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.

OMFG, I’ve had such an eaty day. It’s jab day but I’m postponing to tomorrow so that I can have my birthday next week at the end of jab not the start. Not to madly overdo it, just to enjoy going out for dinner.

But today has been impossible, culminating in a piece of Christmas cake.

Tomorrow better be more manageable, I don’t like feeling so…out of control!

I weighed 118.6 kg today. That's a massive 4.8 kg loss.

I still haven't lost any weight since last year
Still gaining and loosing the same 3 pounds
This is the longest I've gone not loosing any weight since I started mj
I even lost over Christmas
I've lost track a bit of what weight I've lost .. around 10 stone 4 I think
Maybe my body just needs a rest to catch itself up
I have been drinking a lot more fluids ,so it might that also
It's not like there's ever going to be an end in sight , realistically I'm on this journey ( weight management) for life
If I take my eye of the ball I will race back up the stones again .
I'm just trying to do the best I can each day

That's so tough @Springflowers2, you must be so disheartened. But as you said, this is a long road we're travelling, and maybe in the bigger picture a stall like this won't be significant - it just feels like it at the time. How much more would you like to shift? I've also been gaining/losing the same few pounds - I've only lost a stone since the end of July - and it is frustrating. But you've lost so much and done so well, and if you're not over-eating but still not losing, then yes, maybe your body wants you to back off for a while! Are you taking supplements/making sure you're getting all the nutrition you need, just in case your body is also holding on to the weight because it needs something it's not getting? Just thinking out loud, and others here will have better advice. Mainly I suppose I'd say try not to panic - it feels awful having that hope taken away from you, especially when you're paying so much for the privilege, Don't let it get you down.

Ah thanks for your reply that's lovely of you .
I do try to remember to take vitamins ,but I've got to be honest I do forget about half the time ,then double up when I remember... hopefully it evens out ..
I'm currently paying £325 a month for 15 mg of monjroro,I switched to checkup and just stayed with them .but if don't see a loss come march ,I may go it alone .
I may have to accept like you ,it will be very slow from here on wards .
Are you on the top dose to be loosing slowly from July

I'm on 15 now @Springflowers2. It's all very unpredictable with me. I definitely have the capacity to 'defeat' the MJ these days, which I couldn't have done when I started last spring. So I am up and down and sideways and all over the place, feel like I need a seatbelt to cope with all the twists and turns! You could definitely get it quite a bit cheaper than that if money is an issue (mine is £270). What do you have left to lose, in your ideal world?

When I started loosing weight ,I only ever wanted to get back to my wedding weight ..and I'm now half a stone under that .
I can remember thinking it would be utterly amazing to be my wedding weight again
Yet I get there and I'm not happy,I want more off .
I feel like it's become a battle and that my body has decided it's settled at this weight and is staying put ..and a year a go I'd be very happy to be this weight .
But then I think .. people start taking mj at my size ( 18 ) they don't give up and finish ..
Plus I feel his huge pressure that people are watching and waiting for me to loose more..I swim every day and it's a group of ladies ,and every single day ,one of them asks ...,how much have you lost ,...you look about a size 16 now ...how much have you lost this week...and I'm embarrassed to keep having to say I've not lost anything since Christmas...and I can't avoid discussing it , because they all saw in my costume for three years at 10 stone heavier .
So I feel huge pressure to keep loosing more ..but I'm not sure how I feel,but I feel very aware of how others feel

I saw an interesting video on social media the other day which basically said that your GLP receptors can become immune/resistant (can't remember the exact word he used) to the medication and that if you are on the highest dose and it isn't having an effect you should take a break for a few weeks and then start back on the lowest dose to give them a break.

Well my mum was 9 stone her whole life ,and there's photos of me sat on her lap when I was 8 ,and you can bearly see her ,she's peeking out from behind me .
So I've always thought that's the weight I should be .
But she was a size 10 if not an 8 ..so probably not even possible.
So to answer your question,I have no idea

That thought has crossed my mind to

That's very interesting @RenegadeKeeblerElf - that does make sense for me. There are no absolutes with MJ, it seems to affect everybody slightly differently, but I am no longer certain about it - maybe it was too effortless to begin with, and so it now feels very hard! Perhaps a week or two off might help, I'll definitely consider it.

@Springflowers2 - I'd say maybe you (and me, this is aimed in my own direction too!) need to relax about it. In your case you've lost soooooo much - and seeing yourself through other people's eyes is never a recipe for happiness, especially as we usually distort it anyway. I'm sure the ladies you swim with ask out of interest and support, and they'd hate to think they were making you feel bad - possibly just be honest and say 'I'm struggling a bit at the moment, could we avoid talking about it for a while?'

Yes ,I could definitely say that to them ,they are lovely ladies .
I think maybe I moved up the doses to quickly, chasing as much loss as possible.
My provider at the time seemed to encourage that
But I've since realised people try to stay as long as possible on the lowest dose
Or is that just since the prices went up ,I don't know ....
I'm also fighting the urge to binge a lot as well.
I've not given in ..but it's there in my head a lot

From what I can gather in the early days it was more accepted to go up the doses each month, that's what friends of mine did. But now I think you're right, people try and stay lower - maybe partly because of price, but also for people on this particular thread, because it's such a long term project. It's not 'lose a few stone and you're done' for us is it? I feel slightly scared being at 15 with nowhere left to go, and still like yourself having binge thoughts pretty much every day. Except it sounds like you're better than me at resisting!

