Hi Worried, and thank you. ❤️
I well understand your frustration, it’s blooming disheartening. But I now have a plan put in place by my GP son in law who has a special interest in health/fitness/preventative medicine, and my PT.
For starters I have to weigh myself morning and night for two weeks then take an average of the figures which will then classed as my weight. Then the aim once I have that baseline number is for that number to go down ever week or every couple of weeks. I have to ignore what the scales are saying daily as seemingly you’re weight can fluctuate by as much as 5% daily due to one thing or another. I didn’t know it was that much which could account for the 1.5kgs I can have gained some mornings.
Ive also been asked to consider that what I’ve called a stall isn’t actually a stall due to anything other than me finely balancing my calories in and calories out to the extent there’s no deficit even though I’ve thought there was - it’s nigh on impossible seemingly to calorie count accurately unless your doing it in a lab. So where as we think we’ve had x amount per day - we could easily have had more.
Then there’s what the summer does to a persons activity level here - going out is unpleasant so even though I excercise 4-5 days a week I may just not be busy enough to get the scales moving.
So, I’m going to be weighing to get my average. Dropping my calories to 1250 because I will for sure be eating more than that without realising. Doing this will mean I’ll be less likely to be fine tuning my input/output to the extent I have. And last but not least - I’m to start going out every day instead of only going out a couple of times a week because of the heat - and that includes doing my own shopping instead of getting a delivery because even wandering round the mall before going round the supermarket will help with ensuring I am actually in a calorie deficit instead of just thinking in good faith that I am.
Its all things that I knew ( except the average weight) and I’m starting it today, oh and today is seemingly the start of phase 2 of my mounjaro and to date, I mustn’t forget this seemingly, I’ve achieved 99 percent of what I’d set out to do.
I was feeling so despondent this morning, the price change really upset me (more so for others than myself as I can cover it) and my mood just tumbled. But I’ve picked myself up again and I have my new source in place already - I know for sure it will now be cheaper to get my pen here than the UK so I’ve not wasted anytime organising it. I also know now that I can’t take on the hurt of others who may now have to stop Mounjaro. That I can feel very sorry and sad they’ll have to, but I then have to put it someplace that isn’t in my heart. That last bit doesn’t sit well with me though, it feels way too much like ‘I’m alright Jack’ for my liking 🙈
You know, we talk about plateaus and stalls but it’s just been explained to me that we don’t actually have to look for a big reason for a stall, that the majority of the time they’re actually caused by very small reasons.
Im hoping this post might be of help to people but if not, it’s still from me to all of you with love.
Worried - do you fancy trying the weight thing I mentioned? We can give it a go together if you like.