June 2025 starters- Mounjaro (thread 6)

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We are pretty much full on the other one!

Wow. That’s some comment from a “friend”!!! Regardless of the comment on your appearance and the derogatory “strut”, the comment about thinking you’re something special?? What is this - know your place? Stay in your lane? What a cow!

I accidentally caught myself from behind in a changing room mirror today and was horrified at the state of my back! The fat has almost gone, but I’ve been left with what can only be described as WATERFALLS of skin!!! Roll on winter I say!!

Checking in... I've reached my goal, which was just to be a comfortable size 14 and the weight I was when I got married (13.5 stone). I am getting so many compliments and feel good in my skin. The thinnest I think my body could possibly be is a size 12 - like a previous poster, I have big hands, big hips, big boobs... I'm not a small person, my BMI is still in the obese category. But I pay no mind to it.

I'm sitting here in shorts (first time in 20 years?), I can feel my hip bones and bum bones, I can see my ribs on my chest, and I am LOVING the muscle I am building in the gym. I have so much energy, and I feel really good about myself.

I'm titrating down weirdly because I have no plan. So I'm having 2.5mg when I remember - maybe every 14 days? It isn't have any impact on my appetite or satiety any more, which I think is good as I'm doing really well managing my diet using willpower, but it's obvs still doing something for inflammation.

I'm going to carry on losing weight on my own, just to see if I can get down to a 12, but my focus now is on exercise - that's what's consuming my headspace, and it's far healthier than focusing on weight. I haven't lost anything in the last 2 weeks, but I am definitely losing inches, everything is tighter.

I haven't done too badly when it comes to loose skin, but my tummy is a bit of a horrorshow. I've seen way worse though so I'm happy really. My arms are flabby still but the skin isn't too bad. My arse is saggy as fuck but whatever. Dressed, I'm fine.

Huge well done to all of us for making it through a year of showing up for ourselves and our health.

Took my first jab on Tuesday last week… tonight I’m thinking about food.. I’m fighting the urge to cave in, is this happening because my next jab is due in 3 days?

Think you have come onto the June 2025 thread instead of the June 2026 starters thread. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5535376-june-mounjaro-starters?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share good luck.

Thank you!!

I was a bit surprised to be asked to send photos with my last order. But it's been a year so perhaps that's the norm!

I had added a few lbs to my weight which was silly but I stood on the scale with weights so it tallied 😬 It was accepted with no issues

I was on 7.5 for the last 6 months or so. I'm now on my second month back down at 5. The effects are the same, in fact weirdly feel a little stronger. I've lost a couple more lbs.

I'm at 11.5 now and I feel as though 11 will be a realistic target. It gives me a little buffer if I gain any. My plan is to get to 2.5 soon and see how that feels.

I’ve still got half a stone to lose and progress has really slowed the last few months so I’ve moved up to 12.5mg meaning I’m going through my pens quicker than I’d like. Ordered a new one and it’s the new style with only 4 doses, feel really cheated. Cross with myself I’ve not knuckled down a bit more meaning this is costing a fortune to lose a pound or 2

It's been a while, but I'm still here. So far this year has been pretty eventful. Started with falling down the stairs resulting in a sprained ankle and broken foot, deciding to retire early and a proposal. So retired at end of March and have had 5 all-inclusive holidays. Positive is that I haven't gone completely off piste and am still 3 stone lighter than when I started on MJ. No more holidays booked as yet so have bitten the bullet and upped my dose to 7.5mg, now to plan the wedding and lose 2-3 more stone. 🤞

Still chugging on 2.5mg, still not losing any more. Lowest was 10st 5, but some days I'm back to 10st 10. Just want to hit 10st for a healthy BMI! I'm in the gym 4 days a week plus another class so I'm not worried worried, I was just hoping to be a definite size 12 by now rather than just occasionally.

@Librariesrule congratulations!

