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 🤗

I’ve actually cancelled my tennis lesson so I can do online shopping today.. so I’m probably not the best person to ask 😂

Love that coat. Try the tiny size maybe?

I think shop what you can afford to buy regularly for supplements and what works for you best. I nearly bought the revive collagen on a ‘30% off subscriptions for black Friday’ before I noticed that the shopify app was advising me that the renewal price after month 1 was actually full price. So not 30.% off subscriptions at all. That sort of ‘opaque’ wording is the sort of thing that puts me off a brand tbh. I’m now getting chatGPT to find me an alternative but if I don’t find one, I’ll only be buying from H&B because I don’t want to add to the subs list that will be most valuable when a firm inevitably sells to private equity and then also inevitably goes bust…

Yep there are plenty of dupes out there I agree.

I’d highly recommend’by rotation’ as a hire app. I used it for my Sophia Webster wedding clutch. Yoh also get £15 off your first hire. A word of warning though.. I used a hiring app years ago for a Temperley dress and when it arrived, it had a whiff of BO about it… which did put me off. Dry cleaning rarely eliminates BO so I’m always cautious about dresses with sleeves. These days the lenders do seem to have more of a professional side hustle about them so are probably more invested about customer satisfaction than the firm I used!

That and the Rixo dresses (you know the ones I mean - bias cut midi dresses with v-necks and a crossover lace detail on the bodice) are everywhere right now. It must be slightly annoying as a smallish designer to see dupes of your biggest sellers popping up like mushrooms.

The Vampire’s Wife demise IS incredibly infuriating. The “killing the competition but then not actually replacing their value prop” approach seems to be increasing. It’s like we’ve gone from valuing customer experience to overtly making it clear that it’s the investors who matter, the customers can just lump it.

I’ve stocked up on vitamin d, dishwasher tabs, hair conditioner and ketchup on Black Friday deals, nothing glamorous at all.
I looked at collagen but nothing seemed to be much of a deal and I’m so bad at taking it.

Jabbed 10 on monday(previously was on 12.5) and no appetite since, the 2kg I’ve been bouncing around the last few weeks have mostly pissed off, alongside shark week. Am exhausted and burpy. But hopeful of a good weigh in by the weekend.

You’re very sensible! That’s promising 10mg still effective at suppression. I need to start moving down at some point. I want to hit my (second stretch?) goal weight and then review. Have read about a few people who struggle to keep the weight steady and continue to lose as they adjust to maintenance (doubt that’ll be me 😬). I reckon I’ll need a buffer!

Well done you!

I read on MN once to use the 2 months you don’t pay council tax to stock up on £££ household items like washing powder etc because you don’t notice the monthly difference but it will make a difference to your supermarket bill for the rest of the year. I’m definitely going to do that this year and may well throw in some wellness stuff too.

You’ll be fine - I think actually still losing is a massive achievement. It’ll be all about keeping your healthy habits up to maintain your new svelte self 🙌

I once saw a really satisfying takedown of one of the TOWIE Faiers sisters on Instagram by Olivia Rubin over an EXACT copy of one of her rainbow cardigans they were selling in their shop. She called them right out for ripping off her designs. It must be so frustrating.

If you like her stuff, this is an excellent way to enjoy pastry these days! https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/olivia-rubin-croissant-bag/929216-849576-849577

Thank you for the new thread @Mounjaropen
checking in with my current ststs
SW 11.5
CW 8
current dose 6

Aww that it charming. I did wear one of her rainbow sequinned dress to a wedding years ago… only for DH to refer to it as my ‘skittles dress’ 😂

👋 8 stone! 🙌 I remember those days…it was nearly 40 years ago 😂

Thanks for the new thread!

SW 16st 10lbs
CW 9st 5lbs
BMI 21

Have been on 7.5mg every 9 days but moving down to 5mg every 9 days from next jab. Am slightly hungrier when it's approaching lunchtime or dinnertime but not really getting any food noise.

Really can't afford to lose much more weight, either physically or financially. I can't replace yet another load of jeans, and my bony shoulders are visible through jumpers.

