Mounjaro -10 stone or more to lose - Thread 12

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Thread 12!

Thank you for all your suggestions for Apps. I'll have a look at those. It's interesting to see others mention spread-sheets and such-like and being (obsessed?) with data. I thought it was just me that was a data nerd!

@Onenotsosmallstep i have no concept of a target… it just seems so far away and such an impossible thing. I’m taking it a few kg at a time and seeing how I go. I’ve never had any prospect of being anywhere near a healthy weight before, it’s totally foreign to me at the moment.

I had no idea what my target was until I got close to it - if you’d have told me at the beginning of this that I could get down to a size 16 I’d have been over the moon. I’m a size 10 now and in maintenance.

Once I realised that the weight was still coming off and I could go lower I decided to aim for a healthy BMI, which for me is 11 stone 12. I achieved that just before Christmas, then decided to go lower as that was the very top end of healthy and I wanted to give myself a bit of a buffer. I am now 11 stone 3 and very happy, I don’t want to go any lower as my size 10s are quite roomy and I’m starting to look a bit bony especially in the face (which has aged significantly- I don’t want to make it any worse)!

I have now decided that 11 stone to 11 and a half is my happy, healthy weight so my goal is to stay within that zone. Having a 7lb zone allows for fluctuations, small gains etc and is easier to stick with than one specific weight.

I feel so disheartened. My scales were all over the place, everything from 107 kg to 115 kg. So I moved them to the newer and possibly flatter living room floor. 120.4 kg! That's an increase of 4.3 kg, on top of 2.8 kg increase the week before.

I don't understand it. I'm still comfortably eating the same as when losing. Nothing has changed. I have no overwelming food noise, have had no desire to snack, and am eating healthy balanced portion controlled meals. There is absolutely no way I have overeated, especially not to have gained 4.3 kg.

I don't know what to do.

@MrTiddlesTheCat get new scales. Honestly yours sound like they are really not working well at all.

So the healthcentre scales more or less agree with the living room floor, 120.1 kg. So maybe the issue is the old floorboards in the bedroom aren't as level as they look. But that means all of my weigh ins since I started are untrustworthy, except another I did in the living room 5 weeks ago which was 123.4 kg.

So I'm trying to focus on that being a 3 kg loss over 5 weeks rather than 4 kg increase this week. If that makes sense.

SW: 135 kg (or maybe not, who knows)
CW: 120.1 kg
Total loss: 14.9 kg

It’s so disheartening when that happens.

I can’t remember if you changed the batteries @MrTiddlesTheCat I’d start with that at the very least.

With mine, they’re quite old but I tested them with a variety of actual weights - bag of sugar, potatoes, that kind of thing. I have to put them away after use (space reasons) so I found the sweet spot in my bathroom and always weigh in the same place. If I move them the measurements are different - in either direction.

So I’d start with new batteries and testing it against known pre-determined weights.

But you might need new scales…

Oh also, is the bedroom on carpet or hard floor?

They are relatively new scales and they were rather expensive. They Beurer ones. I changed the batteries. The floor is the original pine floorboards with some sort of 60s lino over the top, which we haven't got round to renovating yet. The living room is a new extension with a hardwood floor.

I think I'm going to keep using the healthcentre for a while and comparing that to the livingroom. If they're consistently pretty much the same then I'll go back to using mine but only in the living room.

That sounds like a good idea.

you could also try a piece of hardboard as a floor layer to see if that helps…

I always use the same spot on my bathroom floor for the scales, I have get them in and out every time as we have a tiny bathroom but it makes it easier to position them in the same place as there's not a lot of space!

As for target I'm aiming for mid BMI so that there's a buffer between healthy and overweight. I am not sure I'll ever be happy with how my body looks without going down the surgery route but at least it's better in clothes!

I'm week 36 and my suppression has vanished! Will be moving up to 10mg on my next jab day, but I'm getting nervous about there only being two more levels available.

Has anyone gotten to 15mg and had issues with losing suppression? I've been trying to move up as slowly as I can, as long as the dose was effective.

If I move up at the same pace, I will still be a long way off my goal.

@flipent I've never had real suppression so can't help much, but from what I've read a lot of people don't. If you have relied on suppression I'd suggest looking at mechanisms to help you when you don't have suppression, so that way you aren't chasing it up the final few doses.

I don't have suppression anymore but I do have reduced appetite which helps the food noise resistance. I wouldn't worry too much, about moving up, if you need to then go up. I'm on 4.5 and I'm going up to 5 on Sunday.

I've been on a spa day today so am currently feeling very zen, NSV's today:

1. THE ROBE FITTED, with plenty of room to spare. This time last year I also went to a spa and while in the changing room a member of staff came in and very nicely said just in case either of you aren't comfortable in your robe, I'm just going to leave a slightly larger one on the seat here. (My friend who I was with is skinny incidentally) Needless to say, I needed the significantly larger robe, the normal size did not even meet in the middle.