Well, that was interesting. I said to juniper that I wanted to pause injecting and see how I get on and they’ve dumped me. The truly awful website/ app says to press here for a reason but it just repeats the instruction. They’ve been expensive and I have had our endless trouble with messages that were sent by mistake or messages that didn’t get through or people not responding or not being able to find things that I was told was not difficult to find et cetera et cetera so I’m not unhappy to see them go. My BMI is 22.9 and I shall carry on with the pens that I have stashed because I have been stretching out the time between each injection to almost a fortnight. If I decide that I’m going to need more help, then I will go with someone like Bolt who at least is cheap! Has anyone else had a similar experience with Juniper?

I’m still here too….I finally hit 8 stone 13 this week….that’s taken 4 months from when I was 10 stone. 5 1/2 stone gone now.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with Juniper?

I'm with Juniper and have been happy with them. Cheaper for me because I get the £100 refer a friend discount every month. The main reason I stay is because they remain with £10 of the cheapest with the discount, so it's not worth the hassle of changing. I have a £100 off voucher code available if anyone wants it.

I've gone from BMI 42 to current 25.4. I am prescribed 15mg but take 10mg per week to make it last. Juniper have not had a problem with me ordering every 8 weeks rather than every month. I have told them I'm taking 15mg every 2 weeks to explain the order gap.

I have started thinking about maintenance and plan to drop down the doses (via click counting from a 15mg pen).

Your BMI is lower than mine Maryb. Im not sure Juniper would be within their prescribing rules to allow someone with a heathy BMI take a drug for losing weight after a long break of taking it. I know Juniper do support maintenance dosing for customers who have lost and want to stay taking GLP1. But their rules are not to re-start someone at a lower weight. I think it's right and responsible that they have these sorts of rules.

Hopefully your break from GLP1s is successful. What dose were you taking?

I’m on 1mg of Wegovy, having swapped from Mounjaro months ago. I’ve never gone up the pens much. I haven’t lost any weight since March, having achieved my target weight, so I was really looking to maintain, not lose, while I titrated down. But, hey ho, I’ll do it another provider’s way if I need to and my weight starts creeping up as the pens go down. But very pissed off with junipers lack of comms.

Hi all, I have been maintaining a bit of trial and error but seems to be going ok. My goal was lowest 9st 7lbs and I am now about to purchase 2 pens to carry on maintaining. They have asked for a video call. My problem is I was 9st 9lbs last registered weigh in and that’s the figure I put . I weighed this morning and I am 9st 2lbs and my video call is in 24 hrs . I am quite shocked myself but I have tried not to weigh as it was becoming a bit of a fixation so I was just trying to make the mind as healthy as the body. My bmi is now 23.7 so I’m healthy range just wondering the factors half a stone out will they refuse ? Anyone have experience of this. My OH said to weigh myself down 😂 . How would that work 😂.

Have you considered increasing your does? Not necessarily to 5mg, you could try 3.75mg?

Still here... I'm titrating down super erratically, taking 2.5mg when I remember from my last pen. Maybe once every 3 weeks. Should probs take it down to 1.25mg next time.

I stopped taking mounjaro at therapeutic doses before I hit goal weight, partly for financial reasons but mostly because I thought it would help me maintain if I still had to diet on my own first, and get used to restricting calories without help.

The plan is working. My weight loss has understandably slowed down, but I'm still losing weight at a steady pace and I'm a dress size 10 - 12 now, which feels unreal to me. I am doing well at managing my food intake, eating exactly the same lunches and dinners as I was when actively on MJ. I'm eating a bit more at weekends - definitely noticing the reduction in its impact when I loosen my own reins - but it's all entirely manageable, I am very mindful of what I eat now and make sure I track the calories of those 'bad' meals. In that way, piggy days are as purposeful as dieting days, which I'm finding useful. Did you know there are 605 calories in a Morrisons fresh sausage roll? That's more than I have for most lunches, as a picnic side...

As I lose more weight, the loose skin situation on my tummy becomes apparent. It's still not as 'bad' as many I've seen on social media, and I put bad in inverted commas because I don't see it as bad, at all. It's a reminder of what I put my body through when I was massively overweight, and what I have achieved in shifting that weight. I quite like how soft it is. And there's time for it to tighten a bit yet.