Someone posted a thead yesterday about what is your height and weight and what size are you, so interesting to see the vast range of sizes that people of the same height and weight can be.

DH has ‘banned’ me from buying more sports kit 😂 How many running jackets do I need? I need to top up with some Trinny London. And Hobbs keep sending me messages 😂

I am now 5lbs off goal weight and so in all likelihood will go onto maintenance sometime in January. Think i will choose Pharmulous for maintenance as they are cheaper than Oushk.

Happy Friday! I am off to the Christmas Market in Bath today for some mulled wine 🍷

Morning all, happy Friday!

SW: 93kg (14 st 6)
CW: 68.8 kg (10st 4)
BMI: 20.4

… so like @evilharpy my “maintenance” dose reduction still has me losing weight, albeit slowly. I stopped 16h fasts a while ago, and I am pretty happy with my daily breakfasts (skyr or Greek yoghurt with collagen, blueberries, homemade granola with lots of nuts & seeds), so maybe I’ll add some more protein calories at lunch next. It’s all about finding balance!

Another observation: I am now at an age where weight loss is starting to affect my bottom. Which probably sounds obvious, but I’ve always had a fairly rounded bottom that was the last place I’d lose weight. Now it’s looking distinctly skinny. I am reminded of when I hired a PT a few years ago and one of his first questions was if I wanted to “grow my glutes.” At the time I thought that was hilarious, because as a child of the 80s all I wanted was to lose weight everywhere!

Now I think I might actually have to grow my glutes. 😂

Ha, I am bunkering down and doing my Christmas shopping in earnest today. One of the nice things about having children at uni is I can buy them kitchen stuff, which is usually nicely discounted on Black Friday!

Have a lovely time at the market!

Morning skinny bitches. Happy Friday!

Has anyone ordered from Oushk recently? I've not ordered since the great price increase stock up and they've changed the process and now im confused! Just had my maintenance video call with weight verification but the sound on the call was awful 😖 She said to just select the Conti plan and it would automatically apply my discount but I can't even seem to do that! Doh! Technology failure this morning!

This is exactly my problem! I can’t see anything that looks like a plan of any kind on their site.

What's left of my arse is sliding down the back of my legs. I am definitely trying to grow my glutes! What dose are you currently on?

Do you find that breakfast is helping you to maintain? I've stopped eating breakfast and most days would really struggle to eat much before lunchtime, on the odd day I feel hungry I do have a bowl of cereal or something. Maybe I should try and get back in the habit to get a few more calories in.

Nor me. I am meant to be on Conti but nope. Fortunately each time I order at the moment there’s some sort of promotional code happening so I’m getting a discount but it’s frustrating. I may order my next pen early today ready for Christmas (even though I have a stash).

Still pondering my MJ pen disguise strategy for when MIL is here over the festive period. I’ve got some garlic purée boxes, maybe I need some sun dried tomato puree etc. Maybe a small box that fruit comes in and keep it all in the veg drawer?

I saw that thread too @evilharpy- it’s crazy isn’t it! I do think when I was heavier I was also in denial about my clothing size - squeezing into tunics and leggings (all things stretchy) and I’m not alone in that.

I've had 2 maintenance calls and a call with an advisor who said i would go on the conti plan but when I go on the site nothing shows up for a link to the plan. i couldn't be bothered yesterday and just ordered a pen using the black Friday discount.

Urgh it's so annoying!! I'm not a technically challenged type of person so this is inducing the rage!

I've thrown a tantrum and placed an order with SwiftDoctor instead as they had £25 off. During my call she claimed the new system was easier!!! Think again love.

I definitely think re-establishing breakfast has been a useful step in slowing my weight loss. It doesn’t have to be a big meal, but it’s added 300-odd highly nutritious calories to my day and provided a handy collagen intake vehicle to boot!

I’m currently on 7.5mg stretched out to 10 days between jabs. My next pen will be 5mg (arriving today!)

More than that though, I think I’ve become used to some of my WLI habits, so just as before I was habitually gaining weight now I’m still habitually losing it. But I don’t need to lose more! So now I need to carefully recalibrate my habits, not just my jab dose iyswim.