Mounjaro -10 stone or more to lose - Thread 11

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Thread 11?

How did we get to this point?

Ah well. We're doing so well. Do join us.

I’m feeling really fed up this morning as I’ve put on a pound this week . I’ve done nothing different, my calorie average has been 1600, so an 800 daily deficit even without excersize (4000 steps a day and 335 minutes of swimming and cycling) . How the hell have I put weight on? Fucked off

Do you only weigh weekly @diggitydoo ? It could just be a weird fluke. I'm a daily weigher, and I had one day last week when, quite inexplicably, I was 1.7lb higher than the previous day.

I've maintained all week so at weigh in day today I'm still 69.9kg. I'm doing OMAD and my meals aren't huge or unhealthy so it's disappointing.

I'm too stressed about other things at the moment, it's taking all my will power not to just eat anything in sight. Then being stressed makes me worry my body will keep the weight and then I stress more. Urghh.

I’m also very fucked off. I’ve been absolutely on it and in a deficit all week, not lost a thing. Then today I’ve gained 0.75lbs.

I know it’s not linear or as simple as calories in/calories out. I know that. But I’m working so hard and no result is very dispiriting. I am suppressed. I not even in the position of wanting to binge or overeat or hit the cheese and having to ignore it, it’s not there. So why is my body holding on?

AAAAAARGH!

Solidarity, losers. It’s a swine.

A lot of us are struggling at the moment it feels like, either with a lack of suppression, or being really well behaved and still not losing/even gaining. Maybe there's truth to the 'winter makes our bodies act weird' theory!

Wishing us a huge great big collective whoosh, and sending out virtual hugs!

Tragic muse, so sorry to hear that, I'm feeling completely the same way. Fucking hell, so completely irritating. So sorry to others too that are feeling the same way and having a similar experience. Wild thought that maybe it's winter! Gosh I wonder,

The whole thing just messes with my head so much, I just feel so fucking hopeless and have to cling to on for dear life, because I feel in danger of spiralling. It's utterly ridiculous to feel that I know over a pound of weight on my massive body. but the amount of effort and hope I'm putting in just makes it feel catrastrophic

Chatgpt thinks that it's likely hormones! cunting hormones. surely there should be one benefit of being in the menpause is you don't have to deal with hormones fucking with you.

For me putting a lb on makes me feel out of control - which let's face it was the case when I weighed 100 lbs more. I've tried to overcome that by weighing every day so I am used to the peculiarities of my body. But I know that isn't for everyone. And of course if normal weight people (hope that doesn't offend) said oh god I've gained a lb or 2 or 5, we'd probably say it's not a problem, easily dealt with!

I think we've spent our whole lives feeling shame and guilt over our weight, that any tiny gain puts us right back there in that bad place, and all we feel is failure. When actually, reality is that our weight does naturally fluctuate, and it is completely normal to have the odd unexplained gain every now and then. 'Normal' sized people don't feel it so deeply, but we do, and it can send us spiralling, and feeling like we've lost control. Be kind to yourselves ladies, our bodies can be fucking cruel to us sometimes, but they do come good in the end ❤️. (Now someone please remind me I said this when it's my turn to plateau!)

This is so well said!

Years of hating myself for seeing a gain which would signal the start of the binge cycle, is a hard habit to shift.

Sending love to those needing it! Fucking bodies, very unfair when you're eating and drinking right and still not losing.

For me I think it isn't the small gain, or plateau, in itself, but the fear, like @PearlTeapot said, that it's the start of a downward spiral - we've had so many slips/failures/challenges in the past that we assume it's going to happen again as soon as we get the slightest blip, almost like it's triggering us.

Exactly this. We've all been through this so many times. I've felt rotten recently for much the same reason. The fear is always lurking.

Well I've inexplicably lost 2lb overnight, so I'm now 10st 11lb.

I daresay I'll gain it back tomorrow.
🤣

I weigh myself every day for this reason. So I can see the ups and downs and shrug them off. I don’t record unless I’ve lost though 😅

Sorry so many people are struggling at the moment. I'm similar - have been in a calorie deficit all week and weigh daily and it seems to mainly be going up! Tomorrow is the day I actually record my weight so will see what it is then, but fully expect to have put on this week despite there being no reason to in terms of what I've eaten! Maybe there is something in the winter theory?!

