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.

Sending love and good wishes to you all.

Haven't gained, haven't lost in last week. Did have 3 holiday nights out, including one that was a bit of a blowout, enough to culminate in a massive hangover the next day. Nothing compared to what I would have done in the past, and at least there was no takeway involved on the way home. Have been snacking a little more this week but trying to get it back under control, and getting sparkling water in to alternate with wine at dinner.

Have also jumped back up a little again: have been doing 2.5 mg 2x a week, have now gone up to 3 mg 2x a week as of today. Hopefully that will help with snacking urges. I start craving snacks when I'm sitting around reading or knitting (which is what I'm doing to relax this week). I know it's just force of habit rather than hunger, but pretty powerful urges just the same. But overall, despite the desire to snack, I'm finding 2 half-sized jabs a week instead of one full one is much better for me in terms of avoiding side effects while keeping suppression at good levels.

NSV - picked up and finished knitting a jumper I started last winter, and it's too big. I guess I now have a very warm jumper/tunic type thing for around the house.

How strange that we find ourselves in this little corner of the internet together. Happy Christmas to all but particularly wanted to tell @PearlTeapot you’re in my thoughts today, look ahead to 2026 and I hope good health in all it’s ways. Also to @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne who I hope has a wonderful day with your family minus the useless appendage that was your ex-h.

Morning losers
And a very merry Christmas to one and all
I hope you all have an absolutely smashing day xx

@PearlTeapot sending love and thoughts thinking of you xx

Merry Christmas losers! Hope you all have a lovely day. @PearlTeapot I hope you manage to speak to your family today

I did my weekly weigh in lost 0.8kg / 1 lb and 12.2 oz

This time last year I was 111.2kg / 17 stone, 7 lb and 2.5 oz and I'd just got onto the NHS BMI chart! So in the last year I've lost 38.8kg / 6 stone, 1 lb and 8.6 oz

SW: 142.8kg / 22 stone, 6 lb and 13.1 oz
CW: 72.4kg / 11 stone, 5 lb and 9.8 oz
Total loss: 70.4kg / 11 stone, 1 lb and 3.3 oz
BMI: 50.8 / 25.8
To get healthy: 2.3kg / 5 lb and 1.1 oz
To get to target: 12.4kg / 1 stone, 13 lb and 5.4 oz

Happy Christmas everyone, I hope you all have a wonderful day. Special thoughts to those of you struggling right now, I hope your day is as joyous as it can be 💕

Happy Christmas to all my loser friends, hope you all have a peaceful stress free day with perfect roasties! Started my day healthy with smoked salmon and 2 poached eggs.

Thinking of you today @PearlTeapot 🫂

Merry Christmas friends. BIG HUGS to @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne @PearlTeapot who are not having the Christmas they expected. Us too really as we only decided to buy a house in October and here we are living in it! It's chaos but we are near family now and we are off for lunch, first time in 10 years it's not just the two of us. Jabbed yesterday 10mg so I hopefully won't indulge too much. Have a lovely day everyone

Merry Christmas to my friends in my favourite corner of the internet 😍and thank you for all of the well wishes.

Trying to think of it as one safe christmas now here in hospital = a lifetime of well christmases at home. Or something. Thank you all for being so kind.

@diggitydoo I promise the obsession passes. I'm 6 months down the road and really don't think about food much anymore but I was obsessed the first few months. Now I weigh and jab on a Sunday then just let it do its thing in-between. I eat vaguely the same things through the week and have a bit of a blow out on Sundays, that's my pattern that works for me. And I don't think about it much otherwise. If I have a gain I'll track for a few days to get me back on track but that's it. Trust the process and trust us... xx

Happy Christmas everyone. Hope you’re all having a good day - thinking of you especially @PearlTeapot.

I weighed this morning and I’m down 1lb from last Thursday. Happy with that - but still expecting a gain this week.

Happy Christmas everyone. @PearlTeapot I hope they’ve made it celebratory, although it’s not what you planned.

Well, a mounjaro Christmas is something isn’t it?! I have had what I want. But what I want is significantly less than previous years!

Probably part of that is tied to doing the cooking - I often don’t want to eat when I have cooked a lot.

I failed on pudding! No one is bothered!

I’m happy in my choices and my life as it is now. Some indulgence, enough to feel treated but not uncomfortable. Or guilty. Or ashamed. What a revelation!

Happy Boxing Day - gifted myself a day away from my phone yesterday!

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne and @PearlTeapot and everyone, I hope you had a safe and enjoyable day even though it wasn't what you thought it might be.
I hope we all gave ourselves grace and forgiveness for the past, and for the present.
My sister cooked a super lunch and no-one noticed or cared that my piled high plate was mainly veg with no potatoes or stuffing or Yorkshire's.

Indigestion was my reminder not to scoff the Pringles after a four hour drive simply because I didn't have the energy to heat some soup last night. By driving I avoided any comments about not drinking too.

And today is a new day.

Morning losers. Wishing everyone in our wee safe space a lovely day however and with whoever you choose to spend it.

