January Starters - Thread 11!

[meatyryvita]

Come on in losers!

SW before MJ 16st
SW 15st 12lb
CW 11st 10.25lb
1st GW 14st 6lb MET!! 🎉
2nd GW 13st 3lb MET!! 🥳 🎉
Final GW 12st 0 MET!! 🥳 🎉 🎊
1st Interim goal 11st 7lb
2nd Interim goal 11st 0lb
New final GW 10st 7lb
Week 35 1.25lb loss
Total loss so far 4st 3.75lb
So disappointed! Had a big loss in the middle of the week. 1lb loss isn't bad at this stage but I was so hoping for a whoosh.
I'm on a timeline due to the increase in costs ( trying to get to goal and maintain on the pens I already have) so . . . I guess I'll see where I am at the end of my 'loss phase' and then probably move onto maintenence. I am happy and healthy at my current weight, I would just like have a buffer to cope with the inevitable ups and downs of life and weight loss.
Giving myself a bit of a talking to. In January, I never thought I'd get here!
Good luck to everyone weighing and jabbing xxx

Oh @meatyryvita yes to breaking the plateau, hoping for no side effects and a big whoosh for you!!

@PenelopePoweringOn a weekend away sounds just what is needed after your crazy few weeks! Have a fabulous time.

@BreezyPeer over 4 stone is amazing! As is over a pound in a week but I know sometimes we set our heart on a result and disappointed when we don’t get there. Keep on carrying on and you’ll do it, sending solidarity and try not to be too hard on yourself.

@HeidiLite and @DGonMJ wow to losing even if not trying, maybe mj has extra magical properties, I hope so!!!

@MissPobjoysPonies oh no, hope you feel better today.

weird things happening here as well, after being on 10mg for 4 pens and now in my 5th, I’m feeling really nauseous and have a bit of a dodgy stomach, what’s that all about 🫣 unless it’s from my weekend munchies??

Happy Thursday everyone.

@meatyryvita let us know how you get on with wegovy. I'm interested in how effective it is and any side effects. Goid luck with it! You are our guinea pig
@PenelopePoweringOn have a lovely weekend away after all the excitement of choosing a new house.
@HeidiLite who would have thought losing weight would become a problem 🤣🤣🤣
MJ is such a strange thing xx
@MissPobjoysPonies hope you are feeling better today

Morning all!

I remember from my low carbing weight loss and maintenance that weight loss continues for a while after hitting goal. I have no scientific data to back my theory but I always thought that it was down to my body working as it should and reaching its own equilibrium. We’ve all worked so hard in changing our diet, making real efforts to exercise etc and we’ve been doing it so long our bodies must think it’s the new normal. Eventually we do stop losing and inevitably we have to start managing gains.

This is where carb counting wins over calorie counting for me and I’m pretty sure that in all our cases the only reason we’ve been as successful as we have is that our ability to manage carbs is completely screwed up.

I’m still using my cross trainer little and often and my knees are definitely improving. Stairs are becoming less painful. I don’t feel fat today which is a relief. I’m starting to adjust to my new shape. What I am finding though is a sense of lack of purpose. I’ve loved being on this thread with you all and sharing our losses and NSVs has been such a positive thing for me. I guess I’m missing the focus I’ve had towards reaching goal.

No water here today. Pipe works ongoing and water went off at 8. I’ve got many litres in my biggest pans but inevitably I’ve woken up with hair that needs washing. Roll on 2pm

I’m clinging on to my 8:13 but I have a Very Important Birthday this month so I know my weight will fluctuate upwards. It’s OK though as I am confident I can bring it back down again before my October holiday. Then it will climb again. I need to get used to what maintenance will look and feel like.

Great stuff @Zempy Very Important Birthdays are not the time for worrying about weight.

Fellow losers - let me tell you that the water being off is not improving my constipation. I’ve just seen DS2 heading upstairs with a bucket saying “this is fucking primitive” 🤣. Thank goodness our water butts are all full

Good luck with the WeGovy @meatyryvita You are definitely our guinea pig!

I ordered mine earlier this week and they have asked me to resubmit photos for weight evaluation. I’m hoping they are not going to refuse the changeover for me. I’ve still got a bmi of 28. I still have 1.5 stone to go just to get to healthy BMI.
Taking new photos made me go back to my original ones from December last year. My god, I was huge. So I can see some progress. Hurrah! Just don’t ever want to go back to being like that again.

