Mounjaro 10 stone or more to lose - Thread 10

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Well, some of us are new, some of us are nearly at our goal weight and the rest are still in the trenches.

Everyone is welcome here. This is a safe and supportive space for people with a lot of weight to lose.

Weigh in day and I've had my hoped-for whoosh after a couple of slower loss weeks, very happy to say I've hit 4 stone total loss! I'm also now down to below the lowest weight I managed to get to since Feb last year 🥳

SW 139.7kg

W1 -3.8
W2 -1.9
W3 -1.7
W4 -0.9
W5 -1.5
W6 no change
W7 -2.3
W8 -1.2
W9 -1.3
W10 -0.3
W11 -2.0
W12 -0.6
W13 +0.7
W14 -1.1
W15 -1.6
W16 -1.5
W17 -1.0
W18 -0.9
W19 -1.0
W20 -0.4
W21 -0.2
W22 -2.1

CW 113.0kg, 26.7kg lost in 22 weeks.

i did the golden dose out of my 2.5 pen on Thursday. I got a does of about 3 out of it. So not a massive increase! But I feel abiT scunnered by it. Nausea and constipation. And also totally depressed. Been utterly flat and keep having crying jags. Does anyone feel like that?

@RenegadeKeeblerElf hurrah for the whoosh! Back on track!

@diggitydoo I've not been like that but I have read others who have felt upset. Your body takes a while to get used to things, the nausea will pass and drink TONS of water for the constipation.

Get out for a walk and shake it off xxxx

Wk42 weigh in this morning (wk10 on 7.5mgs) … 2lbs off this past week (may have been aided by the Christmas clean and multiple trip up/down loft!).

I’ve lost 27% of my starting weight and averaging 1.8lbs loss per week over the 42 weeks.

SW (15 Feb 25): 19st 9lbs / BMI 44.4 (obese class 3)
CW: 14st 4lbs / BMI 32.3 (obese class 1)
GW: healthy BMI (between 18.5 and 24.9 (8.3st-11st) for my height) - 3st 4lbs to go to get to top of healthy range.

Wks 1-4 (2.5mg): -17lbs
Wks 5-8 (2.5mg): -6lbs
Wks 9-12 (2.5mg): -11lbs
Wks 13-16 (5mg): -7lbs
Wks 17-20 (5mg): -4lbs
Wks 21-24 (5mg): -7lbs
Wks 25-28 (5mg): -7lbs
Wks 29-32 (5mg): -4lbs
Wks33-36 (7.5mg): -5lbs
Wks 37-40 (7.5mg): -4lbs
Wk41 (7.5mg): -1lb
Wk42 (7.5mg): -2lbs

Total loss: 75lbs (5st 5lbs)

Week 75 weigh in, a day late. That's a lot of weeks! Should have weighed and jabbed yesterday but just was too busy to find a moment to sort it out.

SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 71.1kg (11st 2lbs), was 71.9kg (11st 4lbs), last week.
GW: 65kg (10st 3lbs)

Current pen: 10mg, 31 weeks on this dose.

So, I have got to 150lbs lost in total on Mounjaro which is a nice round number. Lost around 1.5 pounds this week, and my BMI is now 25.8. Vaguely thrilling to be in the 25s! Still technically overweight of course. I have had a couple of days this week when my weight was 70 something kg but of course when I actually weighed in "officially" for the week it was a squeak over 71. Annoying but fairly typical for me.

My size 14 cords are beginning to get a little roomy on the waist which really does seem quite surreal. I am not sure I can genuinely believe I might need some size 12 trousers soon.

Week 39 weigh in and a stay the same week. Still 7st 2lb down though so despite nothing out of the ordinary this week, we trust the process and carry on and hope for downwards next week.

My weekly strength/mobility and Reformer classes have this week caused me serious pain which has made me grumpy (especially when the dog wants a walk which she tells me is non negotiable, regardless of my ability to walk upright) but I did successfully avoid the work Christmas do which I'm pleased about. My 2 favourite things about a Christmas party are the wearing of a lovely new sparkly dress and dancing. The one I missed involved neither of these things, Christmas jumpers were compulsory (I don't do those), there was no dancing and they were home by nine, sounds like I missed zilch!

My shoes have all got bigger and I am seriously lacking in clothes choices now, I'm good for casual but office days are a pain, I have 1 Sosander dress that fits (Vinted) but the remaining dresses are pretty baggy (which luckily makes them technically wearable, they just look a bit crap) and my 2 recent Vinted dress purchases have not been great and will probably be reVinted. I'm yet another one of us who doesn't know what looks good but refuses to spend money on new stuff that I know won't fit me for long anyway. At the end I will do the John Lewis personal shopper thing, until then we are staying cheap!

Week 41, 10mg

SW 19st 4lbs (Jan 2025, pre-MJ)
SW on MJ 18st 11.5lbs (1 Mar 2025)
CW 13st 9.25lbs
Change this week -2.25lbs
Total loss 78.75lb

I feel like my little bump in the road has passed and I’m more back on track - not that things went mad but it wasn’t going as I wanted.

It’s my husband’s birthday today so we will be out for drinks and then a curry later. I know how to moderate now - last time we did this a couple of weeks ago for the teenager, I was able to stay in my personal boundaries and felt both indulged and in control. Which was quite a pleasing thing.

@SilenceInsideI cried when I wore size 12 jeans for the first time! It felt completely surreal - I was in them for less than a month before I had to go down to a size 10! 😱

Aw love that you cried! I would too!

@SilenceInside 150 POUNDS 😍

@PearlTeapot crazy isn’t it?! It does seem like a dream sometimes and I might just wake up one day and be back where I started. @MummyInTheNecropolis I think I might get a bit emotional too, I haven’t been a size 12 ever really. Other than a very brief period when I was a student but it was only for a few months back then.

