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Mounjaro 10st or more to lose - Thread 6

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Doggymummar · 02/08/2025 09:44

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Lds1 · 21/08/2025 06:58

My arms are my main bad area but they were bad before I started losing weight too, so it's no surprise. If I could afford surgery arm lift is top of the list.

Weigh in day today. Lost 0.7kg / 1 lb and 8.69 oz, so back to small losses after last week. I am overweight!! Away this weekend so don't expect a loss next week but for now overweight!!!

SW: 142.8kg / 22 stone, 6 lb and 13.12 oz
CW: 83.7kg / 13 stone, 1 lb and 13.85 oz
Total loss: 59.1kg / 9 stone, 4 lb and 4.69 oz
To go: 23.7kg / 3 stone, 10 lb and 3.99 oz
BMI: 50.8 now 29.8

Next goals:
get into the 12s (2lbs away)
reach 10 stone loss (10lbs away)
Get to healthy BMI (13.6 kg / 2 stone, 1 lb and 15.73 oz away)

eibbed999 · 21/08/2025 07:17

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 21/08/2025 06:55

Quick question for anyone with Medino - I noticed yesterday that they seem to be possibly allowing people to order now at the current price, with a note saying they'll send it when it's clinically appropriate. Anyone tried it?

Really?

They have put the prices right up.

I ordered a 12.5mg pen as well as my usual 15mg pen, and they cancelled the 12.5mg one and sent me a snippy note.

I'm really annoyed with them, because I used a 10% code, which they're refusing to give me back, even though it was they who cancelled my order.

Their prices went up overnight.

That's very annoying of them, and not a good way to build loyalty! I just noticed when I was wondering about the dog/pen situation that there is a note on the order page saying it. I'm only on 5mg so maybe not as noticeable a hike.

WafflingDreamer · 21/08/2025 07:24

Weigh in number 46
SW 21st 9lb (BMI 44.4)
CW 15st 6lb (BMI 31.6)
GW 11st 9lb (BMI 24.1)
1lb down this week
Losses so far; 4, 1, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, +3, 5, 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 0, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 0, 1, 1
Total loss 87lbs / 6st 3lb

I lost 6st 24th July and in the month since I have lost 3lb. Its so frustrating, I need to figure out what is suddenly slowing me down. I can't do OMAD as I really need my breakfast, I'm averaging about 1300 calories a day, 10000 steps and 5 weight work outs a week .

Lds1 · 21/08/2025 07:33

Ohhh I must've made a typo in the conversion calculator for my update post, current weight is 83.7 which is actually 13 stone, 2 lb and 8.43 oz. That means I'm 3lb away from the 12s not 2.

Reginaphalangeeeee · 21/08/2025 07:35

Iwouldratherbesinging · 20/08/2025 22:16

Has anyone watched The Biggest Loser documentary on Netflix, oh the shame and humiliation and pain that the contestants went through, it made me both so sad and angry. I remember seeing clips of it years ago and wishing I could do something like that - thank god I didn’t. I used to have dark thoughts, things like - I wish I could get hit by a car and go into a coma for months and wake up thin, how do I get a tape worm… I remember people getting their jaws wired shut so they couldn’t eat. Makes me shudder

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Yes I watched all 3 episodes and it really affected me which has brought me to this lovely group to read and lurk. But thank you for posting this as its made me feel less alone and some of you are at a more similar weight (starting and current) as me which made me think this is where I should be.

SW 136KG
CW 104KG
7months on journey and currently on 10mg MJ on a subscription plan for 12 month

I joined the >5 stone to loose group on here (who are really lovely) andI am now 1lbs from that 5 stone. I thought that would be impossible back in January but here I am. During this time I have lost my lovely dad and I have struggled with grief and worry for my mum who is also not doing well. I am not ready to loose another parent but I think I will. Trying my best to do the best for myself, for my health and be the best mum to my girls.

Unsure where I am aiming for but suspect the 80Kg range. 89kg will be me ‘overweight’ and 74 kg seems impossible but would see me ‘normal’.

I guess as I hit the 5stone loss I realise now I am over half way. That scares me and I am not sure I have it in me to loose that much again… but most importantly to keep it off.

