Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose - thread 11!

[MooBaggage]

New thread for anyone with more than 5 stone/30kg to lose. All very welcome, whichever part of the journey you are on.

We have newbies and those who have got to their targets and lots of us in between at various stages, all supporting each other along the way.

Nothing is off topic and progress photos always welcome, encouraging us all to keep going!

No discount codes please - there is a separate thread for that.

Well done @GiveMeWordGames , for being so matter of fact, it’s such a tough thing to face. I hope the biopsy wasn’t painful and, of course that it was completely unnecessary. Anything medical seems slightly easier for me now that they dont want to tell me to lose weight, or actually tell me that ! Must lose weight all the time.

Well done @GiveMeWordGames for getting through it and fingers crossed for good news after Christmas 💜

Meanwhile, and talking of boobs, I've done myself a bit of an injury 🙄 I was doing my ridiculous lymphatic drainage jumping up and down and swinging my arms around the other morning (thank you nonsense internet...) and I've done some damage to the tissue at the side of my left boob 🙄🙄🙄

There's no mark and no lump or anything, but a hot, sharp pain whenever I move suddenly - and taking off my bra is almost unbearable, the pain is so sharp. Obvs have googled and you can damage breast tissue, so think it must be this as it's in one specific place and is such a sharp pain. So am currently sleeping in my bra and using ibuprofen gel and clutching at my boob to keep it still and supported. So very attractive.... 😳

The moral of this story is that exercise is bad for you and I shan't be jumping first thing in the morning with no bra on again!!

@MooBaggage It might be that you’ve pulled the intercostal muscle in your ribs. It sounds similar to when I did this. Took a few weeks to recover. Over vigorous swimming did it for me so I can easily see that you could have done something similar with those movement. It was so painful I couldn’t even be driven for a few days as the jostling in the car was tear inducing. it all resolved itself but was several weeks to fully recover.

Thanks so much for all of the supportive comments! This thread really has the most supportive and incredible women on here ☺️💕

Big news - 99.6kg this morning 🎉🎉🎉

@GiveMeWordGames hope you manage to enjoy Xmas and get good news in the new year!!

@MooBaggage sorry I did have a giggle at the jumping uo and down with no bra 🤣 sorry you've done yourself an injury. Sounds sore! Hope it settles quickly.

Bra Before Bouncing @MooBaggage !!! Good rules.

Good to hear you sounding calm @GiveMeWordGames - can you wear your dress tonight or is the biopsy in the wrong place?

I ahve a lovely, revolutionary NSV to report.

I was at Ecstatic Dance last night - Xmas edition - wearing a sparkly dress & dancing madly freely for 90 minutes.

There was a moment when I looked around everyone there and I felt like I was a "perfectly normal sized human". I wasn't the obviously biggest person in the room. This was such a nice feeling - to just feel physically "normal" for want of a better word for possibly the first time ever (I am 58).

And then there was this moment when I also realised I was bigger than most, but not because I am obese or overweight, but because I'm taller than average, I have large strong bones, a large strong skeleton, broad shoulders, fabulous hips. So rather than feeling unusally bigger (because I was obese) I felt wonderfully bigger in my very own "normal sized, but still larger than many people" body. This was so nice - I didn't have negative self talk but a powerful wave of self acceptance & love.

Its hard to express. But I felt a powerful homecoming about my body - like I was now in this happy healthy strong wonderful body that carries me through my days with such joy & freedom. I felt this was such a wonderful fantastic place for me to be - like a reconnection "body mind & soul" after being disconnected for so long.

It was such a fabulous feeling - and its the result of all the weight loss for sure, but also a culmination of eating respectfully for 16 months, of 16 months of exercising most days and of the ongoing emotional work I have been doing alongside the GLP1, calorie deficit, wholefood low UPF choices - all coming together in this life I have been actively shaping for a while now.

I though of you all at this time & just glowed. I'm still glowing this morning.

💃🏼💃🏼🧘🏼💐💜🥝🥝🎅🏼

It does sound like you've pulled an intercostal muscle under the boob @MooBaggage

This is exceptionally painful.

