Mounjaro starters Nov ‘24 Thread 15 - the one where we wear ALL of the party dresses and are happily in ALL of the festive photos 🎄🥳

[Mounjaropen]

Welcome to thread 15!
Link to our last thread here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5415910-mounjaro-starters-nov-24-thread-14-the-one-where-for-the-first-time-all-of-our-winter-coats-do-up?page=40

Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we hurtle towards Christmas proudly wearing Crimbo jumpers without fear of looking enormous, look for slinky party dresses on vinted and for the first time, willingly take part in ALL of the festive photos🥰

Join us here to celebrate NSV’s, weight loss milestones, maintenance and new stone brackets!
I’m on W55 D2 and on w6 (and final dose) of 3.75mg before moving onto 2.5mg.
F in my early 50’s
H 5’ 5.5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 9st 6.8lbs
GW 9st 0lb
Total loss so far 61.0 lbs (at 9st 6.0)
We recommend the Shotsy app to monitor the amount of MJ in the system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free.
Feel free to swap recipes that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for managing side effects, exercise tips, tips for maintenance, titrating up or down and we love a wellness/supplements/beauty/ style chat too 🤗

In case anyone wants a listen, R4 on the Today program this week has been concentrating on WLI. Interesting slot with an endocrinologist this morning (around 8.30ish) who was reassuring in the safety of staying on Terzepitide long term and the reasons why. Chief reason: ‘we DO have long term studies on taking MJ long term, 18 years of data with diabetic patients’

Weighing in.

W59D7
SW: 19st 9lbs
CW:13st 10lbs
1st GW: 17st 13lbs
2nd GW 15st 4lbs
3rd GW: 13st 9lbs
TL: 5st 13lb

As predicted that 6 stone milestone didn't quite stretch to weigh in day. 13st 10 on the nose so a whole 0.1 pound scuppered an official 6 stone loss today - curse you normal body fluctuations!
I have however lost 30% of my starting weight, which is a nice bonus milestone while I wait for 13st 9 to return 🥳

You can do it!

I learned to ski in my 40s and I can testify that the single biggest factor in how easily you can pick it up is fitness. On my first trip I had just trained for a 10k (running 4x week), and there was a noticeable gap fitness-wise between me & the other beginners - even the blokes. By the end of the week the weaker beginners had slipped away and it was the instructor, me, and a couple of 20-something male beginners still keeping up.

Since then I’ve skied less fit (not well), and then the most fit I’ve ever been after lifting with a PT, and the difference really is huge. So do go again, and do use it to galvanise your exercise - you will see the difference and have SO MUCH FUN.

I went to top up the food shop but found this bargain for £12 in Asda. Who needs vegetables?

WOW look at you! Definitely better than a bunch of carrots. 🤣

Do you have an emergency red carpet in your home, for occasions when a frock like this needs photographing immediately?

The red carpet is so perfect with the dress! It’s a beautiful dress, @Dreamqueen.

The red carpet is the bane of my life. it shows every speck of fluff. Moved into this house 3 years ago and I stupidly let DH choose the colour of the upstairs carpet. It seemed fair at the time as he let me have free reign everywhere else except the garden which is his domain. Once he'd chosen the red nothing would dissuade him that it was a bad choice and upstairs looks like bordello.

Omg no. I would see the four courses as a challenge to be completed and want chocolate waiting in the room for me after

Oooh your fashion purchases sound lovely!

You just need a satisfying poo @pinkart then we can ring that 6 stone klaxon for you!!!

Vegetables are surplus to requirements in December when there are GORGEOUS dresses to buy!

TMI but I thought I was going to need one this morning as I was a bit windy and for Mounjaro me that means poo time! But nada, which is just rude.
I'm 0.2 of a BMI off being overweight too and that's a huge milestone to be so close.

Perfect red carpet dress @Dreamqueen, you look fabulous.

it’s a bit of a milestone for me this weekend. 6 months (26 weeks) MJ free and my weight is holding steady. 4 more weeks and I will have been off MJ as long as I was on it.

That’s great news, @Cantbesure. Gives me hope for the future - planning on coming off in the new year (and hoping my hair grows back).

Keep going! You did actually do it, so it counts 💪

Wowsers! You look amazing! And £12?

Who eats Brussels anyway? 😂

Love the carpet!

I’d go full bordello with fringed lamps and everything- but I am what the kids say as ‘extra’ 😂

Gosh I thought it was just me, but MJ does make you windy - even when no carbs are consumed 🤣

Amazing! What an achievement- something for us all to aspire to 🥰

No also! I choose courses based on my rule ‘I couldn’t be arsed to make that at home’

Presents have one rule - The recipient wouldn’t buy it for themselves - so something lovely, frivolous or fabulous. This obviously does not apply to the worst present I ever received- a stunt kite. I was 19, we’d been going out for 2 years, was massively into fashion and clubbing and I have never been described as ‘outdoorsy’. He was an ex shortly afterwards.

Snap. I almost always order things I could not be bothered to cook. At home I'm flexitarian as I can't be bothered to cook meat. But I do like a good steak if someone else cooks it...

@Mounjaropen the full on bordello light to go with the carpet. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ooh fab. I used to have a similar one in my music room/study which was magnificent- 15 arms. Then I asked DH to give it a clean and discovered that the electrician who had put it up didn’t bother with a noggin but used expanding foam instead….😱

A mini check in from me. No weight loss that I know of this week, but haven’t weighed for a few days, and I’ve been away the last couple of days for a funeral. Very sad, but a good send off, and was also lovely to see family I haven’t seen in years (the weird bittersweet thing with funerals). A very long day yesterday which involved quite a few drinks and naughtier food than usual, and then a hotel fry up this morning!

What I did experience in a positive way was that so many people commented on how well I looked, and absolutely no questions about weight loss jabs thank goodness. And, it also reaffirmed that being slender really does seem to be synonymous with looking more youthful. At least 3 people thought I was in my 30s (including a cousin who should really know better as she’s only about 3 years older than me!). I’m 45. Bonkers. Reassuring though, because I was worrying about ‘Ozempic face’ and ‘Ozempic neck’, and feeling a tad stressed work wise in the run up to Christmas. I did however have a fabulous night’s sleep Thursday night which may have helped (on my own in a big hotel bed, no 3 year old draped half over me or a snoring DH!).

I shall be continuing my Trinny London, collagen (nutrition geeks) and probably shall continue Botox! I’ve also recently introduced Niod’s fractionating eye concentrate on the recommendation of @Mounjaropen . Any more of these fabulous recommendations please keep them coming!!

Have a lovely weekend everyone