Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose - thread 12!

[MooBaggage]

A supportive, idea-sharing thread for those with more than 5 stone/30kg to lose. We're a mixture of newbies, nearly theres, there and maintaining and we know what it's like to have what can seem like a mountain to climb - but we also know we can do it!

Nothing is off topic except referral codes 😊

that ability to keep going is one of the amazing reasons why GLP1's are so effective. Rememebr this when things slow down/platueau. We've all been there and learnt you can just keep going and OMG it works!!

I'm loving the seed cracker idea! Have added seeds to my shopping list. Am wondering as well as the version above, if you could add a bit of golden syrup and make sweet versions?!

I feel some experimenting coming on 😁

I have noticed this @RobinEllacotStrike. We used to go through tubs and tubs of butter. Now I only use it for the children’s sandwiches and morning toast and I probably buy a tub once every two months!

Ive made a version where i blitzed a packet of rocket in the water I then soaked the seeds in. Gives a nice taste.

Leave the seeds to soak for a while - the flaxseeds/chai seeds are what binds things together.

I had the crackers today with avo/tomato & pesto/tomato. Delicious.

I'm sure golden syrup would work too!

Thanks @Bunnyjo and @RobinEllacotStrike
I am still waiting for a surgery date and feeling really powerless while I wait.

I have tried to really focus my eating and ofcourse Exercises. I have complete CT5K and feel really proud of myself!
I don’t enjoy the running but I do enjoy the feeling after and feeling positive with noticeable fitness progress.
I actually starting eating breakfast (previously tended to fast until lunch). Usually banana pancakes, because it fuels my running.
I also while awaiting new prescription for 12.5 have upped my 10mg dose pen and give myself 11mg.
Delighted I have lost 3 Kg in 4 weeks.
BMI still 31 but if I can keep this up I may move out of obese category in the next month. I know I have body dismorphia but don’t actually think I look like an obese person anymore. Well not in clothes anyway.
I dare not ask others but also intrigued to know what someone who hasn’t seen me as big as I was would say about my size now. For those that know me, their view will be distorted. I either look so much smaller they over estimate it and for others I know they will alway see me a fat lady.

1lb off so have hit my mini target of getting into the 26.somethings!

13.1.25 SW 20st 3lbs BMI 43.0
13.5.26 CW 12st 9lbs BMI 26.9

I've realised/accepted I just need to work harder to get this last stone off! I have reduced my portion sizes back down, upped my water and reduced my coffees - everything I did at the beginning, but had gradually slipped on.

I couldn't get on with the Somatic Yoga ladies! But it made me remember that back in the day I used to love doing Yoga with Adrienne, so I found her again on YouTube and am back in love with it again! So am doing bits and bobs of yoga (badly!) and have got the hand weights back out and am doing a few minutes a day and am feeling really good 😊👍💪💪💪

Next mini target for me is 12st 6lbs - I do like to get below the halfway point of each stone - feels like I'm really saying goodbye to the stone above, if you see what I mean!

That's brilliant @MooBaggage

I have only lost 1lb this week when I usually lose two but we have done a lot that revolves around food so I guess I just ended up not as careful as before. I'm about to start a new 5mg pen and wondering if I should have gone up but I guess for this month I just need to be careful and keep my new good habits.

I would love for my next pen to still be 5mg. Price hike to 7.5!

bring on the maintenance pill! I’m about ready for it! I’m so excited about this. I accept that I will probably need to take glp1 for life & im ok with that (reasonable price please)

my dd is off to uni later this year & I really need to be off the jabs by then.

gift article.

Daily pill could ‘keep you slim for life’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3b9b097cf49e8ff8

Thanks for that link @RobinEllacotStrike roll on the pills!

@MooBaggageyou might enjoy FormerlyFatStephen on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWo8hTLEfMv/?igsh=MWs0b2tuZnhpa2IzeQ==

hes up to day 40 of doing yoga with Adrianne and I’m loving following him. From zero (yoga) to hero!! He really makes me smile

Thank you @RobinEllacotStrike
This gives hope to my most serious worry, that even if I ‘get there’ I’ll put it all back on when I can no longer afford jabs.
The bit of the article I loved most:
Picture snap shows that 1/2 of those on placebo also maintained weight.