Congratulations @SilenceInside, that’s amazing! 🥳

So many of these posts put a huge smile on my face. So many amazing and positive stories.
I’m in the relatively early days, 22 weeks.
3.5 stone down 7 to go.

Does anyone else ever feel like they're not working hard enough at this to be 'worthy' of losing weight? I keep feeling like it's not ok that I'm able to have a relatively free choice over my foods (within reason) and that therefore I won't lose weight this week, like I can only lose if I'm trying hard and feeling a little deprived. It must come from years of dieting making me think that's the only way to lose weight - even though I'm eating below my target calories I keep feeling guilty for getting too close to them!

Well done! I’m 26 weeks, 3 and a half stone down too. I’m half way there (I’d lost weight before mj) so at 6 stone I’ve got another 6 to go. Extremely unlikely with my lipoedema but pushing onwards.

@RenegadeKeeblerElf I think there’s so much psychologically wrapped up in the whole weight/diet thought processes for those of us who have been obese for a long time. We’ve likely all been in the cycle of diet/control followed by loss of control and weight gain. Society does a number on us too. It’s no wonder that losing weight consistently and long term throws up these kinds of feelings and challenges.

I know it’s not for everyone, but it’s one of the reasons I don’t generally calorie count. I only do it for a week or so if I think I need to, based on plateauing or feeling like I’ve lost my mojo. I don’t feel like I’m on a diet now, it’s been 17 months and this is just how I eat now, if that makes sense.

It goes without saying that you do deserve to lose weight, whatever kind of week you have in terms of calorie total.

I am slower than many of you (just over 4 stones down and not going to make the 20stones by year end without cutting my head off) so I tried to boost my 7.5 dose this week with some extra from the pen and now I know I don't cope well with more than 7.5! It's too busy a time of year to feel like that so back to 7.5 for a while until I am brave enough to boost again (added 15 clicks).

Thank you to (can't remember who) who said about moving the jab day earlier to avoid doing it on Christmas Eve - that had also not occured to me. I shall bring forward by a day to Tuesday this week and next.

Some lovely losses in the squad here ... Onwards!

So thrilled for you @SilenceInside. 150lbs is beyond life changing.

@PearlTeapot I’ve been thinking of you, if things don’t pan out as we all hope for you over Christmas it’s just one day and getting well for a brand new year with your family that matters most,

Thanks so much, @Onenotsosmallstep it's been confirmed that I'm not going home for christmas. 😥

I can't stand the thought of Christmas in hospital but I have no choice. And DW and DC can't come and visit because of the dogs. All the boarders are full. So misery lonely Christmas is on, sponsored by FaceTime.

Finally a loss
I'm now exactly the weight I was on my wedding day
Just over a ten stone loss .
Feels unreal
Wedding dress was a size 18 black goth dress with dm boots .. wedding ring is the dragon ring from disturbia ..now in 3 ring sizes down .
On wards and up wards .. plenty more weight to loose

Oh no ..I've only just seen this sorry ,I posted my news before reading everyones .I'm so sorry .
I was hoping you would get home , because I remember you saying you were very far away from home .
But this is one Christmas out of another (I'm guessing here) 50 Christmases ..
Loads of happy Christmases to come for you @PearlTeapot

I'm so sorry to hear that Pearl, I can't imagine how hard that will be. But just remember you are in the best place for you right now, and from what you've said about the staff there I'm sure they will be doing their best to make it special for you.

I don't calorie count either as I learnt ages ago it wouldn't be good for my mental health or realstionshop with food. I do like the ultra processed people book though and that informed a lot of my thinking around what I do eat. Soooo much easier to do when on MJ.

I also jab weekly and go with the ebb and flow of hunger and days I eat a bit more and days I eat a bit less. I'm okay with that too. I'm aware that could change though.. And very early on realised weight loss wouldn't be linear - probably shown by people on this thread. I used to obsess over wl graphs and reddit those first months and now I have a graph that looks linear but when you zoom In you see all the bumps and troughs.

I've had a couple of weeks of sts and genuinely been okay with that. I think I'm feeling reflective as I'm only a few weeks off a year. And I know how anxious I was when I joined this thread and how much help everyone gave me and I've been so so grateful. I remember reading how after a while for some posters they weren't too fussed by the numbers in that it just ticks over in the background and it's become like that for me too. I'm obviously overall fussed in that I want to see a healthy weight but I'm not nervously weighing day to day. Or relating a weeks loss or not to what I did that week.

My excitement today was....

I saw a 13!!!! Well. Two of them to be exact 😁

Wow, @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden 13st 13lbs!

I meant to say... That those first few months I couldn't ever imagining not being fixated on the scales or this being the focus of my life. My reflective moment was thinking about the huge shift in me without saying the whole story.

And I'm so aware calorie counting etc works for others. I was just reflecting but rereading it the tone isn't at all what I meant 🙈.
I'm so grateful to you all and this thread. I still have 3 stone to go and I'm aware it will slow down. So in all likelihood a long way to go. But I'm so close to a year and my life now is nothing like a year ago. It's compeltely been lifechanging. Lifesaving. All those words.

Went out yesterday, drank more than I have in AGES! Got quite drunk really! Well, there’s less of me to soak it up…

Then ordered a curry for husband’s birthday dinner. I ordered the wrong thing for me - it was just too hot! So I ate maybe a third. Half a roti. A poppadom. And miraculously stayed within calories when I’d been expecting to go way over (which would have been fine, I know).

Even more miraculously I seem to have plummeted another 2lbs.

Bodies are bloody weird!

Fortunately I don’t have a hangover, though I deserve one.