June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 5)

[Focusispower]

Heading into month three now!

I will try and catch up, but hundreds of posts in 2 weeks!

I feel the same between this thread and the losing +5st thread I had way to much to catch up on.

Hope you had fun! I was gallivanting around Italy and Lisbon, eating and drinking til my heart was content. Have a 2lb gain but straight back to routine and I know it'll be off in no time at all. Not nearly as bad as it could/ would have been previously.

Welcome back from your holidays. I’m really looking forward to hearing about it.

For anyone who watched that YouTube video about changing from 7 days to 5 days with a smaller dose. I changed from 5mg 7 days to 4mg 5days (slight increase). I can see why they say every 7 days now as it’s easier to remember jab day, 3rd jab and I’ve just done it after 4 not 5 days. Oops. I’m happy to have a slight increase so not the end of the world but don’t want accidental increases to effect me when I go back to 5 days and my body views it as a decrease…. I blame the wine. Which maybe the 4 days will help with again..,

@RussianDoll76 I see myself in your post. I did wonder whether to admit this but I have really enjoyed being on MJ. It’s been so satisfying to finally have the discipline to lose a decent amount of weight. I’m nervous about stopping and losing this wonderful feeling of control.

@BloozieI do appreciate the concern and I have an appointment with my gp Thursday as I have quite a lot going on I am concerned the jab is making things worse . If I am honest my mood is very low and it is playing havoc with my hormones. I do love the food control I have and at the moment that is taking priority .
@Focusispower
I was apprehensive to post how I was feeling but we are here to support one another so honesty is the best policy. I didn’t think I was the only one. I bumped into a friend today who has lost lots over 8 stone on wli and she was very honest as to how she is now feeling in maintenance. She is maintaining really well has been for 6 months but she is obsessive about steps , exercise. Calories and weighs herself everyday . She didn’t want to do that but it’s the only way she can keep the control. I get that. I didn’t become overweight and battle my weight all my life for no reason. I am trying to be mentally prepared that I will need a plan when the time comes .
Today’s NSV I bumped into an old friend ( different old friend than previously mentioned) and she was shocked at how I looked said I looked amazing . It’s the first time I’ve had that and it felt good .

I know it may be strange to some my concerns but I am 5ft 2 and at my heaviest weighed just under 21 stone . I did Cambridge diet , SW, WW, multiple times then I had a gastric bypass and lost 10 1/2 stone . Fromsize 26 to size 6 in 9 months , size 6 was not a good look for me ) then went up to 9 1/2 stone and maintained that for 15 years then my food noise returned . I went upto 16 stone again and lost just over 2 stone in over 2 yrs with SW So here’s how I ended up on the jab. I’ve lost the same weight with the jab in 3 months.

Sw 13.9
Cw 11.5
Gw 11 ( or 9.5 for just hitting a healthy bmi 😞)
Was a size 16/18 to now a size 12.

I don’t think your feelings are unusual. I do have days when I don’t calorie count, and while I was away I obviously didn’t and I ate whatever was on offer, but only until full.

I also love the feeling of control, I think that is to be expected given the struggles many of us have had with food noises.

I think a chat with GP is a good idea. I wonder if you can build anything in, CBT style to try and help. Being aware of the issue is often the biggest hurdle. Maybe say you will only count calories for half a day or something small.

@RussianDoll76 appreciate you sharing. I can relate to lots of these feelings, especially with the control. Also the realisation that this needs to be something permanent. If I want to maintain for life then there needs to be this element. Some of the things you mentioned (like weighing daily) are things that could be disordered…but I know I will have to do. Every time I have lost weight before, once the daily weigh ins stop, and I get scared of the number on the scale, is when I spiral upwards again. Working on taking the emotion from these things is what I’m working on right now.
Not getting upset if number on scale goes up, knowing it’s ok to go over calories for special occasions or being on holiday, but getting back to calorie counting for either maintenance or weight loss afterwards. I think the realisation this isn’t a 6 month “fix” but will be for LIFE can be daunting. Saw somewhere that “diet fatigue” is common at 4 months so maybe we’re also just in that! 😅

My dh just made sausage & bean casserole for dinner, his first of autumn.

