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.

@eibbed999 you look absolutely stunning in those jeans!

Thank you!

I wouldn't worry. I go through phases if not wanting to eat. I take a multivit a vit d and k and drink plenty of water. We can survive weeks without wating, but not long without drinking. It soon passes.

I go through phases of not wanting to eat

Oh Lord, I never do. It's a constant battle. I never really lose the desire to eat, although my appetite is smaller on some days than it is on others.
I seem to remember that @Autumnflowers2 says the same thing.

It sometimes amazes me that I've lost 8st 6lb. I'm kind of dreading trying maintenance, when I get there.

I saw my mum this evening for the first time in a couple of months, we generally have an ok relationship but she can be quite blunt and insensitive. She knows about the MJ and has seen me since I’ve been losing weight but I guess she really noticed the difference tonight because the first thing she said when she walked in the door was “omg you look like a cancer patient, you’ve lost far too much weight!”

I was so deflated. Who says that to someone? I have lost a huge amount but I’m still over 12 stone and a size 12, hardly skeletal!

Don't think I’ll be making plans to see her again for a while.

NSV decided to buy some new socks and risked ordinary ones, not extra wide.

They fit!

I'm so sorry @MummyInTheNecropolis - what a hurtful thing, especially coming from someone who should be supporting you. Families are complicated beasts, over the years I've kind of built my own based on true friendships not blood ties. Lots of love to you, and try not to let it drag you down. The fault lies with her attitude not with you.

Thank you @eibbed999 luckily the rest of my family are lovely and supportive. My mum has her own issues around weight, she is obese and I spent my childhood being dragged around different slimming clubs and constantly being put on different diets. The whole issue is complicated and I’m not sure if there might be some jealousy there as well. I am trying not to let her words get to me.

What a horrible thing to say to you @MummyInTheNecropolis im sorry that happened. Sending love 💖

Sunday weigh in.

Lost 1lb, taking me to 16 stone exactly!

That's motivated me to sty away from the lattes/mochas this week and aim to see a 15 on the scale next Sunday. I haven't seen a 15 on the scale since I had my son 15 years ago!!

And today's the day I am going out for a walk. I feel ready to try after a bad week of not going out. Round and round the gardens for as long as I can bear.

Yes ..I've never lost the desire to eat .. unfortunately
,and my stomach rumbles day and night .
.I am a very greedy person..I still put more food on my plate than I will actually eat
monjoaro has curtailed that somewhat ..
but all bets are of for me maintaining without a jab .
And I do get a bit more suppression on day 2 after the jab ..but by day 7 I'm ravenous..some weeks I jab after 6 days ..
I'm due to jab today ,which is good as I have an awful urge to binge
I've been having counselling which has helped me to see how much I used food to squash down my feelings, instead of feeling them.
Considering all the fuss I made trying to convince myself I didn't need the counselling,I'm very privileged to have got such a knowledgeable counsellor

On wards to thindom my jabbing friends ..may we prop each other up over the coming festive food weeks

@PearlTeapot .. sending love your way ,as always.
Your doing brilliantly

I think I'm somewhere in between these two extremes in terms of appetite - I do get hungry for my meals (apart from breakfast at the weekend after jabbing on a Fri) but I wouldn't say it's constant. I do have the urge to overeat when I have too much on my plate, but the MJ is making me better at listening to the full signals and stopping before I go too far as I know I will regret it later. I'm hoping that I'll be able to keep this mindfulness around food when I stop the jabs but I'm worried I won't.

Onwards to thindom

What a brilliant mantra!

Oh don’t get me wrong, the not wanting to eat is very unlike me! That’s part of the problem - I have no idea how to deal with it because I don’t understand it.

I was hungry, I just couldn’t bothered with a meal. I ended up grazing some kabanos and a jelly. And some biscuits. Not ideal but it did the job.

Today is another day etc.

What a wonderful little corner of the internet this is. @eibbed999 those legs look amazing! @Missingducks and @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne both made me chuckle.

