Page 27 | 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 🥰

Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 13:49

RayonSunrise · 31/10/2025 12:39

@Goldleafcat I have started to realise that a lot of these comments and interrogations are actually the other person’s anxiety over their own weight bursting out into their relationships with other people. Your MIL’s behaviour is a classic example of it - being critical of you when you’re heavier (as she would be of herself), but now that you’re losing you have an enviable “skill” and she wants to know how you’re doing it

I’ve noticed this with a few friends who’ve interrogated me recently, despite them all knowing me well enough to have seen me go through some weight gain/loss cycles before. They are carrying more weight than they used to and are finding it hard to shift, but I think that rather than acknowledging that (and it’s not always easy to do that, I realise!) they’re working it through by honing in on me. WLIs are such big news right now of course their minds are going there - I suspect they are wondering if it’s “okay” to go there themselves. Which is fine, but I would be much happier to chat confidentially with someone who wanted to talk to me about HER weight, which might lead me to bring up WLIs myself if it seemed approproate.

Instead I’ve had some friends on a night out start asking me about my weight loss and then bring up WLIs in parallel, which didn’t exactly make me keen to offer up my personal medical decisions!

As of this next dose from my 7.5mg pen I’m starting to stretch out my days between injections. Usually today is my dose day, but I’m going to hold on until Monday. My next pen will also be 7.5mg and then I’ll be aiming to work up to a 14 day cycle through Christmas, then move to a 5mg pen in January and see how I go.

I’m not sure how much of a klaxon this is worth, but I broke a kg barrier this morning - down to 64.9 (so a whole 100g past 65), but still it’s the first time I’ve seen 64 on the scales at all! Not a bad start to maintenance.

Awesome on the kg threshold!

I think you’re 100% correct in this case. I recall when I first met her, Dec 1997, I was 10 stone, and on the first night she met me, she said to me and my now BIL’s partner ‘you two slim girls are putting me to shame’. I thought it a bit odd at the time. She’s literally obsessed with weight and has had a pattern of disordered eating for years.

I get the issue because I’ve struggled with my weight since childhood, but it’s pissed me off immensely being judged so much over the years. I owe her no explanations 🤣

Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 13:49

RayonSunrise · 31/10/2025 12:39

@Goldleafcat I have started to realise that a lot of these comments and interrogations are actually the other person’s anxiety over their own weight bursting out into their relationships with other people. Your MIL’s behaviour is a classic example of it - being critical of you when you’re heavier (as she would be of herself), but now that you’re losing you have an enviable “skill” and she wants to know how you’re doing it

I’ve noticed this with a few friends who’ve interrogated me recently, despite them all knowing me well enough to have seen me go through some weight gain/loss cycles before. They are carrying more weight than they used to and are finding it hard to shift, but I think that rather than acknowledging that (and it’s not always easy to do that, I realise!) they’re working it through by honing in on me. WLIs are such big news right now of course their minds are going there - I suspect they are wondering if it’s “okay” to go there themselves. Which is fine, but I would be much happier to chat confidentially with someone who wanted to talk to me about HER weight, which might lead me to bring up WLIs myself if it seemed approproate.

Instead I’ve had some friends on a night out start asking me about my weight loss and then bring up WLIs in parallel, which didn’t exactly make me keen to offer up my personal medical decisions!

As of this next dose from my 7.5mg pen I’m starting to stretch out my days between injections. Usually today is my dose day, but I’m going to hold on until Monday. My next pen will also be 7.5mg and then I’ll be aiming to work up to a 14 day cycle through Christmas, then move to a 5mg pen in January and see how I go.

I’m not sure how much of a klaxon this is worth, but I broke a kg barrier this morning - down to 64.9 (so a whole 100g past 65), but still it’s the first time I’ve seen 64 on the scales at all! Not a bad start to maintenance.

Awesome on the kg threshold!

I think you’re 100% correct in this case. I recall when I first met her, Dec 1997, I was 10 stone, and on the first night she met me, she said to me and my now BIL’s partner ‘you two slim girls are putting me to shame’. I thought it a bit odd at the time. She’s literally obsessed with weight and has had a pattern of disordered eating for years.

