Page 20 | Mounjaro Starters Nov ‘24 Thread 14 - The one where for the first time, ALL of our Winter coats do up 🤗

Mounjaropen · 2025-09-23T20:06:31+00:00

Welcome to thread 14! Link to our last thread here: [[https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5394264-mounjaro-starters-nov-24-thread-13-the-one-where-we-are-lucky-to-end-our-best-summer-in-years-thinner-and-more-comfortable-in-our-own-skin?page=40 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5394264-mounjaro-starters-nov-24-thread-13-the-one-where-we-are-lucky-to-end-our-best-summer-in-years-thinner-and-more-comfortable-in-our-own-skin?page=40]] Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we enter Autumn knowing that ALL of our Winter coats will do up 🥰 Join us here to celebrate NSV’s, weight loss milestones, maintenance and new stone brackets! I’m on W47 D2 and on w2 of my second titrating down pen of 5.0mg F in my early 50’s H 5’ 5.5” SW 13st 11lb CW 9st 7.0lbs GW 9st 0lb Total loss so far 61.0 lbs (at 9st 6.0) We recommend the Shotsy app to monitor the amount of MJ in the system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free. Feel free to swap recipes that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for managing side effects, exercise tips, tips for maintenance, titrating up or down and we love a wellness/supplements/beauty/ style chat too 🥰

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:12

Cantbesure · 17/10/2025 20:55

Thanks to @Mounjaropenfor the Tesco cardi recommendation. I got a little burgundy cardigan with gold buttons and a fake suede skirt for under £20 in an xs and a 6!!! No one was more surprised than me that the skirt fitted.

today is 17 weeks off MJ. I’m at the top end of my range this week but birthday celebrations etc are in flow. I feel I can bring it back into line when they are over.

Ooh fabulous! I’ve got the same cardi. I might buy a short pleather burgundy skirt I saw online to go with mine.

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:13

random223 · 17/10/2025 20:36

Checking in with a pound off this week:
SW: 14st
CW: 9 st 10
GW: 9 st 7 (BMI: 23)

I have three weeks to my MJ-versary and 3 lbs to go! Not done brilliantly exercise or eating wise this week but not been feeling too well so am cutting myself some slack.

Well done everyone - especially @Goldleafcat on a healthy BMI!!!

Well done! 👏 we’re gonna be weight loss twins if I get there, but I’m not holding out much hope 😂

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:15

Caplin · 17/10/2025 16:38

Hello all, some great wins this week!!! Amazing to think we are almost a year into this journey!!!

I had a NSV today. After months of plateau (although I think I was still shrinking even if the scale wasn’t moving) I finally started losing again three weeks ago, another 1lb off today. So I tried on my target jeans, which I do every now and then. Well…THEY ONLY FLIPPING FIT!!!! Last time I wore them was pre children over 16 years ago! They are French Connection and a size 16, but deffo smaller than every other size 16 I currently own. I actually feel I could each a size 14 soon if I lose another half stone, so need to pause my Vinted buying!

I’m going to try and add another gym session each week. I do two strength sessions with a PT at the moment plus dog walking. I’m averaging about 2k more steps a day average from this time last year.

Also had a hydra facial today and my therapist said my skin was looking the best it has ever looked!!! Maybe that collagen is working after all!!!!

What a joyful post to read! Happy new jeans day!

💪💪💪

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:21

LindtCurves · 17/10/2025 14:16

For me what seemed to work best was increasing my protein, and really reducing fat in my diet. I still have some, but from things like avocado, full fat yoghurt etc. I still have work to do on that front though, would love areas like bottom and thighs to looked more ripped and muscular, and my overall muscle to fat ratio to improve. Right now I look like someone who is quite thin and occasionally works out, which is about what I deserve as that's my lifestyle!

So perhaps become a gym bunny is not essential, and nutrient tweaks in diet can help instead? What's everyone else's experience with body recomposition efforts?

