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.

@diggitydoo I'm going to jab tomorrow so that I will have the benefit of full suppression on Christmas Day. I'm on 12.5 (diabetic). This is my second Christmas on mounjaro. Last year was fine so this will be too.

Though this pre-supposes I survive the all-bran over indulgence experiment. 'Where's mum?' 'She went into the bathroom 2 days ago and I havent seen her since'.

@diggitydoo You've only been on it for 6 weeks so please don't be too hard on yourself. Last year I was on 7.5mg and between Christmas Day and 4th Jan I put on weight, on 9th January I'd lost the weight and more. I'm expecting it to be harder this year with the loss of what I put on as I have a lot less to lose in general.

@PearlTeapot So sorry its so hard :( I wish I could say something that would help. But there are lots of people here who care. I've love to pop over a colouring book and jigsaw and a new book and some fun craft for distraction (things that I'd love but do get that wouldn't be for everyone!!)

I've got myself into an anxiety spiral leaving Xmas so late (waited until i stopped work) and going to see relatives later . I used to love "making Christmas" but it took ages and I just haven't this year. I am so so bad at presents too. I've got some for my kids but not friends or colleagues. SO about to go out and look for something... I feel I have failed xmas

However - I was Amazoning presents this weekend and bought myself new pants (just basic black ones) and new bras ( again just basic - m saving for BRavissmo when I am closer to goal) and they arrived this morning and I feel so good. I think I have neglected myself a lot over the years (feel fat/ think i wont buy things until "i lose weight" / hating how it looks anyway etc / very low incomes so making do..) But the new jobs has given some leeway and actually several packs of black asda pants means I wont have to worry about having enought - they are full briefs so comfortable and fit. I didn't realise just how much better that would be. I think when morbidly obese nothing fitted nicely anway - now at size 16-18 things can actually fit!!

Oh and Bras!!! Again - they fit.... Not my wired ones that the wire came out of....
They feel so good.

AND another happy admidst my crazy - I'm supposed to do my blood pressure each month for ADHD meds... LAst couple of months I just entered hte previous month.

YESTERDAY IT WAS ACUTALLY NORMAL!!!!!!! I am so so stressed but I guesst he weight loss has brought it down. TOp of normal. But not been normal for like forever. THe fear with ADHD meds is it raises it I think - but nearly 8 stone off must make a big difference>

Does that mean its better for my circulation? heart?

Also - been out and about ad although larger no longer feel like that obviously very morbidly obese person I felt last year . I've still got a long way to go, and currently in a burnout/ anxiety spiral BUT really noticing the victories as well especially as I'm very nearly a year on MJ so looking back.

Hi all, I'd like to add to the Christmas anxiety 😔 I didn't anticipate how much of a mind fuck this season is.

Along with Christmas, we also have 3 birthdays in the family, therefore 3 full cakes to eat. Over the last 4 days, I've gained 4lbs. I know it's not 4lbs of fat but watching the scales go up makes me feel so deflated and out of control.

The plans I made for Christmas, like maintaining my exercise and keeping up the water intake etc has all gone down the toilet.

We have sweet treats in the house and I'm battling wit myself do I eat it all now, so I have a clean break in January. Or eat small amounts and still have left overs in Jan or just throw it out, which I can't bring myself to do.

I'm going to jab now so hopefully full suppression on Christmas day will help.

How much weight does everyone put on at Christmas time on and off MJ? I think last year, before MJ, I'd put on around 4kg (genuinely).

Did you drink lots of water?

I had a couple of days in the last week when I have probably eaten about 2000 calories and didn’t drink anywhere near enough water. So I gained a couple of pounds. But then I had a couple of days being really strict and drinking loads and it went again. I’m now the same weight I was this time last week, which is absolutely fine. If I can manage pretty much the same in the next week, I’ll be a very happy person. And if I gain a few pounds, I’m okay with that as well. I’m not going to massively deprive myself. If I eat too much, I will just feel ill and I don’t want to go that far either.

@diggitydoo you're going to be fine.
Eating salty snacks has caused you to retain fluid.

You'll lose what you've gained in a day or two. Drink lots of fluids.

Don't give up. You've only been on MJ for six weeks. You've done very well so far. I guarantee that you'll continue to lose weight.

Weigh in and jab day.

SW 137kg BMI 53.5
CW 97.6kg BMI 38.1
GW 63kg BMI 24.6

15 stone 5lbs in old money. A day early so that I dont have to remember to jab tomorrow.

Still getting good suppression on 12.5. DH offered me some of his chocolate orange (gift from work) yesterday and it didnt appeal. I used to love chocolate orange flavour but I seem to have lost the taste for chocolate. Or it could be that chocolate isnt so good now as it just seems soapy to me.

I'm looking forward to the food tomorrow as I do love a good roast. We stagger the Christmas meal across the day so that we have the starter (home smoked salmon) as lunch, the main course as dinner then pudding and cheese as a late supper. Our rule is that you eat what you want at Christmas.

