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.

@Fatmumslim01 That’s still 1lb a week, not bad, In that time I’ve lost 1lb, put it on, lost 2lb, put it on, plateau, sigh. I have reduced cardio so if I want to shift last few lbs I need to get back to that. You’re on a steady downward trend, I’d take that. I hear you have a way to go, it is going down though and going slowly is likely better for us. Are you getting plenty of protein?

Thanks @Ingangoolie yup loads of protein. And water. And I'm trying to get more sleep, I find on days I haven't had enough sleep the night before I'm more snacky. I'm trying to get 7 hours on work nights (11-6). It's usually 12-6 though so need to work on that.

I don't do that much exercise, I upped my hours at work to pay for mj so less time now! Usually do a 1-2 hour walk with kids at weekend or swimming

@TheSpoonyNavyReader thank you for the new thread. I saw your update, sending you support 💐

I have now lost 6st 1lb, still have a way to go! BMI has dropped from 44.2 to 30.5, I’m nearly in the overweight category. I’ll be starting my 3rd 12.5mg pen for my next jab.

Hi all, can’t believe it’s been a year! 🥳 I wonder how many stones have we lost collectively within this thread? 🤔

I entered maintenance in October after loosing a bit over 14kg (which seems like nothing compared to some of you - but it still changed my life so much for the better, along with reformer Pilates classes that I’ve taken on average once every 3 days, so over 120 classes in a year!). Really happy with where I’m at, NSV is I went snowboarding and had absolutely no muscle aches/soreness for the first time in my life 🏂 thanks to weighing less and being really strong

I’ve been reducing my dose from 0.8mg Wegovy to 0.3mg, it’s been mostly fine OTHER THAN the terrible pre-menstrual week when I’m all like EAT EAT EAT. And it’s been really hard coming back from it, I’ve put on about 1kg since October (during Christmas and the most recent month), so I’ve increased back up to 0.8mg steadily - hope to loose what I’ve gained and start reducing the dose again.

May I just say, vacation is so much less stressful food-wise knowing I’m coming back home to have the support of Wegovy to get back on track. One might argue that it’s not very healthy, but I’ve never been healthy around it: the difference is, now I’m not devastated by the gain of 2-3kg (half or more of which is water retention from the flight day), I don’t begrudge going on holidays in the first place, and I go down from there instead of falling of the wagon for weeks/months.

Hi everyone, today is exactly a year I took my first dose of Mounjaro and what a year it’s been.
sw 114.4kg
cw 62.5kg
gw 60kg
i look like a completely different person, and thankfully don’t have too much saggy skin. However, I’m not happy with how deflated my boobs are so I’ve been researching cosmetic surgery to get them fixed once I’ve reached goal and maintained for a few months. Hope everyone is doing ok.

My anniversary isn't until the end of the month but very excited to share that I saw those special numbers 24.9 on the BMI scale ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ started at 39.8 so this is massive.

Haven't been that for about 27 years as I gained weight after a horrific car accident and the treatment that followed. I was in such a bad place as it changed my life and career choices and the legacy of it stayed with me all this time. I'm finally free and can let go.

Very emotional but it feels fab. Oh and I had to return a size 14 pair of jeans yesterday as were too big. I'm a 12!!!!!!

Hi everyone, I've only posted once or twice on here before, but thought I'd add what's going on with me. MJ anniversary today and Im 50lb down so almost a pound a week and I'm just delighted evej though muah slower than some. Started at 14 1/2 stones and today I'm 10stone 12lb. I hadn't seen the "10"s since having DS1 14 years ago, 2 more kids added a bit more but really the weight just kept gradually increasing until my BMI was over 37 (I'm short!).

Like most of you I tried everything over the years, PTs, gym, slimming world, WW, Fast 800 (which worked well but I just couldn't mantain), and just lost weight and gained it back plus a bit more each time, same old story.

While most of my friends are feeling rubbish and perimenopausal I just have a new lease of life snd feel wonderful, so much energy, taken up running, buying size 12 clothes and just really being in a much better mood most of the time. I really hated being big, it consumed my thoughts all the time.

Im still considered over weight with a BMI of 27, and im aiming to lose a few more lbs just as a buffer really, maybe 10.5 stone which is still strictly overweight, but only marginally so and I'm starting to see it in my face.

Im going to start titrating down very slowly and just see how I go. Im happy to stay on MJ in the longer term but will need to take the risk of micodosing from a larger pen to be able to keep affording it.

Im so glad I started when I did, as if I hadn't I dont think I would have when the prices rose. It been life changing and I would urge anyone who's considering it to give it a go. Only my DH and a couple of close friends know. My (slim) sisters have asked me outright and I"ve denied it as they had already made their feelings on the jabs clear previously.

I've really enjoyed reading the threads they kept me going if I was ever unsure about keeping going so thanks ladies x

I'm the same as @Cafog . Today is my 1 year anniversary, but I have never written on these posts as my world was imploding at the time of my first injection, and wasn't in the right space but I have read along and followed the holidays/cruise and the Janice comments 🤣 everyone has done amazingly well

I started at 305lb with a BMI of 43.7, so far I've lost 89lb and my BMI is 30.9. I'm 5ft 10.

