Mounjaro 10st (or more) to lose Thread 8

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

We're getting there.
Slowly and surely, we're losing weight.

Come and join us if you have a significant amount of weight to lose.

Welcome back to all thread regulars.

Oh my goodness @SilenceInside you look absolutely amazing, you have a such a beautiful shape, the difference is just astounding 👏

You're looking wonderful @SilenceInside

That is such a difference!

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Progress Report on Wegovy.

Day 5.

Still feeling well, no side-effects.

Good suppression of appetite and food noise is....... well, quiet. 🤣

I wasn't expecting it to be as effective as MJ but it has been, for me, so far.

I'll weigh myself in two days...........

I am very glad it's working, because it's so much cheaper than MJ, and CheqUp give very good discounts.

Amazing!! Well done 👏👏

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne and @SilenceInside you both look incredible! Congrats!

A weird thing I’ve had lately - everyone around me has been lovely and supportive and very congratulatory on my weight loss but recently a couple of friends/acquaintances have asked if I’m going to start dating now. I’ve been mostly single for the last decade (couple of short lived romances in that time). It’s made me feel a bit weird - do they think the only reason I was single was because I was fat? Am I somehow more loveable now that I’ve lost weight? Do they think the reason I’m losing weight is to snare a man?

I’m perfectly happy single, not really interested in dating and although I’m not against the idea of meeting someone one day, it’s definitely not a priority for me!

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne and @SilenceInside how fabulous you both look, I can’t ever imagine getting there but the amazing people on this thread are showing it is possible with patience and hard work. Thank you for your inspiration.

despite my user name I am actually 56 and I purchased some just below the knee boots (admittedly still plus size) today, I have never been able to get them around my calves before, I will be wearing with thick tights and dresses instead of my usual leggings and dresses. By next autumn I will hopefully be in normal size boots.

Thank you so much x

Good news that it’s working out for you!!
keep us posted 😄

Thought I would add the pic from yesterday and then I will try to find a rare one from before mj. Have a great day ladies.

ABBA voyage blew my mind last night! Has anyone been? The lines between the physical and digital were definitely blurred, it was absolutely amazing and I highly recommend it, as a side note, no squeezing into chairs or encroaching other people’s spaces, and the ease of walking over 27,000 steps. Here’s me in my very modest, no sequins Abba M&S size 16 dress. Ahhh - update, WiFi not letting me upload, will do it later.
have a happy weekend everyone

@Doggymummar ahhh, look at you, you’re beautiful in all images, both before and after! Amazing 🤩

@Doggymummar wow, you look like a completely different person, amazing.

@Iwouldratherbesinging I do quite fancy ABBA voyage, it sounds like a blast. Im glad you enjoyed it. I love a good show. We've got Take That tickets for their circus tour next year, I can't wait

@Doggymummar whay a transformation 🌟😍

I am loving all the photos 💕

You look fabulous @Doggymummar!

@Doggymummar you look amazing!

Blackberry jelly making today. Nobody in the family like bits in their jam so I'm using the steam juicer. Such a boon! I used to make the jelly using a jelly bag but always ended up with the kitchen looking like I had tried to dismember a corpse with a teaspoon.

Blackberry jelly is our go-to if we want to add some fruity sweetness to something: anything from salad dressings to sponges to gravy. We grow the blackberries on our allotment. Started with around 9kg of blackberries and now have around 4.5 litres of juice

Wk31 weigh in this morning (wk19 on 5mgs) … stayed same. Next pen on order and moving up a dose.

I’ve lost 23% of my starting weight and averaging 2.1lbs loss per week over the 31 weeks.

SW (15 Feb 25): 19st 9lbs / BMI 44.4 (obese class 3)
CW: 15st 3lbs / BMI 34.4 (obese class 1)
GW: healthy BMI (between 18.5 and 24.9 (8.3st-11st) for my height) - 4st 3lbs to go to get to top of healthy range.

Wks 1-4 (2.5mg): -17lbs
Wks 5-8 (2.5mg): -6lbs
Wks 9-12 (2.5mg): -11lbs
Wks 13-16 (5mg): -7lbs
Wks 17-20 (5mg): - 4lbs
Wks 21-24 (5mg): - 7lbs
Wks 25 - 28 (5mg): -7lbs
Wk 29 (5mg): 0lbs
Wk 30 (5mg): 3lbs
Wk 31 (5mg): 0lbs

Total loss: 62lbs

Mum2Fergus
Your progression and weight losses are fantastic. Congratulations for all the hard work you've done. I was wondering whether your Mounjaro supplier was happy to keep prescribing 2.5mg for 3 pens? I am thinking about keeping to 2.5mg for a third pen but my chemist was very unhappy with me having a 2.5mg second pen and wanted me to move up to 5mg. I don't know if I want another argument. Did you find the third pen 2.5mg pen was just as good or do you wish you'd moved up to the 5mg earlier?

I'm just back from a 6 mile walk with DH and the dogs. It was quite a challenge, very hilly in places, but I managed it without collapsing in a heap. Best thing when I got home though. My teenage son (boy of few words but many grunts!), gave me a fist bump and told me he was proud of me 🥰. And THAT is the number one reason I'm doing this, to make my kids proud 💕

My teenage son (boy of few words but many grunts!)

I had two of those. They're grown men now. They're a good deal better at communicating these days.

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OMG That is seriously exciting!!! @SilenceInside Are you going to mark this in some way? Treat? Trip? 10 stone!!! That is incredible!!!

@Billybingbong Well done! You're doing amazing and that's a fab loss! I found that the first few months were very much a quiet journey - not much to see and just being patient and then like you people started noticing and I could see in my before and after phtoos there was a real difference.

And similarly the thread goes fast and I'd love to let everyone know how much their victories make me happy and how much I value this thread. It so helps hearing people's struggles to becuase it makes it a safe place to share and feel less alone as well as finding people with common difficulties.

Doctors - yes one of the reasons I want to be 25bmi or under is literally so that I can go about other things and it not be the weight. Or even some of the thigns that could be weight to be eased (like asthma, recovery after chest infections).

Amazing photos ❤️.

I'm quite low today. I have work hanging over me and I procrastinate doing it so I don't even enjoy the time I'm not doing it. I do wish I ahd a more contained job as I want to enjoy evenings/weekends without getting into this "what have I done to my life" spiral. Its mainly work and AuDHD thought spiral related. And being overwhelmed. But I have wondered if MJ isn't helping. I'm so tired and low at the moment. And just not getting through the things that would help me be on top of teaching/admin.

I jabbed 8.3 yesterday and think in a week or two the lower level should settle.

Oh and - I video my exercises for my online training group and realised just how flappy and droopy my arm fat is. I've tried to take a screenshot of it so not a good photo and I know I wouldn't normally be at this angle... But it's already huge. And I have nearly 5 stone left to lose. I have known from the beginning I'd likely have loose skin and to work on acceptance and see it as a badge. But I hadn't realised it would be this bad. It literally can swing. And feels separate to my arm if that makes sense.

BTW own-brand Ozempic will start to be rolled out in a few months.

It's possibly going to to only £20/month.

I'm very interested in this.

Just found a "better" picture of the arm droop. It's like more than my arm width. But I guess it's better than it being full of fat. It must have been so much wider. And I'm getting to do the exercises. And I won't usually be stood like this!

Wow now that is exciting!!!

I've still not worked out what I'm doing MJ wise as I was so happy on it until the last few weeks and I'm so nervous of different side effects. I think I would have to wait til at least easter and possibly June before I could change over. But then maybe by then I'd be closer to my goal and happier to move...