May 2025 Starters Thread 6 - We’re all totes protes now ✌️

[FlorenceNightshade]

As requested a protein and fibre filled shiny new thread for us!!

@ElsieJay congratulations on loosing weight on holiday!!!! You rock!!!! And thanks!

feeling pretty grotty still today but went off sick which I normally try not to do & have had a very chilled sick day which was much needed!!

just come to do school run and it’s hot which is mildly unpleasant with my slightly raised temp!! Missing my sofa already but never mind!!! it’s the weekend!! 😆

Another lb off this week. Chipping away. Slightly troubled when I realised I haven't been to the loo for several days.

Thanks, @Seahorsesplendour - don’t feel guilty at taking a sick day, hopefully today plus the weekend resting as much as you can will see you much better by Monday.
@DidILeaveTheGasOn - without being crude,I imagine less food would inevitably mean less “output”? Congrats on your weight loss .

Stayed the same this week, but It has been busy socially, we had friends staying for 5 days, and I am glad to say they have gone, so hopefully can be good this week. I was happy though as I was moaning to my son, and he phoned me back to say did I realise I was only 1.5lbs of a loss of 2 stones, I weigh in kg, so this made me feel better! I hope you all have a good weekend.

Can anyone please post ( in words of one syllable, preferably ! ) what I need to do to get doses of 3.75 out of a 5 pen ?
I’ve looked at charts upthread, and just can’t work it out- am assuming I count the number of clicks, but how many clicks would it be, please , for each 3.75 jab ?
And would the 4th dose be 3.75 ? - never done the “golden dose” and don’t want to be fiddling around with extra needles etc.
Sorry to be so dim !
Maths never was my strong suit ….

From a 5 mg pen, 12 clicks = 1mg. (60 clicks = 5mg).
3mg = 36 clicks.
0.75mg = 9 clicks

3.75mg = 45 clicks.

Hope that helps.

Try this site @ElsieJay

https://www.vrgrowth.co.uk/mounjaro-clicks

I’ve posted it before and found it really helpful

Also @ElsieJay you will get 5 doses out of the pen just using clicks. 6 if you used additional needles

Thank you , @HereIGoOnceMore , @FlorenceNightshade and @Seahorsesplendour - you are all superstars !! ⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️❤️❤️.

I must have missed that calculator first time around, Florence - it’s certainly much more straightforward than the charts I was puzzling my brain over.

Morning all
sunshine is out in London and it makes me happy especially that my BMI is now offivially 29.7!!! My goal of being iverweight before october is achieved!
Now can i get under 80kg before the 10 if october for a fancy italian weekend?
Im pleased to have moved up to 4mg as i had been STS for too long.
i am so grateful to mounjaro for tbis new lease of life!

congratulations @tostaky enjoy the sunshine today.

Huge congrats @tostaky !!! I am so close to overweight too and also in London so enjoying the crisp sun and slight chill! I’m taking inspo from you!

after just a 0.6lb loss this week and up again on my daily weighing I’m reframing as ‘skin catch up week’! Onwards and downwards!

sending you super light London thoughts for under 80kg before October! You can do it!

Skin catch up day! I like that.

Ive just taken a photo of a pumpkin spice latte for m social media at the cafe - and seem to have drunk it! It didn’t have syrup in it, and it was only in a small cup, but I ate the squirty cream! Hopefully I burned it off yesterday by standing outside in the rain and wind for 4 hours!

That latte looks gorgeous, @Gingercar! Now I want one and I don't like pumpkin spice. I love autumn so I really want to like it, damn it.

Very quiet day today. I've still got that UTI I had a month ago and getting up for a wee at night and having to go back to bed feeling like I'm bursting for a wee is tiring. One of our kitties got under the duvet and snuggled next to me around 9am, so I somehow fell asleep til noon! Oops. I've ordered antibiotics and they should come on Tuesday so providing they don't make me profoundly sick, which they normally do, I'll be weeing for England by Thursday. I'll keep you all informed, obviously. God I'm a delight aren't I.

Hope you feel better soon. Another reason to keep drinking loads of water?

Another who doesn’t like pumpkin spice latte but it looks amazing @Gingercar and so idyllic with the fields in the background!!!

I want to work in your cafe please!!! 😂

although wouldn’t be good for temptation I fear!!!
have had to bring my dowager out in force to fight my viral cravings for all things comforting and unhealthy!!! 🙈 have indulged a little but happy to report I am starting to feel better so have decided excercise starts again tomorrow along with improved nutrition!!

why is it we are so programmed to junk. My brain knows I need sustenance and vitamins and healthy things to heal but my body demands crap … despite the MJ … 😡

Anyway rant over…

onwards & downwards we go 🤗

oh and another 2lb gone for me (yesterday morning) so 3st 8lb gone !

@Seahorsesplendour famtastic loss! Well done! I try not to have any junk food i like in the house, it really helps me because when the munchies show themselves…i can be unstoppable!
@DidILeaveTheGasOn Good luck with the ITU, it is not fun and very painful. What a view from your café! So nice!

@HKGGlad to hear you are not too far in weight (and in location! 😅). I never thought my (temporary) goal would be to be overweight one day!
If i had to stop today, i could im ok with my figure and how the clothes fit. But i keep thinking I NEED to be normal BMI because thats what the NHS says. Homestly, i dont think i do. Maybe im going to be ok at being a “low overweight” but lets see

I’m not sure if I will go to BMI normal range. I know it’s a cliché, but I really do have quite a big frame. I have big hands and feet, and my riding hat is quite a big size. I had to get to regular bmi for my interview when I was cabin crew and I was really slim (10/12 but probably looked slimmer). I looked and felt fine a stone heavier (12/14). I’ll see how the weight loss goes and how I feel further down the line. And how long my pens last! I’m only about half way there, but already feeling much better at a size 16. I think I look slimmer, but the only people who have said anything are the couple of people who I have told!

@tostaky i totally hear you - I don’t think I’ve ever been a normal BMI but I really want to, because of this NHS recommendation. However, it’s a blunt instrument I truly believe. It doesn’t take account of bone density or muscle mass.

im with you, if you feel good and healthy and strong at ‘lower overweight’ then I believe YOU not the scale that apparently is suitable for all humans!

Can’t believe I’m still having SE all these months in! I’ve been throwing up for the last few hours, I feel SO bad 😭

Oh no @vashtanerada you poor thing! I hope it eased off and you got some sleep x

It did in the end! I had a glass of Prosecco mid-afternoon which I think must have been the culprit. Will try to avoid all alcohol from now on.

My pen broke today! How annoying. Had to open a new one for my jab. Lost about two jab's worth. I did momentarily consider working out the cost per jab lost but I knew that would reeeeeeeeally piss me off so I didn't.

20 jabs. 47lbs down. 19.6% of myself gone. Down from a BMI of 40 to 32.1. So glad I didn't wait any longer to start.

Oh how annoying! How did it break? Can you contact your supplier? They might send another if it’s faulty.
But well done on the progress! Another lb for me too today. But god I’m plodding! I think I will up to 7.5 this week, see if it kicks me on,

@DidILeaveTheGasOn can you use one of those syringes? Like for the 5th dose? I had one pen whose me hanism broke, i couldnt push down. So i used a suringe for the whole pen and it was a pain but no wastage