Peak District hikes sound fabulous! Wrap up warm, it's a lovely way to socialise as well though 😊

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I think you have to work out what your body responds to best. For me, that is low carb but lots of good quality protein, fresh fruit and veg. I’m not a massive dairy consumer (I get bunged up in my sinuses and yoghurt has a laxative effect on me) so I ensure I take vit D at this time of year to counteract the calcium I’d get from dairy products. I can finally see the results of strength bearing exercise (it’s taken a year mind you) but the results are quite addictive so I’m continuing with it.

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:25

Goldleafcat · 17/10/2025 14:02

Thank you!

That is an excellent question. I’m looking to incorporate more resistance training to build muscle but aware that’s probably not going to necessarily do much for the flab. I think I need to consider introducing more cardio type activities. I’m not an exercise fan in general (except for reformer Pilates, even then that can be a struggle at times!) so need to think about what is realistic! Maybe if I just do more walking (including up and down hills, I live at the edge of the Peak District in a hilly town so no real excuses there!) to start and take it from there. I got my walking pad which has an incline option so I need to get better at actually using it!

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What shifted my belly fat without question was a steady incline walk but for a decent amount of time - so 50mins at a time whilst watching some utter shite on the telly. But it sounds idyllic where you live! How wonderful.

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:26

MontyJinks · 17/10/2025 12:54

Oh I've found the PERFECT response to those judgy naysayers/friends who offer mock concern...... (not the ones who genuinely comment from a nice pleased point of view, you know the ones I mean) 🙄

"OMG, you've lost SO MUCH weight, you're shrinking, you're tiny etc".......

Response: "yes you're right, I used to be SO FAT"

then just stop talking, leaving the word 'fat' lingering in the air
enjoy watching them squirm whilst furiously backtracking

Mwah hahahaha

👏👏👏bravo.

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:27

LindtCurves · 17/10/2025 12:25

Thank you, had a little look! Loved a couple of items on first look, though thought 'this is a bit much for H&M'.

Like this dress, and pre weight loss me would have never worn white... https://www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1294566001.html

However, had a closer look at materials and it's all polyester! £279 for a microplastic shedding fossil frock? Meanwhile H&M reports increased profits... Hmmm yeah no wonder if you sell cheap materials for cashmere prices.

I really wish designers doing these collabs would put their foot down and say, 'if I'm going to work with you, certain standards need to be met'. But that's not how commercial fashion works, unfortunately...

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I do love the long brown satin dress though. Very chic.

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:30

LindtCurves · 17/10/2025 12:37

Oh my, this made me laugh so much!!! I kinda wish you'd write a short story out of it!!

Why are people so obsessed with knowing someone else's medical history? Since when is this kind of prying called 'friendship'?

There's a couple of really big girls at work (probably size 30+) that are shrinking before my eyes. They're probably on the same meds as me. Would I ever ask them or care? Hello no, I'm glad people are getting healthier, their mental health is improving, and medication is now available for that. And also that the taxpayer's NHS budget burden will hopefully decrease a little, even though we are self-funding this. I had creeping health problems and at least one condition that made life quite rough day to day that was obesity/PCOS related, and now I have none. I hope the same for other people, no matter how they achieve it. Everyne deserves a full, happy, healthy life.

Would people really prefer others lose weight eating 200 calories a day and exercising while wrapped in plastic?

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It’s all so weird isn’t it? Just no one else’s business how someone chooses to manage their weight. Or not!

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:33

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 17/10/2025 11:50

I agree @PinkArt In my friendship groups there are a few like that. One actually invited me out last week for coffee and it transpired her express purpose was to get me to admit to weight loss jabs. But, dear readers, I didn’t cave in once, oh no I showed no weakness. I droned on about Micheal Mosley who I bored on a lot about last October. Then moved onto my step count, Pilates and now jogging. Also how no longer working means I am not stress eating and sleeping better blah blah blah. I got away with an interrogation that could have come out of a gestapo training manual, honestly at one point I think she was considering water boarding me especially when another friend turned up by ‘surprise’ to join in. The funny thing being that the ambush friend was the one who I spotted the Oushk puffin packaging at her home in the summer 😂😂

Anyway the lead interrogator was concerned that in her mid-fifties she is now having to wear a size 12 and was doing her best to stop size 14 happening. I munched a biscuit (very rare these days) to stop myself saying that I have gone from a size 22/20 to a more than comfortable 12 with a potential 10 hopefully in the next few months. I tried the obesity is a disease approach with her but she responded that I was clearly eating too much and my weight loss progress proved it 😂. Ambush friend said that WLIs are so expensive and how she is amazed anyone can afford them.

