Mounjaro 10st or more to lose - Thread 6

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Also re - those photos: I was a size 18 in the first picture and I'm a size 12 now.

Weigh in number 44
SW 21st 9lb (BMI 44.7)
CW 15st 8lb (BMI 32.2)
GW 11st 9lb (BMI 24.1)
0lb 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
Total loss 85lbs / 6st 1lb
Maintained this week which I'm not too disappointed with its been a couple of hard weeks food wise. I'm going back to basics and decided to up my injection to 15mg.

Massive difference @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOneyou look fantastic. It shows that the smaller you get, the more noticeable each stone becomes. I don’t know about you but when I lost my first 2 stone it wasn’t noticeable at all. Pretty sure if I lose 2 stone now I will see the difference!

Weigh in day, today. Lost 0.4kg / 14.11 oz, which is disappointing not even a lb! I have also been to a festival so not necessarily eating the best and definitely not drinking enough water every day.

I'm so close to 9 stone, only .6kg / 1 lb and 5.16 oz away! 2.1kg / 4 lb and 10.08 oz until I'm overweight, these goals have been taunting me for so long.

My AVG weight loss has dropped to 1kg per week now, I guess it's rounded as it's been 54 weeks now.

SW: 142.8kg / 22 stone, 6 lb and 13.12 oz
CW: 86.2kg / 13 stone, 8 lb and 0.62 oz
Total loss: 56.6kg / 8 stone, 12 lb and 12.51 oz
To go: 26.2kg / 4 stone, 1 lb and 12.18 oz
BMI: 50.8 now 30.7

I honestly didn't see a difference until I'd lost 4st.

I certainly didn't need smaller clothes till then.

But now, I am buying size 10 jumpers and size 12 jeans. I've got a load of size 14 dresses for when my legs get thinner.

People started to comment "oooh you look well" around 2 and a bit stone... by 3 stone it was "blimey you've lost weight" and now at 5 stone is "fucking hell you look amazing"

I don't think I started dropping clothes sizes until about 3 stone gone - from a 28/30 I started cautiously buying 24s then - went through size 24 quire fast and am now on that annoying 20/22 borderline where the 22s are succumbing a bit to gravity and hanging off me but the 20s aren't quite comfy yet.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne your photos are so striking, and you've got cracking legs, get those dresses on!

I am huuuungry. Annoying as I did my first 3.75mg on Sun (from 2.5) so thought I'd feel less hungry this week but NOPE. Wondering if I should just go up to the 5. I'd intended on staying low for as long as possible but that initial suppression is gone. Food noise is still much improved though which helps a LOT. But in the first 8 weeks or so I could barely eat, that's gone now and I can finish my meals which is fine, but feeling hungry is annoying.

I enjoyed not feeling hungry. Made a nice change after 39 years of feeling like I was a bottomless pit.

Weighed in a day early as going away this evening. 1lb off. Not brilliant but a loss is a loss! I was hoping to get 🌟 on the chart 🌟 but it remains tantalisingly out of reach.

NSV: my watch no longer thinks I’m working out when I’m just casually walking a short distance. My heart rate has come down massively.

Hope all is well, I accidently posted on the last thread but forgot we had a new one!
I was very happy at a colleague on zoom thinking I'd lost weight, and asked how much I had lost because I was looking slimmer. I said 4 stone and her mouth dropped and she was so shocked by it.

It makes me feel a bit awkward because I don't think 4 stone is loads - maybe because I still have quite some way to go and I've only gone down one dress size?

Wondering if anyone else feels similar when people are shocked and in awe of losing 3-4 stone or if it's just my humbug moment and I need to feel proud.

I feel like slim people don't know what weight actually looks like. My sister was saying "you only have a couple of stone to go!" when I'm still 18 stone and have at least 6 more to go to possibly be a size 14

One more thing I have become very aware of in the most recent years is how so many slim people are into baking. I've just had a new starter at work who says she bakes a full chocolate cake as her 'tradition' every Sunday, despite being (my guess) a size 6. My first question is - but who eats it?!?! And every week?!

Hi everyone

I started my weightloss journey calorie counting and changing habits last February.
Starting weight 25 stone 7 / BMI 57.6
Current weight 20 stone 11 / BMI 47

Started mj in December and had slow losses but still losses each month.

