March 2025 Starters thread 8 the one where some of us are maintaining or nearing goal

[TheSpoonyNavyReader]

Hey lovely ladies

Let’s carry on supporting each other.

Congratulations on the new job!

Thank you for everyone’s kind words I am a tough old bird and I was not offended by what was said, I am just worried about the poster.

I’m still here too but, like others, had wandered off bc it was all taking a strange direction.

Have been back on MJ since May to help with maintenance through a difficult time - I badly injured myself which meant I couldn’t do any physical activity so I went back to my previous provider, explained the situation, and asked if they’d let me restart even though my BMI was hovering around 23-23.5 (I had stopped in Jan after titrating down and had been maintaining well). I’ve been taking 1.875mg every 7-9 days and it’s working well at keeping my weight anywhere between 10st and 10st4lb. I had only ever gone as high as 5mg originally and finished my titration at 1.25mg every 2 weeks. So, I started that low again and then raised it a bit until I found what felt right to stop me putting any weight on - not looking to lose!

I think the lack of physical activity means I’ve probably lost some muscle mass, but I’m just starting back with gentle exercise again now and should be back to full fitness by September (my norm is very very active - team sport 1-2 times a week, running 5-6 days a week, gym sessions on top).

Maybe I’d have been able to maintain without but I wasn’t willing to risk it and didn’t want to worry about it. The injury has been anxiety inducing enough because my exercise is how I ‘cope’ with stress of work/family/life.

@mumofmanydaughterofone Congratulations on the new job, how exciting!

@seasidehunter Really sorry to hear about your injury. And I know what you mean about the stress relief of exercise, I’m the same.

These constant ridiculous messages that keep having to be deleted make me even more sure that we’re doing the right thing by not being soft and pussyfooting around when we think someone is in a bad place and needs help. It’s really frustrating though because this has always been such a safe space with super supportive people and I really don’t want to lose that because it’s uncomfortable to deal with the difficulties. Putting that out there now but from here on I think I’m just going to ignore the posts even though I’m worried about the poster.

I'm absolutely ignoring and reporting them. A few insults were thrown my way in the previous batch. But like @TheSpoonyNavyReader I'm pretty robust and mostly unbothered by a clearly troubled person flailing around in the middle of the night calling me a twat or whatever. It says everything about them and nothing about me.

They want to disrupt the thread and wreck the supportive atmosphere - so we make sure they don't succeed.

Meant to say well done @mumofmanydaughterofone . 👏

Revelation tonight. I love watching sport of all kinds even though I’m not very sporty at all. It’s usually a time when I snack a lot and TBH drink too much. I had a very lovely salad this evening, two glasses of wine and not interested in any more. And just turned my nose up at popcorn. That’s with having last jabbed 1.25 6 days ago. My brain really has been rewired. Most of the time so long as I engage it :)

I am watching the Football, went to a BBQ today, enjoyed the food and now at home in bed, I may have a glass of wine in hand.

That sounds fabulously decadent 😂

I know I surprise myself sometimes 😂😂

I won’t say who I am in bed with 🤣

Weeping 😂😂😂😂

Should I confess I’m Norwegian or just pretend like k did with my street earlier tonight saying I was doing ro ro ro for fun 🤣

either way delayed my jab a day (I know finally momentum but wanted to enjoy the evening ) and here we go to the next game or are we 🤣

Nice to see everyone enjoyed the football. 😁I was knackered last night so watched the highlights this morning.

In a similar way to a lot of you, I'm just very happy with just how stable and easy things feel for me right now. I've had a busy 5 days heat-dodging - I had a job up in Cumbria (corporate sandwich-heavy lunch) then went from there to visit a friend on the west coast of Scotland (day drinking, pizza restaurant, delicious home cooked meal on the 2nd night), followed by a 9 hour journey from hell home yesterday courtesy of Avanti and the heatwave. And this morning I weighed in around my new normal of 10st 11.25. No drama. It's great.

ALSO NSV - one of the things we did up there was a little mobile sauna thing which parks by the beach and then you bob in and out of the sauna and the sea. Sitting in my swimwear in a small caravan-sized sauna with 6 strangers would have been something I'd have felt very self-conscious about 18 months ago. Instead I felt...good!

@GiveMeWordGames I love NSVs like that - a reminder that we’re doing this not just for our health but for our happiness as well.

We can’t just sit back silently when someone is repeatedly making it very clear that they are in crisis - while also manipulating us by saying how accepting and non-judgy we are.
Well done to whoever it was who first called it out as that gave everyone else the nudge to say they were also concerned.
Who’s to know whether it was even a real situation or a troll? So there is no point getting upset by the comments.

I haven't updated on this thread for ages.

Maintenance has been, well, up and down as I imagine it has been for all of you.

