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!

Weight update 1 and half pound on from holiday. Did feel hungrier after few days on wegovy so think this week I'll be alot more mindful but not too fussed about the gain as I was away. Back to it work and some classes may even go for a swim 🏊‍♂️ @sweetpickle2 good luck getting to goal weight for your bday 🎂 🥳 and have a good week everyone about to jab this morning do kinda wish id stayed on mj but really cant afford price 😀

Morning! Also back from hols , although still off this week so not back to normal, they’ll be lunches out etc, when I’ve done all the washing 😬 Back to the gym tomorrow though! I’ve put on half a pound on which tbh honest I am more than ok with. Expect that will go when the travel dehydration resolves..

Proper weigh in on Friday. I’ll need to decide whether to stick on 7.5mg or go down to 5mg then. I don’t think I can fool myself that I’m in maintenance yet as I’ve still got 4-5 pounds to go..

Forgot how nauseous 10mg makes me, was up all night dry heaving 😷

I found 10mg too strong too, @sweetpickle2

Fuuuuuksaaaake basically still plateau! And my hair is still falling out!

70.3kg today. Gah! 💤

Well done everyone 👏🏻

@Mounjaroday plateaus are so frustrating arnt they ive had a few honestly cant remember how I got through them either. And hair sometimes im scared to brush it even tho it doesnt look bad just knowing its gone thin is annoying 🙃

Me too @SpiralSister and @sweetpickle2
in fact never got there…..

ive lost 18kgs & only got to a dose of 8.5 as even that was too high!!!!!

@CoolLimeSheep I love dolphin spotting in Newquay!

Glad to see so many of us still plodding on - 8 months later.

Today, this finally happened 🎉 I'm overweight at last 😅

Congratulations @MJSpideySenses 🎉

What app is it you are using there?

Haha yes congrats to all us plodders still going. Did not expect I would still be here in October!

Can’t really remember my body back in January. I do remember waking up every morning hating myself, not being able to do my shoes up, snoring really badly, waking with hip pain every night, avoiding social gatherings, feeling utterly depressed buying clothes, drinking way too much. Looking back now I realise I was a total mess but at the time I didn’t appreciate how bad it had got.

My friends will say I didn’t realise you were so big, we just loved you for you… then I’ll show them a ‘before’ photo and they say holy crap!

Woohoo @MJSpideySenses

Well done @MJSpideySenses!

I get what you mean @Mounjaroday - I keep looking at photos of me from back then and thinking, who is she??? I just felt like I was walking around wearing a costume of someone else. Now I actually feel like me!

My favourite thing about now is that I can open my wardrobe and pick what I actually want to wear, as I know everything in there fits! Before I'd either just wear the same pair of jeans and 'flattering' top, or I'd try to put together a different outfit and just have a meltdown that nothing would zip up.

I can’t look at pictures of me from last year.
But I can look at this

Thanks everyone.

@Mounjaroday its just called Weight Tracker. I log on nutricheck too but like the simple visual of this app 😊

I know bmi is crap but this is annoying 😑
Well done everyone and anyone who's struggling keep going you amazing stars 🌟

@CoolLimeSheep is that saying you are still in the red??

No still saying im overweight but I dont bloody feel it haha. I think we should all have a petition to update the bmi chart coz it truly is so outdated 😊

@CoolLimeSheep oh sorry didn’t realise about clicking into the image to see the meaningful bit.

Very close to green!

Today’s weigh-in 69.5kg. That’s the first time I’ve been under 70kg for two days in a row… hopefully the plateau has ended.

So it’s official (for today at least!) a third of my body weight has gone. From 16.4 stone, to 10.9 stone in 8 months.

Am I happier? Yes. There. I said it.

It’s not a case of being slim makes me happy. But being obese was certainly making me unhappy.

How’s everyone else feeling in themselves?

Awesome youve smashed it 🌟 @Mounjaroday
Im Getting annoyed now switched to wegovy this my second week i did go on holiday but this morning apparently put another 2lb on im asking go up to top dose if possible or could it be while the wegovy gets in my system properly. Don't really feel that nausues now on wegovy like I did with mj. Seriously considering going back on mj but not sure if I can afford the price do feel happy in way I look but dont like the gains 🤔

Brilliant, @Mounjaroday! I think you’ve cracked it.

Since you ask, I feel a bit meh. Would just like to get to bloody goal now tbh. Although I did have a cheering convo with a woman at the gym yesterday who has lost a similar amount to me, about how fabulous it is to have fabulous clothes.

We’ve got to keep on going in whatever form that takes I reckon. As warriors! 💐

Well done, @Mounjaroday ! That’s fantastic!

PS Blood pressure taken at the GP just now. 105/75. Well within normal range again. It had been creeping up into the “problematic” range.

One third of oneself vanished is just boggling.

I am at about 27% so similar kind of thing.
It’s nice being able to wear things and they fit.

The hunger beast still lives in my head though, and will never go away. The moment I stop MJ it will start roaring again.

I went up very slightly to 8.3mg as it didn't affect the number of doses I can get out of the pen and I've had low level nausea all week, occasionally to the point of being on the edge of gagging. Hasn't affected my appetite unfortunately, I'm really hungry. I'm really sick of food at the moment as well and struggling with what to eat which isn't helping as I'm just ending up disorganised.

Re hair loss I'm on my second cycle of it which is a pain in the neck but I find the OGX Thick and Full shampoo and conditioner pretty good. It's got biotin and collagen and does give the illusion of fuller hair than I've got (to the point there was enough hair to dry strangely and look like I'm wearing a helmet 😅).

Well done everyone, eight months and we've all come so far 🙌

So cool to see everyone still smashing it and not letting any blips get them down! Congratulations and well done on all of your victories. Impressive and inspiring!

It has been 1 month since my last jab. I went on a social media cleanse at the same time. I work in food/hospitality and then my down time was often spent looking at food blogs/recipes/testing new recipes etc. My life is literally dominated by food. Anyway, I tried to take a break from it all thinking it might make the transition off MJ easier. It was bloody hard.

So, a month ago I was 72.8kg and today I'm 70.2kg. So a small loss! However it has been so difficult keeping my eating under control. I haven't been tracking my calories very accurately, I've just tried to make sensible choices... but not always succeeded. Been out for a few meals, eaten a few cakes...

I guess the real test starts now as there is no MJ left in my system. I will spend the next month weighing and logging every single bite of food, just to remind myself how every little nibble adds up. Then hopefully in November I can just rely on making better choices and see how that goes.

My ultimate goal weight is 60kg, which Nutracheck predicts I'll achieve by 3rd January if I carry on like this and stick to my calories. It feels possible and I am hopeful. February 15th 2026 will be my 1 year anniversary of losing weight.

A lil check in:

SW: 115.8kg
CW: 70.2kg
GW: 60kg
Total loss so far: 45.3kg (39.5% of myself!)

My loose skin is terrible, there's so much of it! It is very drapey and crepey. But I still feel OK about it. I look fine with clothes on and that's all that matters since I'm not planning on running around in the nude any time soon! My hair is still falling out, I look like that doll from the rugrats cartoon. I have faith it will grow back! A lot of my inflammation and aches and pains returned. Not as bad as pre-MJ, thanks to the weight loss, but it is there. Things like my knees aching and I'm back to being stiff and sore when I wake up in the morning.