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 😊

So glad you have had your surgery @Reginaphalangeeeee, please be kind to yourself and ignore the scales for now - let your mind and body recover. And seven, SEVEN stones weight loss is fan-bloody-tastic!

SW: 15st 5.5lb
CW: 9st 5lb
Loss: 84.5lb
Current BMI: 23.2
Target Weight 1: 12st 1lb (overweight BMI) - Achieved!
Target Weight 2: 10st 1lb (healthy BMI) - Achieved!
Target Weight 3: 9st 5.5lb (6st loss) - Achieved!
Final Target: 8st 8lb - 9st 1lb (I think...)

Another target achieved, very much on the final stretch now. Hoping everyone is enjoying this glorious weather. For the first time in I don't know how long, I can say I am loving this heat; I don't feel hot and uncomfortable, heat rashes are a thing of the past and my thighs no longer rub together - in fact, the gym work is paying off and I now have a thigh gap! Today, I wore this dress in a size 10, SIZE TEN, and I felt absolutely amazing!

Mounjaro really has changed my life and I am so grateful - yes it has cost a lot with DH and I both being on it (and we have had to sacrifice elsewhere), but I'd pay it ten-fold to feel the way I do now. DH feels the same - we are literally a fraction of our former selves!

OMG @QueenOfHiraeth I would swap your size for mine any day of the week! Ridiculous, as we're never happy with what we've got 🤦‍♀️😁 I wish wish wish my top half was smaller - I saw an article on the BBC news app this week about more women getting breast reductions and I soooo would if I had the money... I think I'm about a 34HH now - just wish I was a 34D, but realistically think with luck I might get to a 34G in the end..? 🤦‍♀️

I realise this is a first world problem though...! Onwards and downwards 😊💪😊💪😊💪

@MooBaggage You are right, we are never happy with our shape.
I am very wobbly from neck to knees (I blame it on my age but it is also lack of exercise) and realised today that I look as though I'm wearing inflatable knickers because the bit of me between my waist and the top of my legs is the one bit that hasn't shrunk much.

I really need to clamber back onto the wagon as I am just wasting time and undermining myself now. I have about half a stone to get into the healthy weight category and I really need to exercise but just seem to lack the time and the oomph to do it. I started my 3 day reset last week and did ok but have not managed to keep it up since.

Can I just say - the past few days have been the first in bloody ages I haven't had to use my heated throw?! 😃 Am so happy not to be shivering my way through the days - although obvs now too hot, especially at night. I had a PTSD moment yesterday, remembering 2 years ago when it was hot and I got a HUGE sore on the inside of my thigh at the top - ended up getting infected and I had to go to the GP, who drew a big circle around it for monitoring and gave me antibiotics - I was mortified, because really the only reason I'd got it was due to my size.

I have got rid of the last size 16 'bottoms' I had - found a pair of shorts that I took to Lanzarote in January that are now pleasingly way too big for me, so they've gone and all my bottoms are now size 14 - hurrah!

No weight loss for me for a 2nd week, but am staying positive and doing yoga every morning and night, so feeling really strong, happy and fit 😊 A lb or two coming off wouldn't hurt though - but am hopeful I might get one to exit in the next few days as I'm sticking to smaller portions, increased water etc.

SW 13.1.25 20st 3lbs BMI 43
CW 27.5.26 12st 9lbs BMI 26.8

Way to go , moo. Last year I kept getting fungal infections in skin creases.Dreadful, and it just doesn’t happen now. I actually quite enjoy this warm weather,I would not have enjoyed it when I was fat. Although yesterday I was at a wedding , so did a lot of standing around in the sun and my feet and ankles swelled, quite a shock to find that can still happen. And hopefully explains why I weighed almost a kilo more overnight. I must start yoga.

I'm loving this weather!! I retired my heated blanket a couple of weeks ago but until a few days ago I was having the heating on & using a lap blanket.

Now its perfect - my house is brilliantly designed to be cool in summer (freezing in winter) particlarly where my office is. I've got doors open to the garden all day, wearing a loose dress and its the perfect temp.

NSV No thigh chaffing either! No boob sweat.

I have a really weird NSV - I had to put a plaster around my thumb today and it actually wraps my thumb properly without instantly peeling off because it doesn't go all the way round! 😁😁😁

I went out this afternoon and bought a swooshy summer dress - a one size dress, so around a size 16 and it's ace - very hot summer-y, so we'd better have some more decent weather this summer!

My weight is fluctuating at the moment, but still having those NSVs. I can now steal my DD’s clothes. She ordered some linen trousers from Next, size 14 petite, and they fit me! I also started wearing a pair of Next trousers from about 20 years ago - they are wide leg. I knew they’d come back in fashion eventually. The old trousers are a size 18, that shows how sizes have changed in the last couple of decades.

Loving the hot weather clothes and other NSVs and you sound like you've properly got your mojo back @MooBaggage .

Like others I'm enjoying the heat so much more, like I used to in my yoof /20s. Although it's definitely adding a lb or so on the scales. I remember this from last summer!

I had my hair cut today and asked my hairdresser if she noticed any regrowth and she said yes, absolutely! So those with thinning hair worries, don't despair. It'll come back. 🙂

Also I looked pretty fucking good in the hair salon mirror of doom, if I do say so myself. 😂

Another one basking in the warmth! Everyone else is sweaty and uncomfortable and I’m smugly cool as payback for having shivered uncontrollably since late September.