I get the issue because I’ve struggled with my weight since childhood, but it’s pissed me off immensely being judged so much over the years. I owe her no explanations 🤣

Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 14:16

RayonSunrise · 31/10/2025 12:39

@Goldleafcat I have started to realise that a lot of these comments and interrogations are actually the other person’s anxiety over their own weight bursting out into their relationships with other people. Your MIL’s behaviour is a classic example of it - being critical of you when you’re heavier (as she would be of herself), but now that you’re losing you have an enviable “skill” and she wants to know how you’re doing it

I’ve noticed this with a few friends who’ve interrogated me recently, despite them all knowing me well enough to have seen me go through some weight gain/loss cycles before. They are carrying more weight than they used to and are finding it hard to shift, but I think that rather than acknowledging that (and it’s not always easy to do that, I realise!) they’re working it through by honing in on me. WLIs are such big news right now of course their minds are going there - I suspect they are wondering if it’s “okay” to go there themselves. Which is fine, but I would be much happier to chat confidentially with someone who wanted to talk to me about HER weight, which might lead me to bring up WLIs myself if it seemed approproate.

Instead I’ve had some friends on a night out start asking me about my weight loss and then bring up WLIs in parallel, which didn’t exactly make me keen to offer up my personal medical decisions!

As of this next dose from my 7.5mg pen I’m starting to stretch out my days between injections. Usually today is my dose day, but I’m going to hold on until Monday. My next pen will also be 7.5mg and then I’ll be aiming to work up to a 14 day cycle through Christmas, then move to a 5mg pen in January and see how I go.

I’m not sure how much of a klaxon this is worth, but I broke a kg barrier this morning - down to 64.9 (so a whole 100g past 65), but still it’s the first time I’ve seen 64 on the scales at all! Not a bad start to maintenance.

Awesome on the kg threshold!
I think you're 100% correct in this case. I recall when I first met her, 1997, I was 10 stone, and on the first night she met me, she said to me and my now BIL's partner 'you two slim girls are putting me to shame‘. I thought it a bit odd at the time. She's literally obsessed with weight and has had a pattern of disordered eating for years.

I get the issue because l've struggled with my weight since childhood, but it's pissed me off immensely being judged so much over the years. I owe her no explanations 🤣

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 15:45

Happy Friday everyone! And happy Halloween 🎃

It’s been a busy few days, DD was back from uni for a reading week so it was good to spend some quality time together alongside paying for all of her beauty appointments/upkeep 😂

Still at 132.4 LBS… I had hoped to see the magic 130.0 by my MJ anniversary which is on Tuesday… However, I have had a lot of wine for the past week!

My big news is… I have achieved 260 Pvolve classes as of this morning ahead of my Pvolve anniversary tomorrow which works out at exactly an average of five classes per week over the past year 💪 I may not have lost the last couple of pounds, but I am definitely more toned and have a better muscle mass then I would’ve had without putting in the hard work. And my postpartum belly apron has finally disappeared.

It’s a quieter weekend for me, DH is hosting at Twickenham tomorrow, so I’ve booked myself in for a Clarins body ritual which is two hours of facial and full body massage… hi Sean then be watching strictly uninterrupted with a nice glass of rosé. Absolute bliss.

Off to do some more vinting this afternoon… Although it is slightly annoying that the payments are being held at the moment. Anyone else having this issue?

Hope everyone has something lovely planned for the weekend, off now to catch up on the last couple of days news from you all.

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 15:47

RayonSunrise · 28/10/2025 08:34

Hello lovely jabbers, hope you’ve all had lovely weekends. Wowee @BlueWalker- size 8! It’s amazing how you can keep wearing the larger sizes and not realise how slim you’ve actually become, isn’t it?

I was on a city break this weekend, thoroughly enjoying how much our death jabs help me not overeat when I’m in a strange place with lots of intriguing things to try! All the extra walking this weekend has brought me down to my lowest weight to date, despite my increased wine intake - 65.2kg (144lbs). I’m pretty close to my previous teenage low now. (Blimey!)

Today is my Oushk maintenance call and I will be making a decision on my next pen afterwards. I am anticipating either sticking at 7.5 and extending time between doses, or going down to 5. Either way I am looking forward to spending less on the medication, so there’s a silver lining to look forward to! But I admit I’m a little nervous about maintenance. The pens are a real psychological comfort as well as a medical one, I find.

How did the call go? What did you decide? I’ve decided to stay purchasing 5 mg pens but to take 2.5 mg doses from it as that will work out cheaper for me.

Holiday sounds fab, well done at not packing on the pounds!

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 15:50

Della82 · 28/10/2025 12:19

Hi everyone,

I’ve been very absent, busy summer with work and other things.
i came of mountain in July when I was at goal weight, maintained for about 6 weeks then had some big social events and started being naughty.