I got some great advice on fasting earlier in the week thank you. Haven’t been back to the chat since because of personal issues that I think I’d like to share if that’s ok?

I started MJ in March having been thinking about if for months. At over 24.5 stone I thought I was past help. A week before starting I found out my partner of a decade was having an emotional affair. I’ve not said this to anyone but I blamed myself for being fat. I agreed to give it another go, have lost 8 stone and then found out this week he’s still cheating on me anyway. I’m devastated but at the same time it’s weird that I don’t blame myself in quite the same way. Send me strength to hold my resolve and not take him back. I love him and he’s a good dad.

I would think you’re right @MummyInTheNecropolis your mum sees it as a threat, it’s quite common for family or friends to say that kind of thing when one is successfully losing weight and stepping out of one’s allotted place in the fatness pecking order.

We talked upthread about how some of us assess ourselves all the time - I do it too - ‘am I the fattest person on this bus?’ Is a regular one for me. Has been for decades. And the answer has often been yes. I have frequently been the biggest in my group of friends, and always in my family. But fortunately no one has yet indicated discomfort with me changing the narrative, even if that means I won’t be the fattest for their own comparisons, if they make them. Maybe they don’t!

Sending you strength @Onenotsosmallstep - I have been there!

That’s interesting @TragicMuse I hadn’t really thought about it, but now that you mention it, I have always been the fattest in the family my whole life, we are all big, but I was always the biggest. Now that I’m not, i guess my mum is the biggest out of us all. Perhaps that’s what’s bothering her. Who knows. Either way I’ve decided to brush it off and not let her comments get to me anymore.

Stay strong @Onenotsosmallstep you are doing the right thing and will thank yourself for it in the long run. He doesn’t deserve you.

@Onenotsosmallstep His behaviour isn’t about anything you’ve done, it is about him being an ars@hole! If he was a decent supportive partner he wouldn’t do this with you at any weight. Stay strong and do this for you, if you want to. It will be hard as many of us use food as an emotional crutch but we’ve all got your back!

And get rid of him completely!

I'm sorry your having to deal with this
But ,in my limited understanding
it was never about you or your size ..it was about him and having the opportunity..
It always a shock when someone you love let's you down .
Take your time to gather your thoughts and work out how best to proceed,that suits you and the children .. because you and your little ones are what is important here xxx

I have experienced this ..with a very close friend..
She is very sure ,as I creep towards a 10 stone loss ,than I need to stop loosing weight now
She has so far said .".I thought you were only getting getting back to your wedding weight "....and
"You have lost enough now ,time to stop ..."
It's quite upsetting
Especially as I am approximately a size bigger than her ..so I need to stop loosing now ... because...well I can only assume she wants me to stay bigger than her ..but it's all dressed up as concern for me ..
I refuse to discuss my weight with her now ..not a word about It will cross my lips ever again , despite her trying to discuss it when we meet

Do you know, yesterday I ate loads of chocolate, which I haven't done for ages.

Is that what you mean? Being hungry for rubbish only?
🤣🤣

Well, I've been debating whether or not to share something personal with you, but I'm going to. You're my friends.

Nine weeks ago, my husband of 25 years walked out on me. Just went. No warning, no argument, no other woman (or man).

He lives fifteen miles away now. He asked the council to rehouse him, so they did. He got a flat within three weeks (which is normal in Argyll).

My two DC who live in this village (where I'm living, I mean) have seen him several times. There is definitely nobody else. I have a daughter and a son who live in their own separate flats here (I mean, not together).

Sorry if this post is garbled and doesn't make sense.

My husband and I are both 69.

Isn't that an awful thing to have done? For no reason. Well, no reason I can figure out.

Mind you, now that I've got rid of all his clothes, books and other odds and sods, there is much more space for mine. Especially my clothes.

He hasn't contacted me once since he left.

And all I feel..........
ALL. I. FEEL is rage. I'm furious with him. I'm not sad. I don't even miss him.

I should miss him. But I don't. What he did was brutal. Emotionally.