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!

My food responses have changed a lot. Doughnuts smell/look awful to me now. Greasy food is off the menu too. I travel a lot in the UK, and it would absolutely be a thing to have a packet of bacon over the course of a trip away in the van, but nope, not interested in bacon at all. I don't think I have eaten any for 6 months. I do eat fish and chips if I'm at the seaside, but if I'm with the grandson, we just share a large portion between the two of us.

My sweet tooth has mostly gone. I did buy a slice of homemade cake yesterday. I think this was just excitement that I stumbled across a cake selling hut in a field on a 6.5 mile walk, when I had been into the garden centre 2 miles back, ogled all the cakes and nice biscuits, but didn't really fancy anything so left empty handed. I had it to take away and had it for my supper, and it was a small slice. I enjoyed it, but I wasn't able to eat anything since, until about half an hour ago when I managed some lentil chilli. It might be the heat though in fairness. I struggle to eat when it's plus 25c (long-standing thing), but I would normally eat breakfast in a heatwave.

I can't stand the thought of processed foods, and crave veggies and legumes/pulses, but very much a meat eater. This is how I always wanted to feel, and mostly stuck to clean eating through choice before, but would often be tempted by certain processed foods and cakes. Now the stuff that tempted me before isn't really appealing

I had another big clothes try on and clear out this morning, which was very satisfying.

What did I learn?

I had bought stuff in the past because I was desperate to find anything that fitted, eg when going away on holiday or to a long conference. In those situations, I didn't make wise choices. So many of those items have gone in the pile to sell or donate.

I have too many pairs of navy linen trousers, in a variety of sizes! And a few in black. They don't wear well, on the whole, either the Primark ones or the John Lewis ones. Some of those have gone in the bin. I may re-dye the better quality ones that have faded.

I now fit (yay!) some of the lovely slim tapered fit, with a slight stretch, black Laura Ashley trousers that I used to wear for work. Size 14 are good. Size 12 will need another few kilos to be possible. But I am getting there! They are great quality and as good as new (such a shame LA closed down) and my legs look great. But it's interesting to note that the size 12 ones did fit me when I was last around this weight (about 2018). So I am carrying my weight in a different place (more stomach) now.

I have too much black and navy, some of it bought in desperation (see above). I am going to branch out into more colour, and show my legs off more.

I am starting to appreciate my arms, so I have bought two more stretch vest tops from Zara, which fit beautifully. What works is a higher neck and wider shoulder straps, so I don't feel too exposed, but my arms are on show.

I am determined to enjoy clothes more and use this as an incentive to lose the last seven kilos or so, and keep it off.

Apart from four pairs of trousers which are excellent quality/material and just a little bit too big for me at the moment, which I have stored away so I have some wriggle room if I gain a little back, I have put the rest in the pile to sell or donate. I hope that getting rid of them will help psychologically.

I have my fifth personal trainer session tomorrow. August weigh in in two weeks.

I’ve just done the same @WoolerOwl - two big black sacks absolutely stuffed with the .. err … in my case … sacks I used to wear.

So update from me: I’ve gone cold turkey. Not on purpose but a mix of being disorganised and various nights away has mucked up my routine.

Have a few golden doses knocking around in the fridge, so ordered some syringes but they haven’t arrived in time … so I’ll be Mounjaro free when I go on holiday tomorrow.

Unfortunately it looks like I’ll miss my goal to get to target weight before hols. It’s that pesky final kilo being very stubborn! Will go again when I get back.

However, holiday clothes shopping was an absolute DREAM and I conquered the sales today. Slipped in to a size 12 jumpsuit that’s just perfect to travel in reduced from £117 to £45. Also bought a 34E bra … quite a difference from 38G or whatever I was before!

@Mounjaroday Have a brilliant holiday. You'll probably still have some Mounjaro in your system for up to the next 30 days, depending on when your last jab was. Have a brilliant time and a holiday that is as good as if you had lost that pesky kg.

Have a wonderful holiday @Mounjaroday- you've done so well, last kg or no last kg!

No change for me this week, which was expected as I have been much hungrier back on 7.5mg compared to 10mg- it's much preferable to how nauseous and ill I was on 10g so I'm sticking with it, and will use this as my start of tapering down and trying to be more mindful on my own.

Have good weeks all!

Delighted this morning to step on the scales and find im into the 14 stone bracket! 😊

SW 17.3
CW 14.12

Yes eggs, can’t stand them now but have lived on them in the past

wish I hadn’t

Have a good holiday @Mounjaroday
@SkintSingleMumm well done thats awesome.

Have a great holiday, @Mounjaroday!

I have an NSV today. I still have (from 2007) the Kate Moss/Top Shop pansy print blouse, which I’ve kept boxed away for the past 15 years that it hadn’t fitted me for. It is literally the only thing I have kept from thinner days, because it was so sought after and I loved it, even though it would hardly go across my tits even then.

