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.

Weigh in day for me today, and another good loss takes my total loss to 12 stone 10. I’ve now lost over 50% of my starting weight - I’m literally half the person I was! BMI is now 25.6. So close to target!

Weigh in day for me, and 2lb down. It's been agonisingly slow, unpredictable and tough recently - I've still not lost a stone since July 31. Four months of wondering if it's worth carrying on with this, feeling like I'm shelling out hundreds of pounds on something that isn't working any more. I've gone up to 10, and this week has been slightly easier, but still a real struggle. The first 4 months on MJ were a revelation, but now it is much more tricky. I'll carry on as long as I can afford it, but I'm definitely reaching crunch time on that front - money is tight and it's hard to justify spending this much.

On a more positive note, hopefully at the next weigh in I will both be in a new stone bracket, and hit my 5 stone loss!

SW: 307 lb
CW: 238 lb

Goodness @MummyInTheNecropolis that’s incredible!

And I understand @eibbed999 I hope you do ok this week.

I went to funeral yesterday, mother of my oldest friend. So, people who have known me pretty much at every size. The slimmer me was still the biggest, but not ridiculously so. I had a black dress which I love and which was perfect. It’s absurdly flattering in its cut, like magic really, so I felt well put-together. I didn’t feel like I needed to hide or try to fade away. I think it’s the first time I really appreciated the impact on me socially, that I can just be me.

I’m expressing it poorly, but I felt like my true self. Partly because they’re friends I’ve known since I was 4, but partly because I didn’t feel I had to compensate for being fat. Apologise. Self-efface. Pay with animation and vibrancy.

Anyway. It was a beautiful service. A good tribute.

Someone else say something now!!

Thank you again ladies for being so lovely yesterday. I had a few wines last night with my dear friend, and she managed to put me together again. Lordy, I'm such a drama queen, people have far bigger problems than me, and don't make half the fuss 🙄🤣

So moving on, week 34 and 3lb off, total 5st 9lb. Ive hit a few milestones today too. Ive dropped down into the next stone bracket, lost 25% of my starting weight, and am 50% towards my target. I will always be thankful for this wonder drug for making such a huge difference to my life, it truly is miraculous.

SW 22st 8lb
CW 16st 13lb
GW 11st 4lb

@TragicMuse it sounds like it was a lovely service. And your dress sounds beautiful, it's so nice to find joy in clothes these days 💕

I've been reading a lot of these threads and have finally decided to join in, so Hi! I'm Cat, 31 and started Mounjaro on 2nd Nov 25. Have been overweight/obese my entire adult life and have tried everything possible before working up the courage to start WLI.
SW:21st 4lb
CW: 20st 6lb
TW: 10st

I can't stop eating. It's because I'm utterly miserable now and desperate to get home. Who knew I'd miss my boring cottage cheese lunches? And the staff are so sweet and forever bringing me lattes (no matter how much I saw white coffee please) and I wake up to warm pan au chocolates if I've slept through breakfast and they go out on their breaks and bring me back treats like stuffed cookies and WOW WHAT A FIRST WORLD PROBLEM everyone is too nice to me 😂

I am so lucky to have excellent staff. I am really desperate to go home now December is basically here. I can't spend christmas here. But it's not looking good right now. I'm having to dig deep with everything I've got.

Welcome @Cat4324 best of luck on your journey. You just need to scroll up to feel motivated, look at @MummyInTheNecropolis who has literally lost half of herself (amazing, so happy for you) 😍

This is absolutely amazing! What an inspiration!

I have had a 100g gain every day for the last four days - I frequently have two gaining days in a row and then it all comes off, but four is a new thing. I’m trying to be zen about it. At my current weight I’m down 29.2kg or just over 4.5 stone since 16 May. I probably now weigh around about what I did when I had my daughter 9.5 years ago.

Hi Cat, we're at the beginning of a similar journey. I started the Monjaro on 13th November and I'm currently 23stone 11. Like you have been overweight my whole life. How you finding it emotionally? I've been about all over the place, but I think I might be settling down abit as I have lost half a stone and it hasn't been as awful as past diets. In terms of feeling out of control and obsessed and triggered and desperate and sad and bingey and self loathing, I actually feel quite calm in some ways. Still a bit swamped but glad to have taken the step. Not told anyone but my husband.

