January 2025 starters - it's our anniversary!

[HeidiLite]

new thread, losers!

Wow @HeidiLite looking fierce! Do you not have any loose skin?

Hello to everyone in my phone that I’ve been following for nearly a year now. Gosh that sounds very stalkerish. Like others I’m sure, I’m a lurker without much confidence to post. However, this thread has been an absolute lifeline for me throughout this journey - I’m so grateful to those of you that post regularly and enable me to be a part of this journey with you (albeit from the sidelines). I started my MJ journey on 19th January last year and have, as of this week, hit 5 stone loss which I’m still amazed by! I’m mid thirties and live on my own and just really wanted to express my gratitude for how much you’ve all unknowingly contributed to my journey.

Congratulations to everyone hitting amazing anniversary milestones, no matter how big or small - we’ve all come an incredibly long way from where we were this time last year. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

@Aimingforearlierbedtimes a bit on the stomach and backside. Has improved a lot though so hope it will get better.

Everyone looks amazing. I will never have muscles like that @HeidiLite as I am too lazy. You look fabulous.

I am already shattered after one day commuting, it’s a thirteen hour day for me. No idea how I am going to survive the week.

I will see if I can sort out some photos…

@ThatFancyOtter well done you, and as with @WhatAGoal, do come and say hello more often!!

Absolutely loving seeing the pics. How far we've all come.

I'm tempted to share some before after pics too @Zempy. Might go and have a dig to see what I can find.

Has a conversation with my boss last night where I all but put my role up for redundancy consideration. I didn't actually say the words. I feel excited. It could be a huge opportunity at a time when I'm looking for a change.The seed is sown, now I'm going to drag myself out of bed and attempt to stay focused. So, that's all on my mind as I wake up this morning.

@MummyInTheNecropolis - well done, that is absolutely amazing. 😍

Truly amazing photos all - well done everyone.

I actually can't remember the last full length photo of me pre Jan 2025 - how sad is that? I'm still not very good at having my photo taken and having had a look through my phone - no recent full length ones at all apart from one where I look swamped by a winter coat. Maybe I need to to change that this year! I swiftly deleted the shots I used for verification after submitting them as they were awful.

2.6lbs to goal this morning.

I'm so busy this week I am not sleeping past 2am 😞. I did manage to pack Christmas away last night which felt like a victory. As well as work and consultancy I actually have four jobs in the pipeline - four - I've prepared for two interviews, two to think about. My head is full of spaghetti.

Have a good day losers.

The one I posted was taken exactly a year ago yesterday, actually just popped up in memories after I had posted it. I used it for verification and was honestly quite insulted how fast my order was approved. 😁
What still shocks me are the photos I have not deleted, where at the time I thought I looked quite good. Have one from last year's xmas party I proudly shared with some friends. Total weight blindness.

I need to do a full length photo to send to alternate providers so I’ll get on to that this morning. I don’t have a full length mirror at the moment as DH has moved his DIYing upstairs (!). Less disruptive in some ways but as two rooms are being prepared for plastering there’s an awful lot of chaos going on.

I pulled up my original photo for verification and it’s horrifying! It’s hard to believe I was ‘only’ BMI 28 in it.

Off for coffee with the friend who lost weight at the same time as me so we shocked each other. Looking forward to a catch up.

Here we are. Just over 12 months between the two. I ‘could’ go further but I’m not aiming to. All my metrics are safely in the green, I don’t feel self conscious in tighter clothes and overall I’m happy with how I look.

I think the before shot is a great demonstration of why every kg counts on a shorter person with a small frame.

Oh and @WhatAGoal and @ThatFancyOtter now you’ve dipped your toe in you might as well jump in and join us properly.

Sorry - didn’t realise the one with the cropped background would show on black so I’ve attached a blurry screenshot. I’ll never have a snatched waist but I never have had one

Chaps, well done on all of this, you all look smashing and what a journey as they say on reality tv shows….

i am actually gonna step away for a bit - everything has ground to a halt for me and it’s actually quite tough to see everyone hit goal/maintain whilst i seem to be stuck in limbo. I am still 5lb away from my goal and that goal still has me at bmi 26/27. comparison is the thief of joy and all that and i feel like a bit of a failure and frankly pretty jealous tbh.

you are all amazing and i am very proud of you made up weirdos!

am sure I’ll pop back soon when i feel in a better place but happy anniversaries you lovely lot.

@Jins you have made a massive difference to your health, as we all know, it's the padding around the midsection that is the most dangerous.

@myladyjane I'm sorry you're feeling down, it's annoyng to be stuck but you've still come so far.

