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

[TheSpoonyNavyReader]

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.

@soupforbrains another one who isn't near done yet! Almost 3.5 stone down, minimum 2 still to go to get into my goal range.

Thank to the less frenetic (compared to online) stock situation with my in-person pharmacy I have pens to last me until December at the earliest and that's if I don't split doses. I'm hoping to be titrating down by then.

PSA
If you take two sachets of Laxido on a Wednesday and achieve a successful outcome (iykwim), do not do interval sprints at the park on a Thursday morning. Because it won't end well and you'll need to carefully walk home while desperately clenching...

Im not done either. I have lost 63lbs so far with another 87 or so to go so not even half way. 😪.
I have a love hate relationship with the jabs now. Im ready to not think about weight all the time.

Another here who’s no where near done. Almost 4st down and another 2 n half to go yet.

@MJ122025 ,Oh no,! 🤣 Thoughts and prayers, hope you made it home.

It was touch and go. Literally and figuratively. Thankfully I was wearing black shorts. Could have been very embarrassing.

@MJ122025thanks for the warning! 🙈
glad you made it. Sending thoughts and prayers for your shorts (and undies) to pull through!

Mid week accountability check - still holding steady, and that's in spite of not really worrying too much about what I eat. Or drink TBH. I think I maybe have achieved what was a goal for me, which is to use my time on MJ to re-educate my eyes, taste buds, brain and stomach about what the right diet for me looks like. I'm eating delicious food, sating the return of food noise with meal planning and recipe searches rather than immediately heading to the fridge, have replaced the dopamine hit of watching the scales go down with the dopamine hit of an extra rep on weights or a couple of seconds off my run time.

I've decided to cancel my next pen order - I've got a half pen left in the fridge. So I'm going to finish that and and then take a break for a month and see what happens. It's been 3 months since I hit goal, and I've managed to maintain on a low dose for a few weeks now, so low that I'm not convinced it's actually doing anything. There isn't any real suppression, and the drug triggered full post dinner feeling even if I eat almost nothing has tapered off (which is good because it is allowing me to judge what is the right balance to eat to feel naturally full but not overfull). I'm lucky in that I don't really have to think about the affordability of MJ, but nobody wants to spend money if they don't need to.

So super expensive Juniper have had the last of my money, hopefully. I'm feeling really confident now about maintenance, and TBH I had maintained at my starting weight for a couple of years, it was just life/injuries/stuff that made me gain in the first place. But whilst there is a lot of life to deal with right now (extra children all still in residence, their mother still isn't able to care for them, so it has been a shitshow of a summer), I seem to be surviving without gaining.

I mentioned this upthread, but somehow MJ seems to have helped me reset my bodies reaction to carbs. They have been a problem for a few years, and I was at huge risk of diabetes. That seems to have gone away, so my body has somehow changed in terms of insulin resistance. I still have to watch that I don't have too many carbs, but I can eat much more of them than I used to be able to.

MJ has been a gift, but I'm now a couple of jabs away from going it alone. Wish me luck!

Thought this may be useful as My London Pharmacy have just sent me their September pricing the 5mg pens are only a £20-30 increase which is not as bad as I anticipated.

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Hi everyone. Haven't been here for a while but came to celebrate hitting BMI 30 today and 3 stone 7 pounds down. I want to lose another 2.5 stone and just keep plodding on! can't believe its nearly 6 months!

@popdepop welcome back, plodding along with you.

Good news this morning about MJ prices being more protected than we expected.

Good morning everyone, weigh in day for me yesterday. First time since 19th March that I've maintained for the whole week. I'm a daily weigher and it's been going down 0.2 kilos and back up 0.2 kilo all week now. Even this morning flickered down and then settled at same weight. We do all have the week off and I've eaten more than normal not overly bad just more food at each meal. I should be grateful I haven't gained but it's really hard isn't it? I think more so with the panic about prices I really don't want to have to move up and pay more. We've got trips planned until next Tuesday when back to work so I really need to be careful I don't get a gain and turn into the fuck it like every other diet ends up going!

That’s a great update and I’m particularly interested in the carbs reaction because that’s something that’s always been tricky for me with PCOS and a definite sugar/insulin processing issue.Well done on being able to listen to your body - 3 months off and still being ok is hugely reassuring. Please stay in the threads, though. I have found your posts super helpful and it would be great to keep up with the updates.

