February 2026 starters

[Crossfitgirl]

Hi all, I have my first pen on the way and as far as I can see there is no starter thread for Feb, so I hope it's ok to make one.
All welcome whether recently started or looking to start this month - I think by the time mine arrives it will probably be February!
Hoping for support, experiences, recommendations, more support and the rest!

I am nearly 40, 2 young kids and full time job, starting on wegovy, with the goal of lowering my cholesterol (and reducing my huge belly).

Hi everyone, glad to see some scale shifting on here for people. I’m tolerating 2 mg successfully so may well move up to 2.25 next week as my “need” for
wine and gin is increasing! My NSV this week has been swimming in a size 16 swinsuit, snug but not too revealing. Thought I’d just share my weigh ins to show how I go up and down a lot during the week (think you can tell when I have a G&T). This might explain why some people aren’t showing losses but might have actually been at a lower weight on a day they didn’t record their weight loss.

Well. My buffalo hump has gone. Just disappeared. Now that is weird. That has never happened before in years (decades!) of yo yo dieting. It it MJ? Is it consistent weight lifting? I’ve been lighter than I currently am several times but that fatty hump has never shifted before. Who knows but I’m 😮. Bring on the vest tops.

Hi everyone, how's everyone feeling heading into the weekend?

I'm feeling similar to what a few have mentioned, feeling a bit flat. I've realised there are some non-negotiables that I must do every day to keep losing. But this medicine is amazing as even when I have a bad day, eat too many treats, or just forget to drink any water (!), I can get right back on track the next day.

Week 9 weigh in and 1.3kg off this week which is 13.4kg total loss, 2st 1lb. My BMI has reduced from 45.1 to 40.1, which is brilliant as I'm due to got for surgery next month, and the limit for keyhole is a BMI of 41, so I will be safely under.

This will probably be my last post because I’ve done 2 months on 2.5 MJ and am now stopping (it was only ever meant to be short term). Weigh in this morning and 2lb lost so 1 stone 2lb in total; want to lose 1 stone but going alone now. Wish me luck! Habits I’ve changed are not just eating because it’s ‘time’, not snacking at all, trying to avoid bread, drinking more water, basically stopped drinking alcohol (my peri self was already objecting tbf!) and replacing a cup of tea and a biscuit (or two) supper with a cup of options hot chocolate. I’ve still felt hungry but it hasn’t linked to my brain and taken over and forced me to eat, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, I may still lurk but I won’t post any more unless my whole ‘try it for 2 months then I’ll be fine’ plan fails. If it does I’ll update because I know people read these threads for advice and I would want to know if it hadn’t worked!
Good luck everyone.

Sorry to see you go, but given what you said, also hope you won’t be back 😀! Good luck with the next stage.

I’m down a stone finally… it’s been slow but I have felt good on it - still on 2.5 - thinking of increasing next month.

I’m okay with slow weight loss as am 51 and want my face and skin not to sag and avoid vitamin deficiency etc etc

How long have you been on 2.5? I’m just finishing my third month on it and wondering what to do. I really don’t feel I need to double my current dose, but at the same time would like a teeny bit more help. I know I can click count but I’m nervous about going off piste and going something the provider doesn’t know about.

@Nocameltoeleggingsplease , all the very best. Do check in and let us know how you are doing. Some of us eventually would like to go it without Mj.

@Cyberjammies congratulations on your 1 stone loss. Slow and steady.

I also want the slow and steady but i reckon mine has been quite heavy on the slow and more like standstill than steady. But today, after 4 weeks of no loss, i have lost 500g. I feel encouraged. Making my total loss currently 8.2kg in the 8 weeks i started mounjaro.
Actually, looking at that stats, doesn't seem too bad at a rough average loss of 1kg/week.

@RedApplePie , you could increase your current dose of 2.5mg without having to double it. 3.5 or 3.75mg.. that could give you the little bit more support you need. Loads of WLIs users are listening to their bodies and adjusting their dose accordingly.

@TheEgg2 , congratulations on tolerating 2mg! That's great.

@Crossfitgirl , how is the powerlifting going? You are also in the slow and steady group, how gas it been?

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday.

I will ask this at my next review appt but thought I’d ask here for now. Having had two good months on 2.5 when I lost 16 lbs, I’ve done a third month where I’ve only lost two pounds - and that’s being generous, some days it’s less. So the obvious answer is to increase my dose but how does that actually work? ATM I’m tracking literally every morsel and eating 1400 a day. Hydrating. Eating 120gms protein. No alcohol etc etc. That’s about 900 under my TDEE so I should still be losing weight on that but I’m not really. I don’t really want to drop my calories lower - I’ve still got a way to go and I don’t want to leave myself with nowhere to go. Plus im lifting heavy four times a week (not new, I’ve been doing this for 2-3 years now), and I need to fuel that. But I’m also way past the stage where I’m rapidly building newbie muscle gains so I can’t kid myself this is muscle gain. But if the weight loss mechanism of MJ is just about making you eat less, how is upping my dose actually going to help. It would be good to have more willpower help because I have felt I’ve been white knuckling it this month, but my real qu is why am I not losing weight in a fairly big deficit. I am certain I don’t have calorie creep even though everyone will want to tell me ‘it’s just physics’. I’m not deluding myself about either my intake or activity level. Well pissed off.