Ive put a stone on 😭

have ordered a pen and need to verify my weight with Oushk so fingers crossed I can get back into good habits!
I will try to post more to be accountable

Well done with all the progress everyone 💪

Take small bites of the elephant. It’s 14 LBS, not 60, and you know what to do to shift that in a reasonable timeframe.💪

I absolutely find that posting my weight here on a Friday keeps me accountable to myself, so check in whenever you feel you need the support. You’ve got this 💪

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 15:52

Goldleafcat · 29/10/2025 08:45

I’ve been eating more than normal this past week (period hunger! Feed the womb! Apparently 🙄) and forced myself to brave the scales this morning (normal weigh in day is a Friday) but was pleasantly surprised to see a 10 on the scales! 10 stone 13, but still, a 10!

I was actually confused at first, thinking the scales were on the wrong setting (pounds or something) (guinea pigs) because I was expecting 11 something and it took me a moment 🤦‍♀️😂

A new stone bracket! How wonderful! Clever you 👏🙌🥳

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 15:53

Della82 · 29/10/2025 09:12

Thank you @Goldleafcat

i am a big stress eater/drinker and made bad food choices when travelling for work 🙈

am back in the gym 3x a week and am going to try to meal prep and make healthy lunches-I love a nice soup so will try to get back into good habits when im home working.

i do have a couple of work trips ahead so will try to be better then too and will take my gym clothes so i can work out

i will get back to checking in regularly here as I do think it held me accountable

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That sounds like an excellent plan 👏👏

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 15:54

jay55 · 28/10/2025 09:57

I wish MJ cured my shopping habit. I’ve gone wild this morning on the liberty beauty kits.

Went to the office yesterday and really felt the cold on the walk home. I need some gloves. I’m not sure I even own any, since a bunch got eaten by mice(not where I live now).
Took my jab a day late. Just forgot yesterday which is weird but good. 12.5 keeps me topped up the whole week, no hungry weekends.

Loving hearing about maintenance. It’s so far away for me but I’m willing you all on, size 8 coats and tiny knickers.

Ooh we need to hear more about the beauty kits!

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Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 16:10

Urgh sorry about the multiple posts! 🤦‍♀️

Halloween gremlins?! I do find Mumsnet keeps freezing / half loading the page then playing silly beggars at times. Could be my phone though!

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:25

MagnoliaTreePetals · 29/10/2025 14:37

Hello Lovely People
Checking in

SW 16.5
CW 10.12
TWL 5 1/2 stone.
Very surprisingly a New Stone Level!

I'm Into my 3rd month of Maintenance, injecting 12.5mg every 12 days-or-so
Again, as always, I was convinced I had put on weight, but in fact I had lost some instead. This will probably go up a fraction as I enter the days where there is less/no MJ in my system, and I tend to eat a little bit more, but I am not fixated on being under 11 stone, trying to stay around the 11.2 mark is my aim.

This is already the longest I have ever maintained for, I think it is 9 weeks now.
I would like to stretch the injecting gap to every 14 days, but with trips away and an operation, it seems every 12 days is what I will do until after Christmas. At that point I will also start to titrate down the doses.

I am still focussing on protein and fibre, with a few glasses of wine at the weekend. On the days when there is less MJ in my system I do have to remind myself not to size up portions or have second helpings, as I don't feel myself getting full, but I am not getting hungry between meals and if I feel the call to snack/stress eat it is very light and easily ignored.

We went to a wonderful family wedding and I felt fabulous! Absolutely loved dressing up in my posh frock and hat, and I just felt so happy and confident.

Something else I have noticed, which for me is absolutely bizarre, is that I really feel the need to get out and exercise. I need to go for a long brisk walk or a swim at least 3 times a week, or things just feel 'wrong'. (I always thought the people who said they 'needed' to exercise were either weird or pretending!)

Such a brilliant post! Congratulations on the new stone bracket, that’s fabulous and what a difference it makes now going to social events when you feel so fabulous don’t you think ?

And 💯 with you on the exercise. It’d feel weird for me now not to exercise Monday to Friday!

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:26

Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 16:10

Urgh sorry about the multiple posts! 🤦‍♀️

Halloween gremlins?! I do find Mumsnet keeps freezing / half loading the page then playing silly beggars at times. Could be my phone though!

Did you? I haven’t got to them yet 😂

yes, the site is a real PITA at the moment.