Hello everyone,
I have a win to report!
Today, the scales have finally shown 70kg, meaning I have achieved my second goal, neat 30% loss of my initial weight.
BMI 26, so not quite there yet, but it will be just 3kg to get below 25.
However, I plan to go further and see if I can reach 66kg and maybe even 63?

It feels good, but frankly I do not see any wildly dramatic change in my appearance?
I am quite wide hipped and bossom heavy so I reckon it’s not going to disappear suddenly.

I eat more less in the same way, drink alcohol occasionally, go out. I do hand weights but not much anything else in terms of exercising (I do exercise at home but I wouldn’t count it as an honest and strenuous effort😉).

I experience coldness like many of you but that can be helped, on occasion suffer from acid reflux if I overeat, I don’t have much loose skin, but my biggest biggest problem is hair loss🙁🙁

I noticed hair thinning and hair losing months ago and started taking biotin but to no discernible effect yet. Have been using Plantur tonic then Kerastase Genesis hair serum (4-5 months now) but apart from smelling divine it’s not doing much.

Perhaps it is unavoidable price for using MJ but I cannot recall any of you reporting it as a big problem. Is it only me then?

Bravo @SecondCircuit that's fantastic!!!

I also suffer the cold - I'm at my desk now wrapped in blankets, though I have retired my heated blanket for "the season".
As I'm menopausal I tend to fluctuate from a hot sweat to a big chill & I'm rarely inbetween. Annoying but I am use to it.

I don't think I've had hair loss from MJ - not so noticablay, though I did colour my hair a bit lighter a while ago & its turned into a hot frizzy mess & I've had breakagae so its hard to tell.

I did think this morning that my loose skin seems to be improving. I've been taking collagen reguarly but I've no idea if that is working, or its the exercise, or time, or all three probably. Standing up I'm fine. Bending over after the shower for example (sorry TMI) it still a "Shar Pei on Elm Street" horror story.
Ah well - its still better than the alternative!

No, it says that patients who had previously taken tirzepatide (Mounjaro) and were then given a placebo maintained on average 49% of their weight loss.

That is, on average they regained about half the weight they had lost.

Haha, you’ve made me laugh @RobinEllacotStrike ! Shar pei on Elm Street it is when I bend down too!

With your yoga regime you must be in a pretty good shape I’m sure and with no loose skin. I cannot even compare, with my feeble and irregular exercise attempts!

The hair loss might also be an age thing? I’m late 50. after all.. It’s just a shame as the ever widening parting on my head ruins nearly every photo now. Or maybe I’m too sensitive about it.
I’m a redhead, I cannot really change my hair colour (I think I would look awful blonde) and it makes me sad to see it.

I have a little win too. For the first time ever, I weigh less than my Dh. Desperate to keep it that way. I’m currently 78.2 and he is 78.7, but the lowest he ever gets is 77.5, so that’s my next mini target. We are going away for a long weekend tomorrow, so I-will need to be careful, but I feel so incentivised.
I read another thread about frame size so I measured my wrist, which is proper bony, and it was 7 inches, which makes me large framed, so I’m definitely not wanting to get below a bmi of 24.9, which someone on that other thread described as “bordering on overweight”! Odfod, I mean, I know that’s strictly true but … I’m looking a bit skinny already, I bought some denim shorts and my legs, which have always been good, are knock kneed in them. And yes to the maintenance pill! I need to find a new supplier but last time I tried I got nowhere so it’s put me off.

Well done on hitting 70kg on the scales and being 30% down @SecondCircuit Fabulous!

I definitely had hair thinning, starting about 4 months in. I'm lucky in that I have very fine hair, but lots of it so I noticed it more with how it collected on my hairbrush and appeared on my clothes. I did ask my hairdresser and she said she definitely clocked it (from feeling my hair rather than visually) but wouldn't have said anything if I hadn't asked. It's settled down now and is coming back.

@Zebracat I was really chuffed when I went down past DH on the scales too. It's a good one.

