Mounjaro -10 stone or more to lose - Thread 12

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Thread 12!

Morning all. Slight gain today, but expected as I've been away and very limited in what I could eat. That said, I was slightly scared by how easily my mindset started to slip back into old ways of thinking in terms of 'sod it I'll have a binge'. It coincided with the run up to jab day, so not sure whether it was the MJ wearing off or the junk food impacting my blood sugar, but either way it gave me an insight into how easy it would be to slip back into old habits. Luckily I am right back on it this morning (jabbed last night when I got back) with my fastest parkrun for ages (45 mins).

SW 139.7kg

W1 -3.8
W2 -1.9
W3 -1.7
W4 -0.9
W5 -1.5
W6 no change
W7 -2.3
W8 -1.2
W9 -1.3
W10 -0.3
W11 -2.0
W12 -0.6
W13 +0.7
W14 -1.1
W15 -1.6
W16 -1.5
W17 -1.0
W18 -0.9
W19 -1.0
W20 -0.4
W21 -0.2
W22 -2.1
W23 +0.1
W24 +0.7 (Xmas)
W25 -1.9
W26 -0.7
W27 -1.8
W28 -1.3
W29 -2.3
W30 -0.6
W31 -1.3
W32 +1.1 (holiday)

CW 105kg, 34.7kg lost in 32 weeks

I really like how those of you have kept the ongoing records week-by-week. As I’m at the start I’ll do the same.

I worry sometimes that it might be annoying people to have such long posts, but I do like having the record of how I've done, and I think it's good to see the bad weeks as well as the good.

I like seeing the lists! Shows the fluctuations of weight loss.

I’m always the same…big long diatribe lol but it’s good to look back on and maybe even provide some incentive/inspiration to others. It’s worth it for that alone x

That's a fantastic start.well done

Welcome @CatAtTheWindow, @Theringcycle @Isntparentingbrilliant and @Castlebark, this is a cozy place to be and you’ve all got some exciting times and achievements ahead of you!

glad the toothache is easing @Billybingbong, it’s debilitating 😩 I had a tooth abscess during lockdown and it was just awful.

happy jabiversary @Mum2Fergus!

Away for our weekend and brought the hoodie I bought it when all my original hoodies got to big size large). It drowned me, I've just been and bought a cheap new one. I think it's probably time to buy more quality clothes now but I didn't have the budget today!

Week 49 and a stay the same, I really thought I might get a whoosh this week but obviously not.
That leaves me 12lb to lose in 3 weeks to reach my 1year target of 9st loss, not looking good so probably best to revise my expectations!

8 st 7lb is the new mini target by my Monjerversary, thats 5lb in 3 weeks which feels a challenge but more likely than 12lbs! That 5lbs would also drop me under 40bmi so that feels like a good milestone.

Welcome new losers, hard to believe I was where you are this time last year, time flies

@RenegadeKeeblerElf @Mum2Fergus I find these long posts easy to read because it’s not a big block of text so I for one really appreciate them! It is helpful and inspiring to see that although progress is often non-linear, it’s all adding up to a big number at the end.

I find it all quite emotional seeing how you’ve all done because I’ve spent my whole life being overweight and I remember when I was a baby an older relative saw me holding the bottle and said “that child is going to be a pig” [I do think my mum could have kept this one to herself rather than bringing it out when I was a bit older] and I was in a family of slim people and truly didn’t know what was wrong with me and why I was seemingly so ill-disciplined (when I had plenty of discipline and focus and dedication in other things). Now even 2 weeks in on Mounjaro it’s like a lightbulb of - OH - THIS is what it’s like for people who manage to stay thin. I’m actually NOT useless after all. I want and need to change but I am holding so much compassion for the me in my larger body that has been through so much.

@Theringcycle that compassion is so important, I have to really try and dig deep to find it for myself. I wish your mum hadn't told you that story, not nice.

Sw 144kg - Jan 2025
CW 91kg

I can confirm people treat you differently because of weight /how you look. (I guess we all knew this right)

Is this how often people talk to each other?!?? It's absolutely exhausting. Every Tom Dick and Harry saying good morning, nice weather, no rain today, oh the traffic, all the other small talk. I've spoke to the security guard, the check out person, the dog walker, some randoms walking past.

