January 2025 Starters - Maintenance, Progressing and Avoiding Traumatic 💩

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Hit me up losers!

See @HeidiLite I picture you like this: <a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=static.wikia.nocookie.net/heman/images/e/e6/She-Ra_render.png/revision/latest/thumbnail/width/360/height/360?cb%3D20161202003426&tbnid=Lv8k8cKe3ocXFM&vet=1&imgrefurl=he-man.fandom.com/wiki/She-Ra&docid=AyecxgDmnngAfM&w=220&h=360&source=sh/x/im/m1/3&kgs=3f96dac7bc70819d&shem=isst,shrtsdl&utm_source=isst,shrtsdl,sh/x/im/m1/3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://share.google/WmE6RSNDtIBC9Ey06

@Polkadotdash sounds like maybe a switch back would be a good idea. I never keep up with the science side really but MJ triggers more receptors or something doesn’t it? I mean that’s a shockingly shitty understanding I know but I know when I briefly looked into it my preference was a lower dose of MJ than a switch to wegovy because the MJ ‘extras’ seemed more beneficial for me personally.

one of the reasons I stopped the gym was as a short person I found it very difficult to adjust quite a bit if the equipment as did my PT who was also short. It ruled out quite a few machines (the hamstring curl machine was like an instrument of torture to get correctly positioned even with both of us doing it) so we did a lot of free weights. DH loves the machines and they really work for him - he’s 6ft 4…..

it is lovely to see these anniversary updates. My start date is the same as @MJalltheway so a couple of weeks to go.

Who would have thought that a year later I still wouldnt have learned that I can’t go up a dose in one go as it will make me shit through the eye of a needle? Hamsters learn faster than me (12.5 made itself known at 2 in the morning…..)

Yes to the machines at the gym - the kegs are very difficult. I’m 5f3

Love hearing the updates 💙

For some fuel to your feminist fire, I highly recommend reading Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez - best consumed in small doses to preserve your blood pressure. Fantastic book, but insanely infuriating.
Im very lucky in that, being 5'10", I'm the same height as the average UK man so I don't particularly struggle with the height or length of things. Seatbelts in cars though - clearly never a thought to the fact that women have breasts!

@Polkadotdash I lost nothing whilst on the top strength of Wegovy and I've just done my 4th jab from my 2.5mg pen and I've lost 4lbs in the last 4 weeks including over Christmas. So obviously one or more of the extras in MJ works for me. Also I don't feel nauseous with MJ which I did with Wegovy.

Anyway it was my MJ anniversary on 2nd January but as I was away I could only weigh myself this morning.

SW: 15 stone 8lbs and BMI 34.2
CW: 12 stone 1.4lbs and BMI 26.6
GW: 11 stone and BMI 24.2

According to my Tanita scales I'm still 36% body fat but I haven't been doing a huge amount of exercise so that's the next thing to target. I am definitely feeling a million times better than this time last year and my joints are especially grateful.

I also want to say thank you to everyone on this thread for being so supportive and a mine of information. Onwards and downwards ladies

@MJalltheway have read it and indeed, small doses only. If you want to be not only furious but horrified, try Men Who Hate Women.

We need a new thread!

@MJalltheway @HeidiLite fellow feminist and also a believer in gender - lucky I still have a job I guess !!

Fabulous anniversary posts, well done everyone.

Loved Invisible Women - can recommend 'The Authority Gap', similar vein. I'm dealing with a particularly dinasaur like sexist pig on one of my consultancy pieces right now. He struggles with women apparently - that's his problem. We have locked heads a few times recently and it is tiresome, but the bottom line is that the organisation is operating under my registration right now on this and my decision is final. Bloody boring tbh and not something I have experienced on this scale for a number of years. Thank god for consulting - I can walk away once I have finished it.

I've got a lot to do today - I need to finish two things for work, put Christmas away 😬as I haven't done that yet (we have lots of snow and the boxes are in the garage which means I haven't started it) amongst other things.

I'm hoping for sub 12 stone on the scales this morning, fingers crossed. How tall are you @hunkydory54 ? Your stats are very similar to mine. Well done on your anniversary stats.

new thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5473827-january-2025-starters-its-our-anniversary

@PenelopesProteinPackedParty I’m 5’ 7” and 9 days away from being 62. I weighed myself again this morning I hadn’t had a loo visit for a couple of days and I am 12 stone 0.6 lbs. Tantalisingly close to getting into the 11s like you

We are virtually twins @hunkydory54 . 5’8 and 58, also had my first poo for more than a week (thank the lord), 12st on the nose this morning. My goal is 11st 11lb. Three pounds to go.