I had a flatmate who was a massage therapist and once when I pulled an intercostal muscle in my back I could barely move. He found the ends of the muscle where they connected to the bones,and he gently put pressure on both ends at the same time - and small round movements each way with gentle pressure and the whole thing released and was over.

Worth a try if you can isolate the ends of the releavent muscle.

What an absolutely wonderful NSV @RobinEllacotStrike and it says everything about how valuable and potentially transformative this medication is (I made the mistake of going on that "No more size 14?" GLP-1 thread and it's annoyed me).

I won't be wearing the dress, no. While the biopsy dressing would probably be just out of sight down on one side, the type of bra I need with said dress isn't comfy/supportive in the right way. BUT I have a festive, red, slightly sparkly vinted-purchase top which looks fab with my now-comfortable size 14 Sienna dark indigo straight jeans so I'm all in on that now.

Yay for below 100kg @Sam187

@MooBaggage ouch! 😩Hope it's less painful soon. Maybe stick to body brushing for lymphatic drainage. 😬

that sounds like a gorgeous outfit @GiveMeWordGames - both comfortable & glamerous for the Xmas party win!

Enjoy your evening in those fab size 14 jeans (I had a quick peek at that thread yesterday and decided to "step away & leave it")

@GiveMeWordGames that bloody thread annoyed me too - we really shouldn't go on any other threads...!!

Yes it is ridiculously painful - I mean, I am a bit of a wuss, but it's making me proper gasp when I forget and move suddenly 🙄 Hopefully it'll settle before my Big Lanza Holiday (Jan 10th - 31st - can't blooming wait!) because I intend to mainly be in swimming costumes for 3 weeks...!

@RobinEllacotStrike I love your posts and I'm so glad you still post on here 😍 I'm starting to get tiny glimpses of what you described - I'll also always be 'big' as I'm tall and generally broad (size 10 feet!), but to be so much more 'normal' is incredible - I had a similar moment in the loos last night at the theatre - I wasn't this HUGE person stood washing my hands compared to everyone else - just taller, mainly, and a bit bigger, but not ridiculously so. Amazing.

Its a powerful revelation @MooBaggage

Carrying so much negativity for so long about our bodies,and having the scales fall from our eyes as our pounds fall off the scales.

@MooBaggage sorry about your poor boob, sending supportive and calming vibes!

@RobinEllacotStrike I loved your NSV!

I have finally limped down 2lbs and properly into the 13 stones - only about 4 stone to go though still officially obese after losing over 5 stone sigh. I went to aquafit this morning at 8am, which is full of lovely ladies (and one brave man) of a certain age. Normally we bounce around with a lovely female instructor singing along to 70s and 80s hits and having a lovely time. Today there was a male pumped gym bunny man instructor, who kept counting us down and exhorting us to pump it which didn't go down well with mutinous ladies of an average age of at least 70! Hope he was a stand in not the real thing! I was so impressed with the ladies though, they come along almost every day, do 2 or 3 pool based classes including spinning on bikes in water and various flavours of aquafit. They then have lunch, What a way to do retirement, you go ladies, you are immortal!!

I am pretending to work until 6pm on 23rd sigh, but other than trying to avoid chocolate looking forward to 2 weeks off.

Happy preparations everyone and onwards and downwards

xx

I was bloody delighted to reach size 14 after starting MJ bordering on size 20/22. I am now size 12 in lots of retailers - occasionally 10 and occasionally 14. It depends upon what I am trying on - no tits big arse/hips IYSWIM. Some nutters on that thread so I have to avoid it.

Hi all. I lurk at lot, but barely ever post, but really enjoy reading everyone’s updates, and have had some fab advice from you lovely lot. But reading everyone’s updates made me think - I really must post…

I’m now on week 50 (!!), 47kg down, and feeling totally and utterly amazing. I started this in desperation as needed to be fitter to keep up with my children, with very low expectations having tried everything before. I didn’t (and still don’t) really have a goal - was just to stop the upwards trajectory, and now find myself in the surreal position of being with 10kg of a BMI comfortably inside normal which would be a loss of half my starting weight, and and wondering if I’ll know when to stop? I think I will… my weight loss is slowing right down, so think my body might tell me?