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:28

lovealongbath · 30/10/2025 07:50

Morning all

Weekly weigh in on 4.8mg dose
week 50

SW 18st 4.3lbs
CW 13 stone 13.1
Loss this week is 2lbs
Total loss so far, 4 stone 5lb
I have lost 24% of my starting weight
SBMI 43
CBMI 33.4

Feeling bizarrely content! Obviously I still have a long way to go but I’m happy where I am at the moment. I feel good and I must look good as I the compliments are flowing.

Brilliant! You are doing so well, keep going and enjoy those compliments!

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:29

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 30/10/2025 16:18

Congratulations to all the new stone brackets and klaxoneers!

Off to hide the MJ because DM is babysitting tonight and I don’t want her to find it in the fridge.

😂 my mother was an absolute snooper too.

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:30

SerenePeer · 30/10/2025 19:22

Well done for getting back on the jabs @Della82 - good to know we have MJ in our back pockets if bad habits start creeping back in!

Bravo @goldleafcat on your new stone level! Whoop whoop! And @magnoliatreepetals welcome to the 10 club both of you!

I was late taking my jab this week as I was away for the night with my bestie and I didnt want to risk any side effects. So instead of jabbing Sunday morning, I jabbed Monday night just before bed. Big mistake. Within 2 hours I lost the contents of my stomach and shall not be able to face chilli for some time :-( So lesson learned - i need to jab on an empty stomach! The rest of the family ate the same, so I think this was just my body objecting to jabbing on a full stomach after a weekend of socialising (no booze but rich food).

Silver lining = breaking my plateau and reaching a new low weight 😂

It’s funny how we’re all different isn’t it? Because I jab before bed, and never have an issue (aside from insomnia on the first day of jabbing).

Congratulations at breaking the plateau though! 😂

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:32

Cantbesure · 31/10/2025 09:34

19 weeks off MJ. Weight holding steady BMI averages around 23.
having my over-50 health check this week. My overall cholesterol is 4.8, ratio is 2.7 but my triglycerides are slightly high. BP is good and chat gpt says my heart attack/stroke risk is lower than for my age group. Annoying about my triglycerides and I don’t have previous cholesterol levels to compare with. But I had mild hypertension before MJ. I’m pleased to see my BP has remained healthy, it is a bit higher than when I was on MJ but that’s not a bad thing as it was borderline low.

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You are doing so well though, and there isn’t much more you could be doing either? I wouldn’t stress over a slightly elevated level, just keep doing what you’ve been doing.

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:36

Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 09:52

Happy Halloween 🎃

It’s approx one year since I started this MJ journey. In this time I’ve lost more than 5 and a half stone and reached my first goal weight of 11 stone (which I thought was impossible! Now I’ve scraped into the 10s). Rather magical! 🧙

Hope everyone has had a good week and a lovely weekend lined up.

We are at MILs. She’s not a bad woman but has been a nightmare over the years about my weight (I’m too fat for her son etc). She is literally obsessed with weight and always comments on other people. I last saw her in the summer and she commented on my weight loss then but I’ve obviously lost some more since then. One of the first things she said to me last night when we arrived was ‘have you lost more weight?’ I said ‘oh a bit’ and she commented how she’s put more on. I just said I wouldn’t worry. Then later on she brought it up again and asked me if it’s been a struggle to lose the weight. I pretended not to hear the first time (we were eating dinner) but she repeated it. I just said I’ve learned I can’t eat as much as I’d like to, sadly!

Later on, she actually asked me ‘you’re not taking anything to help you lose the weight are you?’ 🙄 If she had been more supportive over the years and not the woman she is I may have been honest. As it is, I lied and said no. I did say I’m eating a lot less and doing more exercise (which is true).
Apparently this morning when I was in the shower she told DH it’s good I’ve lost weight. But again asked about tablets and injections 🙄

I have a feeling the interrogation is not over yet…

Jesus? She sounds like hard work. My first MIL gave me a pedometer and a Pyrex dish at Christmas😂. I took such issue with it having bought really thoughtful and tasteful gifts for everybody else that my first DH had to supervise any further present buying from his bat shit crazy mother. The only way I could actually cope with being at her house was to tuck into the gin and Dubonnet Cocktails that his long suffering father would serve me (I was like a young queen mother). Basically, I was just always pissed when I was there. 😂 I hope your DH stays tightlipped and that you rise above the jibes.. I think the issues lie solely with your MIL 😘

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:37

PinkArt · 31/10/2025 10:06

Weighing in.