I lost 60lb over the course of 18 months, hitting close to my target of 140lbs last November. I stopped before target because of the cost. My highest dose at that stage was 11.5mg. I titrated down to 7.5mg every 10 days, but had to go back to dosing every week as I saw the scales rise over Christmas. Going back to once a week helped get rid of the extra pounds.

I then went to have surgery in February (I got a tummy tuck to fix split ab muscles) which meant I had to come off the medication for four weeks. I weighed myself a week post surgery and had put on 6lbs, but some of that was probably swelling. I started back on 3.75 and titrated up to 5.5mg and all the weight came back off. So I happily continued on 5.5mg and stayed at goal until, I would say, early May. Quite quickly - like over the space of three weeks, I put on 9lbs. I also felt a distinct increase in food noise and appetite. I titrated up to 6.5mg and upped my exercise and water intake, and came down 3lbs but the other 6lbs doesn't appear to want to shift.

I'm toying with the idea of titrating up again, and trying to lose more than the 6lbs to give myself a little more wiggle room in the future. But just the cost of it is stopping me at the moment, and I don't feel any difference in my clothes or in the mirror. And I did get a return of side effects once I went back up, so that's also holding me back. I have had a few things on over weekends for past month and side effects on a campsite or at a concert are never going to be welcome, so I didn't increase my dose. So we'll see. I may titrate back up at the end of the summer, and see if it makes any difference. But I may have to accept that 150lbs is my new norm, instead of my target of 140lbs.

NSV...when you buy your favourite dress on vinted from last summer although last summer was a size 20 and this summer is a size 12!

Thanks for everyone's support re setting an achievable goal, I had a good chat with my husband and I'm definitely going to try to lose another half a stone which would be on the border of healthy weight/overweight. But ideally I'd like a stone off so that when I hopefully titrate down I'll have that buffer. I never want to see 9 stone on the scales again, and this is coming from someone who started at over 14 stone.

I think for me, coming from a BMI of just under 40 so morbidly obese, having been told by a consultant "your health is at risk due to your weight", not being able to walk up the stairs in my own home without using the banister to pull me up and gasping for breath on the landing, sitting watching my husband at the park with the children and everything else that comes along with morbid obesity, to now being within touching distance of that magical green BMI strip, seems like a miracle. Thanks to mounjaro I've done something I never thought I would do, I've got my life back, I feel about 10 years younger, Ive been given a second chance.

Why would I stop at "overweight". I never thought I would be a healthy weight and I'm so close now.

Height 5 foot
SW 14-7 BMI 39.8
CW 9-6 BMI 25.8
GW, originally was 11-7 (my pre COVID weight, achieved October 2025). Then was 9-7 (achieved July 2026)
New GW 8-7 BMI 23/24 (?)

Well ladies, got home from a 10day all inclusive where I definitely wasn’t eating too badly but did drink more and weighed tidy and I’ve put on 1st 2lbs!!! Now in the past I’d have panicked but I know it’s not all fat, so from today I’m back on healthy eating and gym and hopefully have that extra weight off within the next few weeks.

accidentally posted on the other March thread

@northernlight20 you'll be shifting that in no time. It's so good that you can now be rational and calm about it! Glad you had a good time - we need to be able to do that. Have some fun then come back and be a bit more sensible without panicking.

@Fatmumslim01 all of that sounds wonderful and BMI 23-4 is so close - why not indeed?

@northernlight20Sounds like a great holiday, and fab that a bit of holiday weight gain isn’t making you feel that getting it off again is a difficult task.

@Fatmumslim01That sounds like a very sensible plan.

Hello all

an update since starting 14/15mg , and yeess it’s working ! Have lost 1.5kg in 2 weeks ! Jabbed after 9 days on second shot as for a terrible flu/cold on Sunday and it continued to work as the previous week so gonna space it out to 10 days this week leaving me some room to reduce days for more effect over the next few weeks

@northernlight20 i gained 5 lb from AI in April and only took a few days to come off , think warmer weather and travelling ads to the water retention so you will get it off in no time!

@Fatmumslim01 sounds like a plan that works for you .

4.4lbs has come off already

Today I weighed 199lbs! I've now only got 2 targets until I start thinking about maintaining, weight starts with a 13 and lose 50kg (I've got 2.5kg to go) I'd hit a real stall since beginning of May (2 AI holidays didn't help!) so 2 weeks ago I decided I'd take 5mg every 5 days and seems to be working as have lost 5lb in 2 weeks. People are really starting to notice the weight loss now.

I've built up a stock pile of pens as was trying to get all old pens but lucked out with a 10 pen on Thursday from Lotus, so now I'm going to concentrate on getting to target and working out my maintain dose. 13lb to go.