Got home and told DH about the encounter. His lips are sealed. He is a good secret keeper.

OMG I’m just so angry for you reading this. And totally weird behaviour from your ‘friend’ and love the fact you know the ambush friend’s little secret. 😂

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 11:57

DarkForces · 18/10/2025 11:07

I must admit I'm always glad when someone says I look fab and I've lost loads of weight. It's cost me ££££ to be healthy so it's a bonus return on the investment 😂

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Oh I think there’s joy to be found in compliments 😂 it’s the people who want to chat about a third party’s weight. In a conspiratorial way I think is odd.

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PinkArt · 18/10/2025 14:11

Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 10:58

Well good morning fellow death jabbers… a new variant on ‘omg/you look well’ blah blah blah… yesterday I was told by my lunch partner that ‘I looked like the reveal on a house renovation show….you know, when they’ve finished it and it looks fabulous’ 🫤
as if that wasn’t bad enough she went on to say, ‘I’m so glad I got to see the before’

Dear reader, it was so blunt that I burst out laughing. She is one of those friends that means well but has no filter bless her. Plus she’d tucked into the fizzy wine before I’d arrived so that probably didn’t help. On the upside, the food was fabulous (it’s a new restaurant opening next week and we were at the soft launch which meant every dish was 50% off) and then I ended up meeting DH afterwards for more completely unnecessary drinks for which I’m paying the price this morning…!

Fucking hell! 'You look great. And you looked SO shit before' 😂

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 18/10/2025 14:40

House renovation comparison has made me 😂 so much @Mounjaropen

I think part of the issue is I am a lot thinner and about in the lower middle in terms of size for my friendship groups now. And because I am thinner I have an improved beauty regime (thanks team) and I am wearing nicer clothes that fit better. So those things along with Pilates and running (very slow jogging in my case ) probably mean that I do look so much better than before.

My friends had 10-20 years of the plumper pumpkin 🎃 and some never saw the ‘before kids pumpkin’

Maybe we should tell friends ‘actually I was a hottie before kids then in all went to pot so I am just getting back towards the zone I used to be’

Do you remember my sea salt larissa shirt story from the summer? I purchased a shirt which was on sale size 14 but only after a friend said it didn’t fit her and she was very disappointed. I am wearing it today and it’s definitely veering towards the too big size but will be fine under a jumper.

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 18/10/2025 14:41

PinkArt · 18/10/2025 14:11

Fucking hell! 'You look great. And you looked SO shit before' 😂

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I wish MN would bring back the laughing and shocked emojis

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Mounjaropen · 18/10/2025 15:27

PinkArt · 18/10/2025 14:11

Fucking hell! 'You look great. And you looked SO shit before' 😂

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It was this. Fair play to her, on my instagram post (in which she featured) she had the good grace to say I looked fab and she needed to up her clothing game. So all is well.

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Goldleafcat · 18/10/2025 16:04

Operation ‘be more active’ has worked well yesterday and today. I had the unexpected pleasure of a free ticket to the theatre last night through a friend, travelled into Manchester to meet her, ended up doing a fair amount of walking (offset by drinks 🤣) and had a wonderful time. A lovely change to Peppa Pig! Then today we did a reasonably long walk (at least for a toddler) in the Peak District (Longshaw, would recommend!) (I think it’s raining from tomorrow for a week so had to seize the day!). I shall be putting the treadmill into action this week and will be treating myself to some nonsense tv on the iPad to keep me going! Thanks for the tip @Mounjaropen

I am also now officially an ‘Oushker’ (🤔) after reviewing Boots’ prices for 15mg and thinking Hahahaha absolutely not. Even with the 10% off for repeat customers. Am so pleased I did the call etc. with Hira in September so it was relatively easy to order a pen. I am curious about this special packaging everyone is talking about and weirdly keen to see if I can make some alternative use out of it when it arrives!