And no it's got nothing to do with confidence. I've always been confident, had lots of friends. I'm funny, confident, charismatic etc because I've had to be - used it in defence so that people judge me on my personality before my weight.

So I'm the absolute same, if anything, a bit less friendly because I'm not over compensating now.

Genuinely, people talk to each other so much!!!

I'm having huge bouts of sadness regarding my weight and these injections. It's so emotionally overwelming for me. Of course I'm overjoyed that something is finally working, but I'm also incredibly sad about all the time I've lost to obesity. It stole my youth from me.

I'm also struggling a bit with believing it's actually working. I see the results on the scales and in the mirror. But my head can't trust what it's seeing. I've been so overweight for so long, that a part of me is waiting for this to fail and the fat status quo to be restored.

I always say that I mourn for the younger me, it’s taken me 58 years to have a ‘normal weight’, but even now my brain can’t comprehend what it sees in the mirror and I’m not sure it will ever catch up. That fear of failure is completely valid, we have failed at every diet all our lives, so why should this be any different… but it is different, I’m over 9 stone down on Mounjaro and roughly 11 stone down in total and have tried everything in the past to lose weight, the main difference for me at least, is that this is sustainable. I have new fears now I’m heading towards trying to maintain the weight. It’s definitely a journey with ups and downs!

............we have failed at every diet all our lives, so why should this be any different…........

Yes, we're all failures.
Society has looked at us and judged us.
Fat people have failed.
I am crying, writing that.

All of us have failed for such a long time. Failed and been judged.

..........but it is different

It is. And even though it's different, and we're starting to be thin, the thin people who judged us for being fat are angry with us for not being fat anymore. They have nobody left to judge now.
And they hate WLIs and hate us, and they accuse us of cheating.

..............I have new fears now I’m heading towards trying to maintain the weight

Ah yes.
The judgers and condemners are very happy to tell us that we'll gain it all back as soon as we stop "cheating" on MJ.

They want us to get fat again, to once again give them something to mock and judge and condemn.

Took the plunge this morning. Starting weight (although fully clothed with walking boots on) really shocked me as I don’t own scales - 146kg. 2.5mg Mounjaro started this evening. Want to get to about 80kg which is almost half my current body weight. Doesn’t seem real or achievable?

You’ll get there @sanityisamyth, the thing that Mounjaro is so good at is the consistency - the overall trend of weigh loss over a long enough timescale to lose that kind of weight. I was 139kg in June 2024 and now I am 69kg.

Hello there and welcome!

Yes, it's achievable and yes, you'll get there.
And when you get down to 80kg, you'll change the goalposts again, to a healthy BMI, unless you're extremely tall and 80kg is healthy for your height.

All the very best to you. Have a read through the previous few threads for encouragement and support.

Ohhh wow! That’s amazing! Well done 👏

I’m really looking forward to the journey. I have an allergy to tomato which makes food very complicated - most Italian, Indian and Chinese is out but have looked at ways to increase protein to hopefully cut down on the snacking.

That’s great to hear :) I’m 5’7” so not short, but I’d need to be nearer 70kg than 80kg I think which would be a healthy BMI but that sounded really daunting to lose over half my body weight 🙈🫣

I was 128kg in January 2024 and now I'm 67kg. I'm therefore almost half my starting weight.

I'm 5' 3" so I still have about 10lb to lose.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOnethat’s really impressive - well done! Hopefully the last few pounds come off easily 🤞

@sanityisamyth i need to lose over half my body weight too but I’m 6 stone 10 down and it feels like it might actually happen for me, which I still find unbelievable. I can’t believe I’ve lost what I have (and my brain hasn’t caught up!).

@sanityisamyth I was 162kg 49 weeks ago and I'm now 111kg, still a way to go but I'm getting there, I'm sure you will be too in a years time, you just have to keep trusting the process and making sure you eat well

@sanityisamyth when I started I couldn't think about the end target as it seemed so far away and really a distant hope. So I had a series of small goals that I aimed for - eg losing 10% of my weight, getting to under 40 BMI, under 35 BMI, getting under 200lbs, BMI under 30, etc etc. Lots of smaller steps, so that I always had something close to be working towards. I haven't really thought about getting to my final goal weight until it was the only goal left to get to.