This drug has changed my life - being free from the constant food noise and self judgement is even better than the 20 inches off my hips. I’ve rediscovered the joy of food - eating to fuel rather than constant denial-binge cycle - and loving exercise.

Two NSVs I’ve had this week which I haven’t really known how to share in my “real” life, but thought you all might get… the need to purchase new 10kg dumbbells for super heavy stuff as my 10 months weight lifting has paid off, and needing to buy the next size down jeans on Vinted, and the realisation they’re a size 10! They’re still a bit snug, so I’ll keep hiking up my 12s for now, but I’ve never been a size 10. I guess I must have been at some point as a teenager, but can’t remember it!

So for anyone considering it, or just starting out, keep going. Before you know it you might be almost a year in and living a totally different life!

@Questions1234 Truly inspirational, and size 10 is amazing . I’m still a bit worried that I will self sabotage, but like you the benefits are so clear that I’m hoping I won’t. I don’t know when I’ll stop yet, , still have about 12 kilos to get to healthy bmi, but lots of people are telling me I should stop soon. I don’t know what that’s about.

I get that too now @Zebracat - I know its from a good place (in the people saying it to me) so I smile & nod & keep doing what I want to do.

@Zebracat @RobinEllacotStrike I get that too… and also mostly nod and smile depending on who it is. My lovely personal trainer made a comment yesterday (when discussing when to stop and in response to me saying I had more to go, she said “not that much more”) which made me listen as I reckon she knows what she’s talking about!! I am hoping it will be obvious though? The scales are slowing down for me, and I’m stronger than I’ve ever been, but still have obvious “pockets” (e.g. my stomach). But figure they might always be there???

My pharmacist, who monitors my mounjaro is saying it! I think I am quite muscly but I still have a pot belly and back fat, and a 44 inch bust!

So I seem to have stalled and then some. Or 15mg is no longer effective for me. Or maybe I am expecting miracles. Or it could be that its been a difficult few weeks and comfort eating is still very much A Thing for me. A 35+ year habit aint gonna change overnight. Despite some of the rubbish I have been reading recently about people taking doses in excess of 15mg I am absolutely not going to be doing that myself. I'm not giving in yet though. Mainly because I am stubborn as hell.

Dd gave me a pair of trousers tonight. She mainly lives in sportswear so what possessed her to buy a loose fitting pair is beyond me. Her exact words were 'these look like the usual things you wear'. Which I would. Except these are a size 10. People who've been around for a while might remember my red hot killer dress. Basically I was a size 24 at the time and brought a size 16 dress for a family wedding about 9 months after I started MJ. I then recycled said dress for DH's awards ceremony. Perhaps the trousers are the new red hot killer dress?

@MooBaggage my muscles seem to want to do weird stuff at times and randomly start hurting. Pulling a muscle in my bum was impressive as I dont really walk. Anyway, if you can pinpoint exactly where its hurting you, try a bit of gentle massage. I find this really helps me in persuading the rest of my muscles to relax and stop hurting. Theres also something about promoting blood flow to the area and encouraging healing as well.

Just a quick check-in to say hello. Still running around like a headless chicken between grandbabies and elderly unwell DM & MIL.
NSV of this week is that my most recent stall has broken, whether due to changing my injections to 10mg every 5 days or stress I don't know, but I am now at a weight last seen before I had DS1. I have finally lost my "baby weight" after 38 years

So behind with this thread as I’ve been madly busy and working away but will catch up with all the news over Christmas. Hope everyone is doing well.

