Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 8!)

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Roll up, roll up (if you can, you skinny Minnie’s!) to all the brave WL warriors still battling on and hanging on in there.

8 months in … welcome to thread 8! 🥰

This thread I pledge:
to do two exercise sessions per week.
(There I’ve said it. Better do it now, hadn’t I).

Goal:
Find an amazing dress to wear for an awards ceremony I am going to in November.

Anyone else got any particular targets?

Big love to you all x

A bit stuck here myself. I lost most of my weight on 2.5mg. After about 6 months I ended up getting 5mg and counting clicks so went through 3mg then 3.75 then 4 and eventually at about a year in onto 5mg. Here I am at 16 months in. I’ve lost just over 6 stone and feel amazing. But I have stalled. I am in the overweight rather than obese category which is great, but I still need to lose about another stone to be in the healthy weight band. After about 5 weeks of nothing changing and feeling like the food noise was creeping up I went up to 7.5mg. Done a pen and golden dose on that and still nothing. I keep losing then putting back on the same 1lb.

Feel a bit stuck to be honest. I have upped my water and protein and fibre. I am counting and in deficit and getting suppression and being full on smaller portions still.

I am at the weight I was in my 30’s which is great and feel healthier and fitter. Down to size 12/14 clothes. Knees and hip pain gone, asthma way improved. I was lucky I was not diabetic or had high blood pressure at the start but feel the loses have pulled me back from the brink of both of those. Just spent the morning gardening and loved every second, just feel full of energy.

I am torn, it feels like I need to get down to the healthy band, but feels like my body is comfortable at this level and doesn’t want to go lower lol.

I don’t want to go higher on dose as the side effects are worse, first 2 weeks it really kicked my ass and even now get the headache and nausea for the first 24 hrs after. Feels like I am suffering for 1-2 days a week, but getting no where.

Anyone here have a long plateau? Any ideas of what I can do to get things moving again? Or do I just keep going and give it chance for my body to adjust.

Hello!

How is everyone doing?!

I hope your plateau is over @mumandgran24 . It can be so stressful.

Hi! I had reached my goal weight, and was reducing my dose very very slowly. However, I seem to have gained 3-4kg over the past couple of months. In fairness the low weight was after getting back from traveling in Asia and I never eat much when traveling plus walking miles and miles every day, so I guess it was a false low. But I think it's this heatwave effecting my ability to exercise and my dog has been sort of unwell (nothing serious just impacts on walks a bit). The weight gain is real though and I am hungrier, so I am going to up my dose again to get things under control. I had hoped to come off and maintain, but I guess all of this is learning about vulnerabilities so I can plan for the future. The most weight has definitely been the last month.

Generally I am still exercising as much, and keeping up with the weights, but had some minor injuries or illnesses, plus I travel a lot on the summer, so it disrupts the exercise routine a bit, so there have been some understandable gaps. Still loving the exercise though, so I don't feel as though I am making excuses. I think I am making good decisions to not lift when injured or ill. My body is changing shape, my arms and shoulders are starting to look muscly and defined but not large and bulky. Bingo wings have definitely improved, but still need to lose some fat on them, same with belly.

I have stopped tracking calories, but I am still sticking to the same sort of meals as before, although I do have some treats when on holiday. Even when eating out though I am still choosing better options, so going for Vietnamese, Japanese or Korean rather than burger and chips or a roast dinner.

Hope everyone else is doing well

I, unfortunately, just couldn’t afford it anymore and had to stop. It’s been a couple of months now. Food noise is still not there. Although I do actually hear my tummy growling now. I do eat all three meals now but the best thing is that my bowel movements are back to normal. I haven’t put on any weight as I’m still eating healthy and working out.

Well done Panda. I know it’s tough without the meds. Keep going.

I have now had a small loss so hope things are starting to shift. It’s nice to hear about what happens when u come off the meds as I would like to if I can manage it eventually.

Hi anyone who is still around! How are you doing?

I'm now on the wegovy tablets, nearly 2 weeks in. I'm not sure if I will stay on them or go back to the mounjaro jabs. Still trying to drop a stone.

I have finally conquered my fear and for the first time in my life I have been to the gym!

I currently do yoga and pilates once a week, swim most weekends and now will add the gym once a week. I have been doing the exercise classes consistently since April and feel so much fitter.

Hope you're all good.

Hi, @MJSpideySenses ! Well done for starting the gym! Strength training really is the way forward. I say that having done it for over a year now, having previously also never been in a gym. It took me nearly a year to actually start enjoying it, I must admit, but I just kept on going.

Never been in better shape, and I’m 58!

Still on MJ 5mg, and hovering around 10 stone for the last 6 months, which is perfect for me. How have you found the tablets?

How is everyone else?

Thanks @SpiralSister I quite liked it but I still had aching muscles from a particularly tough pilates class so wasn't very strong. Looking forward to making progress. I have never done regular exercise so I have definitely changed this year.

Amazing to hear you've stuck with it for so long and now enjoy it. I bet you look and feel so different for it.

I'm around 10 stone but very short, my BMI still says I'm overweight but I am a size 10 so not too bad.

The tablets are ok to take, no major side effects apart from a stomach pain now and again. I don't find suppression very high at the moment but I think it feels a more stable level as you take it each day.

Good to hear how people are getting on. I'm hovering at 14 stone BMI 28 (I'm tall!)
Total loss is just over 9 stone, would like to make it a round 10 😆
Dropped down to 5mg (went up to 10mg), feel great. Size 14 which is good for me at my height and frame.
Go to the gym now and focus on weights, also started padel and pilates which is good. Planning to come totally off after Christmas. Definitely curious about tablets but hoping/praying I'll be ok!!!

9 stone - that's incredible @Probablyawake I hope you feel amazing!

I love padel. I would never have played it when I was at my biggest and that's the best part of losing weight I think, I join in with so much more.

I'm hoping to come off after Christmas too but want to reach target weight in order to do so. Let us know how you get on.

Well done everyone!

I’ve been off It for ages and ages now, and it is a struggle. I’ve edged up to 77kg which is irritating so I’m really trying to focus again 😔

Today I was out and about all day, so I had one of those tiny pret sandwiches - clearly designed for glp1 people! - then two ginger biscuits later in the afternoon, and a sensible bowl of rice and beans for dinner. But with quite a lot of cheese. Then two puff pastry things my daughter made. Gah!!!!! Without the biscuits and littles pastries it would have been ok.

On the plus, it’s been an utterly shit day. The wine was winking at me HARD but I did not crumble.

Need some confidence that I can lose weight without Mounj helping me!

Hello
hello!!

how are you all doing?

I’ve been off MJ for a while and weight is edging up again - now over the good BMI threshold - so I’m thinking of restarting
MJ.

anyone else still on it? Back on it? Surviving off it?
or put loads back on?

love to hear some other stories

Hello @mummymissessunshine! still going here - 5mg maintenance and pretty much the same weight for the last 10 months - between 9.12 and 10.2.

Can’t see me coming off tbh. Bad habits have crept back in under pressure (3 bereavements in 2 months) so I need it.

On the other hand, being fit and going to the gym has definitely stuck, and I love being strong and fit.

Would be great to hear from all the warriors!