June 2025 starters- Mounjaro (thread 6)

[FoxRedPuppy]

We are pretty much full on the other one!

@FoxRedPuppy - Congrtulations on reaching target and your NSVs🙌

It seems we are having the same experience of maintenance. I am now below the bottom of my buffer zone so definitely don't want to lose any more. On the other hand, I am worried about reducing my MJ dose until the New Year (currently on 5mg) because December has always been a tricky month for me. I don't have a particularly sweet tooth but the siren call of mince pies, Christmas cake, pannettone, stollen, yorkshire puddings, Christmas baking etc has been my undoing in the past!

What are your plans for increasing calories? I'm thinking of switching to higher fat Greek yoghurt, larger portions of protein and veg but still keeping (non-veg) carbs low. I have an insatiable appetite for wheat based carbs - once I start, I can't stop - which was the chief culprit in my weight gain so am keen to avoid as a source of extra calories. Also thinking I might swap out my running sessions for swimming (already lift weights on alternate days) because running generally reduces my appetite for food. Finding it more tricky to keep weight on than losing!

I’ve done one jab of 5mg (was on 7.5) and plan to stay on that for a couple of months and then try 2.5mg.

I love full fat Greek yoghurt and I’d only just switch to 5%! So might switch back.

Finding it more tricky to keep weight on than losing!

Whoever thought this would be the case @LadyClumber ? A new problem none of us on this thread thought we'd be encountering.

@Sogfree - Quite! I am now worried that my BMI (20) has dropped too low to maintain with Swift Doctor even though my Renpho scales tell me that my waist/ hip ratio remains high. I am an 'apple' with a family history of heart disease and diabetes so really would like to get my ratio down to normal but may not be able to do that on MJ.

Could you do that with strength exercises?

Decision made …..I’ve gone up a dose to 7.5mg and will aim to shift the last stone . Need to start swimming preferably before Christmas. Looked up lots of info on maintenance so clearer on what I will be doing and when . Think maintaining will be a next year thing to work on.

@FoxRedPuppy - I have been lifting heavy (for me ) weights since I started MJ and my waistline is smaller than it was last time I was this weight but I am very slim hipped and weight comes off my stomach last so my waist/ hip ratio tends to be skewed until my BMI is under 20. BMI of 19.5 is my sweet spot.

I am on week 26. Which is 6 months and the longest I have ever dieted! I have lost 2st 10lbs and now weight 12 st 6 which is still not in my healthy range but I have dropped a size now in size 14. If I look back I can’t really believe it because I have not weighed this for about 15 years. It’s slow going now but I have another stone and a half to go! I have stayed on 5mg as I like the feeling of having to have some self control.
congratulations to everyone now maintaining I am very interested to hear how you get on and this thread has been a daily read for me! Now Christmas is in sight that will be a challenge but I feel confident I have learnt to cope!!

I can highly recommend the current strain of flu for weight loss 🤢

My plateau is back 😭 well today I’m actually up 2.5lbs since Saturday. I’m definitely being a bit lazier, moving less, eating more and not drinking enough water. Don’t want to move up further than 7.5mg due to cost. Ggrrr

@FoxRedPuppy - oh no!! Hope you feel better soon.

@Crinklecat - how frustrating! Before moving up, perhaps get back to basics with diet, exercise and water for a week and see whether that shifts things? If absolutely desperate to lose weight, there always is @FoxRedPuppy‘s flu bug…🤢

@LadyClumber its not nice, but it works!

i would go back to basics, drinking water, counting calories (if you do that).

Oh no! Hope it passes soon!

Ah sorry to hear you’re unwell @FoxRedPuppy hope you have somebody to look after you and you feel better soon x

I’m right there with you with flu @FoxRedPuppy!

Just about coming out the other side today and only slight feelings of 🤢 luckily but it’s been a good appetite suppressant as I’d accidentally reduced to 5mg so well timed!

I had my last two pens delivered today (although I said that two months ago…) so looking to finish end of Feb.