I’m catching up with IT-Welcome to Derry with DS today (I know, very festive 🤣 ) with leftovers for dinner.

It occurred to me catching up on posts to day that some of us might be in the same regions - I’m in Scotland, about 20mins from Edinburgh. Hello to any fellow Jocks!

I'm 20 mins from Edinburgh too, literally just a hop across the bridge @Mum2Fergus 😃

Morning everyone! The Day is over so for anyone who feels they overindulged, me included, we can use our mounjaro to get back on the wagon today and it'll be mega easier than when we used to try do it alone. I'd probably be face first in food til at least Jan 1st previously whereas now I'm giving all my chocolate to the nurses.

Oh wow! I’m Edinburgh side of the bridge!

I did reasonably well food wise yesterday! No breakfast (rarely do)… starter of prawn cocktail we had around 1pm then main meal around 6ish (we never sit down for all courses one after another). Plate wasn’t full, and I didn’t finish it all. One bit of chocolate orange 🤣

Leftovers today alongside a giant Yorkshire pudding for anyone who wants it-so easy for me to to pick away as needed.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne Yes!! My whole "thing` for ages was that weight loss isn't linear as it made so much sense to me and compeltley helped my mental health when I realised. I don't have the picture to hand...,

But for me it was how a weight loss graph looks linear when zoomed out over time (ie mine does on shotsy now) but if you zoom in there's peaks and troughs and it can look like weeks staying the same when it's all part of it.

@Onenotsosmallstep Yes it's a wonderful corner isn't it and I'm so unbelievably grateful to you all for sharing the journey. It's helped me so much.

@Lds1 That's an incredible change in a year isn't it. I'm so hoping to get to 11. I'm already feeling so different in a smaller body than I had but sooo want to get there now! Well done.

@Missingducks what a lovely post. I love your comment about grace and forgiveness and that's stuck with me to ponder on today ❤️.

Christmas Day - I had a lovely day. My life has been insanely stressful the last couple of months and it was among to have a day to rest and enjoy. I didn't restrict at all but found I wasn't binging. Yes I ate more than normal including a few chocolates and some Christmas cake... But I wonder if this is what it's like for epipek without weight issues - I had some extras but didn't need to "eat the box" of chocolates I could just enjoy a few. I put everything on my plate I wanted from Xmas dinner and the sides.., but found I didn't want to eat it all so stopped just after being full. I had 2 croissants for breakfast instead of my yoghurt and fruit. I wasn't hungry for Xmas pud so we're having it new year as kids don't like it, and just at some cheese and crackers in the eve as didn't want a real meal. This is actual magic and all I've dreamed off. Being able to eatlike a Normal Person. To indulge without it leading to binging or a restrict cycle and to enjoy what I was eating. Intuitive eating I guess.

No wonder all those normal people rules didn't work when my body was working against me. Whether insulin resistance or something about hunger or fat adaption or psychological or the adhd who knows. But my mind is finally able to work the wya I've wanted it to for my whole life.

I went though my emails and tried to join an eating disorders service in 2012, joined a disordered eating therapy group in 2015..and put on an awful lot of weight between those dates.

I'm now back to 2013 weight and nearly back to 2012...

I do realise I may need to budget for mounjaro longer term if it's some kind of deficiency. I think after a year I'm so used to thinking like this it would be mentally catastrophic to come off and have that intense craving and hunger back.

For 2026 I'm hoping to go from 13st13 to 10st 13. I'm no longer obese at 13st 2. I really want to get to a weight where I can buy some bravissmo bras and some summer clothes without thinking it's temporary...

I did jab 51today. Weighed and put on shotsy but SO aware it's water weight after yesterday and looking forwards to a simpler eating week.

Hope all is well everyone xx

Hi all and Merry Christmas! Despite my best intentions I've definitely overeaten over the last few days but I'm due to jab tonight so will hopefully be back on track tomorrow. I've decided to go up to 5mg (from 3.25) - the food noise has definitely started creeping back in, and while I still had some suppression it was way to easy to eat past the fullness signals so I think an increase will help to give me a kick start! This will probably just about finish off my current pen, so if it's too much for me I can always drop back to 3.25mg when I start the next pen. I'm trying to keep my dose as low as possible, partly to avoid strong side effects, partly to ensure I'm still using some willpower, but mostly for cost reasons - I'm worried about not being able to justify the cost of the higher doses so trying to take as long as possible to get there!

I don’t think I’ve overdone it exactly, I’ve had a bit more than I might normally but nowhere near what I would have last year. It’s been small amounts a bit more frequently. I’m ok with it so far and it’s felt really manageable on 7.5 jabbed last Sunday. Pleasurable but not uncomfortable or full of shame or guilt.

I’ve jabbed tonight, 7.5 again from a 10mg pen.

With the nausea I think 10mg was too high so I’m going to stick at 7.5 for a bit.

I’m enjoying Christmas!

I found iI couldn't adjust to 10. I was struggling with sulphur burps and morning nausea... I was half way through my second pen and decided to do 8. I now take 8 from a 10 pen and make it last longer!

Merry Christmas all! I hope you have all had a wonderful few days.

