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.

@GnomeDePlume A good bra is one of best things to buy to make yourself look slimmer! They are worth every penny! Mine allows me to have a waist instead of warming my knees!

I barely had boobs and mj took from what was there which I find very unfair. I don’t even wear bras, just stretchy crop top things. DWs eyes would fall out of her head if she saw me in a bra. I might get measured and buy some in a few stones time.

Just think you’ll probably look amazing in those waify bralette thing the ‘yoof’ like

It's very rare that I actually laugh out loud when I'm reading something, MN or otherwise, but this really did make me laugh, loudly enough that I had to explain to my colleague who had been trying to talk to me about something 🤣 I love your phrasing!

I've lost two stone and started to get comments, especially from my hair dresser whom I don't see very regularly.

So tonight's dose was the last drops from my 2.5mg pen (0.46mls in the syringe) plus enough clicks from a 5mg pen to make up to a 3.75mg dose. I've never been so glad to be good at maths!

all your talk about people commenting is the kind of thing I’m dreading if I actually do lose any weight. I hated that before when I lost 5 stone at weight watchers. Felt like every compliment was fueled with relief that they could talk to me about how disgusting I’d looked before.

First day on monjara yesterday for me and to be honest appetite and eating wise I didn’t really feel any different to normal. Special k, fruit and yoghurt for breakfast, peanut butter on toast mid morning, lentil and veg soup for lunch, apple and nuts mid afternoon, bean, veg and rice burrito for dinner. And a g and t in the evening . That’s pretty normal for me! I was expecting it to make me eat less

Something I was reflecting on yesterday,
At 136kg I knew I was obese and bigger than others, but it struck home when a photo was taken of me in a group. It’s like it would dawn on me just how big I was.

Now at 100kg, I find myself walking past others and trying to eye up “am I smaller than them?”
I really don’t mean this in any negative judgement about complete strangers I walk past in the shop but genuinely struggle to estimate my size compared with others.
I am trying to understand this because, it’s this failure of recognising just how big I was getting that maybe added to my journey. I ofcourse avoided photos so as not to face reality staring back. Looking back in these photos now as a getting smaller person… I am even more shocked at just how big I was.
How is my brain so bad at figuring out relational size of my body.

Anyone else do this silent comparing of body sizes?

@diggitydoothe Shotsy app will help you see how the drug builds up over time.
Starting in 2.5mg some notice no difference until at a great dose. The peak absorption of dose is actually not the day you inject but 48hours after.

by the way, agree about commenting on weight loss the ‘you look so much better’ insults hurt. I haven’t told anyone I am on it, but did go through a bereavement at the start of my journey. A few nosey people asking about my weight loss I have answered simply ‘I have been going through a really difficult time’. It shuts it down and also is not a lie.

I used to try to see if I could spot anyone bigger than me eg on the school run for example, and realised that I couldn’t. I deliberately avoided photos and didn’t have a full length mirror in the house. So I did know that I was bigger than big but I spent a lot of mental energy ignoring it and trying to minimise or justify it. Not ever weighing myself was part of it as well. Humans are good at having lots of contradictory thoughts in our heads at the same time! And I was actively ignoring the evidence.

It was a relief to realise that I’d got to the point where I was not an outlier and not always the biggest person in the room. That’s when I started to think about it less and less.

I can relate to the spending a lot of mental energy ignoring how big I am . I don’t weigh myself, haven’t in years. Just feels like a survival strategy in order to exist and function without self loathing and fear.

but now I feel like I can’t ignore because I’ m so worried about my health all the time.

I'm glad I'm not the only one eyeing up other random people to try and compare my size with them to try and give myself some context. I find it hard to judge how big I am just looking in the mirror.

2 people said I was looking skinny one day this week, it must have been the style of dress I was wearing.

I should have a 12.5 pen being delivered today.

I have never given someone a compliment and thought ‘you looked shit before’. I just think you look nice and say it.

It has honestly never occurred to me that people are positively commenting on my weight loss and to see it as an insult. Why would you cause yourself that pain? They’re being nice. Not saying you were disgusting before. Just focus on right now! Right now you look nice. Thank you.