The biggest change for me remains my relationship with exercise. I am so active now, doing at least one form of moderate exercise a day, and it is helping with everything from my mood to my peri symptoms, and sleep. I am enjoying seeing muscles emerge, my body feels good and I feel good in it.

Re: previous post.
Update in case anyone has the same issue . Had my online call she never checked my id never asked to see the last box as they’d requested. She never asked me to weigh. She asked how it was going advised how I should carry on with titration and told me my order will be here Saturday. 2 minutes and done. I was going with honesty is the best policy and no secret bowling ball in my pocket. 😂

Still trundling along losing less than half a kilo a week on 7.5mg here. 8.2kg to go until I reach my arbitrary target of 60kg, which will be a BMI of 23.7, which I think will be right for me. Will probably take me the rest of the year once I've had my holiday glitch, which is fine, it's just business as usual now. I need new gym leggings though, mine are now looking distinctly baggy, I could never have imagined such a thing!

Have just been to an event at my dc school end of year thing. Parents not very inclusive but I’m a bit crap sometimes in that respect. One mum on particular came over and said ‘ look , you do look amazing now but just don’t lose anymore weight’ I was a bit gobsmacked and said ah ok thank you . She said again ‘ but seriously you’re fine as you are don’t lose anymore ‘
Tbh it’s left me feeling a bit crap ! I am only just in the healthy bmi range and I am healthy so it threw me . We aren’t big friends out dc are friends so there’s text and the odd pick up and drop off . Is this odd ? My weight is already confusing me . My prescriber this morning said she wasn’t worried I could lose another stone or more and still be healthy . I bought a dress today and it was too tight 😂. O told the prescriber I’d gone onto 5mg again from 3.75mg as food noise was too much she said 5 mg is the lowest maintenance dose recognised so it’s fine . Just having a sit down and scratch my head moment. 🧐

@RussianDoll76 wow, did you know she was a qualified dietician/doctor/pharmacist?

Unless she's coming round to weigh you, how is she going to know exactly how much more you have lost. If your prescriber is happy and your BMI is healthy, keep doing what you're doing.

@RussianDoll76people don’t like change. They say don’t lose any more weight because they don’t want you not to be the larger person you were that they have known you as. It’s also like you’ve become a threat to their existence because you are encroaching on their skinny territory. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s nobody’s business but yours and as long as you are happy and healthy that’s what matters.
As a side note, larger people who say don’t lose any more are usually doing it because they feel bad about themselves not being able to lose the weight or be able to afford/allowed WLI.
My update is i seem to be stuck. I was advised to maintain for 6 months by gp fir a problem, which is now sort of resolved so I gradually upped my dose to 7.5mg, which was too much so I reduced back down to 7mg, but am now not losing anything again. Hoping it’s just the heatwave retention of water. I have overall with SW and finally MJ lost 5 stone. I have another stone to lose to be on top end of healthy bmi, but I am sort of happy where I am and if I lose more, I’d also be happy, just not sure I can face a higher dose with the side effects.
Before heatwave I was down to a size14/M, but some of my size 16’s linen trousers are not as loose as they once were around the waist, which has meant I didn’t have to buy any!

@RussianDoll76 , there are quite a few threads on here where people have experienced comments exactly like you, and I’ve experienced it myself - even when my BMI said I was still overweight. It really grinds my gears. @ihavetocookagain absolutely nailed it. People just don’t like to see us losing weight and becoming “normal”. They like to see a “fat person” so they can feel smug and good about themselves.
Just ignore them. Be proud of yourself and enjoy your weight loss - and continue losing weight until you reach the healthy BMI that you’re happy with.

@Bloozie congratulations on your achievement so far and on maintaining while titrating down. My OH has never actually got up to a “therapeutic”dose, she’s currently on 3.75mg and has lost 4st in the last 12 months. Keep us posted on your progress.
I’m now at target (BMI 22.9), nearly 5st down but currently on 12.5mg. It’s my plan to start going slowly down now. Like you, I now love exercising. I’ve started running a lot. I really struggled with C25K initially, but a couple of weeks ago completed my first big 10K event!
I’ll be staying with this group for the long term as I work down the doses. I reckon that’ll take at least 12 months. The thought of it is pretty scary tbh!