Anybody just starting Wegovy?

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Hi all, been reading some threads with interest but wondering if there’s anybody on Wegovy that would like to share progress? Or any stories / tips etc from people further along.

About me, I am 44 and just not losing the excess weight like I used to and so have finally taken the plunge and started on Wegovy.

I guess I chose Wegovy due to the proposed price increases of Mounjaro, also, I thought Wegovy might be a bit more slow and steady as I only want to lose a few stone. Although I could be wrong about that, but we’ll see.

I have ordered through Juniper and they sent me a set of scales which pair to the app so I don’t need to manually record my weight, it does it for me.

I’m not sure how accurate the scales are though so I will also probably keep an eye on my own scales.

I had thought my starting weight was 12 stone 7 but I weighed on Juniper scales just now and it says 12 stone 10. I think for the purposes of tracking and discussion here I’ll just use 12 stone 10.

This is almost the biggest I have ever been. Following the birth of my third child I was 13 stone and I managed to get down to 11 and a half, but despite my efforts, I’m now back up at 12 stone 10.

I took first jab this evening, seemed straightforward. Don’t feel any different yet. I could eat, but not starving, going to try not to have anything this evening although I think that will probably require sheer will power as probably too soon for the jab to have any effect.

So,
Starting weight: 12 stone 10
Current weight: 12 stone 10
Waist: 30.5 inches
Target weight: 10 stone 9

I can understand being sensitive. My confidence levels are in my boots. I hate the way I look.

But remember that’s not what’s happening here.

My weight may be much lower than yours, but my body fat % is very high. I wear large sized clothes and have to alter them as they are too long.

It’s not like hearing people say “oh my god, my size 12 jeans are too tight, I’m so fat!”

I get that. I know how horrible that feels.

Very well done on your weight loss so far.

I’ve lost almost a stone, which is a lot for my height, but I still look very overweight and nobody has noticed yet.

Going to keep ploughing on. I’d love to have lost enough to be able to dress up at Halloween but not sure that’s going to happen.

I think it took quite a few stone before anyone noticed with me ..
Also a friend of mine suddenly told me she had lost 3 stone and no one had even noticed..not even her husband.
I think it does take a while to show .your doing great a stone down x

Thank you @Theoturkeyflieseast

I do feel disheartened that nobody has noticed. In my mind I thought 11 and a half stone would be a huge milesetone, and I kind of thought anything beyond that would be a bonus.

In reality, 11 and a half is still far too heavy for me.

My target is 10.8 but I’m starting to doubt if even that’s going to be enough.

Having just checked healthy BMI, my weight should be between 7 stone and 9.6.

9 stone 6 just seems unachievable for me. So I guess I’ll aim for 10 stone 8 and take it from there.

xxxx

Come and join us. There are women on the thread I'm linking here with 8 plus stone to lose.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5411129-mounjaro-10st-or-more-to-lose-thread-8

Nobody noticed that I'd lost weight till I'd lost 6st.

So when I got down to 14st, that's when people started to comment.

So you have got down to that from 20 stone? That’s amazing, well done. How long have you been on the jabs? Wegovy or MJ?

Okay, in January 2024 I started dieting, at 20st 2lb.

It took me six months to get down to 17st 12lb. That was July 2024 and that's when I started MJ.

It's more been 14 months since I started MJ and I now weigh 11st 12lb.

Two weeks ago, I started Wegovy, because of the cost of MJ.

I've found Wegovy is just as effective.

Here's me in July, weighing 12st 4lb.

That is a really incredible achievement. Congratulations!

I hope it is the thread for you. When I read success stories like this it makes me more hopeful that I can also make lasting changes to my life and health.

Morning all, absolutely delighted to see some movement on the scales this morning.

Although down 2lbs from yesterday doesn’t really seem possible / realistic, so I am expecting the scales to jump up again.

I really do need to think about exercise.

Lying in bed this morning I could feel my ribs for the first time in a longtime….but I still have a huge amount of fat around my stomach and hips and I’m worried about ending up an odd shape.

How does it work when your body burns fat? Does it just take it proportionately from all over? Rather than from where most of it is accumulated?

I have heard the expression that you “can’t spot reduce fat” and I’m guessing that applies to diet and exercise?

But there’s no denying my stomach needs exercise. I think it needs sit ups, but oh my god i absolutely detest sit ups.

I did an aerobics video for about 10/15 minutes yesterday which I am pleased with, but I know I really need to step it up.

Hi - can I ask what you use to track loss please?

Hi @jumpingbumpits the Juniper app.

That’s where I buy my Wegovy from.

they give you a set of scales free with your first order, and they link up to the app to record your weight.

