Mounjaro -10 stone or more to lose - Thread 12

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Thread 12!

I haven't set a goal weight as I can't imagine a time when I wouldn't have weight to lose. For now I'm just focussing on the journey rather than the destination. If and when I either get to a healthy BMI or find that my weight loss plateaus and I can't reduce my calories further, then I will decide what my stopping point might be. For now I'm just going to keep chipping away at it and see how it goes.

Well, I'm losing 2lb a month now so it won't be exactly fast, but I'll get there.

@sanityisamyth I started at 142.8kg, on Thursday I weighed 68.6kg.It's taken 18 months. I am 5ft6 so my BMI is now 24.4, my final goal is mid healthy BMI which is 8.6kg away. I couldn't imagine this would be possible but it is!

Hello @sanityisamyth, I’m another who has lost 50% of my body weight, it is totally doable. I spent the early days wishing my life away wanting the weight to drop off. I joined this thread at the very beginning on thread 1, as did a fair few of us here, it took me 11 threads to get to 50% off and they have been a lifesaver. So hopefully by thread 22 you will be too! There will be so many changes along the way that feel amazing, embrace them and embrace those changes. You can do this.

Only 1lb off for me this week, weighed in at 221lbs. I realised I'll soon be getting under 100kg! I have a trip away with friends in a couple of weeks, hoping to lose a bit more by then and not feel so massive compared to them (like I usually do!).
Couple of NSVs - had a big wardrobe sort out today, and shopped my cupboard of doom i.e clothes that don't fit. I have two massive bags of clothes between size 14 and 20 and several bits have made their way into my wardrobe 😁
Also whilst walking the dog, I realised that an ache in my hip that had been bothering me for a while seems to have vanished.
NSFail, I've always had headrushes if I get up too fast but this week I've almost fainted a couple of times when getting up too quickly, I think it's the mj lowering my blood pressure. Has anyone else had this?
Can definitely relate to the emotional stuff a few pps have mentioned they're going through.. it's all a bit of a mindfeck isn't it? I realised I'm lighter than I was throughout my entire 30s and it's all a bit hard to process the changes.

I think I’m now the thinnest my husband has ever seen me. Which feels weird. He loves me whatever but the thought he could have had a thin wife makes me feel a bit…something. Not sure what.

Don't ponder on it too much.
Mine had a very fat wife and gradually got a thin wife, and he still fucked off.......

I weigh another 2st less than I did when he left. I think he'd be surprised to see me now.

Good morning all, and a huge welcome to all the new starters.

I hit an interim goal yesterday of 1/3 body weight lost 🎉.

I started on 2nd May at 140.3kg and have now lost 47.1kg to reach 93.2kg. In old money that's a loss of 7st 6lb or 104lbs. BMI was 54.1 but it's now 36.0. So close to <35 to be 'only' obese class 1. 🤞 by mid-March.

Weird things are happening to my body recently. I've suddenly noticed that the upper part of my stomach has gone hollow around the sides. Previously it was barrel shaped and all the way around, but now it looks like it's all out the front (it's a bit hard to describe). I still have my spare tire lower belly though so my stomach is a bit weird looking now. Add that to the sagging and puckered skin as it deflates and I look a right treat 🤣

Other things I've suddenly noticed are that the back fat below my bra band has decreased, so my back love handles are disappearing (hopefully you know what I mean). And in the right light, there's definitely a dip in my upper arm where my shoulder meets my tricep and bicep. Essentially my muscles from strength training are slowly becoming noticeable, although probably only to me.

All of these changes seen to have happened in the past 10 days-ish, so it seems like a bit of body decomposition is happening. I haven't had a sudden whoosh of weight loss so that's the only thing I can put it down to.

Bodies are weird and amazing, right?

Coming very late to this but that's what I do. I jab half my dose on Sunday nights and half on Thursday mornings. I find it really helps me stay steady. When I was doing 1 shot a week I would get big cravings the day before my jab; now I don't.
I feel a bit awkward admitting it because it's not following the prescribed instructions. But it's the same total amount of meds taken per week, so not that much of a deviation.

Wow - I've had to skim read 9 pages so I have read it all but may have missed bits! Congratulations on all the amazing victories, bmi moments, birthdays and pregnancies!

Welcome to new people - I was in that space just over a year ago and this thread kept me going through all my wobbles and anxiety (I had a lot of this!). Honestly it's been life changing - my life is literally completely different now.

I haven't lost this week but I am still "under bmi 30 - just!" which is still exciting. It seems crazy to me that as an asthmatic I could have gone on Mj at bmi 27 and that's only 10 pounds overweight!!!

I am roughly losing 1lb a week this year. I have 2.5 stone to go so although I knew it would slow down (i was losing on average 1kg a week for a long time) I had hoped it would be a bit later. I dallied with increasing my dose (i'm on 8.33 ) but realistically I struggle to get enough protein in now and actually don't really want to eat much less than I do. It currently feels sustainable.

Interesting the talk of "being sad for the younger me". I've been pondering that this half term. I can't believe just how much easier walking is now. Which is amazing in itself - but makes me realise how much effort I was putting in just to do small things - I'm both so sad that for much of my kids lives we were both low income and I couldn't do the things I wanted to do movement wise - they knew too "look for benches" etc. But also so proud of how much effort I made - although noone other than someone on whose been there would understand that really. I have found life very very difficult for so many reasons for much of their childhood and its so hard not to have pangs of jealousy of those with health or finances or supportive family/ partners. But that way madness lies and I am so grateful for the health I currently have.

