Mounjaro 10st or more to lose Thread 7

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

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

I'm trying to eat 3 meals a day. I think I do better with meals spaced than one big one and for a different medication I need protein in the morning.

I often don't eat a lot at lunch but I do try to eat "something". Recently babybels or toast and banana or avocado.

I'm aiming UPF free. I like lots here it seems start with greek yoghurt and either stewed apple or blueberries or some fruit and chia /flax but I've stopped the chia/flax near my jab as I'm reducing anything that can lead to sulphur burps.

Evening meal is usually smaller portion of what the family eats and usually veggie and upf free. I do my own thing if they want pizzas etc.

I'm worried at the moment about eating too little/upsetting metabolism after following the RH people a bit and wodnering about intentionally adding more. But since going up to 10 my appetite in the day is really affected. I want to add more veg than just my evening meal.

I eat yogurt and fruit for breakfast, salad with tuna/egg/cheese/cottage cheese for lunch, chicken, vegetable and a couple of small potatoes for dinner. I'll have cheese or fruit pot as a snack if needed.

Well ,I'm not massively any different,meals wise than what most of you have posted ,
Coffee with soya milk for breakfast
If I have lunch it's spring vegetable soup ,or a salad with a blob of hummus a couple of bread sticks and a blob of mayo and slice of vegan ham
Dinner salad,blob of mayo ,some vegan protein around 250 cals and a 200 calories jacket potato.
Mini twister icelolly
I'm mainly eating the same things every day ,as I lack imagination and don't like slimy saucey foods

I do cook family meals like spaghetti Bolognese, cottage pie ,roast dinner ,tacos ,meat pie and mash ..
My two DC still at home have diagnosis of autism and these are the meals they will tolerate,so that's what I cook .
I don't eat family meals ,for following reasons
I don't like the smell of the starch from mash potatoes ,I don't like pasta as it's slippery and wet ,don't like sauce ,can't work out the calories of the roast dinner.
Often I plan to eat something,but the smell of it cooking puts me of .
Bread sticks and salad don't smell ,so tend to feature most days

With zero planning or forethought I’ve dropped quite easily into an OMAD (one meal a day) cycle since starting on MJ. It suits my current (early retired) lifestyle, son/husband are at school/work all day so I’ve no-one else’s food requirements to work around.

My OMAD is almost always dinner which we all eat together. This also makes it very easy for me to keep this particular journey to myself (literally the only place I talk about it is this thread - so thank you all for my safe place!).

I do love a salad so it’s been an easy journey through the spring/summer months - I usually have a small bit of what’s been cooked along with a big heap of salad. Coming into autumn/winter I usually make a switch to soup based meals…so I’m hoping this will be relatively simple too.

I don’t calorie count at all. I can’t do without a sugar in my first brew of the day. Stopped drinking alcohol before getting on the MJ journey, mostly to support my menopause challenges, but I don’t miss it at all - in fact it probably enabled me to afford MJ.

We still go out to eat though my choices are more considered than they would have been previously.

I don't know what I'll do when salad weather passes. I used to live on jackets in the winter but potatoes feel like bricks in my tummy now. And I don't like soup.

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden what do Team RH say about metabolism then? I don't really know them except I've seen a few of his videos on instagram which have made me laugh. He's certainly passionate!

I tend to have my main meal at lunchtime where I can as I find it can sit on my stomach if I eat too many carbs in the evening.

A typical day would be:
Breakfast-protein yoghurt or scrambled eggs sometimes with bacon

Lunch-small portion of spaghetti bolognese or chilli and rice or fish cake and baked beans or chicken skewers and rice/salad or something similar.

Dinner-soup or toasted bagel with baked beans or small chicken Caesar salad.

To be honest breakfast and dinner are interchangeable as I tend to trust myself with eating what I want these days, so may skip breakfast and then have my two light meals later in the day.

I might have a snack of a small bag of crisps, Fridge-raiders chicken pieces or a small Graze bar. I usually eat between 1000 and 1300 calories a day, and eat out or have a takeaway about once a week, where I will eat less than I used to but will have what I fancy without restricting myself.

@PearlsPearl I'm autistic too and often eat the same things day after day!

Breakfast I’ll have a banana and a clear protein drink.

Lunch is almost always three Babybel lights and a large handful of raspberries. Sometimes I’ll have leftovers from the night before instead.

Dinner is something like a fishcake with mashed root veg, turkey and veg stir fry, mackerel with green veg, bunless cheeseburgers with salad.

I do eat snacks sometimes! Nairn’s oat and chocolate biscuits, or a packet of hula hoops, or some dried apricots. Once a week I have a large chai from Starbucks as a treat. We go out for dinner maybe once every two weeks and have a takeaway or dine in deal about once a month.