I feel better this morning thanks crew!

I ate fatty pork belly yesterday at a work lunch and it definitely didn’t help. I also have a history of Costochondritis and slipping ribs so I don’t know if the combo has me paranoid??? Argh - also my DM had some gall bladder problems so I’m always alert.

this morning I still have the rib/ stomach pain, a little bit of dodgy stomach feeling and “gas”🫣

Am on peppermint tea and bland crackers but due to not eating anything yesterday evening I appear to be the lightest I’ve been in a while…

What has become apparent to me is that I think I need to start coming off, I’m 41 lbs down and my aim is to be between 10.7 and 11 st - I’m 50 and I’ve already noticed my skin is “ageing” without fat behind it 🤣 so I don’t want to get too saggy 🤪. Also my BMI will be about 23-24 so perhaps thinking of becoming less dependent would be a good idea. Thoughts?

@MissPobjoysPonies - glad you’re on the mend!

12 hour post Wegovy jab check-in - appetite has been the same as I have been with 7.5mg of Mounjaro. Injection site has stung/felt a touch tender for a while but wearing off now. Feeling pretty normal so far but still early days!

Pen was straightforward but as you press the base to dispense the dose, it makes a ticking sound like a time bomb!

Have a lovely evening losers!

@meatyryvita 🤞🏻, will be so interested to hear how you get on.

Glad you’re feeling better @MissPobjoysPonies , hopefully better again tomorrow! I can see my skin has aged but honestly rather that than the moon face I had before. My son showed me photos of last year where I thought I looked ok at the time, I really really didn’t 😢.

@Jins completely agree with you on the lack of sense of purpose and probably the dopamine hit of losing too. I’m focussing on my job search and hoping that will fill the gap. Hopefully we can all stay and share our maintenance stories! Hope water back on!!

@Zempy have a great weekend away, it sounds fabulous!

@MissPobjoysPonies several people on this thread have noted that we keep losing weight even when at goal and no longer trying. So if you are close to your goal, yes might make sense to start slowing the loss down.

I was FEWMIN with my scales this morning. They accused me of gaining a pound and being 9:0.

“How can this be?” I wailed. Looking skyward.

Then I remembered the shedloads of soy sauce I threw over last nights stir fry and realised it is water retention.

I have slunk back to bed with a cup of tea. Happy Friday everyone.

@zempy- I blame the scales for
being arseholes.

dose day yesterday and weigh in today. I didn’t realise how far down i’d got in my pen and yesterday must have been my 5th dose from it. I got 49 clicks and I’ve been taking 51 or 52 ish so I decided to try 49 this week and I can top up a little bit later. Then still got a bonus dose to do.

lost 2.5lb since my last weigh in about 10 days ago and
6lb in 4 weeks so quite pleased with that at this stage. Annoyingly still 3lb to go until bmi under 30.

I have stayed a way a bit this week as I was a bit upset about still being so far from goal when everyone else is there. Felt a bit of a fat failure tbh. But hey ho. Useful to post for accountability if nothing else.

Ah @myladyjane - definitely don’t feel like a failure. I’m so far off any goal it’s not funny. Month 9 and I’ve lost a grand total of 1st 9lbs since January. I don’t know if there are others like me on here - I read with interest but the chat isn’t really anything I can contribute to as it’s all about being at or near goal. But just popping my head up to say regular and decent losses are not everyone’s experience. I’ve just gone up to 15mg and hoping that it will suddenly kick in. Keep going!

@myladyjane don’t feel like a failure, everyone’s journey is different. I’m nowhere near my goal, either, I’m just over halfway I think.

Apologies for use of the word ‘journey’, I’m cringing at myself!

@myladyjane and @0ncemorewithfee1ing

We all had different starting points but I really appreciate the support from this thread, it’s lovely. I am not going anywhere as I am old enough to know how easily I could slide back without the accountability.

I don’t know if I am explaining myself very well, but part of me actually misses the stage where I was consistently losing weight. It felt like such an achievement. Maintenance is obviously an achievement too, but I don’t get the same dopamine hit from it. So I am quite envious to hear about your ongoing journeys, getting vicarious pleasure from them.