Watching the Netflix show about the biggest looser, yes it was sad to see how they humiliated fat people and how much those people desperately accepted anything for help. I remember watching the show and thinking gosh they are so big!! Well I got that big too! Anyone that big will know you do get treated differently by others for being big. It's so sad. I feel judged at work and by other mums & don't get me started on health care appointments. The message I receive is loud and clear : being fat is bad and so there for I am bad, less likeable, less capable.

But what really triggered me watching the show and what brought me here.. How many of them gained all the weight back! It has scared me so much how they discussed their ruined metabolism & the impossible task of keeping weight off long term. I had hopes of staying on MJ for life but it is just not affordable now and I am heart broken. They did discuss ozempic and that offered little hope either.

I think there is an uneasy, long and very expensive path ahead for me. Really want to believe there is hope in continuing and maintaining. So glad to have found people in a similar stage to me. Thanks

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 21/08/2025 07:43

@WafflingDreamer I've been losing 3lb a month for quite a while now.

I've lost a total of 7st 12lb and the loss started to really slow down after the first 6st.

I think that's realistic and acceptable.

I know it's agonisingly slow, but it's happening.

Unless the human body is literally starved (which is not healthy or recommended) a loss of just under 1lb a week is fine at this stage of the game.

We all need to remember that we started at much higher weights than the people who reached goal by six months. I've been losing weight for over 18 months now and I trust that I'll get to where I want to be.

I think I'll be there at about Christmas time. That'll bring me to exactly two years of dieting.

Two years to lose 10st is just right.

GnomeDePlume · 21/08/2025 07:45

Well done @Lds1 , @WafflingDreamer and all Thursday weighers.

The only really saggy skin areas on me are tops of thighs. Lots of weight on my middle still to lose so I think it is the fat which is dragging it down! I'm never going to end up with a flat stomach, 3 c-sections have put paid to that.

I'm on mounjaro for diabetes so in the very fortunate position of getting it prescribed by my GP (does what he is told by the diabetes nurse). There was a news article in the last couple of days indicating that NICE are changing their guidance on treating T2 diabetes.

At the moment it is very much one treatment for all. Too many people find they cant tolerate metformin and kind of get abandoned. There are new treatments available, including mounjaro, and these are now being recommended to be tried.

Exciting times for T2 diabetics. There has always been the assumption that people are diabetic because they are fat but it is now becoming clear that it's not that simple.

eibbed999 · 21/08/2025 07:50

Hi @Reginaphalangeeeee - lots that resonates with me in your post. I think the loss of parents is a very life-changing experience, and one of the motivators for me trying to shed the weight - I have three technically adult (youngest is 18) kids, and I know how much it hurts when you lose your mum. I want to put it off for as long as possible for them, by trying to be healthier. It's a good motivation, but one I've always had, and then of course when you fail it all adds to the guilt and the shame: 'If I loved my kids I'd be able to do this!' When of course it's not that simple at all, such a complicated subject for all of us.

And I have to say - I love your user name, made me laugh!

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Doggymummar · 21/08/2025 08:15

Iwouldratherbesinging · 20/08/2025 22:16

Has anyone watched The Biggest Loser documentary on Netflix, oh the shame and humiliation and pain that the contestants went through, it made me both so sad and angry. I remember seeing clips of it years ago and wishing I could do something like that - thank god I didn’t. I used to have dark thoughts, things like - I wish I could get hit by a car and go into a coma for months and wake up thin, how do I get a tape worm… I remember people getting their jaws wired shut so they couldn’t eat. Makes me shudder

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I applied to go in the Big Brother house when it first started for about ten seasons cos they were always hungry. I thought I would lose weight on their rations.

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TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 21/08/2025 08:22

Doggymummar · 21/08/2025 08:15

I applied to go in the Big Brother house when it first started for about ten seasons cos they were always hungry. I thought I would lose weight on their rations.

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Although this post made me laugh, it also demonstrates how desperate we all are.

Or were.