I was also having a lot of trouble with fungal skin infections a couple of years ago. So grim. I dread them coming back because although I’m a sensible weight now, I still have a droopy tummy for things to grow under. But last summer was fine so hopefully that’s all over. Perhaps it’s being less sweaty?

Hi ladies,
still recovering and a bit sore from the surgery but doing ok.
missing the running but not sure I could do it in this heat!!!
My weight appear a stuck again 😔
assumed period/ heat/surgey but I am 1Kg up oooffff not happy!!!

any one tired the Independent pharmacy? Or The family chemist?
looking to change supplier and gets good deal.

Love to hear these NSVs! Also basking in the heat, although I had a face consultation as a bit of a treat post postartum to see the damage and I absolutely need to be more rigorous with my SPF 50 application 🫠

ordered a skirt from M&S size 16 and it’s the same size as the size 14s I bought last year. Have their sizes gone mad? I don’t care what the label says but some consistency would be nice 😭

@Reginaphalangeeeee no I haven't tried either of those, sorry. I think I'm sticking with AYP at the moment as their prices don't seem to fluctuate and their 12.5mg is £247 - just under my maximum £250 budget (which is made up really, but I just can't cope with the thought of paying more than that..!).

I think the heat is definitely causing a bit of water retention/inflammation. I wake up all puffy and my foot (used to have terrible PF) is a tiny bit sore - not as bad as it used to be and it's only on the v hot days).

I've lost about 1.5lbs though, after a couple of weeks of nothing, which is a relief. I've only lost 3lbs in May - my lowest monthly weight loss since starting on MJ, but am going for/accepting a 2lbs monthly loss from here on in!

SW 13.1.25 20st 3lbs BMI 43.0
CW 31.5.26 12st 8lbs BMI 26.6

Keep going lovely losers - I'm not looking forward to a cooler week next week as we'll be back to shivering and heated blankets, but some of the puffiness might disappear..!

Wearing my first pair of size 12 jeans today! Ok they are wide legged with some stretch but makes me want to wear them label out!

Onwards and downwards

Xx

Size 12 jeans wow. I wear size 12 knickers, but still a 14/16 in jeans. I think you could definitely let the label poke out!

I bought my first pair of size 12 trousers last week - summer wide leg trousers, so a lovely elasticated waist 😁 They're snug, but wearable - the legs are fine but the lower tummy looks a bit tight!

I seem to be a size 13 on the bottom and size 15 on top 🙄🙄🙄😬

NSV here is that I’m totally off Omepraxole! I cut down from 20 to 10 a few months ago and now just stopped and it’s fine. Occasional rennies.

It’s actually a bigger psychological boost than I expected, I think because I always knew I had to remember that tablet in the morning or I’d be in agony by 11am. So freeing not to need it.

I've only ever used The Family Chemist - found them to be just fine. I don't use vouchers & chose TFC as they are towards the lower end of pricing.

I've had to send photos 3 times in 20 months and when I hit health BMI I had a video consult.

That's a great NSV @ShrankLastWinter I came off them around a year ago but still have the occasional rennie or very occasionally bring in the big guns with gaviscon advance - disgusting stuff but it it is the only thing that works for me when the reflux back pain starts, I always have a bottle in the cupboard just in case.

With weight loss resolving the worst of my reflux issues, it has allowed me to pin point the other foods and behaviours that trigger it for me and avoid them - anything with tomato is the worst, I stupidly had some tomato ketchup on Saturday and oh boy, did I pay for it Saturday night!

Being able to come off PPIs is a fantastic NSV.

Big test coming up for me. I'm off on holiday tomorrow for ten days. I was originally planning on taking my pen with me and bought a chill wallet thing. But I've decided against. I'm already stretching out the life of the MJ by taking 5 from a 7.5. I'd rather leave it safe and happy in my fridge at home. So I've decided to jab 6.5 before we leave tomorrow, then 5 as soon as we get back.

This'll be the longest I've gone between injections and not weighing daily. It's not just the eating but the drinking which I'll be interested in seeing what happens near the end.

I'm at 10st 11 which is a good place to be. Decent buffer zone. And it's Greece again so plenty of good food choices available.

The weather has just turned crap here so I'm raring to go. 😁

Thanks both and good luck @GiveMeWordGames ! Have a wonderful warm break!

Enjoy your holiday @GiveMeWordGames

I am down a pound again today. Loving it. I know people keep saying this on different threads but I love how much less I think about food, and how weaker the pull of snacks is now.

SW March 2025 20st2 when I started cutting back on sugar
SW MJ March 2026 18st11
CW 17st0
GW by summer holidays 16st0
Ultimate GW 11st6 - BMI 25
3st2 down, 5st8 to go!

Quick posh dress comparison photos post - one from 2 years ago, pre-MJ and one from yesterday! I was a witness at my friend's wedding and had such a lovely day. Very happy and don't care that the cocktails, wine and amazing meal means that I have no doubt I won't be losing anything this week! #noregrets 😁

I think no matter what size I end up though, I will always feel weird in a dress - it's so not my natural habitat..!! 😁