I am back from holiday 3 weeks ago 4lb higher and determined to get back in the right frame of mind. I’ve lurked on this thread and want to join in and be more accountable. I know I’ve a lot to lose but really want to push to consistent monthly losses from now until December as a goal.

Ha! I had similar with a lovely friend who was properly speechless when she asked how much weight I had lost and I said 6 stone. My friend weighs less than 11 stone so my guess is because 6 stone is over half her weight she just can't get her head around anyone losing that much (and still being fat to boot!).

But @mamabeeboo you should feel blooming proud!

I think that we're back to that situation on the monthly threads, where most people only have two or three stone to lose, and get to their goal in four to six months.

They really cannot get their heads round the idea that some people need to lose more than half their body weight in order to get to a healthy BMI.

I can't bring myself to say the amount I've lost to friends who have asked. It's over 9 stone now, and I don't want that jaw dropping reaction from anyone! It also means they could work out roughly what I must have weighed before, which I also have never told anyone.

They can see with their own eyes that I am getting towards half the size I was before, so the actual numbers are not necessary.

Does she have kids or lots of housemates to eat the cake? If not it might be a tell that she has an eating disorder.
One of my uni housemates was anorexic and would sometimes buy a cake or a pastry and claim she didn't want it, or was full, by the time she got home and would offer it to the rest of us. We all knew she was never going to have eaten that, or any, cake. I guess she enjoyed the idea of it still though - the choosing, the buying, the having - while restricting the actual eating. Baking a chocolate cake every week might scratch a similar itch.

You have really articulated how I feel about my weightloss. It’s the first thing people have started asking, how much have you lost. I was thinking of working out a percentage and saying that instead but then just said ‘I haven’t weighed myself but have noticed a big difference in clothes and I’m using that as a measure instead’ because I felt so awkward saying 4.5 stone but I still have over double that to go.. because I don’t want people trying to calculate my weight. I totally agree about the numbers not being necessary. Well done on the loss, numbers or not, you must feel great

@swiftbirdy @SilenceInside
I'm glad I asked this question because this is why it makes me uncomfortable when getting asked how much I have lost. I just feel it's not much because there's such a long way to go. So I have been thrown by other people's reactions.

I carry my weight quite well thankfully because I'm tall and proportional so I don't think people could ever guess how much I actually weigh. Which makes it feel like a confession when I will say in the future I've lost over 10 stone and their jaw dropping reaction to think wow you were fat fat. 😳😳😳

This is exactly how I feel, I’m proud of myself in that I’ve lost over 3 stone but I embarrassed that I probably have another 10 to go at least. I can almost see people thinking if she’s lost 3 stone and looks like that, how much must she still weigh. I was nearly tempted to go down the route of having a different weight loss figure for outside of this group so I’d say I’d lost 2 stone instead to try to hide how bad I was to start.

I didn’t even dare share my initial starting weight in here for the first few weeks for the shame of how much I weighed. I would still be mortified to tell others outside this group but I am at peace with myself in here thanks to the support.

I can’t see me ever telling anyone outside this group about my actual weight…

My scales give me a handy little graphic you can export with that day's weight, BMI and body fat on and I WhatsApp them to myself every weigh day. One week I had a brain fart and sent it to a friend instead. Thankfully she's the one person who knows I'm on Mounjaro, and how it's going, but she has no idea what my starting stats were nor how large those numbers still are.
I died inside when I realised what she'll have seen.

I totally understand, and am guilty of, the paranoia that folks will know how much I weighed at the start. But in saner moments I wonder if other people are really that invested or care that much to work out my original weight when I disclose how much I've lost so far. If they do, they must be very sad, bitter individuals.
Those of us who have battled with being bigger most of our lives are very sensitive and the weight is intrinsically entwined with self esteem. Perhaps because we judge ourselves so harshly, we assume everyone else does so, too. The truth, probably, is that they have enough of their own issues than to focus on us.
Just a thought.

Oh god @PinkArt that gave me the shudders!

I’ve bought some shorts! From Vinted so they’re in their way. I’m looking forward to them!

I personally don't care if people work out how much I must have weighed at the start. Like they can literally see me, it's no big secret that I'm fat!

Ah, @PinkArt I can totally understand how you would have felt when you realised the image had gone to the wrong place.

@TragicMuse shorts, very exciting! I have a little Vinted haul on it's way to me in the next few days too.