Mounjaro 10st or more to lose Thread 7

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Can't believe we've got to 7 threads, but all are welcome!

Thankyou
I will definitely look for that thread and have a read
That's helpful to see what others are eating

I see what your saying
And I've lost the same amount as you ,and mine has slowed down to
I'm a size 20 so still a long way to go .

I think you're still probably guessing your calorie intake. It's important to be accurate.

It might help if you count them really strictly for a week, and see if we can help you to figure out why you're stalling.

Mounjaro in and of itself doesn't cause weight loss - CICO is the key. Nobody loses weight if their intake exceeds their needs.

(Calories In - Calories Out)

Here's the third thread where people post what they're eating
Link

Thanks will do

Brilliant,thankyou for finding that for me xxx

CICO made my life a misery for years, i did it religiously but it didn't work, so i was a failure, yes? No, absolutely not!

I haven't counted calories for 5 years, but have still lost weight, & more importantly, maintained a loss for longer than any time previously in 40+ years of dieting.

https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/cico-diet-myths-and-facts/

I'm going on holiday today! Just me and the dog until Thursday. I'm taking all my food with me so I won't need to think about it (I'll be in the middle of nowhere and will mostly dog walking/reading books)

Have just pre prepped all my breakfasts as I have the same everyday. 200g Greek yogurt with chia seeds, inulin, collagen, creatine, 35g of prunes chopped up tiny and peaches and mango, a protein and fibre fest!

Lunches at home/work I often skip but when I don't, my go to (and what I'm taking on holiday) is a wholemeal pitta with cream cheese, smoked salmon and avocado with loads of lemon juice.

Dinner tends to be chicken or salmon based with either salad or loads of roasted peppers and rice/air fryers chips/sweet potato mash and usually pineapple cottage cheese as I adore the stuff and it's good for the protein.

I always finish the day with either a protein pudding/mousse or a chocolate bar (flake/ripple usually) or my new find, a mars ice cream which are somehow only 132 kcal (I knew of these, just not their low calorie count!)

I aim for 1600kcal a day but usually end up around 1450 ish, 140g of protein and I drink 4-5 litres of sugar free squash a day. I weigh and log everything on MFP.

Weight wise I have averaged 2.94lb per week and at week 24 have lost a total of 5st1lb

I'm loathe to change what I'm doing as it's obviously working well for me but at some point I'd like to stop weighing everything!

@Autumnflowers2 my food intake is different every week/day depending on how I’m feeling. I’ve said before that I don’t count calories as it makes me miserable, but I did a test week not so long ago and I came in under calorie wise.
a typical day for me would be:
breakfast - overnight oats - 30g of porridge oats mixed with 2 chopped Brazil nuts, frozen blueberries and 2 chopped dried apricots and semi skimmed milk.
or
greek yoghurt, honey, strawberries, grapes and blueberries
or 30g allbran and skimmed milk.

lunch - nothing - oats keeps me full all day or if I’m hungry I’ll pick at some sliced chicken (I’ve just remembered you’re vegan so that doesn’t help), crab sticks or a cup-a-soup or just eat some fruit.

dinner - (I try to vary this a lot so we never have the same thing in a month)
this weeks dinner plan: salmon with panko breadcrumbs, balsamic roasted new potatoes & salad, dhal with roasted cauliflower, veg tagine, chicken laksa, scrambled eggs and roasted tomatoes on sourdough, falafels and bulgur wheat with feta cheese and finally chickpea curry with brown basmati rice.

Some days I’ll skip breakfast to eat lunch which is usually left overs from the day before.
Two days a week I’ll only eat one evening meal, so no breakfast or lunch.

weight loss is definitely slowing down for me, the happy scale app now predicts I’m averaging 1.6lbs a week, whereas before I was averaging 2.2 lbs a week, but this is to be expected and I expect to to drop lower as I continue to lose as @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne has said.

I still ‘snack’ at the weekend as well, usually a handful of Haribo and a packet of skips and my weakness is dried mango. Today I’ve roasted some rhubarb with honey and ginger and we’re going to have that tonight with some low fat/low sugar custard.

@SecretSquirrel703 That's an interesting article. I remember reading about cortisol affecting fat storage around the middle (makes a lot of sense...) and the GIP in mounjaro affec ting soemthing to do with pausing the laying down of fat but the whole thing feels like black magic to me and confusing.

