June 2025 starters- Mounjaro (thread 6)

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We are pretty much full on the other one!

@Focusispowerthank you, I finally found a way to read the article beyond the paywall. It explains it quite well. I’ve never been big on socialising on a night, I’m quite introverted but I did put my even more lack of interest down to menopausal malaise and being knackered all the time due to bad sleep. I have found I have to motivate myself to do stuff I used to love. I haven’t watched a film in months, I can’t motivate myself to watch dramas or garden or read. Conversely, I signed up to a night class and although I enjoy it whilst I’m there, I have to push myself to go. Conversely, I’m wide awake right now, have been for 1 1/2hrs and going to go and do a craft I’ve taken up recently, which doesn’t require me leave the house or get dressed!! Maybe it is a combination of MJ and menopause!

I’ve also been feeling pretty flat, nothing excites me as much as it used to. But then I was unhappy being 5 stone heavier so I’m accepting it for now

Nice to catch up on so many posts !

I am now 9st 11lbs from 13st 9lbs .
size 8-10 from size 16 - 18
still overweight ….just .
need to lose 7lbs but I have slowly been moving down from 7.5mg at my highest dose . Been doing 5mg for a few weeks and as of today I’ve taken my first dose of 2.5mg. I’ve been maintaining this weight for a few weeks just a few pounds up and down but lands at 9-11 lbs. Eating isn’t the best , treats have snuck back in. Still counting on nutracheck . Need to up the water again. Exercise will be upped soon as new job starts in a week loads of walking and moving . Hoping this is a good time to reduce my dose . 🤞. Would like to drop the 7 lbs for a nice cushion weight wise , clothes look better but my face looks haggard unfortunately. A bit of saggy skin but noticed it’s filling out as time goes on. Definitely have had the flat feeling for quite a few months now . Will be interesting to see how it feels once the MJ is out of my system. Although I’m prepared to stay on it for life , if needed . It’s still stopped my ibs-d symptoms and I would stay on it just for that.
Will check In again soon !

Update -
After taking 2.5mg Sunday today I took another 2.5mg today . 😫
yesterday I am sure I ate as much as I would eat in four days I couldn’t stop ! It really freaked me out . I took the jab although today I have no hunger or fancying anyway so it may of been a blip . I’m going to take my jab on Sunday as usual but try 3.75mg it was how I moved up the doses so makes sense to move down the doses in the same fashion .
strangely it was sweet cravings and even pre MJ my downfall has always been savoury snacks 🤔. Off to the shop to get some fruit and veg and get back to basics . Water water water 😂.

Hi (waves nervously as a have been missing a while).

Sorry I’ve been AWOL. I was off a bit and then so many updates that my ADHD kicked in and I couldn’t manage the number of notifications/catching up. Then the longer I left it the harder it was to come back 😂.

Im maintaining on 2.5mg, planning on staying on this long term. Some food noise as has come back, but I am maintaining my weight. I’m running regularly 3-4 times a week and doing weights the same, so exercise nearly every day. I think that is helping.

Hi, been a busy few months. Retired end of March and been on 2 all inclusive hols with another 3 booked. Positively still 3st down from when I started in June. Will keep on with MJ for the foreseeable as in other exciting news, after 12+ years my partner proposed and we're hopefully getting married next year 😀.
Hope everyone is well.

Are all of you receiving the new pens now with no golden dose?

My supplier just emailed to say the next pen will be different. I don't want different.

I’ve had the email but don’t mind too much. It won’t be much different, it will just have less of the extra bit in it. The mechanism will still be the same.

Interested to hear this too. Expecting a delivery so will report back! It really increases the cost per dose so it does matter

I still have a couple of pens as got them ahead of this change. Makes quite a bit of difference to the overall cost, especially as I think I’m going to have to up my dose to 10mg soon (I have a 15mg and 10mg pen but was really hoping these would get me to goal plus maintenance 😥)

Coming up to one year now for all of us who started in June. I have lost 5.5 stones and am have 4 pens left because I ordered several when the prices increased and kept ordering to keep being allowed to reorder. Now wondering whether to order one more or make do with what I have. I still need to lose a couple of stone but things have slowed right down.
I could increase my dose from 7.5 to 10. I have one 10mg pen.
I then have 3 7.5 pens. I was planning on using at least 2 of these to taper down. I just can’t decide whether to up one more dose for a final push!