I cannot believe how cheeky some people are with the comments on weight loss or launching what is basically an interrogation into how people have lost weight! Sods! Well done on all your responses and how you’ve handled it. @Mounjaropen that was hilarious but also random. I now await for the moment I get compared to a project from DIY SOS 😂

MounjNewb · 18/10/2025 16:52

I'm a little overdue an update from me although I'm very up to date on everyone elses' amazing successes. What an achieving group you all are 💪!

So I'm 3 weeks from my 10/11 mounjaversary (is that what we're calling it 🤔?) and have been maintaining since July, bouncing around between 10st2 and 10st5 (BMI 21.7 - 22). I'd rather it were 10st and 10st3, but then I've been both strength training and running a fair bit and can see I'm putting muscle on, so not likely to drop now. Like all of you, I couldn't be happier with the new body!!!

I am super impressed with those of you titrating down and/or spacing out your jabs. I'm still at 7.5mg every week and very much feel that I'll struggle if I reduce - but again, not complaining and would take the cost of the death jabs over gaining again any day.

I've been reflecting back over the past year and thought I'd list all the things I miss about being fat:

Those additional 50 calories I'd burn on a 5k run;
........hmmmm.....?

No, that's it!

lovealongbath · 18/10/2025 17:45

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 18/10/2025 14:41

I wish MN would bring back the laughing and shocked emojis

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We have flowers now 💐

Amelanchier · 18/10/2025 23:05

I'm one of those slow losers, averaging 0.6lb a week across the last 11 months on MJ. But sound the klaxon - 3stone off since my heaviest (2st9 off whilst on MJ) and down from 37.9 BMI at heaviest to 30.0 today! I am still on 10mg but will aim to go to 12.5 next pen assuming new provider (local pharmacy) can provide. Bit of a plateau lately and I want to shed 2 stone more and be in a healthy bmi zone before I stop.

Goldleafcat · 19/10/2025 07:53

Amelanchier · 18/10/2025 23:05

I'm one of those slow losers, averaging 0.6lb a week across the last 11 months on MJ. But sound the klaxon - 3stone off since my heaviest (2st9 off whilst on MJ) and down from 37.9 BMI at heaviest to 30.0 today! I am still on 10mg but will aim to go to 12.5 next pen assuming new provider (local pharmacy) can provide. Bit of a plateau lately and I want to shed 2 stone more and be in a healthy bmi zone before I stop.

Woohoo that’s brilliant! Slow losing is great as it minimises side effects. You’re at the cusp of a new BMI bracket too! 🎉

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 19/10/2025 09:15

Ringing the 3 stone klaxon for @Amelanchier

📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔🎉

well done👏🏻. Onwards and downwards 💪🏻 The overweight BMI klaxon is ‘weighting’ for you.

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Mounjaropen · 19/10/2025 10:08

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 19/10/2025 09:15

Ringing the 3 stone klaxon for @Amelanchier

📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔🎉

well done👏🏻. Onwards and downwards 💪🏻 The overweight BMI klaxon is ‘weighting’ for you.

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I like what you did there 😂🙌

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Mounjaropen · 19/10/2025 11:03

Amelanchier · 18/10/2025 23:05

I'm one of those slow losers, averaging 0.6lb a week across the last 11 months on MJ. But sound the klaxon - 3stone off since my heaviest (2st9 off whilst on MJ) and down from 37.9 BMI at heaviest to 30.0 today! I am still on 10mg but will aim to go to 12.5 next pen assuming new provider (local pharmacy) can provide. Bit of a plateau lately and I want to shed 2 stone more and be in a healthy bmi zone before I stop.

congratulations!