I've been back working on the home exercise programme I've been doing and decided to add protein powder to my day. I ideally would use real food but I'm aware I am so funny around certain foods and as a veggie who is fussy it might be an idea to just ensure I have enough protein for muscle protection too - My mum has osteoporosis and I know having been not very mobile for 15 years it's going to be a bit of an uphill struggle getting fit. It's getting better all the time though - I went up a lighthouse this weekend!

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden wow up a lighthouse that's epic well done. I've lost the wright three times in my life well four now and with it three husbands who like @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne couldn't cope with the new me so I know a lot of reflection goes on. You continue to inspire me, well done lovely

I agree about the improvement in mobility/fitness - last summer I struggled with a day out in Brighton with my daughter as hip pain plus plantar faciitis made walking difficult. But I've just spent 3 days on a city break, doing over 50,000 steps, and still felt ok to do parkrun the day after I got back.

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden I can relate a lot to you (as usual) and I definitely feel sad for DS and the limited mobility I had when he was growing up. But I'm trying to feel compassion for that stage of my/our life since I can't go back and fix it, all I can do is show up now. Well done for getting up a lighthouse!!

I lost 1lb this week as expected/hoped for, so need to lose another 2.5 to get back to where I was. I'm going to go up 2 clicks every week and see how I get on doing that, I'd like to get to 5mg. I'm on just under 3.75 now (29 clicks from a 7.5 pen) as I've been going up 1 click a week from 2.5. It's taking its time but the time would have passed anyway, right!

@RenegadeKeeblerElf Sounds like a fab holiday and so impressed you're doing ParkRun. Its a different lease of life isn't it?!

@PearlsTeapot How are you getting on with Life Outside?? Hope its all settling back into a rhythm for you. I truly believe "self compassion" is the way forwards for so many things I've struggled with over the years. And just living in a large body in itself is so difficult isn't it never mind all the other trauma.

I'm easing back into home life, thanks for asking! It's weird because I left my job when I got ill before I went into hospital so I have tons of free time, but too much of it. It's strange not working and it'd be a lot easier to fill all this free time if I wasn't skint! But I'm back volunteering twice a week so that's something.

All of this! All of it!
“Lose weight FOR YOUR HEALTH”.
“ok, I’m trying this really promising medication”
“No, not like that! Being thinner and healthier is the prize at the end of a STRUGGLE don’t you know!”
”oh ok so it’s not about my health then..”

You know how sometimes someone says just a few comments and it proper gets under your skin and annoys you for hours after, that’s my Sunday afternoon!

On the way home from somewhere with my mum and we stop to get fuel. I go into the shop (it’s an M&S) and buy a few bits (reduced chicken, yay!) including a sandwich because I was really hungry and had eaten next to nothing all day. Back in the car I crack open the sandwich and she says “do you think you should be eating that?” I said yes, I’m hungry “okay okay, just saying it for your own good”. I was then asked how I’d done this week (meaning weight loss) and when I said stayed the same I got “probably because you’re eating sandwiches”

I just can’t bloody win, I’ve lost 114lb in 11 months and I still get passive aggressive comments 😡

Some people can clearly see what/who caused their weight issues in the first place, can anyone guess what mine was?!

Oh do fuck off mother @Fffreeeeezing comes to mind

@Fffreeeeezing you and me both… a lifetime of comments and disapproval.

@Fffreeeeezing This sounds exactly like my mother! Power through, just nod and ignore!

Yeah, my dad is the same, despite being morbidly obese himself. We were chatting about my holiday and I mentioned that if been having a Spanish omelette in a roll for breakfast and he was saying 'that won't have helped the weight loss' - it's bloody protein, and I'd also said how it filled me up enough I didn't need lunch! If it had been scrambled eggs on toast the outcome would be the same, but I bet he wouldn't have had an issue.

A lot of people seem to believe that bread is bad, but I eat it quite often and I've still lost 9st 7lb.

Have reached another plateau but I'm not bothered. It just happens sometimes, and always ends in a whoosh.

I keep meaning to ask you all about my heated throw.
If I put it in the washing machine, is it all right to put the bit the plug fits into in as well?

I can't figure out a way of removing it.

Photo attached of the bit I mean.

@AlicesMum2025 Funny what you say about our bodies /shape changing because I’ve just noticed similar changes over the last few weeks. My son was cuddling me and said, “Mummy, your back boobs (that’s what we call the love handles) have disappeared!” I’ve gone from 122kg to 88kg, so maybe it’s something to do with being close to that 90kg mark? My stomach also looks weird at the moment and unfortunately my boobs (the real front ones 😃) have gone south even further.

And well done on your losses, it’s great progress!

@SnowWhiteisMyFavourite
My tummy went a funny sort of shape for ages, but now I'm almost at my goal, it looks pretty normal.

My breasts have definitely gone even further south than they already had.

Oh well. They served their primary purpose for nine years while I was breastfeeding four infants.

And I'm not planning to attract another man........... well, not with my body, anyway.