May 2025 Starters Thread 7 - Ending the year as we mean to go on ✌️

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A sparkly new thread for our chatty gang!

Hooray for your new jeans @DBatteryBand !!!!

@DBatteryBand it’s tough isn’t it. I seem to be craving sweet things. Got another 3 weeks of this 10mg might just bite the bullet and move up.

@Gingercar I definitely don’t feel it’s as effective as it was a few months ago. Or am I just trying to sabotage this.

Don’t really have hunger in fact it’s hard to remember to eat. Have a decent cooked evening meal, but not much th rest of the day unless I remember, or there’s leftovers in the fridge.

struggling with the drinking enough water too.

maybe just need to be stricter.

@SignedUpAgain @DBatteryBand @Gingercar it’s definitely not as effective. I’ve plateaud over past 6 weeks and food noise creeping in again. I’m not eating as constructively as I was, so I have opted to go up to 10mg after 5 months on 7.5mg. I have a stone left to goal but it’s made me wary of what maintenance looks like. I had hoped that after I’d hit goal I would be able to titrate down.

I wonder if part of it is weight loss fatigue. The jabs are amazing, but the process has been all-consuming and, for me, unsettling now I have lost my protective padding. Every day since May I've been thinking about weight loss and making careful decisions around food (prioritising protein, drinking lots of water etc). Mounjaro is incredible (I still haven't heard the Cake And Pudding Voice clamouring to be heard) but it is a long time to go without saying, 'Fuck it. I'm going to McDonald's.' I don't even want McDonald's but sort of want the freedom to have one, IYSWIM.

If you don’t have hunger and are forgetting to eat it doesn’t sound like it’s not working though.

Sometimes I think that everyone seems to be on a bit of a plateau or fed up
at the moment. Perhaps it’s the end of winter blues? Here’s hoping we all get a new lease of life in the warmer weather!

I got a bit fed up looking at my weight loss graph. The last stone took 3 months! The first one took 4 weeks! I’ve only got 3 pens left and two stones to go. Looks like I’ll be doing the last bit on my own. 😱

But you could have one if you wanted. I think letting yourself once in a while is important in the “being in control” stakes. Like, sometimes the chocolate I use for the cafe drives me bonkers, and occasionally I give in and pinch myself a cream egg or a Malteaser bunny. Not very often. But when I do I make myself eat it slowly and really savour it- compared to wolfing it down quickly and guiltily and barely registering it as I might have done. And then I pick up the good habits again. I think it’s something important that I need to learn - that it’s not all or nothing. That I can occasionally have treats without going off the rails. (and to be honest, sometimes the sugary treats weren’t as good as I remembered. Which is also good!)

Morning everyone 🌅

Checking in to keep me accountable with a 2lb loss this week (in total shock as I'm also in my period and usually I feel much heavier this week)

So I'm at 14st 9lbs and the lightest I've been in over 10 years. Still a way to go (a long way!) but good to celebrate the mini milestones eh?

I even had a run this week (had a hip replacement a few years ago) so this was exciting! Didn't hate it...

DH has got a very important work event in 77 days and I'm going so that's my next mini target. 11 weeks and I'm aiming for 2lbs a week loss.

Trying not to put too much pressure on myself as I always horribly beat myself up if I don't meet these goals...but, I think a focus will do me good.

A parcel arrived for DH yesterday and it's the company of a dress I was looking at for the event..so hoping he's got it for me for Mother's Day 🤞 🤞

Anyway - ramble over. Hope you're all having a good week and enjoying the lighter days ☀️

Well done Sussex 🎉 It’s funny how keeping on keeping on does take us in the right direction, even if it’s not linear. The good habits and our efforts are not wasted.

Well done, @SussexLass87 !
Fingers crossed the parcel is the dress you had your eye on , what a lovely man your DH is to organise it. 🤞

@Gingercar- I’m slowly learning the “it’s not all or nothing” lesson too.
Haven’t weighed for two weeks but this morning shows a half pound gain.
Evidently, hot cross buns need to be a less frequent treat.
Not fancying any of the desserts and puds being advertised for Mothers Day and Easter, but unaccountably gone right off 0% Greek yoghurt which was a mainstay.

Onwards and downwards, however slow and bendy the route !

Yes well done @SussexLass87 . I’m intrigued to know whether or get the dress. Fingers crossed for you here! And I wish I could get -2lbs a week. I seem to be a pretty steady lb a week girl!

Perhaps because I don’t like the 0% or low fat Greek yogurt either. I have to have the full fat version!

I kept wondering how @DidILeaveTheGasOn is doing. Hope you’re having a better week.

Thanks all you're a lovely bunch! I've been saying to DH how supportive it is to have this thread - even if I'm not posting on it, just having it to read and to stay in track.

Didn't stop me eating a creme egg earlier...but oh well. It was delicious...no regrets 🤣

@Gingercar - if it helps, my losses really stalled for a while and have been frustratingly up and down. Oddly since I started eating more I'm losing weight again.

