Mounjaro 10st (or more) to lose Thread 9

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

We're all getting there.
Even if it's very slow now.

Welcome back to the thread regulars and hello to anyone who would like to join us.

Thank you 😊

Oh @Lds1 sizing is a minefield! There’s absolutely no consistency or industry standards, even is the same shop, it’s ridiculous and infuriating. I follow a clothes woman on insta, she’s a size 10 and she talks about fit when she’s trying on stuff and even she finds things that don’t fit as she wants or expects.

Each brand has its own measurements for their sizes, and that’s before you add ease (the technical term for the intended design look and style).

One option would be to take your measurements and compare to brand size charts - many stores have them on their websites. Or just go for it with one thing in different sizes and try them all till you get one you like the fit of!

Can I ask you fellow MJ friends if any of you have had a worrying heartburn/heart episode? Earlier this evening, I had heartburn that increased till the pain was unmanageable. I tried anti acids and drank milk but it had no effect. A couple of hours later I then started getting a cold sweat, was light headed and nauseous and thought I must be having a heart attack. I was on the verge of thinking about my husband driving me to the hospital when it suddenly subsided. An hour later and I feel fine. I'll go and be checked out by my G.P on Monday but is this a Mounjaro side effect? I'm on my 13th week of 2.5mg and have been eating healthily with the exception that today I had two biscuits which I haven't had before on the diet. Surely that can't be the reason? I'm still very large (25 stone) so at risk for complications.

Hi @Lovinglifeand
Are you taking a PPI (lansoprazole, for example)?

I am prescribed it three times a day and I take famotidine 20mg at night as well.

It sounds like you've had severe reflux.

I sometimes also get that faintness and nausea. I'm not sure what causes it, but it seems to go with the MJ coldness.

You can buy famotidine online.

Acid Controller LINK

Thank you so much @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne . I am relieved to hear that it could be severe reflux. I'll be so glad when I've lost more weight and don't have to worry about my heart so much! I'll order the famotidine.

So, I must confess that I am doing this weightloss thing "wrong" for the most part:

I don't drink enough water.
I don't track proteins (I do count calories though).
I still eat all kinds of food (carbs, fast food, chocolate...).
And I eat 2100 calories per day (TDEE says 2350 cal for maintenance, so only slight calory deficit).

I've been on MJ for over 8 months now and I've dropped 27 kg taking my BMI from 44,9 to just over 35. That's a much slower loss than many of you have achieved in a similar period of time. Still I'm content with my results since it is still a considerable weightloss and I'm feeling so much better!
I have never been on a diet before MJ because I couldn't control my eating habits. And even on MJ I have only been able to make small adjustments to my diet and lifestyle.

I'm taking one step at a time:
I started in February with tracking my calories and trying to stay under 2100 cal most days.
In April after I had lost the first 10 kg, I started a walking program. I started at 1k to 3k walks and finished with a 20k walk after 4 months of consistent exercise of 5 times per week.
In August I started a jogging program (couch to 5k), again doing it "wrong" and progressing much slower than the program intends.
I hit a plateau with my weight in September/Oktober so I introduced a new challenge at the end of October: I go for a walk now every day (on top of my jogging program), keep an 8/16 intermittent fast and drink 1 litre of water per day (it was way less before!). Since then the scale has moped again and I had a swoosh of 2,5 kg in the last 2 weeks.
I've also started going to the gym this month doing weight and redistance training.

I've got some more ideas for future weight loss stalls: OMAD once or twice a week, finally introducing more healthy foods to my diet, hiking with incrasing altitude...

It is important to me that my weight loss journey is sustainable for me, that I don't have to restrict too much and that I enjoy the movement. So I think I have found a manageable and still quite successful approach for myself.🙂

I think those of us with lots to lose will have tried every diet under the sun. If you have found something which works for you @getthingsdone then you keep going. Sod everyone else!

Oh and I forgot... I'm still at a 5mg dose. So not following protocol in going up either.

So after the scales being stuck/showing a gain all week I've had a mini whoosh today for my 'official' weekly weigh in 🤷

Total loss 22kg in 17 weeks

SW 139.7kg
W1 -3.8
W2 -1.9
W3 -1.7
W4 -0.9
W5 -1.5
W6 no change
W7 -2.3
W8 -1.2
W9 -1.3
W10 -0.3
W11 -2.0
W12 -0.6
W13 +0.7
W14 -1.1
W15 -1.6
W16 -1.5
W17 -1.0

@getthingsdone I'm quite sure that I'm also not doing things the same way as many people are.

I don't count calories.

I don't track protein intake.

I don't buy protein shakes or bars.

I don't avoid the carbs which I enjoy.

I don't drink loads of water.

I do still eat chocolate and biscuits etc.

I've figured out that since last Christmas I've lost 2st 4lb. That works out as 0.8 of a pound a week.

So it's about 3lb/month loss.

BUT slow and steady wins the race. I'm very happy with the way this is going. And I've managed to persuade myself that this slowness is very manageable.

The one thing I do though, is OMAD.

For three consecutive days, and it always works.