I'm not a big fan of the texture of beans. Pre-mounjaro, I'd just suck it up as they're good for me, hence my dh making it - he knows they aren't my favourite, but also knows I love the sauce of his casserole and I can live with the beans.

Tonight, I took two mouthfuls and had to go and spit the second one out. It wasn't just, 'I'm not keen on this texture'. Full on, 'I cannot chew this I will be sick'. The beans were no more beany than before. My mouth, it simply cannot bean.

Has anyone else had violent food aversions since starting the injection? I've had preferences for salad and veg which aren't unwelcome, but this is a new thing.

Yes I have. Particularly to certain beans and pulses, which I’ve never much liked the texture of. And while away we had a lot of meet (they like their game and beef in sourthern Africa!) and a few times I had to stop as suddenly it became inedible to me.

Interesting that yours is a beany texture thing too.

I think I agree with everything you wrote there

Just got back from a week in Menorca. To my amazement I’d only put 2lbs on! I thought I was eating and drinking like crazy but the reality was that I wasn’t at all (for a holiday). I didn’t feel remotely restricted but still ate in real moderation and generally kept to the healthy options, without having to give it much thought.

Me! I’ve always been fussy with eggs - can’t stand the texture of egg whites so I would only eat scrambled eggs or omelettes and even then they couldn’t be sloppy.
This fussiness has increased 100% since starting Mounjaro. I can only eat them if I’ve prepared (and probably overcooked!) them.

On the other hand, I didn’t used to eat fish very much but I’ve found myself really craving it!

Very well done! Onwards and downwards…

Egg white is gross. I understand this ick.

Ive really started to love salad. Like, I’ll have the odd McDonalds if I’m out and need something fast, I’ll order a McTasty & Salad, and I’ll eat the salad first, and wonder why I ever chose fries. It’s the crunch, and the vinegar of the dressing. I’ll pick at the burger and end up giving half to my son, but fight over salad. Kimchee also very much appeals.

Thanks @Bloozie ! ❤️

I can’t get enough salad but kimchee? I keep trying it but I find it just a bit weird. I haven’t given up yet though.

So good to read so many positive stories!
I am at goal weight, have lost 20kg in 3 months!
Doc has put me in 5mg for 3. months then said do 2.5 for 3 months to help maintain. I am finding the suppression is still high though and finding it hard to eat enough to maintain which not something I ever thought I would write! I am terrified of coming off as i’ve noticed so many other benefits- adhd symptoms have disappeared, so much energy and it’s totally turned off my craving for wine which if i’m honest with myself was tipping into being a problem. I’m mostly scared about that to be honest i’m practically tee total and the positives from that are so hard to ignore. More focused, better parent just calmer and less anxious!
I do wonder if these jabs will be used for addiction ?

Seriously well done on reaching the end of your journey. All your fears are probably very normal. It would be really good if you'd stick around and share what it's like the other side...

Just back from having a Mirena coil fitted, as Mounjaro interferes with the absorption of the progesterone-element of HRT.

0/10 do not recommend that didn't feel good - it's not the pain, it's the HORROR of the sensations - but I'm glad my GP surgery got on it and arranged for it be sorted. I've been taking 3 x progesterone caps during my 2-week window while I've been on the coil waiting list. There's no official guidance on what dosage of oral progesterone perimenopausal women should take to counter the absorption issues, so the nurse was just like, meh, add another one, what's the worst that could happen?

The coil feels more precise...

I'm on my second mirena (not quite peri yet, getting there). I can confirm the process of insertion and exchange is awful, but those horrible 5 minutes mean I don't have to worry about anything for YEARS. I haven't had a period since my first was put in about 7/8 years ago!

I'm very much hoping I am one of the women that doesn't have periods. That would be nice. I was on depo provera for years and didn't have periods, so fingers crossed this form of progesterone has the same effect.

@Bloozie I will stick around! I have also come off HRT as it seems to have sorted that too!

I am exactly 3 stone down since 1st June. Firmly in size 16 clothes. Whoop whoop.