The other option - use the £229 another pen would cost me towards a gym membership. Leaning towards this one.

I’m maintaining on 2.5 and plan on staying on that u til at least a year after I reached goal weight (around December?). Possibly longer. I want to do everything I can to ensure my set weight stays low.

I’m similar. I started at the end of May. I’ve another 1 or 1.5 stones to go. Been on a plateau for a month. One 15mg pen left plus a 2.5 for weaning off. I don’t get much suppression or cessation of food noise, so I think I’m going to stop and go the last bit alone. Like you say, we could buy a gym membership or a few personal trainer sessions instead…

Me too, lost just over 5 stone, aiming for 6. No movement in over a month really. 2 and a bit pens left. If I need to order more I need to do it now to be allowed the higher dose but was hoping I had enough to last for maintenance too….

Interesting for me to read how those who've stopped ot are considering it are doing.

I'm definitely not ready to stop yet - too far still to go. I think stone and a half to get to a healthy bmi

If any of you aren't going to use your pens, I'd be interested in buying them off you? I'm on 7.5, and resent the lack of the golden dose more than I can say!

@Crinklecat @Gingercar It’s frustrating when the weight loss slows down isn’t it! Back in March when I ordered what I thought would be my last pen, it was still coming off quite well. Now I’ve panic ordered another pen will have 2x10 and 3x7.5 to use. I was using 7.5 but think I will up to 10 for 2 pens and then drop to 7.5 again and then try 5. I’m not planning on ordering any more.
I will stick with 2 meals a day and intermittent fasting to hopefully maintain.

This jump up was when I was ill and didn’t jab for 2 weeks…. Means I’m really going to have to be careful coming off properly

I think it’s sensible to expect fluctuations in the first few weeks while it gets out of your system and your body adapts. My plan is to keep eating sensibly and hold my nerve.

similar happening here, and I still have a way to go!! Only lost 0.3kg this week, 0.5kg last. That’s a v slow loss at £250/month for 15mg!!

@MissMogs i agree, but at least we’re not piling it back on

Also at a plateau (89kg) with a stone to go. I've REALLY increased exercise though so just keep telling myself it's muscle.

It's muscle.

IT'S MUSCLE.

I alternate between looking at myself and thinking I look great, and feeling like a blubbery whale. I'm currently a size 14. I ordered a size 12 jumpsuit from Vinted to slim into and I can get it on and fasten it and everything. I look vac packed - but. IT FITS. Last time I was a size 12, I was 14. It's the minimum size of my hips. I could go down to a 10 or even 8 on top, but my hips are what they are.

So I should be feeling good. The end is in sight!

BUt I feel really flat. Went to a new pilates class last night and the women in there weren't very friendly which didn't help, but I was just the fattest in the room. Even after losing 8 stone, I'm STILL the one taking up too much space.

It pissed me off, and it pissed me off more that I was pissed off.

I'm taking 5mg every 10 days now. No food noise, hunger is back but manageable. I'm having a 7 week push as that's how much pen I have left, taking 5 and then 2.5 from a 10. My plan is to continue dieting once mounjaro has gone, so I don't leave my drug-supported period feeling 'done'.

You’re just having a flat day. That’s all. Don’t let it take over. Tomorrow you’ll feel good again. You’ve done fabulously well. This is the biggest thing we have to learn - don’t let the downhearted days push you off track…

Thank you. It won't push me off track. It just makes the track MISERABLE. Comparison is the thief of joy... I look at myself in photos of me on my own and feel really proud.

I look at me in the mirror in a room full of skinny women and feel... ridiculous.

They were no slimmer than most of the women at my regular group. I think it's the mirrors. My usual group meets in a town hall. I can happily imagine myself as skinny too when I can't see me. Also my usual group is really lovely and friendly. The new group is a class at my gym so there isn't that same bond.

I agree about some Pilates mirrors. I felt pretty skinny the other day and took a photo of myself in the mirror before we started. Looked in the mirror half way through and looked giant!