Oh, ffs. I must be a hormonal mess. I’ve got all teary because ChatGPT is nice to me and is telling me I’m not eating enough and I need to be kinder to myself. A ruddy ROBOT. Anyway, it’s given me a terrifying 1900 cal meal plan.

That's frustrating! Well, increase your dose and get that willpower support for starters.
Have you considered increasing your calories for a few days and then going back to your regular regime? Or a couple of weeks of intermittent fasting? Challenge the body of it's current metabolic state.

This made me smile. I went all mushy too when ChatGPT was so nice to me when i wasn't losing any weight.

Just responded to your first post. Took me a while to write out. Just seeing this post. For what it is worth, i kinda agree with ChatGPT's suggestion. You are doing everything right and you are also quite careful with your intake. The only thing i could think of was, could your body have gone into starvation mode and is holding onto every bit of weight it can?

Increase your intake for a few days/a week or do IF where you have long periods of zero calories - see image attached. Either method should shake your metabolism out of it complacency.

Omg that's amazing!!
Sorry, I had typed a response to this ages ago and clearly never finished it. I'm going to read and try reply to more stuff now 😂

Morning all, hope the sun is shining with you as well!
Not had the best week weight-wise but have lost 0.5 lbs despite a weekend away and a bottle or two of wine. Going wild (!) and moving up to 2.25 mg today and hoping the headaches stay away.
I’m really trying to lay down some “good” habits for long-term maintenance (not ruled out long term use GLP1 use). These include only drinking at weekends, fruit only after supper, swimming minimum twice a week, table tennis increased to twice a week and currently trying to make myself eat breakfast every day (as it seems to improve my constipation and weight loss). I don’t calorie count but sometimes log a day into MFP to make sure I’m not over my TDEE.
What are you doing or trying to do/found that helps your weight loss or good habits you’re trying to lay down?

@TheEgg2

Drinking a lot more water
Not drinking alcohol very often (twice a month)
Eating 3 small meals a day, instead of 3 large ones and making them all full of veg or fruit
Avoiding UPF 90% of the time
Having a couple of dates after dinner as a treat if I feel the need
Having one cake/pudding/or cocktail a week
Stopped eating bread and butter (my absolute Achilles heel) and sharing bags of crisps
A weights class and at least two cardio sessions in the gym every week, planning to start doing 5k runs outdoors rather than the gym

@soupmaker wow, that’s a lot of positive changes! I had some bread yesterday on Day 8 just before my jab, blimey, I love the stuff but it is one of the things I try not to eat too. Your exercise regime sounds good too, keep it up!

Thanks @TheEgg2 I’ve been doing a weights class and at least one gym session for a couple of years and have always been fit, used to do a lot of running, it’s the food intake that’s the problem.

I do still have toast, one slice instead of 3, and I eat sourdough 99% of the time and have it with avocado and tomato instead of lashings of butter and marmalade! I did however have a small homemade from scratch pizza on Saturday night and am still feeling the bloat this morning so I know I need to avoid it really.

Those are some really great changes that will certainly see you through into maintenance once off the jabs, I'm sure.

How many cakes / sweet things / puddings etc is everyone having over the course of the week? Influenced by your once per week habit @soupmaker, it's really made me wonder what is normal. I literally don't go a day without something sweet. I've tried really hard to cut it out / cut down, but I find that after a while I just end up craving sweets stuff and eating loads of it! So I've been trying to have one controlled sweet thing per day - ideally a square of dark chocolate or similar. In theory I can enjoy a little bit each day and not go over calories. But I find it so so hard, and I often want something sweet after each meal. It's such a hard habit to break for me.

I'm a once a week sweet treat, otherwise I think I'd have them everyday if I didn't have that rule. But it's nice to have something and not "ban" it completely.

I'm now 9.7kg down in 9 weeks, was pleased when I stepped on the scales, itching to get to my first 10kg but hopefully tomorrow or Friday!

@TheEgg2 and @soupmaker , that's some good activities.
I am not yet fit enough to get back to working out/training (surgery), so i have taken to having a minimum of 10k steps a day. It's not weight training but it keeps me moving & active.

I have sweet things maybe once a month.. once every 2 months.
I used to have 1 - 2 Cadbury Whole Nut Family size bar (if one can call it a bar) every day. I couldn't live without it.
I went cold turkey. I am too scared to get dependent on it again, so now, i find it easy to resist (even before mounjaro).

Week 11. 13.12, a lb down. Happy with that as jumped on the scales earlier in the week and it looked like I’d been putting on. Looks like the weight loss might be slowing down now but happy with slow and steady. Body shape has definitely changed, had to buy a belt for wearing jeans. Would be lovely to lose at least another half a stone before our summer holiday in July.

@Crossfitgirl I used to eat cake or some sort of chocolate most days. My problem was always that I couldn’t just eat one square of chocolate or one small piece of cake! I’m also a crisp fiend but have not fancied them at all since starting the jabs. My date habit is definitely helping.

Another NSV for me - had a medication review and now only need to take one (still strong, mind) type of blood pressure medication. And, I’m in a pair of size 16 trousers for the first time in probably 20 years. For anyone else who has big hips, bum
and thighs, I’m in the Seasalt Waterdance jeans and they are very flattering, they’re £60 but I found a new pair on eBay for half the price. I only lost half a pound last week so these NSV are meaning a lot to me.
Hope everyone else is doing OK?