Nsv : no longer need to undo jeans to whip them down to use the loo ... Although may need to use a belt to keep the blighters up next month (have bought one size smaller so far but not at 'reward self with new clothes' stage yet).

That sounds lovley @GnomeDePlume and love your rule ❤️

Thank you everyone, you are right Ofcourse, I weighed myself this morning and I’m now half a stone lighter. Why does it fluctuate so hugely? I don’t get it.

i hate feeling so obsessed. I’m tracking everything as I eat it and having to resist weighing myself more than once a day. It’s exhausting and my mental health is all over the place.

I need to stop weighing and tracking but I’m scared to trust myself .

It's early days @diggitydoo i think I tracked for the first year or two, it will be three years in March and now I know mentally without weighting everything. I used to weigh multiple times a day, now I weigh monthly, infact it was 8 weeks between weighing this time. I wouldn't stop weighing and tracking it keeps you accountable and if you do have a gain you can look back and see why.

I weigh every morning but only record once a week, that's what works for me. it fluctuates but keeps me focused.

In the early days I'd weigh morning and night out of curiosity, sometimes I'd be 2kg heavier on a night just because of eating and drinking next morning it's usually gone!

I only log the weight when it goes down too!

I’m the opposite to Doggymummar @diggitydoo and before starting MJ I was obsessively tracking calories and weight and it played havoc with my mental health, I hated myself and it made me so miserable, I don’t count calories at all now and whatever I am doing it’s working for me. You need to find something that works for you.
I do weigh daily, or at least every other day and there is a pattern that you will eventually get used to.
Do you use the shotsy app? The weight graph is really handy to show the patterns, happy scale is another good one that will show a moving average.

Thank you everyone, you are right.
Of course, I weighed myself this morning and I’m now half a stone lighter. Why does it fluctuate so hugely? I don’t get it.

@diggitydoo I'm so glad you've now had a loss. You must be so relieved.

To answer your question:

Weight fluctuates for various reasons.

It depends a lot on how much is sitting in your bowel.

It depends on how much water you have drunk each day.

It changes a lot when you're at certain points of your menstrual cycle.

There will be fluctuations all the time because of the composition of your food intake - lots of salt and carbs = gain.

Who's got that chart? The one which shows that weight loss isn't linear?
It's been posted a few times - was it @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden?

I don't count calories obsessively.
I know pretty much what's in the things I eat. I certainly don't track food groups, or buy extra protein.

At the moment I'm very close to my goal weight and I do find that OMAD has made a big difference.

I've got 8lb to lose. That will take me about two to three months, I think.

@diggitydoo at my stage of the game, I'm losing just over half a pound a week. I'm not expecting to lose more than that.

Mind you, I won't be sticking to OMAD tomorrow.

Me either!

And I've got a lovely bottle of Chablis to share with DD2.

DS1 from London drove up here a couple of days ago, and he's taking DD2 and DS2 to Oban today.

DS2 decided that he wanted to go to Tesco's.
I can't think of anything worse, personally, so I told them that I was going to be busy peeling sprouts.

I can therefore sit down and drink tea all day.

I got most things (including the sprouts) ready yesterday.
🤪🤪🤪

Did my weigh-in a day early as I am away for Christmas from this afternoon. 67 pounds lost in just under 6 months, which is insane to me - makes me a little less worried about Christmas snacking as others have said, it's the work I've done over the last 6 months that matters, not the few days I am going to relax a little.

Happy Christmas and New Year everyone if you are celebrating. I'm looking forward to the January "weight loss" sales that always seem to happen so I can stock up on protein bars and things!

I'll probably be the only weirdo weighing and recording my weight tomorrow!

I'll be joining you.
I love weighing myself.

Mind you, the post Christmas ones will annoy me, but I'm expecting that.
I think I gained about 4lb last Christmas, which I lost by mid-January.

I’m a daily weigher @Lds1! I will do it tomorrow as usual…

My mum was discharged last night. So we are all very relieved. We’re back in the hospital now for last checks and scans, then they need to remove her cannula. And then Christmas can start!

Prepare all the food!

Wrap all the presents!

DRINK ALL THE WINE…(god knows I’ve more than earned it!)

I weigh myself every day too, I don’t record the days I gain or stay the same though. I’m currently 2lbs up 😡 I’m probably a bit backed up and not drinking enough water.

I weigh most days but only record once a week. And I do track, but that's more to keep a record and check I'm not going too mad rather than to be too restrictive.

That said, I've not tracked anything since yesterday afternoon and I dread to think how many calories I've had! Although, not as many as if I wasn't on MJ - I'm in a weird place where my head wants to binge but my stomach/digestive system just won't let me! So although I've had plenty of junk, I could easily have had double what I've actually had if I wasn't on the jabs.