Emotionally it feels strange, like you said its a sort of a calm feeling? I'm definitely kicking myself for not starting sooner, I honestly thought my friend was lying when she said that the food 'noise' disappears but it's been amazing. I'm noticing the effects wearing off a bit at the end of the week and I'm now at the end of jab 4 the cravings are coming back but the smaller appetite is still there which is nice- still weird though as previously I haven't really had an off switch

@Cat4324 Welcome Cat! I completely relate to you, I'm a similar age, 34 and started this year at 144kg (22.6 stone). I am now 101kg (16 stone) and feel completely different. I feel confident, healthy, optimistic. This journey is so much more than the physical weight, the mental shift in my mind is worth the change even if I didn't lose the weight. And (horribly) it's nice to know that I'm not the largest person in the room anymore.

I wish you every success in your journey. Everyone on this thread is a mix of starting their journey, the end of the journey or somewhere in the middle and we share so many of the struggles, so anything you are going through, I can guarantee someone here has also come across it.

This is the best thread on the whole of mumsnet, we are all here for support and positivity! 😃🤗

It seems like everyone's weigh day is Friday! Mine is Monday.

I felt like I'd fallen of the wagon a little this week and sweet treats have crept in and the habit of finishing my plate has started again. So MJ is working but it's my own habitual autopilot actions that are slowing me down. I don't know if anyone else feels like this, but I'm in conscious anxiety mode of 'what if MJ stops working'.

RE this weekends shop, I usually buy the 2 finger kit kats, but it's slowing down the progress and making it harder to then say no to additional sweet food afterwards. I have never been a "one bite won't hurt" person, because it spirals into the sugar drop and me wanting more. I've mostly succeeded when giving up sweets all together. In previous months I had gone days at a time not touching a sweet treat (record of 5 days) and I didn't feel deprived, compared with wanting to say no to a second kit kat 🙄

I've massively upped the exercise, so I'm doing step aerobics/cardio/weights for 5 days a week for 30 mins minimum. I've managed 3.5 hours of exercise this week, and my glutes are sore but amazing!💪 I love the feeling of dripping with sweat, from someone who HATED exercise this time last year. I think it's because now I can keep up with the class, and actually feel good about myself, rather than struggling through the whole thing.

Week 73 weigh in.

SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 72.2kg (11st 5lbs), was 73.4kg (11st 8lbs) 2 weeks ago.
Final GW: 65kg (10st 3lbs)
BMI: 26.2
Current pen: 10mg, 29 weeks on this dose.

I didn't post an update last week, as it was a grumpy week for me - at one point my weight was showing as 76kg! Typically it was coming up to my period, and I was having a bit of a stressful time with DS2 and school. But, a better week this week in terms of weight loss, and I have got into the lower half of the 11st bracket and into the 150s in terms of pounds at 159. Total loss to date on Mounjaro is now 48% of my starting weight, 147lbs/10st 7lbs or 66.8kg.

@PearlTeapot it's really lovely that the staff are trying to be kind. I wonder if there's any way you could explain to them that they are unintentionally sabotaging your plan to manage your weight whilst you are in hospital?

I have been trying! It really shows me how much people show their affection with food.

I was here before for 6 months so got very close to the HCAs on 121 with me and they knew what I was like pre-mj (living on Starbucks, sugary drinks, takeaways and junk) so they're having to re-learn how to treat me too!

I keep saying please just bring me a white coffee from the machine if you wanna do something nice, no lattes! The difference between 30 calories and 140.

@PearlTeapot it's so tricky isn't it, especially if people are used to a different version of you. I found I had to do a lot of refusing and saying no thank you when I was staying with friends in the summer. They were used to me when I was massively overeating, and it took them a good while to accept that I was now eating less than even a maintenance level of food. Really tricky when they were cooking for us, and are excellent cooks!

I also have to remember to ask for a flat white in coffee shops rather than a latte which was my default. Even my DP still asks "are you sure?" when I ask for a flat white, he's so used to getting me the latte!