I don’t think anyone follows the suggested dosing protocol exactly as it’s laid out in the medication guidelines. As in, 4 weeks on each dose until you get to 15mg and then stay there. The reason that’s suggested is that people on the trials lost the most weight on 15mg, so of course that would be the suggested protocol. But even in the suggested protocol it says that you “can” move up to the next dose after 4 weeks, not that you must. Even on the clinical trials, many people didn’t get to 15mg, which is why 5 and 10mg were also studied. So, for me, the protocol is simply move up the doses as needed until you find a dose you’re comfortable with, move up or down as necessary and repeat. I was on 7.5mg for a long time, and now on 10mg for a long time too with no thoughts of moving up at the moment.

I also don’t calorie count, apart from occasional weeks for a sense check. I don’t track macros and I don’t count grams of protein. I don’t buy shakes or bars. I don’t drink loads of water either. Lots of tea and coffee though.

There’s no one way that’s the right way and everything else is wrong. Whatever works for you in your circumstances, assuming basic safety/sense.

I also don’t follow all the protocols. Have lost over 10 stone since May 2024 but struggling a bit to lose last half stone or so. I haven’t gone past 7.5mg.
No calorie counting and no protein add ons either.
It is so individual and I think you know after years of failed yo yo dieting what works. This is just the tool that seems to give me the positive push that I can and have done what I never thought possible- no insatiable food noise and blowing the diet after a blow out. It seems to stop me sabotaging myself by overeating and giving up.

Week 34 and an expected whoosh of 5lb off. Expected as my calories have been very low due to illness. It's only a cold so I don't think it's water weight as I'm fine from the neck down and despite being off food, I am extremely well hydrated! And to be fair, I deserve this loss, I'm not sleeping and feel like trash 🤧🤒
Total loss of 6st 9lb, only 7lb till I hit 100lb 🥳

Must go back to feeling sorry for myself and blowing my nose, it's been at least 2 minutes since I last did that.......

Poor you @Fffreeeeezing wishing you better! Having a cold feels rotten doesn't it?

I've just had to weigh myself (and film myself doing so) so that I could order a new pen from medicine marketplace. Bit embarrassing getting the nurse to do that but oh well. 3.6 kg to go til I’m under 100kg!

(Gained 1.5lb this week... don't know how, but trying not to care).

Please make sure you get it checked. Women often don't present in the typical way with a heart attack. My mum had similar symptoms and was also sick. She thought it was just indigestion. It wasn't, it was a heart attack.

please can you tell me a little more about your OMAD? On a past thread and in a different username you suggested it to me when I was stalling. So you literally have a main meal only or do you supplement it with anything else? How do you manage three consecutive days of it without collapsing in a heap?!

(I've only had this user name so it must have been someone else. 🤣)

Anyway - I do drink tea (with milk and sugar) throughout the day, which I believe is frowned upon when doing OMAD but I love tea and I can't drink it without.......

I eat dinner at about 4.30 and have an ice cream afterwards. I also have some fruit and an Actimel. I eat anything I fancy as I've always cooked from scratch, just a good deal less of it in comparison to the portion sizes I used to have.

Then I don't eat anything else till 4.30 the next day. My eating window is between one and two hours.

The hardest thing for me is not eating anything else during the evening.

I don't have any trouble not eating during the day though. I sometimes wonder if I'd be able to do a 24 hour fast. I haven't tried yet, but I haven't ruled it out.

I've been OMAD for a decade or more. Noone is collapsing in a heap. I am a bit pissed tho as it's my birthday and my OMAD was a lemon drizzle cake.and 4 old fashioned cocktails on a can.

I broadly do OMAD more days than not too. I drink plenty of sugar-free squash/water and have a couple of coffees with milk through the day then eat a protein rich meal in the evening at about 8pm. Other days I sometimes have some fruit and/or high protein yogurt if I’m hungry at any point through the day. I drink alcohol a couple of times a week. I’m allowing myself to be ruled by my appetite on MJ and it’s very freeing. I’ve lost 7st 4lbs since March (still another 5st 11lbs to go to a few pounds into healthy).

Even before Mounjaro I have rarely (had time to) eat during my working day and never eat breakfast - so OMAD. Its just that before Mounjaro my meal would be followed by chocolate, biscuits, ice cream etc. Now it's just the meal, and I make that healthy snd ftom scratch.

I do drink coffee with milk all day, so not true fasting. I also drink 2l of water with electrolytes too.

I can fast (with coffee tho) for 24h no problem. I fast every Monday and Friday, and OMAD in between. In fact I could easily fast for 48h without it bothering me. Im never tired or lacking in energy, never hungry, I am often thirsty (need salts) and always find I sleep better following a fast.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne sorry my bad grammar! I was the one with the name change, not you! This is all very interesting and thanks to the other posters too with your experiences. It’s good to see that actually you can adapt the meal over a time span rather than a 15 minute dinner. Hhhmm will give this a try, really helpful thanks

Official weigh day and I've gained 1lb this week so not too bad.

Have started walking around the ward for 20-30 mins every day since Thursday (having not left my room at all before then) so hopefully that will help me get moving again. Also hoping from Tues will be allowed garden walks- keep everything crossed for me, a month without the outside world is a lot to cope with. Intend to beg my doctor in Ward Round. Pretty sure he'll say yes, I'm feeling tons better and more clear headed now.

Ordered a 5mg pen. I will take a pic of my current pen I'm using tonight as I don't know how many more 30 clicks I can get out of it and obviously can't golden dose here. And hopefully one of you clever buggers can tell me.

Also I've lost 3.5stone since I started on 25th May. That's with a month off too!