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.

I remember you posting about that @Billybingbong, and I was so sad for you! Sadly only one of mine will be nearby. The last thing you'd ever want to do as a mum is hold them back in any way, but I'd be lying if I said it won't be hard. I know I'm going to feel really miserable, at least for a while!

Weigh in today, a massive loss now we're back in routine from Christmas lost kg 2.3kg / 5 lb and 1.1 oz

I also now weigh less than I've lost, literally I'm half what I was! Also teetering on the verge of healthy it's a shame I couldn't go to the toilet before I weighed this morning 😂😂

SW: 142.8kg / 22 stone, 6 lb and 13.1 oz
CW: 70.2kg / 11 stone, 0 lb and 12.2 oz
BMI: 50.8 / 25.0
Total loss: 72.6kg / 11 stone, 6 lb and 0.9 oz
To get healthy: 0.1kg / 3.5 oz
To get to target: 10.2kg / 1 stone, 8 lb and 7.8 oz

Thanks 🙏

50yo male

SW 337 lb ( 15/01/2026

GW 190 lb

due to start Jabs on Monday

here for help, advice and support

thanks to @SilenceInside for heads up on thread

Wow @Lds1 fantastic results, huge congrats. I'm aiming for similar figures. I've set my target at 11st 4lb, exactly half my 22st 8lb starting weight. Please tell me how amazing it feels, I can't wait, #only5stmore

Hello @recruitretain and welcome. You're in the right place, we have help, advice and support in abundance here. We're all at different stages of similar journeys, some plodding, some steaming on ahead, but all heading in the same direction. Don't be afraid to ask anything, there will always be someone who can help you along the way

@PearlTeapot am I right in thinking today is your special day? Happy birthday, I hope you have the most wonderful day, and enjoy your time with your DW ❤️

I’m yo-yo-ing again. It’s just frustrating.

Thank you! I'm so happy to have made it this far it's been tough going at times. My target is to get to mid healthy BMI.

Overall it's amazing to think it's even happened considering years of struggle I've had with it, nothing has ever worked and without this my only other option would have been surgery. I'm so glad I started this not long after it was available, if it was now I don't know if the cost would have put me off even trying.

I still need to brave shops, i like alternative styles but don't think there's any shops that sell it in person and I don't have the funds to order loads of sizes and wait for refunds.

I think without clothes is currently my main problem but I'm hoping in time skin will firm up a bit and if in future i felt brave then there's surgery for that too.

I need a plan for maintenance too so that's something I'll need to start thinking about, I'll probably taper down the doses and see what happens.

Sorry to hear that @TragicMuse - is it down to finding it hard to stick to a calorie deficit, or is it one of those times when everything you're doing should mean a deficit and a loss but it just isn't happening?

I am finding it hard to get back into the weight loss mindset, and I think I am kind of accidentally maintaining after eating differently over Christmas. I think I am a bit mentally fatigued with it all at the moment. Lots of other life stress too which is pre-occupying me at the moment. I am not eating my feelings, thankfully, but I am not concentrating on what I am eating and just grabbing a bit of whatever whenever. So not enough to result in a gain, but definitely not a concerted effort to lose weight. I just don't feel like I have it in me at the moment to generate enough of a deficit each week to result in a 1 or 2 pound loss. 😬

Wowzers @Lds1 thats epic!
welcome @recruitretain, you’re definitely in good company here
Sorry you’re struggling @SilenceInside and @TragicMuse, it’s always hard after Christmas or other reasons that change our usual routine, is it worth focusing on trying to eat intuitively for a couple of weeks rather than focusing solely on calories, after all this time we know sensible portion sizes and good nutrition. Psychologically it may help? Focus on all you’ve gained (not weight!), like energy and strength and the life changing amount of weight lost. Maybe try to maintain weight for a couple of weeks before going full on again. Don’t diminish what you’ve amazingly accomplished so far 💐

Thanks @SilenceInside - it’s def the latter. I’m in a deficit, just as I always have been. Didn’t gain over Christmas at all, just maintained. And now can’t get down and stay down.

More movicol I think…even though I don’t feel especially blocked up!

@SilenceInside and @TragicMuse You've both done so well so far so please don't be too disheartened. I am sure you will get a move on the scales soon but focus on what you have already lost and the NSVs you've had.

Aaggghh that was a shit show 🫣 I was at the gym doing my weekly PT session and whilst I was lifting a barbell the PT suddenly said - have you lost some weight? Bear in mind I see her every week and have for years and nothings been said up to now. I just very awkwardly muttered 'a little bit' and she asked if I was doing anything different and I just said eating less and there it ended, it was all a bit awkward and I really need to handle this better!

