Shemed January Starters - Thread 4

[FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden]

Hello everyone! I completely missed the other thread was full (haven't been too well this week) so I've started this one and will tag as many people as I can think of from recent pages. Do tag anyone else you think of that might miss the new thread!

I hope everyone is okay. It's been unsettling times hasn't it with all the news about the price increases and very little from Shemed as to what they are planning. I am hopeful that of all people we will be shielded the most due to being on the Study (fingers crossed).

I weighed in this morning and took second dose of the 10mg. I seemed to put on this morning but if I take the weight I've been most of this week...

I am exactly half way to my target! And I've lost 25% of my bodyweight!

10mg - so far no burps or nausea but I am wondering if this extreme tiredness is in part due to the drug. Was eating just as I was before the last couple of days but today don't want to eat so who knows!

I'll read up and tag people if I can.

my loss very slow/closer to maintenance really too.
a lot of stress right now so grateful for that, but it’s too expensive to just be maintaining.😬 I’m on 11mg currently from a 10mg old style pen. Have 12.5 ready, but that is new pen 🙄
considering 15mg pen and using over 6 weeks🤷‍♀️ keep cost down

It’s frustrating isn’t it? I was hoping the stash I had in the fridge would be enough to drop this last stone or two, but I’m rapidly burning through it and losing precisely nothing! Moving up to 10mg next and hoping that starts to work. Frustrating bit is, I’m actually quite happy with the size I am, but I really want to ride and need to get below 13st to be able to do that.

Ah that is annoying. I am also coming to terms with my current ‘size’ which I am ok being 14-16. Infact, delighted. My figure isn’t nice but doubt it ever will be, but I look like an average size uk woman now. But yeah.. my weight and BMI … the numbers are what bother me a bit. I don’t want my weight or BMI blamed for things anymore so this is the reason to loose.

@JBJ have you checked you are eating and drinking enough?
I am guilty of this sometimes. Been better lately.

Yeah I’m aiming for around 1300 calories a day and drinking 2-3 litres of water. I sat “aiming” as I’m bloody hungry all the damn time, so definitely going over that a lot, but trying to make sensible choices.

I’m sitting at a 14-16 too and feel happy in clothes. Never going to have a bikini body thanks to all the loose skin, but I’m good with that. Just really want to get this last bit of weight off so I can get back on a horse, as that’s been my aim right from the start of this journey.

You’ll get there @JBJ!
How many KG you need to get to that?
Decided some mini celebrations may be good again.
I am 91.7KG right now.
I will celebrate/treat myself under 90kg
and (BMI will be under 30 then and under 200lbs).
Also at 85kg. That is a stone from now and will be well in the 13 stone bracket!
I suspect I may be happy at that.
I would like to get under 13 stone and so will celebrate under 82kg.

Now to think of nice treat/rewards for the achievements.

I want to lose another 18lb ideally, so about 8kg I think.

I'm trying to maintain on Wegovy- very much one step forward, two steps back. On my first step down month, at 0.5 mg.

Well, after a festival this weekend, where I genuinely didn’t eat or drink loads, but did have several ice creams, I’m weighing in at a 5lb bloody gain, which takes me to heavier than when I restarted Mounjaro 😩 It’s been an incredibly expensive way of achieving absolutely nothing over the last 3 months!

Just had my last jab of 7.5mg and starting 10mg next week. It’s like my body is just completely immune to it this time round!

I'm off to Berlin for a city break. Beer and sausages, what could go wrong?

Hello! Checking in as it's been a while. I was off the jabs whilst exploring ADHD medication. That's now stable but the binge eating is ridiculous so I ordered a 2.5 and jabbed for the first time in nearly 7 months on Saturday. I can't decide if it's working or not. I'm definitely able to put more of a pause in than pre-jab but I think there is also some placebo. I remember first time round being so desperate, I was also following slimming world. I was skipping breakfast and eating far less. I've skipped breakfast the last two days (to be fair I could have probably done this before now). I have been tempted to eat more but stopped myself, so placebo or not it's working but I certainly could eat if I wanted to. I'm over a stone up and due to go on holiday in 3 weeks and see friends for a pool party in two weeks. I'd love to have lost half a stone which was not feasible in the last few weeks where I have been binge eating every night. Hopefully I will start to lose some weight now 🤞

Morning. Last week’s 5lb gain has gone thankfully so I think it was probably water weight from the heat at the festival. Nothing else lost though. Gone up to 10mg today so hoping for a miracle! 2 more pens left in my stash after this one, so got 12 weeks to lose the last stone or I’m giving up.

1kg back on after 5 days of beer, pig products and potatoes in Berlin. Could have been worse!

Morning all. First week back on 10mg completed. Zero weight loss 😩 First couple of days, I had good suppression, then it just seemed to go back to zero! Praying for miracles this week!

Hope it works for your @JBJ
im on 11.5 mg. Weight staying static at 92kg still!
I am gymming and running and suppression feels good. I think I look and feel different (more squidgy) but not showing in scales. Just trying to be patient… but it’s so hard

I hope it kicks in for you @JBJ.

I'm definitely jiggly, my skin is definitely low on boing.

Another week, another 1/2lb gain 😩 I seem to be doing really well at messing around with the same couple of pounds and not actually losing anything. Costing over £50 a week to achieve nothing!

Well, two weeks since I last posted and still no weight loss. I’ve started 12.5mg today to see if that helps, but that’s higher than I ever reached the first time and I really can’t afford to be on it for any length of time.

Fingers crossed things have started moving for you JBJ.

My mam has started on Wegovy, so far nothing negative but no major losses.

@JBJ how are you finding 12.5?
I had worked up to 11.5mg from 10mg pens but due to dose schedule change for holiday on return I did split dose to get back to my normal days.
OMG. Eating been terrible! Choc cravings galore!!!
Tonight back to normal dose 11mg and hoping I sort myself out!
I gained 3kg following holiday and been too scared to look again since but can feel weight gain in stomach.
Really cross with myself as the holiday and then few weeks back messing about with doses basically meant sustained gain (at at least £50 a week).
Can afford this silliness so serious eating again this week.
it’s scared me about ever coming off/ down dosage.
i know I won’t cope

Hi everyone , sorry I’m so sporadic with being on here - and to be honest with wegovy too. I’ve had some awful side effects this week after going back up a dose (went down briefly for a holiday ) only on 2.4 but it’s been so bad I am seriously considering my options . SheMed have suggested cutting back a dose or switching to the Foundayo. But I’m betting they will want to lock me in another 12 months if I switch.

Interesting about the choc cravings Reginaphalangeeeee me too! But generally on wegovy I have more of a sweet tooth than I did . I’m finding it so hard to get enough protein in as all I want is easy or comfort foods and by comfort foods I don’t mean the hearty type. More salty chips or sweet stuff . Trying to up my water more in case it’s dehydration .

Well, 12.5mg is doing nothing. I’ve actually gained weight and feel I may as well be injecting myself with water at this point. Zero appetite suppression and cravings/food noise are present all the time, apart from injection day, when I have a small amount of respite. I genuinely don’t know what to do. 48 years of being fat shows I’m incapable of doing this by myself, but MJ no longer seems to work. I’m going to have to go up to 15mg and see if that does anything, but really cannot afford it. I’m getting in debt now. I’m very frustrated.