W52D7
SW: 19st 9lbs
CW:14st 05lbs
1st GW: 17st 13lbs
2nd GW 15st 4lbs
3rd GW: 13st 9lbs
TL: 5st 04lb

Heading back in the right direction again. I might be pushing it to hit 14st 02 by the 8th Nov but I was briefly 14st 04 mid week so you never know.

I've finally got an abdominal scan tomorrow, to see if there is anything lurking that's been causing the persistent mild abdominal pains. Fingers and toes very much crossed that nothing bad is discovered.

Thinking of you for tomorrow. Hope all goes well 💐

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Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:39

Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 13:49

Awesome on the kg threshold!

I think you’re 100% correct in this case. I recall when I first met her, Dec 1997, I was 10 stone, and on the first night she met me, she said to me and my now BIL’s partner ‘you two slim girls are putting me to shame’. I thought it a bit odd at the time. She’s literally obsessed with weight and has had a pattern of disordered eating for years.

I get the issue because I’ve struggled with my weight since childhood, but it’s pissed me off immensely being judged so much over the years. I owe her no explanations 🤣

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In the words of those fantastic 80’s philosophers, Bros, 🎶“I owe you nothing, nothing at all’ 🎶 😉

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Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 19:12

Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 16:36

Jesus? She sounds like hard work. My first MIL gave me a pedometer and a Pyrex dish at Christmas😂. I took such issue with it having bought really thoughtful and tasteful gifts for everybody else that my first DH had to supervise any further present buying from his bat shit crazy mother. The only way I could actually cope with being at her house was to tuck into the gin and Dubonnet Cocktails that his long suffering father would serve me (I was like a young queen mother). Basically, I was just always pissed when I was there. 😂 I hope your DH stays tightlipped and that you rise above the jibes.. I think the issues lie solely with your MIL 😘

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OMG I love the fact your FIL kept you in fantastic cocktails and the young queen mother reference 🤣

I am drinking wine!

Fortunately DH understands the power of less is more with MIL. She has the propensity to ‘worry’ (her mother was as bad, she used to take the mickey out of her but has turned into her in this regard), and with his health issues she can get a bit too full on (and she generally only cares about him and DS, I’m like a secretary with info most of the time).

Tonight I was told not to lose any more, I’m slim enough now as it is.

Well, it’s an improvement.

(I’m totally aiming for at least 10 stone 7!)

Goldleafcat · 31/10/2025 20:49

Mounjaropen · 31/10/2025 15:45

Happy Friday everyone! And happy Halloween 🎃

It’s been a busy few days, DD was back from uni for a reading week so it was good to spend some quality time together alongside paying for all of her beauty appointments/upkeep 😂

Still at 132.4 LBS… I had hoped to see the magic 130.0 by my MJ anniversary which is on Tuesday… However, I have had a lot of wine for the past week!

My big news is… I have achieved 260 Pvolve classes as of this morning ahead of my Pvolve anniversary tomorrow which works out at exactly an average of five classes per week over the past year 💪 I may not have lost the last couple of pounds, but I am definitely more toned and have a better muscle mass then I would’ve had without putting in the hard work. And my postpartum belly apron has finally disappeared.

It’s a quieter weekend for me, DH is hosting at Twickenham tomorrow, so I’ve booked myself in for a Clarins body ritual which is two hours of facial and full body massage… hi Sean then be watching strictly uninterrupted with a nice glass of rosé. Absolute bliss.

Off to do some more vinting this afternoon… Although it is slightly annoying that the payments are being held at the moment. Anyone else having this issue?

Hope everyone has something lovely planned for the weekend, off now to catch up on the last couple of days news from you all.

I’ve seen the payments issue. The fb groups are up in arms. I have £14 in my account and only something like £5 pending so I’m not too concerned at the movement. I do understand the worry for those with a lot more pending though.

I also have an absolute mountain of clothes I need to list. My home office has become vinted catalogue direct situation.

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 01/11/2025 08:43

@MagnoliaTreePetals here’s a klaxon for you

🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🎉

for the new stone level - brilliant

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 01/11/2025 08:47

Good luck for today @PinkArt

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 01/11/2025 08:55

@RayonSunrise @Goldleafcat yep tell me about interrogations! I still haven’t recovered from my interrogation coffee meet-up the other week. And today we are off to meet an old friendship group which I know is going to result in questions - the blokes won’t be interested but a couple of the women definitely will be.

TheSlimmingPumpkin · 01/11/2025 08:58

@RayonSunrise here’s a klaxon for your new kg

🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🎉