I’m on 5mg and don’t feel the need to go any higher.

Oh poor you @FattyBumBumNoMore!!! I used to dread doing parents' evening, at my kids' primary they only put out baby chairs too. Glad they're all adults now. I'd guess everyone on this thread has broken a chair at some point, or at least lived in fear of it. I broke a garden bench once at a party, but luckily I was pretty drunk and just lay on the floor laughing!

I'm autistic as well.
I think it's likely that a high proportion of us on this thread are, given the known links between autism and obesity.

Autistic (and ADHD) here too... Although only finally diagnosed earlier this year.

I think it's quite complex isn't it.

@FattyBumBumNoMore

Galaxy ripples are 158 and Cadbury flakes are 168 😁

Omg I love a ripple. Never thought about those as an option ❤️

I don't know how some of you survive on so little food, I am envious in a way? I've said before I think OMAD would kill me off 😆I'm pretty much always hungry for my 3 meals. (Preferable to the 24/7 hunger that could never be sated that came before of course. At least now I eat and then feel full.)

I can skip breakfast but I always have my prunes and apricots anyway which fill me up (don't know why I bother, they clearly don't work [I go every 5/6 days!] and I don't even like them and they're 150 or so calories that I could spend on an ice cream... hmmm... but what if they are doing something and I stop and make it worse...)

Me to ,3 years ago for autism
Still waiting for ADHD assessment

I didn't realise there was a link between autism and obesity
I read somewhere they now automatically screen girls admitted to eating disorder units for autism.

I think it's partly to do with interception - not recognising hunger and full signals (honestly until MJ I had no idea people felt like they couldn't eat like this - no wonder I must have looked so greedy. Thought process was "oooh that looks nice. I like X. Eat X. I'm enjoying eating X I will keep doing it..."

Also - sensory feedback. Crisps in particular. I craved crunchy. I don't currently have those cravings like I did.

Also sensory/food issues with not wanting to eat certain foods or certain combinations - often leading to a group of" safe" goods that get eaten regularly. Often processed foods as they are predictable (stereotypical chicken nuggets...)

Also.... Routine... Eating certain things because it's habit and What We Do. This also includes "eating at dinner time because it's dinner time " even though I might have eaten a big snack half hour earlier - it's dinner time so I'll eat dinner...

My youngest is so caught up in all these and so like I was pre MJ.

(I teach about autism, but until MJ had never seem/experienced it from the" other side" so to speak.)

For those with eating disorders including restricting again I think it's complex - but so important to recognise the autism as it can be the need for control that's often there in anorexia (life is unpredictable and overwhelming this is one area I ha E control) but it can also be purely sensory and finding that so many tastes and textures are repulsive. Or that having someone eating noisily st lunch puts you off f food/ smells in the canteen at school puts you off eating / possiy some cleanliness issues too... So people can end up very restricted but not for the reasons people assume when they think anorexia...

Some very off the cuff musings. But it's an area I'm interested in for obvious reasons - especially this year!! I used to explain to families about ND kids not being fussy/what sensory issues are/ways to work with it rather than labelling a child naughty/fussy/making them eat but I've seen it in a whole new light this year when looking at myself post MJ.

That's so interesting @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden

I have a question which may seem a really dumb question.

For the first time I have been tracking my food today in Nutracheck.
I have gone over the protein allowance for the day, by 10g, which seems quite a high %. I thought that the more protein the better, but is it? Have I been doing it wrong? My protein goal is only 68g, which seems very low from what I have read online.
I still have a few hundred calories available, which I probably won't have because I have done for today.
So basically, is 68g low for protein and is it ok to go over your allowance of protein?

You can select a higher protein goal @PositiveAttitude

click the 3 lines on your page and then select nutrient goals and see which one takes your fancy!

You should aim for 1g of protein per kg of your weight, apparently…

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I be.ueve I read that too much protein causes stress on the kidneys, but i dont know how much too much is.

Interesting re autism and obesity. My partners autistic and I have secretly counted his calorie intake. He is between 5000 and 7000 a day. He is always hungry. Like me He is omad since lockdown, he is also adhd and is constantly on the go. He is 5 ft 7 and 150lb so not overweight. My goal is to weigh less than him. I started at 270 so that seemed unlikely. Today I am 8.5lb away.

Thank you very much. I will go and have a play.

So week 7 weigh in and I'm officially 2 stone lighter and am down into the teens! (Only just but still!) Very exciting, can't remember the last time I was a weight that began with a 1.

Interesting seeing everyone posting about the link with autism, I'm undiagnosed but various professionals have suggested I could be referred for diagnosis if I wanted.

Lovely to keep checking in to the thread to see everyone's NSV and progress, its a brilliant thread.