Kay2000 · 21/08/2025 09:20

@GnomeDePlume T2 diabetes definitely isn’t just because you’re fat. I had a friend, no longer with us, who was really annoyed that she was T2 when me and another friend were probably 10 st heavier and not! She even insisted on testing our blood at one point 🙄. Me and two friends, been overweight forever, none of us are diabetic although you’d think we should be by our weight. It seems we’ve adapted gradually, whereas my husband, always healthy and skinny, has suddenly increased his belly, is more at risk, according to some research I read at the time. I’ve reduced my (only just) pre-diabetic score to normal since January. I’ve made my hubby an appointment with the nurse for a health MOT, his over 50 one which he’s refused to go to. He’s now 55, his dad was diabetic and he’s going if I have to kick him through the door!

@eibbed999 my main motivation is my son. He’s 25, and I didn’t want to die young if I could help it and leave him, we’re really close. My parents and grandparents died in their 50s and 60s and I’m 57 currently. I feel happier now I know I’m doing all I can to be healthier. No guarantees obviously but 🤞🏻. If I waver now, I think of that and it keeps me going.

MummyInTheNecropolis · 21/08/2025 10:05

Yes @eibbed999and @SilenceInside I think the anxiety of the price rise is having more of an effect than I realised. I also have reached the weight I was at the end of my last big weight loss, about ten years ago. I’d lost 6 stone through slimming world and it was great. I hit 15 stone 12 (the weight I am now) and then stalled. Over the next year or two I piled the whole lot back on plus a few extra stone for good measure! Never managed to shift it again until now. I think that is also causing me anxiety as I’m worried history will repeat itself. Not helped by the fact that my losses have started to slow down (which is perfectly normal at this stage)! Think I just need to give myself a shake, keep doing what I’m doing and stop worrying about things that might not even happen!

I’ve got healthy, filling meals planned for today and will see what happens when I weigh in tomorrow.

Autumnflowers2 · 21/08/2025 10:06

Reginaphalangeeeee · 21/08/2025 07:35

Yes I watched all 3 episodes and it really affected me which has brought me to this lovely group to read and lurk. But thank you for posting this as its made me feel less alone and some of you are at a more similar weight (starting and current) as me which made me think this is where I should be.

SW 136KG
CW 104KG
7months on journey and currently on 10mg MJ on a subscription plan for 12 month

I joined the >5 stone to loose group on here (who are really lovely) andI am now 1lbs from that 5 stone. I thought that would be impossible back in January but here I am. During this time I have lost my lovely dad and I have struggled with grief and worry for my mum who is also not doing well. I am not ready to loose another parent but I think I will. Trying my best to do the best for myself, for my health and be the best mum to my girls.

Unsure where I am aiming for but suspect the 80Kg range. 89kg will be me ‘overweight’ and 74 kg seems impossible but would see me ‘normal’.

I guess as I hit the 5stone loss I realise now I am over half way. That scares me and I am not sure I have it in me to loose that much again… but most importantly to keep it off.

Watching the Netflix show about the biggest looser, yes it was sad to see how they humiliated fat people and how much those people desperately accepted anything for help. I remember watching the show and thinking gosh they are so big!! Well I got that big too! Anyone that big will know you do get treated differently by others for being big. It's so sad. I feel judged at work and by other mums & don't get me started on health care appointments. The message I receive is loud and clear : being fat is bad and so there for I am bad, less likeable, less capable.

But what really triggered me watching the show and what brought me here.. How many of them gained all the weight back! It has scared me so much how they discussed their ruined metabolism & the impossible task of keeping weight off long term. I had hopes of staying on MJ for life but it is just not affordable now and I am heart broken. They did discuss ozempic and that offered little hope either.

I think there is an uneasy, long and very expensive path ahead for me. Really want to believe there is hope in continuing and maintaining. So glad to have found people in a similar stage to me. Thanks

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Can relate to all you say
I started very big too
I've never admitted to anyone how big 😩.
But yes I got treated differently and I'm terrified I will put it all back on as well

Autumnflowers2 · 21/08/2025 10:11

I was swimming this morning and thinking about my current weight loss on monjroro.
This is the third time in my life I have lost a large amount of weight.first time I was 16 ,second time I was 37 ,and this time I'm 52
Both times the weight just went back on ,over months and years .
But this time at 52 ,even with monjroro,it's taken me a lot longer to shift the weight ,and I've found it difficult staying motivated, Christmas and birthdays are hard .
I won't ever be able to afford monjroro again for this length of time ,so I absolutely need to make sure I don't put this weight back on .

