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 🤗

Will do! I’ll do a summary after the first week. The box itself is lovely. When I saw pics online I thought it looked a bit drab but it is very pretty in real life.

In other news, sound the 6 stone klaxon! At last! I’m 10 stone 6.4lbs. And I’ve achieved my stretch goal weight!

Onwards and downwards to 10 stone 0!

🥳🥳🥳 how amazing! I bet if you’d been asked to predict where you’d be this time last year it wasn’t 6 stones lighter! Well done you for putting in the hard yards 👏👏👏

I love today’s liberty AC offering 🥰

Ooh this sounds fabulous. Opening the AC drawer, Good coffee, my bed, an uninterrupted read of The Times and a lit posh scented candle is my December routine. I may or may not have ordered 6 more canisters of the Harrods spiced Xmas coffee on Black Friday 😂

Fantastic news @Goldleafcat, sounding that klaxon for you today! 📣📣

I’m off to the city today, and feeling very Traitors-era Claudia in my leather trousers, stompy lug-soled Chelsea boots, cashmere rollneck and new-to-me Vinted full length wool coat. It’s nice to have a dress-up excuse!

Very interested in these beauty advent calendar tales. I’ve never had one so am enjoying your openings vicariously - and taking notes for next year.

Ooh! Have fun! Outfit sounds fab 🥰

I’m overweight! I’m in the 70s okay it was 79.5 on the scale but it’s been months of waiting for the 7. So delighted. Hope for a bigger whoosh to solidify it.

I know we are all running out own race blah blah but I think I need to harness my competitive side to match your 6 stone @Goldleafcat and overweight status @jay55 . Both are a tantalising three pounds off.
Congratulations both 🥳🥳

🥳🥳🥳🥳 well done missus! Fantastic 🙌

Thanks for asking - DW is doing very well indeed. Plentifully exercising the need for new clothes to fit the new body. Birthday treat trip to Fairfax and Favor yielded me the most expensive glass of prosecco of my life....

But happy wife.......as the saying goes!

Wishing your DH the very best as he sets out on his journey.

Have checked my Oushk account and it's not showing me as subscribed to their Conti plan even though Bilal himself put me on it when I had my first consultation with him. That must mean I missed out on the £25 for my last order, but at least had a discount code. I've WhatsApp'd a query and will feedback if/when I get a reply.

Congratulations to @Goldleafcat and @jay55 .

I am pleased with myself this week as made it back to the gym for the first time in a while.

I can't remember if we have had this conversation but has anyone tried Emsculpt?

Well done for getting back to the gym! 💪🏻

Emscuplt is a mix of a souped_up slender tone (remember those?) and UHF treatment which heats up the deep layers of the skin. If you recall I had a lot of UHF before the wedding and sadly I can report made no discernible difference to the sagging on my tummy/thighs. I did think maybe my jawline was showing some improvement but this was short lived. I did ask my gynaecologist about those ‘Fanny tightening’ chair things (which are essentially slender tone for your nethers) and he just laughed saying you can’t skip doing the actual physical exercises to achieve long term results..so having paid £££’s over the years for various ‘quick fix’ beauty treatments I’ve come to the conclusion that you can’t actually do better than good nutrition, consistent exercise, hydration, a decent consistent skincare routine and good sleep behaviour. On the upside, my consistent pvolve routine did mean that I had for the first time in my life very good arms in pictures taken of my last weekend. So I’m taking that for the win!

As a word of caution, just remember UHF does heat up the skin so choose your practioner carefully as nerve damage is possible as it permanent fat loss which you may not actually want on your face.

Aww thanks for the good wishes, I shall pass them on. He’s 3lbs down 🙌

re: Oushk, I had exactly this. No record of me being on the Conti plan either. I used a manual code. The F&F trip sounds lovely! You sound like a keeper 🥰

I’ve a feeling klaxons will be sounding for you in the very near future 🔮keep going!

Can only echo Mounjaropen’s comment about habitual exercise and good nutritional habits. We all want things to improve quickly, but most good things are achieved sustainably over time.

