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!

I’ve been up to a max of 7.5mg and I’m doing my very last 7.5 next week, I have another 7.5 pen stashed in fridge, which I think I’ll do something like 6mg and get an extra dose out of. Then back to 5mg once that is gone. I’m at goal weight (actually slightly
under, unbelievably!), but still reliably losing a tiny bit each week (like 200/300 grams), so I think that is telling me I could go down a bit with the dosage. Honestly, who knows? It’s all a bit of a mystery. I don’t think the science is even in with regards to maintenance yet.

Time for an update here

For the last 9 weeks ive been on 10mg and a new 10 pen arriving tomorrow, its been a slow process on 10mg,2.6kg loss in 9 weeks which, Im finding disappointing as diet is very similar.
I think I have possibly arrived at 'my weight' and will begin to reduce the dose with the intention of dropping off at the end of January which will have been a year almost

Feb SW 95.9 kg BMI 37.2

CW 76.9 BMI 29.7

Loss 19kg (41.88 lb)
near 3 stone

19.8% drop in weight.

I never started with a target in mind but, recently have been thinking some where around 72 kg (11.5 ish stone) by the end of the year will do!!

Well done everyone! On the cold 🥶 god its freezing at this weight sometimes miss my fat for a second 🤣. Having abit of hard time with my children at moment teens. Ive got 1 dose left but unsure wether to bother buying one last pen I haven't tapered as such. Decisions decisions so can understand the not caring for mj anymore

Yes to both of those - am freezing and bony and have an annoying teen. When oh when will it ever be “my time” again?! Solidarity.

I am freezing too. Went and bought several pairs of thermal socks from Uniqlo yesterday.

In separate news, I am worried that my shoes are now too big! I have some really nice ones and can't afford to replace them. I'm buying leather insoles at the moment but think I need to acknowledge that I am actually a size 40 not a wide 41.

I find it really frustrating after 7 months on Mounjaro to still be seeing people making the same old uninformed points about it. The same people making the same points as if they haven't been set right multiple times. They are just utterly determined to undermine everyone regardless.

Anyone switched to wegovy or even on wegovy since pricing not sure if I have seen anyone on here! Still unsure mind at moment or prob overthinking everything!

Are you taking about people in general, or specific people in your life?

Thermal’s are a whole new thing in my life. Already looking forward to slipping them on tomorrow, top to toe! What a treat. Bring on winter!

@usedtobeaylis hope your ok! I find most people's opinions around me ok prob to my face but there is the odd one thats like everyone's on it then put loads more back on and ive done it right way eat less move more but they've never had there weight effect there life and if they can do it just by eating less and moving more great! Happy for them. Im still conflicted wether to get another pen its a tough war in these heads of ours 🙂

I never want anyone to be miserable but it's so nice to not feel alone when I'm fed up 🤣
I feel like I've lost a lot of what made me, me. I was always the chubby, funny and happy friend so who am I now? I know I'm still flipping hilarious but interestingly I want to draw less attention my way, I don't want to be noticed.
I've lost my love for exercise, I know it will be temporary but I feel less capable which I know isn't true but I'm wondering what weird mind fuckery is going on.
Anyway, happy Friday... I'm signed up to do swim serpentine tomorrow and it's a favourite event of mine so I'm looking forward to that. Hope everyone is doing ok x

I know! And why are they still so bothered? Surely there's more important things going on in the world than some people chosing to spend their own money and lose some bloody body fat 🤯

I talked to my PT about people’s views of exercise and weight loss. I’ve had a few people saying “ooh, you’re not overdoing it, are you””?” which is frankly ridiculous. I’m at the top end of a healthy BMI, shuffling my way slowly through C25K, and having sessions with a highly qualified PT who is introducing me to all my different muscle groups, showing me how to use them, and helping me to find stability and strength. All badly needed considering I started this journey with a BMI of 34 and out of puff walking up the stairs. Her view is that it’s always jealousy, because it makes people insecure about their own choices, or prevents them from enjoying what they perceive as superiority if they’re easily a healthy weight. So I’m working on better answers to those people. “Yes, I’m enjoying feeling stronger” might be my new favourite.

That’s interesting what you say there, @ThatJoyousHazelDuck. I wondered a while ago whether losing a lot of weight involved losing some identity - particularly the warm, mother figure stuff for me. I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that it’s all part of the adjustment of looking and feeling radically different. I know that I was comfortable with being overweight (if not obese) for a very long time, as it lessened male attention. I became smaller, as I became larger. Ugh! Imagine putting your health at risk because of the unrelenting ball ache of the male gaze. Thank fuck I’m well stricken in years now and no man looks twice (even though I actually look fabulous, just definitely late 50’s).