Don’t step away for too long @myladyjane. I get what you’re saying as I also feel pretty crap when comparing my photos to some of the ones already posted.

Remember how long it took me to take the final 2lbs off. Months!

@myladyjane Just to let you know that you're not the only one. I'm in a similar boat to you - plodding along and still quite a distance from my goal. I keep reminding myself of how much I've lost already and the downward movement will happen again - sending love ❤

@myladyjane totally get it. Don’t stay away long - love your funny posts.

Just at gym- will post layer re these amazing pics !

Well done everyone, fab progress! I wrote a long post and lost it 🙄. Will go back and redo but I wanted to say to @myladyjane, I get it but you’ve done brilliantly, 5 pounds is nothing compared to what you’ve lost. Do what you need to do for you but please don’t stay away too long, your posts brighten my day

@myladyjane I get it. I’m so near goal because I revised it upwards (25.9 BMI).

Another one who says do what you need to do but I’ll miss your posts in the interim. You genuinely make me laugh every time you call us one of your affectionate collective nouns and I feel like I’d like you very much irl. ☺️

Also don’t forget how different we all are, shapes, weight, sizes, height and we all want different things. I think you and I want something similar.

Final point ……. you’ve lost more weight than I have and we started at a similar point which still makes you a massive loser my dear 🥳.

@myladyjane and there is me too! I’ve gone through 4 Wegovy pens since September and not lost a pound (I mean I even managed to put on 5lbs in 12 hours yesterday). I’m massively envious of those who have reached their goal. But I have realised two things through this - the first is that I wanted to whizz through my weight loss so that my expenditure would be lower. I thought ‘oh I can do this in three months and spend £500 on it’ but obviously it hadn’t worked out like that and I’ve got to make peace with that.
The second is how much headspace that being thinner takes up. My god, I think about it all of the time. So I wonder if my desire to be thinner faster is to get a break from that constant noise. Just sort of tick it off my list. That for me is possibly where the envy comes from? Plus mentally patting myself on the back when a do lose some weight. These are things I need to work on.

I’m the same weight as I was in August - but £1800 poorer- I’m definitely a loser - just not with the 7lbs still to go.

My switch back to MJ has been confirmed, but no guidance on a break period between coming off Wegovy and starting MJ. Weird. Should I be having a week or two in between?

@Polkadotdash what dose would you start with? If it's lower, you probably don't need a break. I did a quick search and can't find any official guidance recommending a break.

They’ve put me back to 2.5mg

Yoohooooo!! It’s me, JCD - back to say hi to the old crew 😂

I was just lurking on the WLI board wondering how to find out if you were all still here and there you were! My goodness! One year in! How the hell is everyone? (I’m going to have a little read to the start of this thread to try and catch up a bit but obvs there’s far too much I’ve missed to go right right back!)

Hope you’re all well and where you want to be.

I’m not really sure why I stopped posting other than I am a flippertygibbet who doesn’t stick at anything and I think I got distracted after summer and started a new voluntary job which took up more of my time.

Im still with Oushk, still maintaining on 2.5mg. I eventually got down to 9.4 (from 13.7 in January 2025) but felt like I’d lost a little too much so I went back down to 2.5mg (only ever went up to 7.5mg) and then I stopped taking it for about 6 weeks leading up to Christmas as I wanted to enjoy my food a bit more. I put on 14lbs! I’m actually not bothered though, I just don’t want to gain any more so I’m now back on it and did my 2nd jab at the weekend after restarting the first week of jan. One thing I will say is I’m not feeling suppressed at all atm so I hope it hasn’t stopped working for me but I won’t panic just yet!

Another thing that’s really great is that all the feelings of being low etc disappeared in about August/september (I don’t know whether any of you remember but I was one who it affected in that way as in I felt very flat and ambivalent about everything). But then it just went and hasn’t come back (fingers crossed) so I feel very much back to my old self which im relieved about as I thought it was just something I’d have to live with if I stayed on it.

I had a really happy, fun filled Christmas for the first time in ages - I remember stopping and thinking one day “I’m usually really down at this time of year - what’s wrong with me?” 😂 and I realised it’s that I’m usually always overweight at Christmas which leads me to feeling rubbish as I’m eating crap and doing no exercise.

MJ really has changed my life completely and I’m so grateful for it.

Woweee! Swit swoo MummyInTheNecropolis!!

Just reading through - It’s so great to see you all where you wanted to be or almost there.

PrepossessingPenelope: So glad you’ve persisted and are so close to your goal - I remember you nearly stopping quite a few times as you suffered with gastro stuff so badly.

~ back to reading 👀 ~