March Starters 2025 Thread 7, where we are now all having advice from Janice, Janice can do one!

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Welcome to thread 7.

Thank you for sticking around and making a little community of WL. This group makes me so happy that we are non judgmental and support each other.

Wear the jeans!

Congratulations all. I too am so close now … but it’s v slow at the end 😭

sw 82.6
cw 57.6
tw -54

I don’t really need to lose the last bit - I look good - but there is something about having a bit of room in the weight budget.

much fitter now too - I have recently got. 10k pb and a 5k pb - not bad for 45. Went to running club this morning and I wasn’t at the back 💪🏼

still after 6 months get side effects - mostly being cold, but yesterday ate a pizza (amateur) to keep my son company - and paid for it in the night 🤢

Have a wonderful night out you deserve it.

Wear the Jeans you should be so proud of yourself.

For those at the back WEAR THE JEANS!

Six months ago I was obese, lost 30% of body weight

I'm at soft play.... wearing the jeans 🥰

Woohoo

Hurray! ❤️🎉

@Fatmumslim01fabulous! 🤸👖🎉!!

@Fatmumslim01 the jeans!! I just got 2 pairs from Vinted less than £5 each, there’s tonnes of jeans on there, I’m 4 sizes down from March

Hey all

i hit the 4 stone!! Hallelujah

still can’t believe I have this body

SW 14 st
CW 9 st 12
GW 8 st 7

i am still OW with a BMI of 25.6 but teetering on the edge of healthy.

i look completely different now and can’t get my head round how happy I am with how I look

wish i had somehow looked like this my whole life instead of just now age 48

great reading everyone’s posts xx

NSV today! I needed an autumn jacket. I went round all of the local charity shops hoping to find something but no luck. So I headed for Primark. Found one I liked. Tried a medium. Realised it was actually way too big. Small fitted perfectly! I know Primark vanity size but pre MJ I would've been buying XL!

Said jacket!

Today I have hit 71½ pounds lost. (5 stone)😱. There is no way I would of believed anyone if they had told me at the beginning of the year I would be 5 stone lighter.
Im really trying to push now to get to 100 by the end of the year.

Well done to all the losses and great reading the NSV’s

weekly weigh in for me

SW 115kg /18.1 st
CW 91.7 kg/ 14.4 st (3lb away from 4st loss)
GW 12 st

loss this week 0.6 kg/ 1.3 lb
total loss 23.3 kg / 51.3 lb
21% of body weight lost and 62% of goal reached

big milestone today , my BMI is 29.8 (down from 37) 🥳

next goal is 89kg , to finally again weigh less then DH

Had an odd week again , period arrived 6 days early (never happened in my life) but was shorter and less painful however the first day it knocked me out to the point I was thinking I was getting the flue . finally starting to see a waistline and tummy deflating . Had people commenting I should stop loosing weight, and I can understand this I look now very slim in my face and legs but still have a tummy , which will eventually go. Going to start spinning in the next couple of week and increase weights to tone up.
I have decided to stay on 12.5 for another pen , as it’s been strange few weeks but I have lost more on it than I did on 10. Followed by 2-3 15mg pens and then move to wegovy for the last lb’s and maintainance

Just wanted to echo the feeling that this is pretend, I know that my clothes are too big but I’m scared to buy new ones in case I wake up tomorrow and am three stone heavier overnight!!

Well done to those loosing, those hitting their goals and those nsv's!!!
I haven't posted often but I started at 93kg
I'm now 65kg

My L fleece that I live in is now swamping me and I think I could go to a M but I'm scared to incase the weight comes back

I never had a goal weight in mind as I didn't want to put pressure on myself but I've packed away my scales now 😱 so I must be getting close

For those worried about buying new clothes

I’ve gone from 22 , xxl to 16/18 L

im the same , worried about the gain as so many times before

I have bought a couple of jeans and a good few long sleeves and I can honestly say I feel so much better when wearing a more correct size and I look a lot slimmer. The old baggy clothes makes me look so much bigger than I am .

also have some gems back in the wardrobe from my slim days and it all fits or nearly there.

I have a permanent bin bag next to my wardrobe and put stuff in when it’s not wearable anymore and when full off it goes (most of it is cheap stuff when I was going up sizes in Covid and not worth selling) , I’m now on my second bag . This way it forces me buying some new stuff with a half empty wardrobe . It feels liberating doing it this way as if I have bigger clothes it will tell my mind that’s ok to gain, it’s not!!!

due to my body type I am only expecting 1-2 sizes more down and starting slowly building it up again season by season

Is anybody still suffering from hair loss? Mines still coming out

@Outsidebeanshop - yes still losing hair, I don’t think it’s too noticeable overall - but every time I wash / shower etc etc

@Yetanotherusername2000 I feel exactly the same. Although I have been buying smaller clothes. I keep thinking I'm going to wake up and I'm just as big as I was before. It's a horrible feeling.

@Outsidebeanshop yes still have hair loss. From when I've lost before I seem to remember it's not until I start to maintain that it stops . I think some of us just have hair loss with any weight loss.

@Outsidebeanshop hair loss has reduced, not sure exactly why, have added collagen magnesium and ++protein so assuming at least one of these is helping. HRT also helps.

Started MJ 6 months today.
SW 13st 3lb
CW 10st
GW 9st 7-0lb, let’s see.
On 2.5mg every 5-7 days.

Am in full throttle Vinted/charity shop shed big clothes mode. And I have a big bag of size 10/12 stuff that’s out from under the bed that I can now fit into most of, it’s been so long, 20 years, it’s now classed as vintage Y2K and is apparently on trend again, lucky me.

I have absolutely Got to get rid of some clothes, if only to the garage it's just I've never kept it off before, hmmmm, I'm not convinced I will this time tbh, I definitely could if I could stay on it, but I woke up this morning with the hunger pangs, the kind you don't get from day1 to 5,you know when you forget about food.
I know that once these kind of pangs come back permanently it'll start to slide, it's making me feel a bit disordered tbh, I'm ignoring hunger and going past meals, but I just don't want to be fat me again.
I can manage those 2 days, 5 to 7,but permanently I'm not sure, I'm having a wobble nd instead of being rational I'm panicking. Fucking hell why can't I just go to my gp and say look this drug has changed my life, no joint pain no inflammation, I'm exercising, not drinking sleeping great and all the rest of it and she gives me the drug to stay this way it's madness, that only the well off can access this now.
I've got my size sixteen trousers hung on the back of the door and I've always had to go back to the fuckers. I really really don't want to this time, it's not me, I feel like me again now, rant over.

@Outsidebeanshopdefinitely still losing hair here. I’ve been taking collagen and biotin for months to try and help - hopefully that is slowing it down but it is starting to get noticeable. I have very long and previously very thick hair

@Puddingpiper , @RuthEvershedforPM , @Beinthepresent , @Ingangoolie

glad im not the only one. My hair is long and previously was very thick so it’s noticeable, especially on top, it’s sparse and scalp is visible. It’s stressing me out because my husband has commented now, and he wouldn’t say anything lightly (he doesn’t know I’m on mj to make matters worse). I don’t know whether it’s MJ, or if it’s the weight loss itself. If I stop MJ will the hair loss stop and my hair grow back? I’m also playing the game of could it be perimenopause or the coil I got fitted. I’ve been taking hair focussed multi vitamins and I’m going to start taking the high strength collagen sachets I have in the house but haven’t taken. Does magnesium help too? I have them in the house too. I’m panicking because what if it doesn’t stop