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

[FlorenceNightshade]

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

I hear you @FlorenceNightshade. I’ve had a frustratingly slow month and it’s getting me down a bit. Yesterday I was thinking that I should put my scales away for a couple of weeks because other than the scales I’m feeling good. Fitting in smaller clothes, feeling better, more energy and getting fitter. So why am I just concentrating on the number and letting it dictate my mood? Like my husband says, it would be a lot worse if you quit, so sit it out.

@Gingercar you are so right! I do feel fitter, stronger and healthier! I am wearing smaller clothes than I ever have as an adult and making (or trying to!) better choices for myself every day!

I think part of it is also that I’m mindful I want to start maintaining soon so almost in a rush to see my goal weight on the screen so I can get on with the next phase!

Thank you for the head wobble

The scales aren't budging but I'm consoling myself with a NSV...a pile of size 18 clothes that no longer fit me.

My slinky black LBDs now look very frumpy and sack like 😂
Size 16 in everything now, and edging into 14s for a couple of things...

And now my drawers can shut!

Sorry to hear @MyScaredCat at least you know what the problem is now and there is plan. Keep us updated. I wish you well

Just saw this...so sorry to hear this!

@MyScaredCat - not what any of us wanted for you, but I’m glad you’ve got a diagnosis and it’s treatable .
Not minimising the gallstone surgery in any way, but having had similar pain ( a long time ago now ) I was worried it might have been something more sinister.
Have you been given any indication of waiting times for the op ?
Thinking of you 💐 xx

Thanks all.
@ElsieJay im feeling this way. I know it’s a bit crappy, and certainly painful, but I had myself dying (i know 🙄) so glad to know it’s something so treatable.
im actually off to see a surgeon tonight so things might move quickly!
I won’t be going back on Mj. I’ve actually hit my target this week so my focus is on the new habits I’ve built and maintaining this. I feel amazing and have spent a fortune so need to stay this weight to wear all these clothes 😆

That good timing that you hit target! Congratulations for that. How fabulous. Do stay in touch with us on here though.x

@MyScaredCat sorry that you've got gallstones but brilliant that you have a diagnosis and - hopefully - a plan for removal. And how clever of you to have reached your goal at the same time! Well done!

I’ve been off Mumsnet for a while because I fell behind on the thread and I felt guilty posting without acknowledging how everyone was doing. I hope you can forgive me if I’ve missed your big milestones but I want to keep posting in some capacity for accountability.
I’m now in week 21 (22nd jab) and have lost 26.7kg / 4st 3lb / 59 lbs. I’m really pleased to have hit my target of 4 stone by 25th September (an important date at work) and I’m feeling super motivated to keep going. I’m taking 3.75mg per week but I am considering dropping that down a bit. I still have A LOT of weight to lose so I’m focused now on losing 6 stone by 31 December. It’s an ambitious target but I like to challenge myself and I won’t be devastated if I don’t achieve it so long as I know that I’ve done my best.
In the past month a few big NSVs have happened:

1. I finally dropped a clothes size on my bottom half (I’m a pear shape). I had been asking people on a thread (I can’t remember which one) how long it took for that to happen because I thought after 3.5 stone I should have seen a difference in my clothes. Turns out that 4 stone is the magic number for me. It took me a couple of weeks to work out that my leggings weren’t falling down because they’d lost their stretch, instead there just wasn’t enough of me anymore to hold them up!
2. I discovered I’m 4cm taller than I thought I was so I lost some bonus points on my BMI
3. I stood up to a rude personal trainer at a fancy gym that talked down to me and made me feel bad about myself. It took me a lot of courage to go to that gym because there’s no-one there that looks like me (i.e. fat) and unfortunately my worst fears about the way I would be treated came true. But I told them where to shove their membership card and am now happily back at the local leisure centre. The equipment there isn’t a new and the building isn’t as nicely decorated, but the people are lovely and I feel comfortable there. Previously if that had happened to me I would have taken it as a sign that all gyms were terrible and never set foot in one again. I attribute this confidence to...
4. I’ve been doing small group personal training three times a week and it’s given me such a boost of confidence. We do strength training and I’ve really surprised myself what I can do. Last week, I lifted 9 stones (57.5kg)!!! The gym where I do the group training is amazing and if we did cardio there then I wouldn’t have ventured inside the horrible gym.

@AlicesMum2025 congratulations on hitting your first target!!! I’m sure everyone on this thread is just glad that people post things for us all to read - I’ve never felt any obligation to acknowledge previous posts unless they particularly resonate with me and sometimes there are just too many to single any out!

Im so sorry that you were treated so appallingly by that gym, I hope you left them an honest review! But how fantastic that you stuck up for yourself and are now thriving at another gym!

