January 2026 Starters - I’ve lost a Kitchenaid

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Evening all!

I thought we should start a new thread as we are getting close to full on thread two

I weighed myself this morning and I have now lost the weight of a Kitchenaid mixer!

What kitchen appliance / Household item have you lost!?

SW 13 stone 9
6 x 2.5 MJ doses later …..
CW 12 stone 2
Loss 21lbs!!!

I am mid way through week 2 on my second pen and stuck with 2.5 - although am tempted to go up as my suppression is nowhere near the same as it was

I am being tempted and my willpower is waining

Send Help!

So week 12 for me now and I have lost 4 lbs last week so a total of 2 stone and 2lbs. I am finally in the 14 stone bracket which I haven’t seen for probably years. I’m still on 5mg jab and this last week the suppression has been really high so will be staying on 5 for as long as possible. I went to a charity shop on Saturday and found a top I really liked for a fiver and it was a size 16 - I bought it hoping it would fit and it does!! Will need an overhaul on my wardrobe soon. I tend to wear leggings top cardigan and Skechers so only new tops needed as those leggings have a lot of stretch in them! I keep catching myself in the mirror and I have found a jawline and I’m sure my eyes look bigger 😂

I've only told one friend - she was on MJ last year and inspired me! My husband knows but I havent told either of our daughters. One is living away at uni so it's easy not to tell her. The younger one lives here so it's been a matter of finding a cunning hiding spot in the fridge when a new pen arrives and then once I start it keeping it hidden on my bookshelf...

Wishing I had gone up to 7.5mg as am still in a massive plateau and it's getting quite disheartening. Lots of old clothes are starting to fit though so I must be doing something right even if the scale isnt moving...

I hide mine in a brown paper bag in the salad drawer @Ralphiesaurus - no chance my teens would look there!

I've definitely slowed since starting 5mg, but have still lost half a stone over the last 4 weeks, so I'm sticking with it for another month. Looking forward to getting my summer clothes out later this week and seeing whether I can actually get in them this year!

So how have we gone on with Easter? I broke my no carb rule and had a hot cross bun for breakfast instead of my usual occasional slice of seeded toast. It was bloody gorgeous too! 🐣

@HollywoodTease I had a bag of mini eggs on Saturday and a hot cross bun yesterday and both were delicious! Also got a Lindt bunny and am amazed that it is still in the cupboard - thanks MJ ……

I don't have any choice but to stop. I have one dose left and pharmacies are charging over 200 pound 😩😩😩

Have you checked https://monj.co.uk/mounjaro-price-comparison-by-monj/ @notcomfortable? I'm paying over 200 with Juniper, the main reason I'm sticking with them is that they use DPD for delivery and I know I can get that diverted so it won't get spotted coming into the house! I am making it last about 6-7 doses though by taking 3.33mg instead of 5mg, so I'm telling myself I'm making up the cost on that!

I’ve got strong suppression on 5mg of MJ. Wondering if increasing to 7.5mg would speed things up. Any thoughts?

I’ve still got 3 doses and golden dose in my 5mg pen but thinking I’ll order a new one now, so I hopefully get the old design pen and make it last longer!

Also, I hadn’t realised it was such a big price increase from 5mg to 7.5mg!! It’s £60 more on Cloud Pharmacy!!

@Hotfirewood
I’m wondering this too. I have one dose of 5mg left.
Can I also ask how many calories most people are eating? Especially those who are managing to lose more than 2 pounds a week. I’m worried that I might not be eating enough.

From my understanding of how it works, I don't think the higher doses "speed things up"?

It's more the opposite way round, the longer you are on it the more tolerance you have to the effects so suppression etc starts to slow down and at that stage you need a higher dose to get the same effect.

Initial advice to users seemed to be move up quickly, but more recently I am seeing advice from both prescribers and online chat users that you can stay on the same dose until it starts to become less effective. With some people that can be months or even forever, it all depends how your body reacts to it.

I’m eating around 1200 calories a day and have lost 3 stone since 2 Jan. I am also doing a lot of exercise though.

@Onbdy I'm eating between 1200 and 1300 calories a day and have lost 2 and a half stone since the beginning of January. I'm on 3.33mg of MJ per week (click counting a 5mg pen). Initially this was for financial reasons but I'm actually finding that I have good suppression and minimal food noise so I don't feel the need to move up at the moment.

I haven't started exercising yet but plan to take up the couch to 5k when I drop another 7lbs and feel more comfortable.