Honestly? If someone says 'you look well/nice/slim today' or similar there is unlikely to be a lot more thought gone into it than that comment. Most people are too busy with their own insecurities to be aware of other's.

I agree with @PearlTeapot and others who have made the same point, the vast majority of people will mean the compliments in a genuine, if possibly clumsy, way - they are honestly trying to congratulate you on something that has probably been quite difficult for you. I know it's hard to hear it that way when you have a negative self image but maybe try some self-care/esteem boosting exercises to adjust your own view of yourself alongside the weight loss.

In terms of comparisons with other people, I really struggle with this - my weight has been up and down so many times I genuinely can't tell who I compare to. I sometimes want to ask other people "am I bigger or smaller than her" but I stop myself as it would sound so weird to them!

Wk38 weigh in this morning (wk6 on 7.5mgs) … kept my midweek -1lb off for official weigh in…so I’m down exactly 5st since starting in February!

I’ve lost 25% of my starting weight and averaging 1.8lbs loss per week over the 38 weeks.

SW (15 Feb 25): 19st 9lbs / BMI 44.4 (obese class 3)
CW: 14st 9lbs / BMI 33.1 (obese class 1)
GW: healthy BMI (between 18.5 and 24.9 (8.3st-11st) for my height) - 3st 9lbs 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
Wks 29-32 (5mg): -4lbs
Wks33-36 (7.5mg): -5lbs
Wk37 (7.5mg): -1lb
Wk38: (7.5mg): -1lb

Total loss: 70lbs (5st)

Also, I have both scale and non-scale victories to share today! 0.9kg off (would have preferred an even 1kg but I'll take it 😉) and I also went out for a run for the first time in months! I stopped earlier this year partly due to plantar fasciitis and partly due to my increasing weight making it too hard to run and I've been wanting to get back to it for ages but was scared of injuries/not being able to do it. But this morning I woke up and had the urge to go out and so I did! Week 1, run 1 of Couch to 5K completed (for about the 8th time in God knows how many years 🙈). I did also have a cheeky weigh when I got back and I'd sweated out another 0.3kg but I'm keeping the first weight as my 'official' one for the week.

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
W18 -0.9

CW 116.8kg, 22.9kg lost in 18 weeks

@Mum2Fergus and @RenegadeKeeblerElf congratulations you are both doing brilliantly!

OMG! I never realised but I do the comparing myself to others as well but also struggle with the true idea of how big I am and was. I can’t believe how much this has resonated with me. I’ve always looked at the second biggest person in the room, I’m the biggest, and thought am I bigger or smaller? Now I’ve dropped 5 stone I still do the same but it is quite frightening that I am still bigger so am having to come to terms with the fact that I wasn’t just a little bigger, but quite substantially bigger.

I still forget how big I am at times, I feel so much better about myself and I think I have an idea in my head that I’m smaller than I am. Therefore, it is a bit disheartening when I catch a glance in a full length mirror or reflection in a window that I still have so far to go.

i just can’t wait to be the second biggest person in the room.

This is really inspiring, super well done and thank you. I’m now 107kg (from 156) and keep thinking ‘I’ll just lose a bit more’ before I start exercising because I’m scared.

I totally get that feeling, but honestly there's no better feeling than just getting out there and giving it a go!

I've just had a sort out of my coats - really nice feeling to try some on that didn't fit before, and now they fit nicely. So I've thrown out some big ones that I didn't need. Sometimes even if the scale doesn't move that much, other things like that just make you feel better.

NSV comfortably got into the 2nd pair of size 12 jeans that were too small last time I tried! Still wide legged though! I need to go to the retail park one night next week so I'll try some none wide legs on and see where I'm at.

Week 35 and annoyingly a 1lb on (it's actually less than that as I ignore the decimal points on the scales but officially it's a 1lb on) In deficit every day, no deviations, pretty much same food I eat everyday 🤷🏼‍♀️. I did lose 13lb in the previous 4 weeks though and 5lb at last weigh in so shouldn't moan!

Looking back as previously weeks, it looks like I have 1 week a month of a small gain/stay the same, 1 week of average loss and then 2 x really good weeks, must be hormonal.

6st 8lb loss overall, onwards and downwards......

it'll be just water weight, don't worry too much x