They can also apparently measure body fat etc as well but I haven’t figured that out yet.

if anybody would like a discount code for Juniper let me know and I can DM it to you

Thank you. I have my wegovy pen and trying to decide whether to start today or tomorrow. Feel very apprehensive. I went through MedExpress and have a referral code if its useful.

@jumpingbump I use the free (is a paid option but I haven’t bothered) Shotsy app I only use it for doses & weight but I like the graph!!

@blondebombsite13 worth looking at Lucy winwood reed on you tube there’s a 7 days stomach inch loss which works amazingly ! I love all of hers tbh! Has really helped me!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H2d-VBlJYg

sorry totally got her name wrong !! here’s the link to the 7 min belly fat work out!!

Hi all, can i join you? First Wegovy arrived today, will start tomorrow.
Started mounjaro in feb, started at 15 st 8 lb and currently 12.4, so a little slower than some but a good loss still that i couldnt have done alone!
Cannot justify at new prices so used last mj very intermittently over august/September and excited to get started with Wegovy to shift the last 1. 4 ish stone 🙂
Hoping for no side effects as MJ didnt cause any really.

First wegovy jab done. Found pen much nicer to use than mj, but it definitely stung more! I stupidly injected right where waistband of jeans sits so it feels a bit sore now.. Oh well.. Onwards, and hopefully downwards again!

Morning all,

So after yesterday’s welcome appearance of 11 stone 6.7 on the scales, I was expecting a bounce back up this morning.

partly as I knew such a drop was unlikely to be fully genuine, partly I didn’t do much walking yesterday and was a fairly sedantry day.

so imagine my surprise to see a further drop to 11.5 today!

This is after being very fairly stagnant and also going up over previous weeks.

I guess it shows that there’s a lot going on within our bodies and just to keep going with it even when it seems like not getting anywhere.

I am keen to start doing some meaningful exercise but have elderly relatives visiting for Sunday lunch today so not going to Val have much time.

Hoping to do a brief aerobic workout our use my hand weights before shower this evening.

Also, further to my post below, it’s strange how we view ourselves and what we can convince ourselves of.

A stone off is huge for me, and at certain points over the past few days I have been posing in the mirror and thinking I look great.

Whereas at other points I’m catching a glimpse of myself and despairingly realising just how far I still have to go.

(the hairdresser visit was a real low point - I walked in feeling quite good, and as soon as I caught sight of my double chins in the mirror was just so despondent.

However, it’s very important not to get too caught up in it all.

When I started with Wegovy I said it was purely for health reasons. It wasn’t. My confidence was at rock bottom and had been for a long time and I was in denial about how big I was. I always made an effort with my hair and makeup, but I wore the same clothes day in and day out as they were comfy and the only things that fitted. Clothes shopping filled me with dread, ditto events or nights out so I just wouldn’t go.

I found myself making self-deprecating jokes about my weight and realised with horror that I was becoming that cliche of the jolly, fat woman, who makes jokes about her weight as a way of deflecting other people from making them.

I’m now happy with the rate at which the weight is coming off, but I’m left feeling very soft and flabby. I know that exercise is the answer. But I’m bombarded with adverts and displays in shops for protein bars, protein yoghurts, protein shakes, protein whey.

it’s exhausting. I just want to be a healthy weight, I don’t want to be living my life like I’m some sort of body builder (disclaimer, I am just about to have a late breakfast of a protein yoghurt).

I know I’m going to have to firm up but the idea is very daunting.

Anyway, all this to say, I found myself last night googling upper bleph surgery. For those of who you don’t know, as I didn’t until last night, this is surgery to stop the skin above your eyes drooping down over your eyelids, covering your eyelashes etc.

Does the skin above my eyes do this? Yes, a bit. Is it really something I need to fix? No, there are a hundred other imperfections with my face and body that need attention before that. But that’s what’s being pushed in the media, so that’s what I was drawn to looking into.

it’s a slippery slope and I think everybody needs to bear in mind what real women look like. The girls and women I see on Instagram etc have obviously affected me more than I thought and I find it very depressing.

Other than my weight, I am generally fairly confident, and I need to hold onto that.

Anyway, just my musings, happy Sunday all xxx

Hi everyone, well I’ve been on wegovy one month & lost nothing, not a pound. I’ve just messaged the team at juniper about trying monjaro I feel like I’ve totally wasted my money tbh. I’m menopausal & although I have definitely improved my diet I’m frustrated nothing has come off. Has anyone seen an improvement in month 2? I left the juniper facebook group as it irritated me tbh (esp all the posts about the scales)

The app provided by my Wegovy supplier warns against this. It states 'you should notice a more significant weight loss by the second month. Don't be discouraged if you don't see immediate results'.

It must be a real facer and so discouraging if you've made positive changes to your diet and barely seen a loss, especially whilst others are reporting quite substantial losses by the end of the first month. But apparently, this is quite usual.