I hope you can work it through and get to a comfortable place with it for you. You are still YOU, after all!

Weigh in day. Moved to a Friday cos hols coming up and all that jazz.
SW: 15.5
CW: 10.12
TL: 4.7
GW: 10.9 for healthy BMI, so 10.5-10.7 probably.

I’m in the frigging 10’s at last! 3 lbs away from healthy BMI! 🏆

NSV: Longest ever plank at the gym this week - 1 minute 40 secs. I was shaking like a jelly 😂

That was a really long post, soz. Have a great weekend, warriors. If it is all a bit shit at the moment, you are still a warrior 💐

@WoolerOwl so true 😃
@SpiralSister very wise words and awesome in the 10s!

Ive switched to juniper and requested wegovy so see if It gets approved and see how it goes!
I too have just hit the 10s still cant beleive this was possible defo need to keep up my excercise tho and holiday incoming 3rd oct so may slightly gain again 😅

In general - it's what makes me reluctant to tell anyone in real life. Their intent is to shame people.

I’m definitely considering it, but still have pens stashed, bought several to get in before the price hike. Probably by end of year, they’ll be done (depending whether I titrate down a bit or use them as per the instructions), so I’ll switch then. Long term, I think I’d prefer MJ for the reduction in inflammation, but that does seem to be possible on Wegovy as well, just not heard so much talk about it.

@CoolLimeSheep and @SpiralSister you are a couple of pounds ahead of me. I am determined to catch you up!!!!!

And also to ignore any naysayers out there who think that MJ, losing weight, or trying to get fit are terrible and dangerous things to do.

Hallelujah to that!

A fat person said to me last week, ‘you’re not going to lose any more, are you? Because you’re looking a bit…’ pulled face like she was sucking a lemon. To an 11stone, size 12 person. Madness.

My best friend, who I love dearly, but is a 5 foot nothing teeny size 6 and always has been said something similar to me recently @SpiralSister - I pointed out that I am only JUST now on the cusp between healthy and overweight BMI and she's just so used to seeing me fat that it seems like I've overdone it, but I could feasibly lose another 3 stone and still be in the "healthy" BMI (admittedly the lower end). She said she didn't realise and hasn't said anything since!

I do think people just get used to you fat, so it seems much more drastic than it is.

Oh, that's helpful. I could lose another 2 stone 3 pounds and still be a healthy BMI. I'm only aiming for another half stone!

I also believe people get used to Everyone being fat and not having a healthy BMI.
so when you get to the very top of that healthy BMI range and suggest you might lose a few more kgs to give yourself some wiggle room…. They all pull a sour face and say you will look too skinny and too scrawny.

anyway. I’ve ignored them. Restarted PT twice a week. My objective is to be stronger at the end of the year than I was at the start.

Stronger. Fitter. Leaner.

i seem to be doing it!

weekly weigh in….
Wednesday 17 September 2025
week 30. Day 3. 8.3 MJ.
(50 clicks of 10 pen)
SW. 80kg (BMI 30 obese)
CW 62.4kgs (BMI 24.1 healthy and size UK 10-12)
GW 58/59kgs (BMI 22.4/22.8 healthy).
Target moved to 1 Nov - 6weeks to lose 3 kilos?

also researching tapering.

in the meantime I might spread out dosing by staying on same dose but increasing days between doses.
i Am feeling like current dose is slightly too high for the first 48h.

I have to admit at being apprehensive at coming off MJ. I was on a lower dose over the summer (5 pen was in my fridge!) and I also had longer between doses. I put on 2kgs between end of summer term and start of autumn term!!

how on earth am I going to manage?!! I also need to come off as the price is too high for me now. It went up £120 last month. Silly me for not stockpiling at the lower price.

I have a 12.5 pen in the fridge. Wondering how long I can stretch that out for and still get to goal / maintain …. and what happens after that …..?!

such a worry. I have never been this size as an adult. And I like it!!! Don’t want to get big again but actually do need to eat.

Is anyone else losing hair? I am losing loads at the moment….

Yeh i didn't even realise i was losing it till now. Not sure if lose hair on wegovy but have see
Ive just switched to wegovy so one more week mj then give wegovy a try. I had to take a pic with my belly out for juniper consultant 🤦‍♀️
@PurpleCoo are you still on your jollys?
@WoolerOwl you will sure catch up with us i know it.
I agree with everyone here its about ourselves no1 else and how we feel

Yes, I am losing a bit. It feels like a lot in the shower plug hole. I think I was losing some before weight loss and MJ, just because of age. But definitely more now. I still have a lot of hair (thick curls) so it's not very obvious to anyone except me, but I think it looks a bit thinner at the front and I have a higher hairline. I am taking collagen and iron.