It's horrible having the binge feeling..I utterly hate it ..like a demon in my head .
I don't buy any foods I know will binge on ..I simply can't have them in the house .my husband once forgot and bought some of my favourite crisps and told him to lock them in his car or I would empty them in the bin .
I'm scared at 15 mg with no where to go either ..I'm scared of not loosing any more weight while still on my ,and scared of coming of monjroro for a break and my eating going out of control again..I do not feel in control at the moment..yet I did last year and I don't know what has changed

I'm sorry @Springflowers2, you sound quite distressed, and I totally get it. Most of us have felt out of control for most of our adult lives, and in some cases our childhoods as well. That sense of relief that I got when I started MJ was extraordinary - I finally understood what it must feel like to be 'normal', to not be obsessed with food, to not go through every single day battling those demons like you say. For me, that has passed - and now it is still a slog, fighting with myself constantly. I think the MJ still helps, but I no longer see it as the miracle it was for me early on. Obviously everybody is different and some people get the same effect all the while they're on it, but for whatever complicated set of reasons (probably physical and mental), that's not the case for me either. It's very tough. I don't have my binge-friendly foods in the house either, but sadly Deliveroo exists...

SNAP .. totally agree same here xxx

Are you eating regularly @Springflowers2? My diet plan is 3 smallish meals a day and 2 healthy snacks in between. My dietician was cross with me for skipping the snacks as it's not sustainable for those of us who binge.

I've gone from 23st 6lbs to 16st 10lbs (94lbs loss) and am still wearing the same size 24 jeans, some have got too big to wear but others are still okay just a bit baggy, I did buy some replacements last week though in a size 20 which do fit but may wait a bit longer before switching to those.
My tshirts are mainly the same 22-24 and I wore one in the first photo I sent off 11 months ago so I can definitely see the difference in fit. I think as others have said I may have been wearing this size as I could fit into it and didn't want to go up but they were too small really which adds to why it takes so long to lose a size at the beginning. I do need to start going through my clothes as I have way too many but always wear the same things even those that are now too big.
It also turns out coats and jackets can be worn with hoodies underneath and still do up with room spare, I never knew this was a thing 😂

No I've being trying different things
My problem was always ,the minute I start eating it's like a gate opening to a field and all the sheep go through
So if I do OMAD ,the gate doesn't open untill dinner time ,5 pm
Less chance for as many sheep to get through

Sorry that was a reply to @MrTiddlesTheCat

Hi lovely people I'm slinking back in. I've had a tough time weight loss wise. In summary I switched to wegovy in November as I couldn't afford 15mg of mounjaro anymore. Well it absolutely didnt work for me, I persevered for 4 pens worth and gained 8lbs. I was hungry all the time, like proper stomach rumbling constantly, my food noise was back with a vengeance and I struggled to stay away from the snacks. I also found wegovy didnt make me feel full at all so the portion sizes and snacking back on the kids foods started again.

I'm disappointed in myself as I worked hard to get down to 14st 9lb and I really wanted to get down to around 13st and now I seem stuck around 15st 5lb/15st 8lb. I also thought after nearly 18months that all the hardwork and habits I'd made would stick and they haven't at all. I got flu before Christmas and stopped working out as I was exhausted and I've really struggled to get back to it. Also worries me that I'm going to really struggle to maintain my weightloss coming off WLI. I decided this month to switch back to Mounjaro and have started back on 2.5mg I'm probably realistically not going to be able to afford to go above 5mg but I'm hoping it'll give me the edge to get another 2 stone off

Anyway I'm trying to find some way of inspiring myself to get back on the wagon!

Love the sheep analogy @Springflowers2, and hi @WafflingDreamer. So sorry you've gone through the mill with it all. At least you can blow off a bit of steam here!

Even with wlis? That's tough to deal with.

I have never gone over 1200 calories a day since I started wli
I track on NHS weight loss app
The urge to binge never went away ..but I've not given in to it ..
It felt like wli took ages to work and I feel like I'm back to square one now
But I dare not come of them ,in case I suddenly started binging huge quantities of food again.
So in my own way ,I suspect they are working,as I'm not binging huge quantities of food my more and I'm not weighing 27 stone any more ..
But I feel like I'm one binge away from my start weight at the moment..
Maybe this is just a bad patch ,I've got In a rut ..my routine is out of wack ,I'm not swimming,I've not got the car ..and I'm emotional..and when I'm emotional,I want to binge
And my moods do fluctuations like nobodys business
I'm trying very hard to stay positive..I guess this will always be my battle,we all have something we find difficult..and this my something

Could do show me what that consists of in a day ..and what the calories are ,if you track them .just wondering how that would look ,as it sounds like something I would really like ...but couldn't possibly allow myself to try ... because I'd be sure I'd put weight on doing that ..
How did you get a dietician..is that on the NHS ..do you find it helpful