I also realised today that I'm around the lowest weight I achieved through slimming world - high 16stones. At that point I'd lost a lot of weight too and was still consistently following the SW plan but just stopped losing and I ended up getting totally disillusioned and stopping SW, tried calorie counting on my own but got nowhere without the accountability of a weekly weigh-in at class hanging over me. So I'm also wondering whether the set point theory is at play now for me...I really hope not, as I have at least 5st still to lose to be anywhere near a healthy BMI! Have jabbed tonight and resolved to really focus on clean eating, prioritising protein etc this week and see how I get on - really feel like I need a decent loss to get past this particular weight and feel like I've 'cleared it'.

Keep on keeping on everyone!

What is the set point theory?

I was clipping my toenails earlier and marvelling at how easy it is now to just bend over and do them as opposed to sitting on the bed struggling. But yet I still don't feel like I've lost hardly any weight (but it's been nearly 7 stone), my belly is still all I see, my thighs are the same, I truly don't know where I've lost it from (or understand why my eyes can't see what others see). Will I always feel this fat in my mind?

Will I always feel this fat in my mind?

I wonder about this, too.

Despite having lost 9st 5lb and almost being at my goal, I still see a fat woman in pictures of myself.

There's a lot of science behind it but the upshot is that for various complex reasons, certain people's bodies simply struggle to lose past a certain amount - your body effectively resets no matter how hard you try. There's more to it than that, and it certainly doesn't seem to be true for everyone (lots of people in this thread are proof of that!), but I do wonder if there's some merit in it for some of us. Personally I haven't managed to get much beneath the weight I am now for decades, no matter what I've tried. I'd like to think it is possible though, it just seems that I hit a barrier at a particular stage! I plan to keep pushing and see if I can nudge it down further.

Thank you @eibbed999 you explained it better than I could've. I've not paid too much heed to it before and suspect it's coincidence that I'm hovering around this weight and is actually more to do with still trying to shake off the Xmas damage to my mindset, but I will feel better once I've got past it!

Had a NSV today - out for a team lunch and I wasn't worried about the stool I was sitting on breaking, had a brief 'am I anxious here? Does this feel sturdy enough?' moment to myself when I first sat down, decided I felt OK and was then totally relaxed.

Weighed myself again this morning and I’m up another lb !

genuinely don’t understand. It’s not possible it can actually be true as I’ve super honestly logged everything I’ve eaten all week and I’m been eating an 800 calorie defect even before exercise.

Just fucking messing with me and I’m still fucked off

Ten days in and this jab has already changed my life

I feel amazing
Walking an hour every evening
Sleeping well (other than jab night)
Water intake is 3-4 liters a day

Not sleepy at 2pm
Not craving food

A life changer

and EATING PLENTY !!!!

Morning friends. Week 43, and I appear to have had a little whoosh. 3lb off, meaning I've hit 6 1/2st gone forever. I'm absolutely delighted, and my BMI is now exactly 40.0 so I am so so close to being 'on the chart'.

I feel almost guilty, knowing so many of you are struggling right now. But I'm under no illusions, my plateau days are ahead of me at some point in the future. I've had it easy so far, apart from the damned awful hair loss. But I'm tackling that, and my hair care routine is now so bloody intense, I've given it it's own spreadsheet!!

I hope you all have a great week. Sending positive waves to all you lovelies who are struggling right now, may your whoosh moments be right round the corner 💕

SW 22st 8lb
CW 16st 1lb
GW provisional 11st 4lb

Fantastic news @Billybingbong - and never feel bad, we all celebrate the wins together as well as sympathise over the struggles!

Well done @Billybingbong you're nearly in the 15s.

How much would you like to lose @recruitretain?

@diggitydoo try going the other way for a day.
Eat far too much. Go over your calories.

I don't understand why this works, but it always does for me.

A day of eating far too much (after a week of behaving myself) shows up as a loss, 48 hours later.

You should only need to do this for a day BTW.