Keep going! We’ve all hit plateaus so share your frustration but your steady losses are impressive . Use the MeThreeSixty app to track inch loss if the scales aren’t shifting to maintain motivation - often you can be surprised! Then go back to first principles about having a good quality protein rich diet, plenty of water and as much movement as your body allows. 💪💪💪

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SerenePeer · 19/10/2025 11:07

Happy weekend skinny expensive death jabbers!

Yesterday was my birthday 🎂 and I finished the day full of lasagne and birthday cake! How many portions of lasagne did I have? Just 1. How many slices of birthday cake did I have? I dont think it could even be classed as a slice...more a sliver! I can't remember the last time I had a birthday where I didn't spend the whole day stuffing myself just because I could. I also can't remember a birthday where I wasn't saying things like " if only I'd lost half a stone by now...OK let's aim for Christmas...as soon as the cake is finished I'll get back on track and lose half a stone/2 stone/my belly". So many birthdays spent feeling guilty and ashamed 😞

But yesterday I just felt so grateful. So happy to be celebrating another year but with 4 stone less of me. The birthday cake will probably go stale because I'm not obsessing over it and even the abundance of Halloween and Christmas sweets in the shops is not bothering me. So blooming grateful for mounjaro.

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Mounjaropen · 19/10/2025 11:13

MounjNewb · 18/10/2025 16:52

I'm a little overdue an update from me although I'm very up to date on everyone elses' amazing successes. What an achieving group you all are 💪!

So I'm 3 weeks from my 10/11 mounjaversary (is that what we're calling it 🤔?) and have been maintaining since July, bouncing around between 10st2 and 10st5 (BMI 21.7 - 22). I'd rather it were 10st and 10st3, but then I've been both strength training and running a fair bit and can see I'm putting muscle on, so not likely to drop now. Like all of you, I couldn't be happier with the new body!!!

I am super impressed with those of you titrating down and/or spacing out your jabs. I'm still at 7.5mg every week and very much feel that I'll struggle if I reduce - but again, not complaining and would take the cost of the death jabs over gaining again any day.

I've been reflecting back over the past year and thought I'd list all the things I miss about being fat:

Those additional 50 calories I'd burn on a 5k run;
........hmmmm.....?

No, that's it!

lol at the 50 more calls being burnt whilst inevitably being a sweaty mess! . I did a silent thank you to you yesterday as I punched more holes into my belt with the most excellent device you recommended! 💪

Well done at maintaining! Awesome!

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Mounjaropen · 19/10/2025 11:16

Goldleafcat · 18/10/2025 16:04

Operation ‘be more active’ has worked well yesterday and today. I had the unexpected pleasure of a free ticket to the theatre last night through a friend, travelled into Manchester to meet her, ended up doing a fair amount of walking (offset by drinks 🤣) and had a wonderful time. A lovely change to Peppa Pig! Then today we did a reasonably long walk (at least for a toddler) in the Peak District (Longshaw, would recommend!) (I think it’s raining from tomorrow for a week so had to seize the day!). I shall be putting the treadmill into action this week and will be treating myself to some nonsense tv on the iPad to keep me going! Thanks for the tip @Mounjaropen

I am also now officially an ‘Oushker’ (🤔) after reviewing Boots’ prices for 15mg and thinking Hahahaha absolutely not. Even with the 10% off for repeat customers. Am so pleased I did the call etc. with Hira in September so it was relatively easy to order a pen. I am curious about this special packaging everyone is talking about and weirdly keen to see if I can make some alternative use out of it when it arrives!

I cannot believe how cheeky some people are with the comments on weight loss or launching what is basically an interrogation into how people have lost weight! Sods! Well done on all your responses and how you’ve handled it. @Mounjaropen that was hilarious but also random. I now await for the moment I get compared to a project from DIY SOS 😂

Ahh the Peppa pig years.. you could drop me blindfolded into an episode and I could probably repeat it word for word 18 years later 😂 Glad you had an excellent adult outing! You Just need your own Nick Knowles moment now 😂😂😂

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