Weigh day for me today after 4.5 months of maintenance:

SW: 241.2 / 17st 3 / BMI 35.6
CW: 151.8 / 10st 12 / BMI 22.4
GW: remain in 147-154 zone

This has been my longest period of being away since losing weight, no chance to cook, no scales, not a lot of exercise, living off Pret and Deliveroo, very stressful work environment. I went up a few lbs as I have done before, but this time it was harder to come back down, some old bingey behaviours really kicked in. So that’s something to remember and guard against in future, I recover quickly from a couple of days off plan, but a couple of weeks is another story. I was also ill with an ear infection which didn’t help, but food definitely reappeared as no.1 comfort / reward / stress relief mechanism which was surprising and unwelcome!

Anyway - I have regrouped and glad to be back on track before Christmas as otherwise I can imagine - suddenly a month has gone by and I might easily have gained 10lbs. I’m not planning to go too mad over the next couple of weeks so hope to get to January relatively unscathed, we’ll see. Christmas itself should be fine but it’s the trip to visit family straight after that might do me in, they are big big eaters and drinkers 😬

Maybe the binginess is down to reaching a dose of MJ that I need to stay on as maintenance, currently at 5mg so that’s fine if so. But will hang on until the new year and then see what happens if I reduce further. Omeprazole is now 20mg every 2.5 days with no ill effects so fingers crossed I have just about managed to ditch that. Again hanging on until the festive period is over and then will try cutting it out altogether 💪

Saturday check in and stayed the same 👍

End of week - 77 (5 x 2.5mg, 53 x 3.75mg, 21 x 3mg)

SW - 21st 05lbs BMI 44.8
CW - 11st 11lbs BMI 24.7
TW - 11st 12lbs BMI 24.9 (normal BMI!) - done 🥳 Maintain over Christmas

Total loss - 9st 8lbs (134lbs), 44.8%

Losses (24H2) - 10,2,2,4,1,3,3,3,1,3,2,2,3,3,2,3,3,2,1,4,0,2,3,3,1,4,0 (avg 2.3)
Losses (25H1) - 0,3,2,1,3,1,1,0,2,3,3,-1,3,2,2,1,2,2,1,1,0,3,0,1,2,1 (avg 1.6)
Losses (25H2) - 3,0,2,0,1,2,1,0,2,0,2,1,1,2,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,1,1,2,0 (avg 1.0)

Had my annual health check this week. Weigh in on the surgery's scales had me at 11st 8lbs, 3lbs lighter (in the afternoon, fully clothed in jeans/jumpers, well hydrated to plump up my veins for routine blood test) than my usual morning, naked, post-pee 😂 home scales. Was surprised at the difference, expected it to be higher.

Today is soup making, house cleaning, present wrapping and Christmas prep day - boring things like ironing the Christmas table cloth! - better get back to it!

Just checking I and holding myself to account. Weighed myself this morning and I'm happy to still be losing at a fairly good rate.

SW: 15st 5.5lb
CW: 13st 3lb
Loss: 30.5lb
Current BMI: 32.78
Target Weight 1: 12st 2lb (overweight BMI)
Target Weight 2: 10st 2lb (healthy BMI)

With less than 2 weeks until the new year, I am still hoping to be under 13st when I see in 2026 - fingers crossed!

@GiveMeWordGames hoping you get good news in the New Year. My daughter went through this last year (she was still only 16 at the time) and the biopsy thankfully came back as a fibroadenoma - it was a bit of a fast growing one though, so she had surgical resection last May. After they removed it, they sent it for full screening, which confirmed all the lump was a fibroadenoma and there was nothing more sinister there.

Loving all the positives ahead of Christmas! We've all got this 💪🏼.

NSV from yesterday. I ordered a little cosy fur jacket from our fave place - vinted. Absolutely love it. Size 18 which done up comfortably and tbh wouldn't have went anywhere near me a few months ago. Took a little pic in the mirror when it arrived and it was the first I've felt/seen that I am much smaller. Also got compliments on the jacket all day/night yest. Lovely little boost.

Horrendously hungover today after double jacks for way too many hours yest, but thankfully only 0.2kg up, so still in the doubles and I know it'll come down again this week.

I bought myself some new trousers for a Christmas night out and was delighted that they arrived on time - but, they’re too big!

I’m not quite used to my new dimensions 😆