made a stir fry last night and was a bit heavy handed with the soy sauce and this morning I am over 1kg heavier! I do find it interesting how much weight can fluctuate day to day and just how much salt/water/carbs can affect it.