I know I'm focusing on UPF free food as I think that makes a difference for me. But I'm not sure if I eat enough protein currently.

My other real concern is slowing down metabolism with consistent weight loss. I don't want to end up only able to eat 1000 calories a day for the rest of my life if I f up my metabolism on this journey and get my body used to eating too little. 😳.

I don't like TeamRH and I couldn't do that level of weigning/tracking but I've been fascinated in my Shemed group by those on relatively high calories that are losing consistently with it.

The NSV are incredible! Congratulations alll!
@PearlsPearl keep it up, you're doing great.

@Autumnflowers2 The other threads talking about not being able to eat /side effects just make me think about what is going to happen when they come off the jab? What are they going to do when they feel hungry? It's a normal and natural feeling. I have read that in obese people, the GLP1 hormone is lacking, so I feel like us being more hungry than others, despite being on the jab, does make sense. And is why we can't simply "eat less".

@Iwouldratherbesinging beautiful pictures! Is that green dress or jumpsuit? Looks stunning. I'm finding my love for clothes again, after lying to myself that I'm not "that girl".

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden I was thinking about metabolism too. Our lives will look very different compared to our original weights. For example exercises, eating healthier, protein etc. I expect this would contribute to maintaining metabolism, at least somewhat. Protein uses more energy in the body to break down than carbs, so it's my reasoning for doubling down on it - it's a free workout!

@Dontjumptoconclusions just a linen dress, definitely don’t have the courage for a jumpsuit! Thank you ☺️

I’ve also been thinking about metabolism recently and it’s scary, but I’m also telling myself that for years I’ve been trying to lose weight by restricting calories/food so it’s a novel idea to think that (at some point) it’ll be to maintain my weight. It took me years to get to the size I am and I never thought I’d be able to lose this amount of weight.
the yo-yo of losing and giving up and gaining constantly was relentless, but now we’re going to be losing and then maintaining, our brains will be in a different place mentally so that has to count for something doesn’t it? I know by fasting in the past I can maintain, we’re all moving more, I’d rather be in that position and maybe focusing on losing and gaining 4lbs over and over rather than 10 stone +. We are warriors and can do this!

enough from me today! X

You would all be appalled by what I eat in a day, so I'll skip over that, but I'm going to try really hard this week to be better. I have actually bought some food, bagels and Philadelphia so there's that and also some protein and collagen powder along with some L-tyr0nene multivitamins and magnesium and can't remember what else. After tears of poo pooing supplements this past week I have barely had the energy to get out of bed. Not having a job leaves me with no reason to, so I just drift around aimlessly till my oh finishes and we have dinner and watch TV. My steps haven't been over 500 and I feel about 90 years old. Some new online friends from side hustle have really inspired me to get moving, as have you lovely lot.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne thanks for sharing your details. I started at 20 stone in December last year.

About March time I put my details into the Losertown app, and it estimated that I would be at my goal of 10.7 in March 2027! I must admit I was devastated to think that it was going to take so long. But I gave my head a wobble, and decided that I was going to stick to it, whatever happened. I wrote down the dates that the app said that I would hit each new stone marker, and put those in my diary. I’m now 15.8 stone and have hit every stone mark within a couple of days of the target.

The app said it would take a year to lose the first six stone, a year to lose the next three stone, and three months to lose the last 7lbs, and this matches your losses to date as well. It’s lovely to have the reinforcement of watching what has happened with those of you who are further on the journey than I am. Thank you all for being so inspirational.

Sorry that this is such a long waffle!

On way home from week-long work trip overseas. Found it very hard to eat as I do at home. I did stock up on greek yogurt and prunes for in room breakfasts and had a bunch of the most palatable protein bars with me for when the available food options provided weren't great.

Which was good, because the food options were awful. Conference catering was bready and bland, with rock hard fruit on the side. Evenings involved eating out and did overdo it a bit on meals, as the healthy options were generally very unappetising (even salads and poke bowls were heavy and blah) and the unhealthy options weren't very enjoyable. Way too much wine, but less wine than I would usually have had at this event. So I'm annoyed that I'll probably have gained, but didn't even enjoy it.