Speaking of which - I can now really feel all my hair regrowth when I run my fingers along my scalp! While it’s annoying to see all the little baby hairs poking up when I’m in strong light, I know it’s temporary on the way to getting all my hair back!

Was out for my team Christmas lunch yesterday and enjoyed a bit of culinary indulgence (carbs, fats, meat, booze!), which has lead to the scale creeping upwards slightly this morning. I have NO concerns about this - yesterday’s scale check indicated I may be losing weight still so at this rate I really do have leeway for a bit of seasonal indulgence.

Over the past few months I’ve rediscovered the Kibbe system, found it really useful, then spent too much time on Reddit and now find it intensely irritating. Has anyone else had this experience?

Ah thank you @Mounjaropen@RayonSunrise@random223and @PinkArt

It’s a bit unreal in some ways. I’ve not been this light since 1998. I was definitely in denial for so many years with regards to what was a healthy weight for me. I’d have thought I’d be a twig at this weight but I am most definitely not (only just finding Sweaty Betty size L acceptable!). Potential NSV, the lead flashing from our porch roof has come off (weirdly windy on Monday) and we need to put it back somehow. I’ve ordered some stuff from Amazon and was discussing adhesive strategies with DH and he said at least it’s good you’re nice and light now to clamber on the porch (not sure how safe this strategy is to be honest!). Initially in my head I scoffed (think I’ll always have fat girl in my brain) then thought oh actually maybe it could work.

Well done @jay55its fantastic reaching the new threshold isn’t it! 🎉

What’s the kibbe system? (Autocorrect changed it to kibble initially!)

It’s a style-based-on-your-body-type advice system, which is why I fell into it when I was re-working my wardrobe. Like all such systems, you analyse your shape and look at the style suggestions for it - a bit Cosmo quiz, right?

Anyway it’s sufficiently complex to avoid the worst over-generalisations of the old Apple/Pear/Hourglass model and I did get some useful tips from it, but like any body typing system it can’t actually cover the whole of human variation so it gets a bit annoying when you see people online arguing tirelessly about celebs’ Kibbe types, or insisting that one very common physical attribute is an ironclad sign of a type and therefore EVERYONE who has it will suit those style reccs.

I’ve got no idea about what’s going on with Oushk. I placed an order using the Black Friday code because even though they said I’m on the conti plan I’ve not received a discount code. Then they messaged asking me how many pens I’ve got stockpiled. Then another message asking if I wanted to change my dose. Anyway pen has been delivered and when I looked in my bank account there’s a new payment of £15 to them. I presume they’ve moved me to the flexi plan but omitted to tell me.

@Goldleafcat a six stone klaxon - that’s a fantastic achievement

🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🎉🍾🥂🎄

And many congratulations to @jay55 for being overweight - klaxon ringing for you.

🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🔔📣🥂🍾🎄

Thanks @Mounjaropen . I had a feeling it was one of those too good to be true things 😀.

I am not sure about paying Oushk a monthly fee to stay on their books. I think Pharmulous offers a better deal and their pens are cheaper even after the Oushk discount is applied.

I think the reason we thought this was a good idea was that you didn’t need to go back to the beginning nor be over a certain BMI to access a pen. But obviously that doesn’t work if they don’t add you to a plan in the first place!

Pharmulous keep you on the books for a year without having to pay a monthly subscription. With them I think just so long as your purchase every eight weeks. I have a maintenance call with Oushk coming up though I am not at target yet.

Flipping amazing work, @Goldleafcatand @jay55! @PinkArt your time will come, don’t worry!

@RayonSunrise i can see visible hair regrowth too, thank goodness! I don’t think it’s just that my scalp is less visible in the darkest days of winter. I hope. But I really do think it’s better. And touch wood, I’m not shedding such alarming clumps of hair in the shower.

Went out tonight in a blouse that I used to wrap around and tie at the front, but I could only just tie it. Now there is a whole proper bow!