0.25 mg is a starting dose only - it may simply be that this level of the medication just isn't working for you. We're all so different. I'm doing okay on it so far but many others are reporting seeing a significant decrease in its efficacy by week 6. Some have done this and then reported seeing changes once they increased to 5 mg.

Stick with it - the weight will start to come off eventually.

Hi everyone, bit of a weird few weeks for me.
I was ill with a horrible cold virus, but at the same time was hit with extreme exhaustion - zero energy at all. The virus symptoms went but I was/am still ridiculously exhausted, no appetite and nausea (this was the week of my 3rd dose).
I have no idea whether it is lasting effects from the virus or that after the 3rd wegovy jab the amount in my system (due to the 7 day half life) was almost double what my body had got used too (i looked it up in the glp1 plotter and by week 3 there is around 0.45mg in your body rather than 0.25). Or a combo of all of that and eating in a calorie deficit and no way of knowing really.
I felt too ill to take my jab on Monday so ive decided to leave this week and maybe try again next Monday but only take half the 0.25mg using clicks, incase it was caused by the wegovy. I can't face or afford that level of exhaustion and nausea again as I couldn't work etc.

Gutted as it was all going so well the first 2 weeks and I lost 8lb in 3 weeks.
Basically I am just confused as to what to do now! Should I go back to normal dose, should I half the dose, should I just stop already and try and carry on without it?!
No idea what to do! What would you do in my shoes?

Sorry I didn't mean to reply to you! Brain still isn't working at full speed 😭

If it's any reassurance I've just had a horrible cold bug and it's left me so sapped of energy I've been unable to exercise for a week. Yours sounds similar. It's a nasty virus.

I'm also on 2.5 mg. The advice from my online pharmacy is: if you're 5 days or less late with your dose, inject it as soon as you remember, pick up your routine as usual, and take your next dose on your regular scheduled day.

If it's more than 5 days, skip the missed dose this week. Don't double or increase the dose on next injection to make up for the missed dose.

Hope you feel better soon!

Morning,

me again. Weight still steadily going down.

Not much appetite although I have had some personal trauma to deal with lately which may be partly causing that.

I do worry about what will happen when I come off the jabs though.

I am on 0.5 now and I have emailed to ask if I can stay on this dose as opposed to moving up as I think it’s working and I don’t want to be become too reliant on it, I also don’t particularly want the speed of the weight loss to increase, as I worry about loose skin etc.

My bum is definitely a bit smaller. Not so much that clothes are fitting better yet, I don’t think, but lying in bed last night I was smoothing my pj bottoms down and noticed it certainly felt a lot less “full”. Going to need to try and do some exercised as don’t want a flat / saggy bum.

One other person has commented on the weight loss, and one other person, who could really only see my face (wrapped up in a big jacket) said “wow, you look great…you look really well rested” I wasn’t particularly well rested, I never am, so I think maybe it’s because my face looks a bit slimmer.

Hips / saddle bags look much the same. Going to need to try some exercises.

same! I finished month 1 just .5lb lighter than when I started due to two successive weeks of increases. I've been fastidious about calories, protein, water, and exercise (as normal). My provider has upped me to 1.7mg as I told them I was unhappy. Took my first dose yesterday and so I shall see. If there's no movement after this month, I'm going back to Mounjaro.

Morning, me again, and another pound off this morning.

I feel it can be hard to get perspective. On the one hand, I feel like the weight loss is actually a bit fast and I worry about being unable to sustain it, also about losing too quickly and having loose skin etc.

I also worry about ending up with no boobs as despite being overweight I’ve never had a huge amount in that department.

Worry a bit about losing muscle. I am exercising (not a huge amount, but I am doing some movement in addition to walking every day). I also eating protein but I don’t know if it’s enough or how much I should be eating. I’m having a protein yoghurt and a protein bar every day in addition to my normal food.

However, on the other hand, nobody has noticed!!!

I leave tonight for a work event which starts tomorrow morning. I haven’t seen some of the people in quite a while so maybe they will notice.

I really do feel like this drug just puts us on an even starting point to people who have never suffered with their weight. There is food that I want that I am not allowing myself, but I can do it. Whereas before I would just be ravenous and would give in. For the first time I am seeing it as some sort of addiction.

I’ve had shreddies this morning, first time in a long time (have mostly been having oats and berries etc) but it was a small bowl and my stomach is rumbling but I don’t have the urge to eat more.

I bought a pair of Sainsbury’s jeans a few months back that I couldn’t get past my thighs - got them on yesterday and wore them out! I was only out for an hour or two though, thank goodness, as they were TIGHT and tbh im pretty sure would have given me thrush if I’d had them on any longer

How is everybody else getting on?