June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 5)

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Heading into month three now!

You look fab @flameprincess are those trousers green?! If so where are they from!

NSV that's making me sad.

I don't want to go through my wardrobe and get rid of the clothes that I loved wearing.

But so many items are too big for me now. All my skinny jeans are baggy.

Yes green I am being adventurous 😄 They are Halara ones, you can get them in a bunch of colours.

Wow you look amazing @flameprincess!!
I’m a similar size but different shape. Tried some jeans on in M&S recently and although the size 18s now fit comfortably, I am an apple and still have this enormous belly. I look like a toffee apple on a stick!! No way I can wear tops tucked in and look that good. Onwards and downwards…
I’m having another bout of constipation which I’m blaming on weight being higher this week. Tried suppositories and senokot last night and hoping it’ll budge soon!!

I tried some wide leg trousers a while back and just looked ridiculous 😂🙈

and I know I shouldn’t compare @RatherTardy , but even the comparison graph on my juniper app puts me at the bottom edge of losers!! I think I should have gone up to 7.5mg when I noticed things really slowing but I didn’t want the cost associated, hence my move to wegovey. Hopefully the switch is the kick up the arse I need. I’m not gaining weight though, so I’ll take that!!

I love that these are being advertised as work pants and the work styling of them has a very toned midriff on show.

Who has their midriff out at work besides gym instructors? 🤣

@flameprincess thats a huge difference! I’m certain people will have noticed but do think (for the most part) they are less likely to comment nowadays. Congrats on all these losses and NSVs

I use Nutracheck to log. I fine it easier than MFP. But I paid £30 for the year for it I think. It’s worth it for me as it has so many more British options.

You get a free trial at the start.

I also use Nutracheck and it has helped enormously with my portion control and weight loss. I always ate healthily but ate far too much!!

Another Nutracheck fan here.How I loathe those slim po-faced people who lecture endlessly that if we just ate home-cooked whole foods and avoided fast foods and other UPF that no-one would be fat.

No love, my hormones and satiety were totally out of whack and I was perpetually overwhelmingly hungry even on home cooked organic lentils. I could overeat on anything until MJ. And I like to track my protein and fibre to hit my targets as well as monitoring the calories.

I bought my syringes from UK Medi which were recommended on here. https://ukmedi.co.uk/products/fms-micro-syringe-32g-8mm-1ml-fms-fms-32g-10ml-ukmedi-co-uk

I was away for work last week and ate way too much as I was in a fancy hotel. I didn’t weigh when I got home and I’m not looking forwards to Thursday weigh in as I think I’ll have gone back up from my first goal weight two weight ago… I am very hungry at the moment despite 6mg so I think I’ll go up to 7.5mg and try and get back on track.

Started June 5th. 12 stone 2lbs. Cholesterol raised. Bad habits. Looked awful in photos. Waist 31 inches. Lower stomach was 40 inches at widest part. Exercise was hard.

Now. 9 stone 7lbs. Waist 27 inches and lower stomach 34 inches at widest part. Size 10 is a bit roomy on me. Exercise is enjoyable as much easier with 2.5 stone less to lug around. Confidence high. Feeling bloody great. I’ve asked GP to re do my bloods to see how my cholesterol is nowadays

bloody love MJ. Now worried about coming off

Wow that's amazing @ShesRunningOutTheDoor Hope the bloods also show a vast improvement 👏

Suppression is really high at the minute - 5mg. I'm struggling to remember to eat. I'm so busy at work, it's easy to just get absorbed in endless calls and deadlines. I just looked up and realised I haven't eaten anything today and it's ten past 3 - so I'm scarfing some fruit.

It worries me a bit that I kinda like it.

I have such a long way to go. 3.5 stone at the very least, and I'll still be overweight at that. I can objectively see that I've done really well, and I look loads better in clothes. But naked, it's a horror show of wobble and rolls and having been happy to just plod along observing the changes to my body, I'm now getting impatient/daunted by the scale of what still needs to go, and wanting to accelerate it along faster.

It's weighing myself that's done this. I know I shouldn't have. When I don't know the number, I can just assume there's probably only a couple of stone to go, I'll get there when I get there. Knowing the numbers... I'm obsessing over the numbers, and wanting to drive them down fast.

Kicking myself for starting to weigh myself.

Thanks @BadgerFace

@Bloozie this probably isn't helpful,but try and remember, its a marathon, not a sprint, and you're doing REALLY well

First wegovey shot done yesterday. A lot quicker than MJ was. So far so good.

Good luck on the wegovey @Xmasfairy86. When you say quicker do you mean on terms of prepping the pen to inject?

I’m W20D1. Weigh in showed half a lb up from 2 weeks ago which is fine as I know I’ve been not trying as hard and have been away. Just upped my dose to 6mg from my first 7.5mg pen. We’re off on holiday on Saturday so I need to increase suppression but wasn’t brave enough to go for the full 7.5mg in case of side effects…

Prep as well but mostly the injection itself@BadgerFace - pressing the plunger and it’s like it shot in to my stomach! I didn’t need to plunge the juice down - hopefully that’s normal and I didn’t bodge it 😂🙈

Morning all, I've hit a slump. Plateaued since mid-Sept at 13st7lbs on 7.5mg. Feeling a bit bunged up.
One more MJ golden dose tonight, then I switch to 1mg WG, which I'm peed off about.
I feel like I want to go up to 10mg MJ instead, but Medexpress haven't answered my email.
I need a slap/peptalk.
Meh.

Could you speak to a different provider? I’ve ordered from Bolt for the first time this month. They were very thorough and speedy, with good discounts for new customers.

Yes, I think I'll have to!

Well I had been coasting along side effect free for ages, did a few 3.75 doses before moving to 5 and had no issues, then took my fourth 5mg dose on Tuesday evening and had to take Wednesday off work! My stomach was churning so loudly you could hear it from a mile off, then horrible cramps and diarrhoea for an hour. Laid down once I dared leave the bathroom and woke up five hours later having been completely wiped out. I feel fine again today, but have banished any notions of going up to 7.5 for a good while.

I increased to 6.25mg last week but I’m still hungry and also back to almost daily wine. I was justifying the cost by the decrease in wine I was drinking. Think I might go up to 7.5mg but was really hoping to keep my dose as low as possible to eek out the pens

You can see my progress isn’t as smooth as it was, although I am still losing steadily and a couple of pounds from being the lightest I’ve been in about 15 years

Wk18
Finally my BMI is in the normal range at 24.8! That’s been a long time coming!
last week I stayed the same but this week drank more water and 2lbs lost.

SW 12st 1lb
CW 9st 10lbs

Feeling very happy today - would like to get down to nearer 9st as I’m only 5ft 2

@Crinklecat interesting about the wine. I used to drink wine every night but now I only drink at the weekend or if I go out. I don’t have the same “need” for a couple of glasses every night. This has been a definite positive for me being on MJ. I am hoping I will get into a habit and when I eventually come off it will remain so! Therefore worried to hear you suddenly fancy wine again. Think I would give it a week and see how you go before you immediately move to a higher dose. Well done on the weight loss though - love a nice graph!!