Gosh yes! I went to stay with a friend recently who I hadn't seen for a few years. She'd made me lunch - sausage sandwiches on 4 slices of white bread with butter! It was a huge pile of food, and obviously what she was used to me eating. It felt quite freakish politely refusing half of it (she was fine about that, and the dogs were happy!)

I do the same @PearlTeapot, show affection through the food I cook or give to people, I plan lavish dinners with decadent desserts for when the family visit, before MJ, my SiL and bil were on a very strict calorie controlled diet and when they came to visit they bought their own meal with them, I was so upset 😂. I totally get it now though. It’s really hard to know what the best thing is to say to the staff when you’ve said it over and over again, can you say to them that you get that what they are doing comes from a place of love but you are trying so hard with the weight loss journey and they are putting unwanted temptation your way and gaining weight is not what you want to happen, hugs are calorie free ♥️

@MummyInTheNecropolis amazing update!

welcome @Cat4324, I also kicked myself for not starting sooner, I was a similar weight to you and found myself wishing the months away, but they do fly by quickly with lots of welcome surprises along the way! I’m 14 months in now and will hopefully be at ‘goal’ in late December/early January and looking back time has flown by.

"hugs are calorie free ♥️"

New mantra! Thanks everyone for getting it.

Welcome @Cat4324 I too started at well over 21 stone. Now, a year in, I am at 15 stone. Still a long way to go but still going.

The thing I have found with mounjaro is that I havent experienced any 'diet fatigue'. The mounjaro just keeps doing its thing.

I'm going to do it, I'm going to join a gym!

Now, important question, what on earth do people wear at the gym? I havent owned leggings in my life. Do I need to get some?

Are there special gym leggings?

I would definitely get gym leggings as they are designed for activity - ie no risk of slipping down at the back and exposing your bum, and not see through when you bend over! M&S do a nice range of active wear which is good quality and goes up to a decent size.

Are you a Vinted person? If so get on it and type in M&S Goodmove and the choices will be endless. Get a pair of leggings, a tshirt and a zip up hoodie of some sort. Don't forget a sports bra (Vinted can also provide!) and a basic pair of trainers.
Size will be no issue at all for you. I've been going to the gym regularly for years, even at 25st+ so you are tiny in comparison!

No point in spending a fortune, you might not like it, pick your gym wisely, they are not all equal. I go to a private gym (so no membership) I just pay for the PT sessions. It's not cheaper but it is smaller and we are the only people there which is nice. Do you have a plan for what you want to do at the gym?

Welcome @Cat4324.

I am so impressed with how motivated you are @PearlTeapot. I really hope you get home for Christmas, to your wife and family.

I have returned from my few days away and have only gained 0.2lb, eating out every day at least once and also having an enormous dessert one day. Pleased with that!!

An NSV while I was away. The place had a hot tub, so I dusted down my swimming costume that I had not worn for 5 months. Last time I wore it I had to do this weird thing of getting my arms into the body part and gradually stretching it over my tummy and boobs and hope that I had enough material still to cover the boobs without them falling out!! So this time. I started doing the same, stretching the material and pulling it over my tummy and all of a sudden I had a polo neck swimming costume on!!!! There was so much extra material!!!! 🤣

While away I also took the opportunity to pop into Primark to pick up some basics. I have not been able to shop there for a few years because even the biggest size didn't come close, so I thought I would go for the biggest size flared leggings and when I tried them in at home they almost fell down straight away!! Good job they are cheap!

Have a good weekend everyone. I have the equivalent of man-flu, so am just doing the essentials and going to sit and feel sorry for myself.

Good morning everyone!
After a day of eating mostly rubbish yesterday (biscuits, chocolate, a brownie, crisps...) I am down 1 whole kg today🤷‍♀️.

SW: 132,5 kg (BMI 44,8 = morbidly obese, category 3)
CW: 103,4 kg (BMI 34,9)
So that takes me into obesity category 1.

Obviously I won't continue eating junk today in order to lose even more😉. Instead I'm going on a walk now (to the shops) and later this afternoon I have another walk planned to see a Christmas market.