Thank you all, yes I do need to get back to tracking but I’m just not in the right place at the moment. This is the weight that I’ve previously got to and then regained (more than once) so I’m not sure if it’s a mental or physical block. Ive lost the gain so hoping I keep losing, even if it’s slowly. I’d like to be in the 12s before Christmas. Only been in the 12s once a few years ago and that only lasted a week before the big regain started

Hope all of you with the flu feel better soon

Another 2lb down. Had my pre-diabetes check yesterday, nurse seemed happy with the weightloss and my blood pressure was in the 'normal' range .
off on holiday this weekend all inclusive to Torremolinos for a week. Jabbed today so do I take pen with me and jab while I'm away or jab when I get back? Which will be 4 days late. What have others done?

I have been looking at some statistics regarding mounjaro and as we are all around the 6 month mark what an average loss should look like for this timeframe. It says on average around 10-15% of your body weight could be lost in 6 months .

It’s made me quite pleased as I regard myself as a very slow loser and never had really big losses . So far I’ve shifted 21.4 % of my body weight this made me smile after being so hung up on the lbs going up and down . 😊

love to hear all your percentages 😁

@RussianDoll76 23%
started at 16st, now 12st 4lb 👍🏻
(think I’ve worked that out right - I’m 77% of starting weight)
Never thought I’d get down to this in my wildest dreams. BMI still just over 25 though but I feel amazing

I started at 20st4lbs on the 1st June. I'm now officially 14st (today), lost 31.09% 🎉. I need to work on strength training for my arms and legs. I have been building up stretching and flexibility (after having chronic back and leg issues). I still have the classic apple shape with an added apron stomach thanks to a EMCS but i've now been taken off a lot of prescription meds and have reversed the nerve damage to my optic nerves in my eyes which I consider a massive win.
I love hearing everyones stories. I was absolutely bricking it when I first began.

I’m at 12st7lbs. Started at 16st6lbs! 25kg/very nearly 4 stone lost. My BMI is still 32 because I’m short though! Lost 24% of starting body weight. Things have definitely slowed down - every week feels like a plateau but the line is creeping down in a bouncy sort of way! I’ve only dropped one dress size and gone down one bra back size and one cup size. Depressingly I’m still a stone OVER the weight I started weight watchers at the first time I thought I was fat!!
I really need to focus on strength training for the next 6 months. Doing any exercise is hard because of fibro, so motivating myself to deal with the pain when it’s cold and dark has been a real struggle. Motivating myself to look up videos on what to do and teach myself how to do it is another big struggle. Any YouTube recommendations? @Elseaknowswhat do you do for stretching and flexibility?

23% here too, and only 0.8lbs to go to be 12 stone something 🥳

Hello everyone, apologies that I haven't posted for quite some time, but have been reading the thread!

My starting weight in June was 11 stone 10 lbs and I'm now 10 stone 2 lbs. I had also lost an additional stone before starting Mounjaro, by going to Slimming World. My BMI is now 26, so very close to being in the 'healthy' range. My original goal of 9 stone 10 lbs is now within reach, but these last few pounds are proving difficult to shift! I'm short, at 5'2".

I actually stopped taking Mounjaro for the entire month of October, due to a 28 day group tour in the Far East - didn't want to take the pen with me when we would be moving hotels every other day and the possibility of a lack of fridges in some of the rooms.

Unfortunately, I then couldn't pick up where I left off when I returned to the UK, as Medexpress wouldn't let me order the 7.5mg pen, so I have had to return to the beginning to start the titration process once again. I have also switched to Wegovy due to the additional cost of Mounjaro. Feel a little irritated about the cost of the pens at the lower doses, because the food suppression is non-existent now. But hey ho, I'm still plodding on - so near and yet so far!!

It has been expensive and slow going, but I haven't been within spitting distance of 9 stone something for 30 years, so I am absolutely ecstatic that I'm finally nearly in the healthy BMI bracket, I'm no longer pre-diabetic and clothes are starting to look good on me!

Well done everyone who's still here from June, we've got this.