2. I was not the biggest person there, by quite some margin and I didn't feel too uncomfortable in my swimsuit (that was too big)

3. The towel after my shower (as is compulsory in such places as spas and hotels) was tiny but...... it did ALMOST go round me 🤣

I was a bit worried about the lunch that was included but I needn't have been, I had a lovely chicken thing that was only 500kcal so that felt like a win as well!

Today was a good day!

That is an epic win @Fffreeeeezing how brilliant!

What a difference a year has made @Fffreeeeezing I'm thrilled for you! Life is so much nicer in a smaller body isn't it.

Whoop for the spa victory @Fffreeeeezing, sounds glorious.

Thanks everyone for the advice. You’ll get there @Doggymummar eventually but I’m in awe of your tenacity to keep going.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne you continue to inspire, size 8 sounds tiny but it’s hard isn’t it to ever imagine being completely happy with legs… arms…insert whatever each of our most disliked area is. I guess like you say @MCR24 perhaps it’s accepting looking nice in clothes and realising is come to terms with it or surgery (which itself can often have it’s own cosmetic issues from the videos which flood my feed).

@MummyInTheNecropolis I think that’ll be my approach. It’s recognising I guess what too bony is? I’ve always been told I look young for my age but now I’m ‘just’ overweight I think that’s much less the case- it was just chubby cheeks.

I've gone slightly over my calories today (very emotionally difficult day at work and forgot to get anything out of the freezer for dinner so had to improvise), but whereas in the past I would have had a 'f* it' moment I've just shrugged my shoulders and accepted that 100 calories is not going to make a difference. But what's interesting is I did look at what my calories would be if I set my goal as losing 0.75kg per week instead of 1kg - I couldn't believe what a massive difference it makes - over 200 cal/day! I do think my calories are as low as I'm comfortable with, so I will have to accept slower weight loss going forward but I'm ok with that. But having done that experiment I'm going to keep my goal where it is for now rather than reset it as I'd be scared that the increased calorie allowance would make me complacent - I'd rather keep that little bit of extra restriction for now.

Oh wow @RenegadeKeeblerElf I just took inspiration from your post and changed my goals from lose 2lb a week to 1.5lb and it gives me an extra 230 calories a day. I’ve changed it to that goal permanently now because I consistently go over my cals which feels rubbish so this will help. Thank you! And well done for not hitting the fuck it button tonight.

Weigh in and jab day

SW 140kg BMI 54.7
CW 94.4kg BMI 36.9
GW 63kg BMI 24.6

14 stone 12lbs in old money. A slight gain on last week.

I feel like I have fallen off this thread a bit but the weekly check in is keeping me honest.

There is a limit to the amount of headspace I have available. Having mounjaro keeping doing its thing in the background is an absolute blessing.

My elderly DM has been in a care home (vascular dementia) for the same amount of time I have been on mounjaro. She is now on end of life care. The nature of dementia is that you can find yourself losing the person long before they are gone.

In other times I wouldnt have been able to cope with a diet alongside dealing with DM's fairly rapid decline. I would have been tempted to seek solace in food. But being on mounjaro has meant I have never been tempted by the cake always on offer in the care home. Mounjaro has also helped with meaning the long A&E waits havent seen me ravenously raiding the hospital Costa.

NSV - I will have to go into my London office for a whole week soon (I normally WFH). I am not frightened by the prospect of 4 hours of commuting each day as thanks to the gym I am now fit enough to cope. I need to make myself some clothes but as I am now a lot slimmer I havent needed to buy a lot of fabric as my stash has been sufficient.

Sorry to hear about your mum @GnomeDePlume that's tough. I keep forgetting to jab and weigh, no wonder I've stayed the same for so long. It is miraculous and I hope wegovy does the same when I swap in a couple of weeks. It is good you have one less thing to occupy your mind. Have you got your outfits picked out for office week? So exciting to have choices.

@GnomeDePlume yes the free space in our heads to think about something more important than food and our own weight / diet is a real positive from the MJ isn't it. I'm sorry to read about your Mum.

@GnomeDePlume sorry to hear about your mum. A 4 hour commute doesn't sound fun, can you stay over instead of commuting?

I weighed in this morning a loss of 0.7kg / 1 lb and 8.7 oz

SW: 142.8kg / 22 stone, 6 lb and 13.1 oz
CW: 67.3kg / 10 stone, 8 lb and 5.9 oz
Total loss: 75.5kg / 11 stone, 12 lb and 7.2 oz
BMI: 50.8 / 23.9
To get to mid BMI target: 7.3kg / 1 stone, 2 lb and 1.5 oz

@Doggymummar what’s your jab day? I’ll set a reminder on my phone to remind you 😁

@GnomeDePlume im sorry about your mum. Glad mounjaro has given you more headspace to deal with it