I decided to jab 12.5mg instead of my usual 15mg to allow me to enjoy my Christmas a bit, but also as a money saver, as I knew I'd falloff track and didn't want to waste the jab.
I have had a lot of chocolate, alcohol and even mcdonald's over the last few days. I've enjoyed it but also opened my eyes to what my body can't manage anymore. I couldn't finish my mcdonald's, the alcohol made me feel sick and I have been constipated for 2 days.

My son's birthday is tomorrow so throw in some cake - it's just a full on couple of weeks.

I know I have gained quite a bit, so I'm stopping the daily weighing, getting back on track, giving my body some time to calibrate sugar, salt, water, poop and weigh myself and record it in Jan.

Quick question to those who have reached goal re dress sizes (I know everyone is different).

Did you find the toilet roll approach with sizes as well? That as you got closer to your goal weight, the dress sizes dropped faster and had a less weight difference between them?
I have got a load of gift vouchers for Christmas, on request and so many beautiful things for sale now! Wondering what size I should buy.
7st has got me down 4 dress sizss(28-20)
Unsure if the remaining 3 stone will bring me from a size 20 to 14.

Morning all, just catching up on the thread, I hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas. I was always planning to eat whatever I wanted on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and I did, I ate loads and thoroughly enjoyed it, however, by yesterday I couldn’t manage anymore indulgence, my body was crying out for fruit and veg so yesterday I just ate a few satsumas and a healthy dinner, didn’t touch any of the treats or the leftovers. I usually weigh on a Friday but I didn’t bother yesterday, I will weigh next Friday and hopefully by then any gain will be minimal.

It was so nice to eat what I wanted without any fear or guilt, I know I can easily get back on track now so wasn’t worried at all which is a revelation!

I’ve also continued to exercise throughout as I genuinely really enjoy it now and would miss it if I didn’t. I’ve done yoga every day and either a long walk or a run. I walked 5 miles yesterday and will do parkrun this morning.

@mamabeeboo yes I definitely found that the smaller I got, the quicker my dress size changed. I am a size 10 now (at target). I seemed to stay around 16-18 for quite a long time over the summer, but then was only in a size 14 for a short while and a size 12 even shorter before dropping to a 10.

@MummyInTheNecropolis That to me sounds ideal in terms of what's "healthy" to me. Freedom to enjoy a celebration with no worry but then awareness of body feedback after and no guilt. That's amazing ❤️.

Im curious about clothes too. I can't even begin to imagine size 10!

I started in Jan at size 26 (prob 28)andnwors the same stretchy jersey seasalt dresses (some of which were size 24 and jyst stretched) for what felt like forever. It was certainly months before any real visual different as I just still registered visually as "very morbidly obese)

Around June I think I bought some size 20 buts for summer. (which are now too big!)

September ish I bought some size 18 - but this is seasalt so probably 20 elsewhere.

November size 16 seasalt (but size 18 n white stuff and yours leggings so if it was a real shop again probably size 20).

My stomach is still prominent so my top half is slimmer than my stomach.

I'm half a stone away from not being obese. Then 2 stone from healthy... So it is in sight (although aware weight loss is starting to slow down now from what it was).

I have been really curious with the last 3 stone how it will work and when I can wear a standard 14 in a normal shop! I'm aware my goal of "healthy" would be top of normal bmi so won't in any way be slim. I'm hoping size 14then though.

For now I'm looking forwards to size 16 I a standard shop and being able to shop with ease!

Good morning ladies.
I have been MIA here for the past few weeks, due to "life stuff".

I hope you have all been ok the past few days.
I have been thinking especially of you, @PearlTeapotand I hope the lovely staff have helped the time pass well. And @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOneand others who have had relationships change recently.

I am also in Scotland. About an hour southwest of Edinburgh.

Well, I have not had a great month on MJ, and I have gone in the wrong direction weight -wise, but I have jabbed this morning and am now determined to turn it around and get back on track. It is a fraction of the gain in past years!
We still have quite a lot of Christmas goodies in the house, but they are certainly not having the pull they have had in previous years. I do believe I can get back on track even with them in the house.

I read all your posts daily still and feel encouraged by all the positivity from those who are further into the journey than me.

I am still 4 stone lighter than I was in July. I don't want to throw this progress away. I am thinking it will be more manageable to get back on track with the MJ. I normally find it so hard to get back into the groove after a slip backwards, but I feel so different now.

One NSV this Christmas. My daughter gifted me some lovely PJs in a size smaller than I would even dare to try on, as a encouragement to keep going.... And they fit!!! A little snug, but I couldn't believe it!!!
Plus my MIL, who is a petite size 6 and has never been anything different, gave me a top that is a size 18 and, again, it fits!! Although I would say I was more a 20-22 still in reality.
My MIL and I have a very strained relationship. Over the past 40 years she has made many a dig about my weight and has often said hurtful things to me, or to others about me.

Have a good day everyone.

I went from a 16 to an 8 super fast, I would say every three weeks I dropped a size. From 22 to 16 took me about 7 stone and 10 months.