You have lost weight and will continue to do so. You are fabulous!!

Morning losers!
Don't be discouraged if your journey is slower, it is still going the right way. Even if you are not close to goal, go look at your initial photos for approval - surely there's some progress, even if you're losing slowly.

For me I think it’s more that I let myself get to a stage where I have so much to lose iyswim. I have lost a chunk - 3.5 stone in 8 months in my 50s is still good gong I know. I know that for me a bmi of 26/27 will be ok (seriously the medieval peasant thighs retain an extra stone each). But I just feel bad I let my bmi get almost to 40. It’s that

Morning Losers.

Weigh in and a slight gain of 0.2lb. An awful lot better than it was yesterday.

@myladyjane and @0ncemorewithfee1ing, I also am a little envious about your achievements. I posted yesterday about having a sense of loss of purpose. I enjoy your posts so much - please don’t avoid contributing.

Water came back on in the late afternoon by which time I really couldn’t be arsed to shower and wash my hair The dry shampoo did what it says on the tin. I’ve not used it as a shampoo before as my natural hair colour was black but now that it’s completely grey it worked a treat.

@myladyjane it's not hard to do. Not like you put it on overnight - a pound here, another one there, it's really easy.

But that's in the past @myladyjane! We all let our weight get higher than we'd like for various reasons but I'm sure many of us are so busy in our day-to-day lives, we didn't prioritise ourselves. That's changing, you're changing and look how far you've come! Don't beat yourself up.

@myladyjane i think what you’ve said will resonate with most of us. I started at BMI 28 )which apparently I should have been able to shift by eating less and moving more) but the only reason I could access MJ was because I had obesity related health conditions. Why did I let myself get to the point where I had sleep apnea? Worse still I spent most of my time in denial that I’d effectively made myself ill.

The only reason that WLI have worked for us is because they medically manage our disordered responses to food. We all seem to gain weight on ridiculously low food intake, steady consistent weight gain is inevitable in people like us. You should not feel bad that you gained what you gained, you should feel sad that the weight loss industry has fed us lies for decades. No, we aren’t just greedy. Yes, we do have metabolic reasons for gaining weight.

Keep posting - you never fail to bring a smile to my face.

Oh @myladyjane you have made a huge difference to your weight, h u g e. Try not to feel despondent. You’ve lost a ton already and you will carry on losing.

As you may remember, I think I can safely take the 👑 of the plateau award and have still only lost 46lbs. But it’s 46lbs that I hadn’t lost this time last year.

I’ll be here for a while yet to keep you company. 🌸

@myladyjane , @CurlsandCurves and @0ncemorewithfee1ing , we’re all on different journeys but we’ve all done brilliantly, and I agree with others, I love your posts, it’s not a race, we’re all at different stages but I’m not going anywhere.
@myladyjane I feel the same, how did I let myself get to where I was, BUT I’m not there anymore, and nor are you, you’re doing bloody brilliantly, all of you.

@0ncemorewithfee1ing and @myladyjane , I'm in the same situation as you, nowhere near goal of probably another 1.5 - 2 stone to go. I started at BMI 34 and I'm now just under 28. It is slow and I get cross myself with ending up being so heavy but it does just creep on and we've all been busy looking after everyone else and not ourselves. I certainly wouldn't be 3 stone down in weight without MJ and lurking on the January starters threads. I'm the lightest I've been for about 25 years after I stopped smoking.

I'm on holiday at the moment in France and I've found that the MJ hasn't really stopped me drinking wine but it has kept my appetite at bay. I did my first golden dose jab last night and would like to thank @PenelopePoweringOn for her needles and syringes recommendations. It all worked perfectly.

I've got a 10mg pen waiting for me at home and then I need to make some decisions whether to change supplier and get MJ more cheaply or switch to Wegovy with my current supplier, Boots Online. Their 10mg MJ pens are £300ish so I'm following how you're getting on with the Wegovy @meatyryvita. I also don't know how easy it will be to switch supplier as my BMI is now below the permitted level for prescribing.

I know I don't post very often, but you ladies have kept me going and been a mine of information, so thank you. Onwards and downwards however slowly or fast that may be