GnomeDePlume · 21/08/2025 10:34

@Kay2000 I think the 'you're diabetic cos you're fat' narrative has become ingrained in some corners of healthcare practice. It's part of the simplistic cause/effect/cure approach to medicine.

I am not expecting losing weight and taking the diabetes drugs will cure my diabetes. They will help me to manage it. In the same way my warfarin doesn't cure my weird clotty blood and my levothyroxine doesn't cause my thyroid to spring back to life.

It will be such a good thing if drugs like mounjaro become available on the NHS for more than the lucky few. As we all know, they don't do the work for us. They aren't the weightloss jabs some people think they are.

IMO some of us simply aren't designed for the modern highly processed, easily available food landscape we live in now. We were designed for earlier times when being able to eat the gluts and lay down fat was a good thing as it meant we survived failed harvests and disease.

Iwouldratherbesinging · 21/08/2025 12:31

Glad your cat is home safely @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne

yay to the 5 stone off @GnomeDePlume, the same happened to me re the skin tags, I was very grateful!

@Autumnflowers2 you’ve done amazingly well, I know you have always doubted yourself but we started around the same time and you are much further ahead, but I do still eat some junk, but in very small quantities, am the same as you re the sharpei dog though, my thoughts are that I can hide the wrinkled skin but I can’t hide the fat and I know what I’d rather have ☺️

@Lds1 you’re so close to 10 stone! But Wowzers, congratulations on being overweight, I’m tantalisingly close to that milestone as well.

Iwouldratherbesinging · 21/08/2025 12:40

@Reginaphalangeeeee (love your name!) so sorry you’ve had such a hard time this year, you definitely are doing the best for yourself. I can totally relate to the fear of putting it all back on and the talk around ruined metabolism but im trying to remind myself that they all lost weight so quickly on minimal calories, that’s not the case for us.
I know I can maintain by intermittent fasting 2 days a week, I just couldn’t lose anything doing it, I did try 3 days but it wasn’t sustainable.
Have a look into OMAD or 5:2 fasting x

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 21/08/2025 12:45

Have just bought a Wegovy pen.

They let me have the highest dose after showing them my latest MJ pen from Medino. It cost £130.

I'm really pissed off with Medino.

If Wegovy doesn't work I'll go back on the MJ. I've got enough to last till I get to Christmas and my likely goal.

I got the Wegovy from CheqUp.

Billybingbong · 21/08/2025 13:41

For anyone struggling to get pens, I've just got a 10mg from Ashcroft Pharmacy. I ordered on Tuesday, approved yesterday and delivered today. It looked like they had all doses in stock when I ordered, sonics worth a try.

I'm sorted now for about six months, so can breathe a little sigh of relief. But I'm at least a year away from my goal, so I'll reassess in a few months, but am thinking I'll probably end up switching to Wegovy at some point. Oh, I do hate all this upset. Bloody greedy Eli Lilly 😡

SilenceInside · 21/08/2025 14:11

@Billybingbong was that as an existing customer or as a new one?

Billybingbong · 21/08/2025 14:29

SilenceInside · 21/08/2025 14:11

@Billybingbong was that as an existing customer or as a new one?

New, my current supplier is out of stock, so I gave them a try on a whim, and they approved it no problem

Lds1 · 21/08/2025 14:36

I just had my weight check call with a new supplier, hopefully they can approve and send the pens I have on order now.

SilenceInside · 21/08/2025 15:15

@Billybingbong thanks, that's useful to know. I have an order in with Asda from last Friday who I have used before but not for a fair while, but they won't be reviewing it till tomorrow at the earliest. So if that falls through I might try Ashcroft. I was hoping to stay with Swift but they have no stock at the moment, and when they get stock it disappears very quickly, plus I couldn't reorder due to their two week wait (which is fair enough) between orders.