Ive never had a PT session but in my old and new gym ( started yesterday!) I’ve heard how people are spoken to at times and it’s never sat right with me! I get some PTs maybe employ a bit of tough love and maybe some clients are genuinely clueless but I can’t think of anything worse than doing one of those taster sessions that are always on offer for new customers!

Can I ask how you do 6.25mg dose. I’m using 5mg with 2 boxes to use? Sorry for sounding thick. Iv plateaued the whole of September I’m so fed up.

@flyawaybirdieboo 6.25mg using a 5mg pen is 75 clicks

Theres a pretty user friendly calculator here

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

Hope it helps!

@AlicesMum2025 Please don't feel like you can't post if you get behind on the thread, it gets busy at times. I work from home so I keep an eye on the thread whilst waiting for various other things to load, cough to life etc, but I often forget to post my replies to things out loud.

@MyScaredCat Sorry to hear about the gallstones but am pleased it's nothing more sinister, hope you get sorted quickly. I'm so pleased you've hit target too. Please tell us some of the lovely outfits you're wearing!

2 little NSVs this week: I'm managing to get myself into the bath every day, instead of every 4 days as it was at my heaviest. I don't like feeling remotely grubby but I just couldn't deal with <gestures at whole self in a Hiccup from How To Train Your Dragon way> all of me. I can comfortably exfoliate my legs in the bath where previously I had to bend to try to around my stomach. I feel ashamed by that but I need to get past that - just as food as no moral value, neither does weight. Easier said than thought.

Every day I get in the bath (the bathtub at the new house is really quite narrow, too) and it's nice. No pain or discomfort, no shame.

Started a claim on my private health insurance through work to get my knee operated on - seeing a consultant at a private hospital on Friday. V nervous. Bit worried I'll walk into the no doubt glossy and beautifully scented foyer and be greeted by a receptionist with immaculate teeth and brand new skin and they'll recoil in horror and chuck me out into the street. It's Booths all over again.

Do people that are outwardly gleaming and perfectly coiffed feel that way, or do we all secretly feel like urchins?

@DidILeaveTheGasOn i firmly believe that most of the “put-together” women I admire while they are going about their daily business probably feel the same! I think it’s a minority of people who feel genuinely that they look great every day! Maybe it’s a combination of more money to chuck at hair, skin, clothes etc but I think most of are just hoping for the best!

gallbladder Coming out next week. Eek! But at least that should end this discomfort. I’m focussing on the image below.
reading everyone’s clothes struggles really resonates with me. I’ve bought lots lately, couldn’t help myself. But I’ve bought all sizes: S, 10, 12, 14, and a 14 didn’t fit in one dress but I couldn’t bring myself to get a 16.
isnt it madness?!
women’s sizes are so messed up.
id say that I’m a 12/14 now. I always assumed with a BMI of 23 it would be smaller but it just goes to show. I’m happy where I am now and will be working hard to maintain without MJ

@MyScaredCat - That’s brilliant ! - not the surgery itself, of course, but how quickly it’s being done.
And I completely missed your other good news , you’ve reached your target !
I’m very , very happy for you on both counts.
You’ll be a brand new woman this Christmas - huge congratulations to you.
All the very best for next week 💐 xx

@DidILeaveTheGasOn - that’s great news re your knee surgery !
Only have 24 hours experience of private health care ( cataract removal ) - reception was indeed very glossy, with beautiful flower arrangements - but my enduring memory is the pot of tea and packet ( yes, a whole packet just for me 😁) of the most delicious biscuits afterwards ……🤣🤣🤣

@MyScaredCat my husband had his gall bladder out a few years ago and it was a relatively quick procedure and recovery. Fingers crossed for the same thing for you.

@MyScaredCat You'll be much more comfortable by the end of next week, not long to go.
Your shotsy graph is wonderful. I'd print it out and put it up on the wall if it were mine.

I've just been looking online to see if anyone makes art out of weight loss graphs but can't find anything good, there's a gap in the market!

Ordered two couches and an armchair today. We shall sit down at last! And firewood. It's blinkin' freezing downstairs. No Mint Velvet coat for me I don't think, although I've just spotted a nice cord blouse at Boden that might keep me nice and warm, £100 though! Maybe not.

I once had private surgery and they brought me a sandwich under one of those silver domes! I was almost expecting Jeeves to come buttling along. 😆

A sandwich under a cloche? Was it cut into little triangles? Gosh it's worth having private surgery for the pot of tea, whole packet of biscuits and posh sandwiches!

Glad you're getting sorted quickly @MyScaredCat .
Next is the worst for vanity sizing, imo. I think they are 2 sizes bigger than the rest of the high street.

Another lb just scraped off today. I have just ducked into the under 200lb club! Three more lbs to three stones off. But it’s only been 5lbs off this month. However it is still going in the right direction and I’m looking and feeling better.