@Fffreeeeezing You’ll have to work on a stock response! I just say ‘thanks, I’ve lost x amount, I’m on the weight loss jabs!’. But I’m not at all bothered about people knowing.

@Fffreeeeezing don't you just hate it when that happens. I had it on a works Teams call, when someone just said 'wow Billy, your face has shrunk, have you lost weight?' I was like a rabbit in the headlights, and just mumbled 'yeah a few lbs' (it was actually 4st that point). Now, if anyone mentions it, depending on who it is, I'll either fess up to being on the jabs, or just say I'm eating less and moving more. Which is all completely true, so I'm not lying

@Billybingbongglad I'm not on my own with the 'yeah a few lbs'. I suppose my 105lb lost is just a few really in the whole scheme of things 🤣

105lb? Yeah, hardly worth mentioning 🤣🤣 . Joking obviously, its bloody amazing, it's a wonder its taken your PT so long to notice!

Just a little NSV for me this morning 🥳

(Edited as the image is under review - I finished couch to 5k!!)

@RenegadeKeeblerElf congratulations!

I got asked by my colleague if I had lost weight, said yes, and she said, I thought so, must be a couple of stone. I smiled and nodded. I've lost over 100 lbs 🤣 But happy for people to think it's a couple of stone!

Weigh in and jab yesterday.

SW 137kg BMI 53.5
CW 97.4kg BMI 38
GW 63kg BMI 24.6

No loss, no gain.

Was in the office yesterday, first time since November. Lots of compliments. Big reason for this was that I have a new security pass but with a year old picture. The picture is bad. It was taken at an unfortunate angle so is mostly made up of double chin. So now there is a very obvious comparison point slung round my neck!

There was no judgement expressed by my colleagues when I said I was on mounjaro. It helps that it is the diet time of year. Plus they are all very polite!

I’ve just finished my first week on 7.5 as I attempt to come back down through the doses, weighed this morning and have maintained so really pleased with that. Will finish the month on 7.5 and then planning to drop to 5 and see how it goes.

@Lds1 That's amazing congratulations!! I've got a similar path starting at 50bmi and wanting to get to 25 which means losing half of me.

It's crazy to think of losing half your body isn't it - half of me was "excess!". I'm at around 31bmi so teetering close to "not being obese".

I think after a year of weight loss (and 8 stone wahooo) I am now starting to slow down. Depending which points you look at on my chart it dropped quite quickly to about 1lb a week now instead of 1kg. I did expect this but was wondering how long my streak would last.

I do now look visibly incredibly different. I went to a thing earlier in the week where I saw people I hadn't seen for a good few months and had several direct comments. I think we've looked at before the stages of very morbidly obese, and morbidly obese and quite fat etc all sort of registering the same even thought there can be a lot of weight loss. I'm blatently overweight but I now can fit into size 16 (still 18 for anything around my middle that isn't stretchy) and visually look quite different so I think people are happy to be more direct.

Its like they think i went from nearly 22stone to 13.5 stone overnight - I havent yet worked out what i say when its a random 2min conversation with someone I sort of know. I dont hide im on jabs if someone is really interested but I dont know I want it to be "the thing" they remember from a conversation.

My current work I started in September - I've just worked out I've lost 2.5 stone since starting there! This doesn't feel that obvious though. I think that first 6 stone made the huge shift. Most staff wont ever have known me morbidly obese at all. Im still obese by only by about 5lbs currently!!!

I'm on "jab 2" of my 2nd year.

SW 21st 11
CW 13st 8
BMI 25 11st
GW 10st 7.

One thing I've been thinking recently is how different it is to be starting a new year without that "New year dread" I have had for so many years. Maybe 20? Where I would be loooking at "okay so how do I sensibly lose weight/get fitter/overhaul my life" while knowing whatever I did would be useless. It's when I often registered for counselling or saw the Dr for blood tests in my next bid to "see what I can do". I often tried to "walk for 10mins" a day which was hard.

To start the year knowing something is working and I'm alreayd a much healthier person is so exciting.

And its been just over a year since I started being fairly UPF free. I'm relatively quite happy with my eating now - no big overhaul needed. I eat regularly, mostly upf free, and am no longer bound by the anxiety around calories etc or tracking (which were issues for me). I really cannot overstate how much Mounjaro has changed my life (I know counselling, good nutrition, increased confidence to change job etc have too - but regaining health, mobility and freedom to eat well without the crazy is increible!)

That's brilliant. I was unsuccessful weaning off and gained ten lb on a month of 7.5. Back to m15 on Monday, well more as its golden dose.

You have done so well and grown in Confidence massively, well done