I've just been out for drinks (diet cokes only!) with friends and wore a 14 top and 14 jeans. Wow. Really can't believe it. This time last year it would have been an 18 in both.

Took me ages to get dressed - all my usual outfits just look wrong now. I haven't got that body confidence yet - in many ways it's taken a hit since starting MJ.

Second one thinking of @DidILeaveTheGasOn and the others who don't post as much. Hope you're doing okay ladies 👋 💜

Trouble is, I already eat a lot! I’ve never had any trouble eating to the top of my calories- I could eat endlessly if I let myself! Doesn’t help that I’ve just bought a new set of everyday crockery and everything is bigger, so I can pile even more on!

Isn't it amazing how different all of our journeys are? We're all at a similar point of finding what we need to do / make those changes but need to go about it in different ways. It's so interesting.

My eating is really erratic and MJ has really helped me eat meals regularly rather than skipping meals and then overcompensating later on.

I do think starting HRT has helped too (I'm 41) and I feel much clearer headed and focussed - not 100% but much better than it was.

I really need to get HRT. I’ve got 15 years on you, and still haven’t. I’m waking up boiling a few times a night. Not sweating, thankfully, but it’s enough to disturb my sleep. Which is not meant to be great for weight loss, is it! I became a lot calmer post menopause. Peri was a nightmare!

Yes it’s very strange how we all react so differently to MJ. I often wish it had more affect on me.

I started HRT in Jan and it’s been a game changer .. for mood and sleep. I’m 53 and I’d tried patches before but they made no difference so I gave up. After several months of awful hot flushes, night sweats and poor sleep I booked myself into a private menopause clinic. A combination of estrogen gel / progesterone (double dose due to MJ) and testosterone and I feel like a new woman. My weight has plateau’d but hopefully going up a dose will help kick start it.

I live in Northern Ireland and my local GP has been very unsupportive but it was definitely worth it to go to a private clinic.

Interested to hear about HRT. I am considering trying it. I get these sudden moments of negativity, which started pre-Mounjaro, when I feel bit bleak, and then all I feel like doing is sitting in my pyjamas, looking vacantly out of the window. (I don't do this - I just give myself a shake and get on with it). It's not like me at all - I'm usually a 'cheerfully busy' sort.

@Gingercar You were absolutely right, upthread. I can have a McDonald's. After reading your wise post, I went in, looked around and thought, 'Meh. Maybe not!' and went home for some mint tea instead. Honestly, there's no pleasing me! Maybe HRT would help with that, too!

Right, that's it - I've had enough! Fed up of walking round with my pants sliding down my arse! New knickers for me!

Oh god there’s nothing worse than pants coming down! Definitely time for new pants.
In my coffee trailer I have my back to my customers while I’m making coffees. A few weeks ago I had knickers that kept falling down but also my jeans were slipping down too! I felt like I was going to end up mooning my customers! New size in both was promptly purchased!

Hello all

Hope that you've all had good weekends?

Lovely DH did indeed get me the dress for his work event as a pressie - absolutely chuffed that the size 14 he'd ordered fitted. BUT it's going back as it's basically got no back so you can see my ENTIRE bra. Why? Why? Why do companies do this?! So effing annoying.

I did a very (very) quick Google about HRT and MJ before asking the Dr for it the other week and apparently they work really well together. Phew!

My weight loss has increased quite a bit since starting (I wonder if it's partly the improved sleep and more clarity of mind?) I'm on the gel and progesterone tablets and started taking a strong magnesium at night for the 3am anxiety spikes... apparently it takes about 3 months to have a proper effect though.

Overall I'm feeling a lot calmer and less ragey which is such a relief (for me as much as my family...!?) 😅

That sounds really good @SussexLass87 . Improvements all round with the HRT. I've never had any, I don't think it was regularly offered when I was the appropriate age. And now, with yet another birthday approaching, I really think I've left it too late 🙃 😅

Finally jabbed. Think it's been about two months.
Haven't got the balls to weigh myself yet. Might do that tomorrow. I know I've gained quite rapidly because the jeans that were getting lovely and loose are now tight.
Trying not to see it as going backwards but a hiatus because (and saying this quite sternly to myself) I had surgery.
Onwards and downwards?

Welcome back my lovely 💐 and yes, on repeat, "I've had surgery".

You took the step you needed to - you've been through the wringer this last year x

Thank you ❤️

A little concerned that I've had a 2 month gap and then had 12.5mg. Hoping it'll be fine. Definitely in the right headspace now and I can WALK and everything so I'm considering adding in some evening walks slowly. My knee is still a little sore after a 1 mile walk but that's progress still.

Oh gosh that’s a big dose after that gap. Do you tend to get much in the way of side effects? But glad you are getting back in the saddle. 🙂

Mostly ok on side effects but it's only after I jabbed that I stood there and went, 'did I really just do that?'

But my data analyst head is like, <gremlin noises> oooooh new data... 🤕