Thankfully I am not desperate, due to have ordered a pen earlier than usual, so I have 2 doses left in my current pen, plus another pen in stock. I just would like to get one more pen at prices that are less than £255 per pen! That would take me to Christmas just about, and possibly to my original target weight, I really hope.

TheBeesTrees · 21/08/2025 15:49

Reginaphalangeeeee · 21/08/2025 07:35

Yes I watched all 3 episodes and it really affected me which has brought me to this lovely group to read and lurk. But thank you for posting this as its made me feel less alone and some of you are at a more similar weight (starting and current) as me which made me think this is where I should be.

SW 136KG
CW 104KG
7months on journey and currently on 10mg MJ on a subscription plan for 12 month

I joined the >5 stone to loose group on here (who are really lovely) andI am now 1lbs from that 5 stone. I thought that would be impossible back in January but here I am. During this time I have lost my lovely dad and I have struggled with grief and worry for my mum who is also not doing well. I am not ready to loose another parent but I think I will. Trying my best to do the best for myself, for my health and be the best mum to my girls.

Unsure where I am aiming for but suspect the 80Kg range. 89kg will be me ‘overweight’ and 74 kg seems impossible but would see me ‘normal’.

I guess as I hit the 5stone loss I realise now I am over half way. That scares me and I am not sure I have it in me to loose that much again… but most importantly to keep it off.

Watching the Netflix show about the biggest looser, yes it was sad to see how they humiliated fat people and how much those people desperately accepted anything for help. I remember watching the show and thinking gosh they are so big!! Well I got that big too! Anyone that big will know you do get treated differently by others for being big. It's so sad. I feel judged at work and by other mums & don't get me started on health care appointments. The message I receive is loud and clear : being fat is bad and so there for I am bad, less likeable, less capable.

But what really triggered me watching the show and what brought me here.. How many of them gained all the weight back! It has scared me so much how they discussed their ruined metabolism & the impossible task of keeping weight off long term. I had hopes of staying on MJ for life but it is just not affordable now and I am heart broken. They did discuss ozempic and that offered little hope either.

I think there is an uneasy, long and very expensive path ahead for me. Really want to believe there is hope in continuing and maintaining. So glad to have found people in a similar stage to me. Thanks

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I agree with everything you've said about TBL, I felt the same watching it. It made me feel bad that I 'allowed' myself to get this big, but then I react to that and feel that actually, while I do take accountability for my actions and inactions that have got me here, I cannot help my genetics or the traumas I experienced in my past, only my reactions to them, which I am working on.
I wrote to Dr Phil because he helped some people lose weight and I thought if I told him my sob story he would fly me over and 'fix me' so Id come home beautiful. I can see now that I wanted to be seen and accepted just as I was, but really it was me that needed to accept me as I was. I was both invisible and indispensible at the same time. I was so much a part of everyone's routines and I allowed myself to disappear into that, and now I am, mostly, enjoying reclaiming some time and space for me. Including this weight loss journey.

I put a dress on the other day and I felt good in it and my mum said I look nice, which is always a nice boost!

eibbed999 · 21/08/2025 16:17

MummyInTheNecropolis · 21/08/2025 10:05

Yes @eibbed999and @SilenceInside I think the anxiety of the price rise is having more of an effect than I realised. I also have reached the weight I was at the end of my last big weight loss, about ten years ago. I’d lost 6 stone through slimming world and it was great. I hit 15 stone 12 (the weight I am now) and then stalled. Over the next year or two I piled the whole lot back on plus a few extra stone for good measure! Never managed to shift it again until now. I think that is also causing me anxiety as I’m worried history will repeat itself. Not helped by the fact that my losses have started to slow down (which is perfectly normal at this stage)! Think I just need to give myself a shake, keep doing what I’m doing and stop worrying about things that might not even happen!

I’ve got healthy, filling meals planned for today and will see what happens when I weigh in tomorrow.

Completely get this. I am a few pound away from my last big loss too, when I shed 5 stone and genuinely thought I'd cracked it. That was years ago and like you I piled it all back on and then some. It's actually terrifying and means I never totally trust the process, or myself not to sabotage it. I'm doing my very best!