Check-in day, jab #12

SW. 99.9kg
1st GW 90kg achieved jab#11
2nd GW 84kg
CW. 88.45kg

So total loss 11.45kg or just over 25lbs in old money, with this week being another 1.5lbs. Still plodding slowly downwards! I've ordered another 5mg for my next pen as everything seems ok on that dose so far.

Here's a pretty picture of my progress....

Plus another pic (when reviewed) I'm packed for my hols! 😀

Hope you have a wonderful holiday @HollywoodTease. It must feel great packing when you’re carrying nearly 2st less of yourself 😂

I’ve lost the same (25lbs) and it’s very noticeable. Well done!

@Onbdy I don’t think I’m eating enough, perhaps 1000-1200 a day. I’ve also been doing weights at home. Planning to increase my calories with chicken breast or something.

I’ve ordered a 7.5mg for next month. Ordered it early to hopefully get one of the old designs with the golden dose.

I've lost 24lbs since mid January, currently losing around 2lbs a week taking 3.33mg. I've stopped tracking, but would guess I'm on about 1200-1500 cals a day, but I do exercise quite a lot so I need the slightly higher calories. Some days I'm surprised I'm still losing consistency, because I don't feel like I'm eating a lot less than before, but I have completely cut out sugar and alcohol and general snacking.

I've lost 26.5lb since 1st Jan, and have stayed on 2.5mg. I've good suppression and no side effects so no plans to move up.

I did track in the beginning but not now, so have no real idea how many calories I'm eating, but its generally a light lunch and a protein heavy dinner. I’ve never eaten breakfast so that hasn't changed, but now I'm not snacking or grazing I'm seeing where I was getting all those extra calories

I’m aiming for 1250 but in reality some days I’m only eating around 900. I’m losing around 2 pounds per week on average. I think I’ll just need to look at the days where I’m not eating enough and add a bit more.

@Hotfirewood 1000 to 1200 calories sound good to me unless you're very tall, that's what I eat too.

I’ve only lost about 10 pounds since the end of January. Currently on 1.875mg and on a 8 day gap. Have a foodie event this weekend. Plan is to move up to 2mg after that and reduce down to 7 days. My suppression isn’t as high as it was on 2.5 even though the side effects are now more manageable. I need to get stricter with my meals as bread has snuck in a bit too much. When I was losing about a pound a week I was probably averaging about 1000-1200 calories. Am worried that this is taking so long and that my tolerance of 2.5mg will have worn off. Didn’t want to move up if I don’t have to - as the side effects haven’t been pleasant.

I think for me suppression is still ok on 3.33mg - pretty much where I want it to be, with something of my old self still lurking there. I do occasionally find I have an urge to eat something random (biscuits!) but it soon passes. My main problem as the person who cooks nearly all our meals is that mealtimes can creep up on me because I'm not as hungry or even thinking about it, and the result is I'm getting less sleep because dinner is late! I'm more organised when I'm less tired, so it's something I need to get on top of.

Can’t believe another Wednesday has rolled around! Easter weekend has made things a bit tougher but I actually had a good loss this week. Another kg down. I also wanted to say that I weigh daily and my “Wednesday” weight is actually whatever was lowest that week - the scale fluctuates so much that it would be super demoralising to go by whatever it said on jab day. So I take my weekly low.

This week will actually be my first 7.5mg jab. I ordered 2 pens at the same time of that, so I’ll be on 7.5 for a while (also they have the “golden dose” so these next pens will actually last 10 weeks!) that helped me justify the price increase

For those who “click count” - where do you get the extra needle heads from? I have extraction needles for gold dose but I’m thinking that if I’m finding suppression good on 5mg I might click count on the 7.5mg pen.

SW 1/1/26 - 93.3kg
Jan (2.5mg) 86.5kg -6.8kg
Feb (5mg) 82.5kg -4kg
March (5mg) 79.4kg -3.2kg
MJ13 (5mg) 1/1/26 - 79kg -0.4kg
MJ14 (7.5mg) 8/1/26 - 78kg -1kg
GW: 68kg
Total loss: -15.3kg

Well done on your loss so far @ThisAmusedPoet. My pharmacy sends me 2 extra pen needles with each pen. Maybe for people to do the golden dose. I also bought the extra 1ml needles from a different pharmacy as I couldn’t break the pen mechanism on one of them!

Interested to know if you get any side effects when you increase your dose.

Waiting for my 7.5mg order to arrive. I’ve still got 4 doses of 5mg left but I’m going to count clicks next time to do a full 5mg dose and then 15 clicks for a bit extra!