@needtolose70lbDefinitely staying on the thread - even though I’ve hit goal, I find it really motivating to keep hearing about everybody else’s progress.

The other thing I forgot to say is that I’m still not snoring anymore, even now I’m back down on a super low dose every other week. So am sleeping so much better according to my Oura ring. Which is brilliant, my sleep was so bad at the start of this journey

Woohoo I'm half way there!

Weigh day today and 2 pound lost in 2 weeks which is a total of 35 pound (2 and a half stone) out of a hopefully 70 pounds (5 stone). Really happy!

Started 21 march
Height 5 foot
SW 14-7
CW 12-0
GW 9-7

@Fatmumslim01 whoo hoo, brilliant 🤩

@Beinthepresent more chances to try new ways of dealing with food choices, I reckon you can do it.

@TheBossOfMe appreciate you staying with us. Also very good news about the snoring, I am really hoping this will be the same for me as it’s been a game changer for sleep and sleeping arrangements. I read something about the back of the tongue being one of the first places to lose weight, for me snoring improved really quickly starting MJ, reassuring that it’s not quickly reverting on the tapering off slope 🥳

Laxido day +2.
Another run and another incident. Didn't make it home this time though sadly.
Def not taking any more of those sachets and hopefully stopping the jabs means I won't have to 😔

I've worked out my tdee and sticking to 1500 calories a day for a couple of weeks still with a daily weigh in. Then I'll review and see if that's too much or too little. I was eating around 1200 while losing weight.

I’m not stopping.

i am 48 and this is the best thing that has happened to me for a long long time. It has changed everything and i couldn’t be more grateful

3.5 down 2 to go

Hey all, I’m back from hols so much to catch up on this thread .

despite being on a UK holiday I have come back with a 2lb gain despite being very careful with food but not so much with wine plus the heatwave on the beach not drinking enough water, I think I have a lot of water retention

also did 8th 10mg after 8 days before hols . Went up to 12.5 today after 8 days as need a boost as have had any loss for 3 weeks now . I will see how 12.5 works for me if I can stay on it 8-12 weeks or if I’m going straight up to 15mg hopefully not as I have decided to continue for at least another 2st (minimum 12 kg before tilter down for the last st)

on another note , I finally gave in and bought myself 2 pairs of new jeans and size has gone from a tight 22 to a loose 18 (could probably get into 16 in a squize) I haven’t been a size 18 since before pregnancy with DS2 2018. Although I was this weight in 2020 March I was a size 20 so body has deffo changed (I have slim legs and big tummy)

Amazing job @Bipaloss 👏

Weigh in day today & a 3 pound lose which now puts me at 66½ pounds lost & 20% of my starting weight. Another 33½ to my original target (100 pounds). Now I think im going to go for 150 so another 83½ to go which doesnt feel that mental.
I have gone from a tight 28 to a tight 20.

@lilymty amazing work!! Go you!

Weigh in 26, 6 months of being MJ. I did think at this point I would be on maintenance or off MJ having lost all of the weight (I blame TikTok) how silly was I to think that.

I weighed today and I have put on a lb which I think is down to me not drinking enough water, I also have not had a period for about 7 weeks ( husband suggested I take a pregnancy test to be on the safe side) at 47 my ovaries have probably shrivelled up just like my bum.

SW 13st 4lbd
TW 9st
CW 9st 8lbs

So much good progress.

@TheSpoonyNavyReaderi has also hoped to be further along my journey Spoony. Though not because of TikTok. Just because the early losses seemed so easy and so huge. I’m just under half way through my expected MJ journey. (I allowed myself 13 months through until end of April to get to target) and I’m not that close to half way through my weight loss.

I think I’m targeting the biggest loss here though and I am still amazed and appt with how far I’ve come. Speaking of which, weigh in day today!

this week’s loss 5lbs!
SW 19st10
CW 16st5
GW 11st7

i am SO happy. I’ve spent a month ‘stuck’ at around 16st10, losing and gaining the same couple of lbs. Dipping down to 16st8 and then bobbing back up to 16st11. I am extremely relieved to see a new lowest weight on my scales and I really really hope this marks me finally breaking through this plateau!