Shar pei on elm street has cracked me up.😅

@SecondCircuit hair loss and thinning is definitely a problem for me and has happened since starting to lose weight - and it's a losing weight thing rather than a taking MJ thing, apparently. Add menopause into that and I'm buggered! I don't like it, but have kind of accepted that there's not a lot I can do about it at the moment and am hoping that when I start to maintain and not actively lose any more weight, it might start to look better? Also, I used to dye my hair, which has always been fine and the hair colour used to thicken it up, but I gave that up a few years ago - am glad I don't colour it any more and I've embraced the grey, but I miss my lovely fake thicker hair...!

@Zebracat I also had that moment re: weighing less than dp a while ago - it was ace! I used to be 7 stone heavier than him.... 😮 Then, due to my weight loss and him putting on some weight, I am now over 2 stone lighter than him - bonkers... I also had a take a moment when, for the first time ever, I realised I now weigh less than ds2! He's a 6'3" strapping 22 year old, but fit as a fiddle with a BMI of 23 🙄so I've always been considerably heavier than him - but am now about half a stone lighter!

I love that we take our victories in so many ways - all of this is so new to us, as (I am assuming) long time 'heavy' people.

My wrist measurement is also 7", so am officially big boned and also not aiming to get less than 24.something 😊

@Zebracatdid I miss the big frame wrist measurement?
I came across a late teen diary of mine. In it, I was worried about my weight (12 stone 12lbs) and wanted to loose some weight. My BMI would have been 27.1.
I was athletic and sporty and know I wore a Bikini that summer. Yes I looked bigger build and wore a 36G bra.
I wish I could go back to 19year old me and tell her I looked great and just focus staying at that weight 😔
Decade by decade I went up ultimately reaching over 21 stone.
This all makes me wonder, where will be my set point. Where does my body want to be weight wise. I think BMI 27-28 was what I looked at my best.
I was intrigued by your post. My wrist is 6.5inches.

The wrist measurement thing was on another thread in the WLI area. A wrist measurement of over 6.5 inches, in a woman over 5ft 5 indicates a large frame. The thing is , I suppose, for us all to not obsess about numbers because that way lies madness. I don’t know what’s going on for me. I’ve recently stopped taking Cocodamol, and I think it must have had a suppressing effect on the mounjaro. Suddenly im losing weight again. And I was just eating a delicious bacon and egg sandwich , really hungry after a swim, when I thought I should stop. I took one more bite, and instantly vomited. Who am I?

Having not been able to post in what feels like months -slight exaggeration- due to the android/chrome issue on Mumsnet, I'm finally able to log back in today. Great timing as I hit another mini milestone of 2 stone loss today! Or 12.8kg, in 12 weeks. Happy with my first 3 months progress. Congratulations on all the losses while I've been MIA.

Thank you @GiveMeWordGames and @MooBaggage for confirming you have also experienced hair thinning and it is a thing when losing weight. The good thing is as you say, it should stop when this process is over.
Interesting info @Zebracat about wrist measurement. I’ve always known I’m of a big frame so no surprise to find mine is 7”. Also now lighter than DH (hurray!!) but not with BMI as he is taller.

Congratulations @StatisticalStitches - that is an impressive loss over 3 months!

I woke up early today feeling heavy and queasy as ate too much too late last night. Medium avocado not my usual choice of small or half, and 2 fried eggs not one with a small piece of sourdough.. 500kcal knocked easily I think. Must be more careful as I’ve noticed my portions increasing recently.
However, managed to have my coffees black more often now as like Moo I like them milky and sweet, so count it as a small win.

Have a good day everyone.

Thank you @SecondCircuit I'm only at the start of my journey, so I know it will slow down.

On the milky coffee front, I've found a new milk called Super Nutrio, it has been filtered twice to double the protein. So it's 7g protein per 100ml. So a milky coffee is 17.5g protein, if your mug is 250ml like mine. Its pricey, so I'm only having it now and then as a treat.

I seem to have plateaued which is annoying as I am on 5mg and start a new 5mg pen today. I'll order 7.5 next but this month I am going to need to make more effort.