Current struggle is that I'm lucky enough to be in an airport lounge waiting for my flight and so I'm trying to resist eating and drinking what's available to get my money's worth, even though I am full. I'm glad to be going back where I can usually eat exactly what I want, when I want it!

@RonMJ that's really interesting.

It'll be two years for me by this Christmas. I'll be about 11st 4lb by then.

So yes, by March 2026 I should reach 10st 10lb which is sort of my goal. Actually, I'm fairly happy where I am now, but oddly - am STILL OBESE.

Well, I am, according to that stupid BMI scale.............

Someone a thread or two ago pointed out to me that as I figured my abdominal fat probably weighed 12lb, then I was very likely at my goal now.

Just about.

I’m also an ice cream lover and I can highly recommend the M&S ice cream bar range. I’m pretty sure they’re all 140 - 150 calories. The dupe Snickers is way better than the original, the Bounty dupe tastes like real coconut, plus there’s a mint one and a dulche de leche one.

I am saving 150ish calories for an end of day treat most days, so if anyone has recommendations I’d love some ideas. Walnut whips are 150 calories which I’ve been picking up too. And amazingly I’m not eating the whole box of them!!! Who knew that was possible?!

what an amazing bunch of people on this group. I’m very aware that I just scrape in the 10 stone to lose category but can totally relate to feelings of shame, loss at not being able to participate in life. Our time is now!!!

Also adding myself to the group who has broken chairs. In my case, at the outdoor pool at DSs primary school in front of about 30 other parents.

I tend to eat the same things over and over as I’m autistic and hate making choices.

Breakfast- a coffee, 3 prunes and 3 dried apricots, and a load of gummie supplements. That’s usually me fine most days, but sometimes if hungry I have proper breakfast of Greek yogurt, blueberries and honey, or, all bran with raspberries and oat milk (as of today. I liked it).

Lunches- just picky stuff. Protein bagels or snack a jacks or cracker breads, with longley farm cottage cheese (the only one I’ll eat!) and ready cooked flavoured chicken, and then salad bits. Tons of cherry tomatoes at the moment as my plants have gone mental! 🍅

Dinners- we have quite varied meals as we get Gousto boxes. So I just have whatever we are having, but we keep to meals under 650 calories, and I try to not eat all the rice or potatoes unless really hungry.

Snacks- I love dried mango, ice lollies, and crisps.

I’m pretty much always within 1200 calories a day except Sundays when I go over and don’t track as we always go out for lunch and I have dessert. And often on a weekend we go to the cinema and I’ll have a big ice cream.

Ps @FattyBumBumNoMore I felt that for you, we’re all leaving the days of chair fear behind us forever I hope 🤞

I can tell you what I am eating but not my weight loss as I only started MJ on Thursday!

Intermittent fasting min 16 hours, aiming for a regular 18hrs.

No sugar, grains (wheat, rye, rice, corn etc), potatoes, chocolate, crisps, alcohol, fruit or juices. No omega 6 oils.

Two small meals a day and a snack if I really can't do without it.

Most meals comprise just meat, fish or eggs but I also might add a bit of coleslaw or mixed salad.

If I must have a snack I can have a bit of cheese or a bag of nuts.

I take a combination of supplements, vitamins, minerals and electrolytes.

Next week I shall be having a one-pint mug of home made root vegetable soup every day, with bits of cooked meat added for the protein.

I've been having twister icelollys the mini ones are 45 calories and the new range without any icecream bits are 65 - more icelolly than icecream.

My favourite low cal treat is a tunnocks teacake (or own brand equivalent) with the gooey mallow - they are 106 calories

Fun size bars of bags of most things are around 100 calories, as are the kind of biscuit bars you'd hope didn't get confiscated from your lunch box as they were chocolate covered - things like a Club - and those bags of mini chocolate chip cookies etc. Plus bags of not technically crisps - Skips, French Fries etc.
The Lidl fake mini magnums are a similar count to the M&S ones you've mentioned too.
'Snacks that won't fuck up my calorie counting' could be my Mastermind subject.

Oh I love a twister, haven’t had one for years! Thank you. Yes Tunnocks tea cakes are also fab.

I think what I find fascinating is the fact that I can now self regulate around just having the one. I literally could eat whole boxes of chocolate back in December and we’d regularly be popping to co-op for some choccy treat or other. I do hope that the changes I’ve made continue into my post Mounjaro life.

That makes sense,yes .