You know what’s coming warriors! IT FITS! Better than it did then..🤩

I dragged out old clothes to sell stuff that is now too big and also dragged down some “skinny” stuff from attic that was pre MJ. It all fits again! I was only last night looking at Vinted to buy some new workout gear. Turns out I can now “shop my wardrobe, as the kids say! Next up will be to see if I can fit into my wedding dress (from 2006). Must be fairly close, as I am only 3kg heavier today than I was that day. (Albeit now in size 12 and the dress is a 10… hmmm. I will keep you all appraised if I can squeeze into it!)

Have a great holiday @Mounjaroday

Weigh day today and finally moving again. 12lb away from target now and finally in the 150’s! My scales only do lb’s hence why I always use that measure 🤣

2lb lost this week, did dip down to 3lb lost mid week but it went back up and my period arrived today so I’m happy with 2lb off. Also finally hit 2st down since starting MJ. Super slow loss but I really don’t mind.

SW before MJ - 208lb/94.3kg
SW MJ - 187lb/84.8kg
CW - 159lb/72.1lh
TW - 147lb/66kg

hello all - just out of interest - is anyone finding the 7.5mg working really well? its so strange - i honestly feel like I am not taking anything at all - I mean, its obviously working to some extent as i am NOT binge eating like i was... but I am definitely hunting down food more and looking for food more than I have been! so strange. I have a golden dose of this pen to try and wed, if it doesnt work I have the 10mg ready and waiting...

Evening Warriors!
well after a couple of weeks “off” I am raring to go again.

stepped on the scales tonight. Only a small increase. Up 2 kgs on where I was a month ago BUT still a healthy BMI!

im still aiming for a further 6kgs off, to get me to a mid healthy BMI range and some room to spare!

started back on 5mg tonight. Will
increase to 6.25 next week and then 7.5 after that.

hoping to hit goal before mid October and the kids long half term.

week 25. Day 1. 5mg MJ
SW. 80kg (BMI 30 obese)
CW 64.15kgs (BMI 24.7 healthy)
Total loss 16kgs (-20%)
average loss of 500g per week
GW 58kgs (BMI 23 healthy / total loss 22kgs >25%!)

a NSV for me too….. my friend told me to get some trousers and a couple of other bits from Shein in a 10….. THEY FIT!!!!!

a US size 6 allegedly. And they damn well fit me!!!!

I have not been this small since I became an adult.

awesome. Very pleased with myself.

have also started clearing the wardrobe. I have no trousers or jeans that don’t fall down!!!!

Yes im on 3rd pen at this dose and get great suppression. Not sure ill go higher

Bit of up and down - have finally gone through the 2 stone lost mark, but had a day out with family yesterday and some candid pics of me with the kids were most unflattering! Have gone from the edge of obese to touching distance of a healthy BMI, and I don't feel like you could see the difference at all!

@SkintSingleMumm so interesting how it really works so differently for different people.
I've also noticed my sugar cravings are back when I would say first 4ish months they had disappeared..I need to try and nip it in the bud although maybe it is somehow linked to 7.5 and ill be ok again on 10?

Can’t remember who compared their luggage allowance to the weight they had lost.

It really struck me yesterday! My husband had to lug my suitcase down the stairs and into the car as I struggled to lift it. Suitcase is 22kg. I’ve lost 31kg. How the bloody hell was I carrying that weight around on my body?!

I’m off to take my little bottom to the pool now!

I've been stuck bouncing around 77.5 - 78.8 since the middle of July. So almost a month! Frustrating and disappointing.

TMI warning... Sorry. Skip the next paragraph if you don't want to read toilet talk.

I upped my calories a few days ago and after struggling with constipation for a while I've been to the loo 3 days in a row and now I'm down to 74.8kg. What the heck. No wonder I felt like there was a brick in my stomach, holding on to that. 🫣

I haven't been 74.8kg since I was early 20s! So glad to finally see a change on the scales! Only 7.9kg to lose to get to a healthy BMI.

I caught sight of myself side-on in the mirror and got such a shock that that is me. Still no movement on the sizes but I actually have lost an enormous amount of fat from my back. I knew I've got a pancake arse now, but my bra and waistbands sit quite nicely on my back, with no bulging. I'm so shocked, back fat didn't even occur to me.

Bra strap back fat, @usedtobeaylis! I had acres of it!

@usedtobeaylis I hear you with the back fat! I think that's where its gone mainly from me.

Photo on the left is me in February and the right was July.

Still a long way to go but the photos definitely help.

I've still got acres of it, just doesn't want to budge.

@Marypoppinsisnosaint WOW! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Mounjaroday its mental, I honestly can't get my head around it. I didn't think I was that big at the time. I mean I knew I was big but not like that. Brains are a funny thing aren't they? If you don't mind another photo. This was me 2 years ago and then on holiday in June. I thought I look okay ( and felt good) in the first one 🤦‍♀️

I've left my face on as I think you can tell massively there. I feel like I'm always going to have big arms, I've always had them. I'm learning to embrace them.

Also since coming back from holiday when me and DH had to share a bed, I've been back in bed with him! Every night! No more snoring!! I was on a make shift bed downstairs because of it.

Like others I wish I'd done it sooner!

@Marypoppinsisnosaint what a transformation! Looking fab! Also you've got a brilliant smile