I took 2.5mg for 9 months went up to 3mg over December and just messed around for that month and didn't move on any loss but didn't gain either. I then moved to 3.75mg in January and have gone back to losing about 7lbs a month. I've always taken the "golden" dose

I had written down my targets when I started
BMI to start with a 3
BMI to start with a 2
Weight to start with 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 ( in stone)
Loose 100lbs
Weigh less than 100kg

Have ticked off 8 of those, BMI with a 2 is just around the corner and am now thinking of my target.

I will still be over weight when I call target but I'm happy with that and happy to take mj long term. Whilst having no medical issues myself, the family tree has not been so kind to others so if little and not so often is what I need I will continue to fund. Just hope one day the prices may come down.

I have bounced around suppliers most months and now have to go further down the monj list before I can find a supplier who will take me on. I've just ordered a 3 pen bundle to take into account the change of pens, but that will then take me to the end of the year and I'll hopefully be maintaining from the end of summer.

I haven't really bought a new wardrobe. I started as a 20/22 and still wear a lot of those clothes. My jeggings bag at my knees, my over sized jumpers are very much oversized now. I've never enjoyed clothes shopping as it was always, what's in my size, that will do. So it's something I need to get my head around. I did buy a large pair of jeggings (16/18) from Asda before Christmas and noticed they were gapping so bought a medium pair (12/14) last week and was shocked they fit me. Although taking sizes with a pinch of salt as also bough a size 16 high waisted pair also from Asda and they cut me in half. However bras are a nightmare I have bought so many sizes and just can't seem to sort. Started 42DD think I'm currently a 36E I know I need to get measured but thinking it needs to wait til I call my target. Our local Home Start are collecting bras for charity. I can probably fill a whole box in ones I've bough and don't fit 🤣

Non scale victories include sitting in a Teams meeting and noticing my collar bones for the first time ever. Taking photos with my kids, there's probably more in the last 6 months than in the past 15 years. Not being afraid to get onto a Ryanair flight and thinking the seat belt won't fit me. And realising the other week when I needed the loo at work and had to run up 4 flights of stairs to the nearest ladies, I got to the top and wasn't breathless.

Going forward I know I need to exercise, I've done none. I just don't want to to it, but know I need to. I've also noticed I've got a really can't be arsed attitude and wonder if this is a potential side effect, I was always a procrastinator but this is on another level. I saw someone on the boards was taking L tyrosine for similar, so have tried that but not really seen any difference since I moved up to 3.75mg.

And that's my journey, sorry it was so long. I will continue to watch with interest how everyone is doing

This really has changed my life and i suppose the only thing I'd say was, I'd wish I'd done it sooner. Had been jumping around for 6 months as family member had started in the previous September but March it was.

I've decided to stop Mounjaro and try to maintain around the BMI 24/25 mark as I have a good diet and eating pattern and manageable exercise regime but losing another half a stone was tricky and I didn't want to go back up to 15mg and feel queasy with food again.

Plus I was starting to resent the cost and also worry about long term effects for someone of a healthy weight who is not diabetic. I haven't felt massively hungry other than on day 6 before what would have been my next dose. Good so far but there is still 2mg or so in my system for another week or so. I'm being very careful with eating.

Have been away much of the week with work, hotel breakfasts, dinners and eating on the go and have maintained so that's good!

I might try and have a push to lose half a stone before my holiday in June, but it means averaging about 1200 calories so it's not easy. Easier in salad season though. March to June I've often lost a few pounds in the past.

@Yellowsubmarine55 @Cafog @JabbaJibba @DeftGoldHedgehog
bravo all, it’s great hearing your stories

Hi all, it’s been a while since I checked in. I’m 5 stone 6 pounds down with at least another stone to go. My bmi is just about 25. It’s expensive and slow now! I’ve been buying from pharmacy2u and have given a few people irl codes to refer with £75 off. Is there anywhere here we can share codes or DM?

Loving all the anniversary posts. Esp from those who don’t post often - I don’t either but I don’t think it matters. It has helped me
hugely reading everyone’s journeys along the way.

Here I am a year from my first jab pic for the provider we. I’m a completely different person inside and out - not just due to weight loss, my life has transformed due to many many things. I look back at this bewildered lost woman on the left, and I am proud that the one on the right dragged me out of all of this shit and worked to get me to where I am today!

@Buscake I think you look nice in the first photo, obviously it's much better for your wellbeing and health to be lighter and you look great in your after photos but it's weird how many people have said to me nearly six stone down, 'but you weren't fat before' and looking at photos of me before I don't think I actually do,look that fat but I thought I was ginormous.
Anyway happy mj anniversary everyone.

@Buscake - that's an amazing transformation, well done. And well done to everyone on some truly incredible losses. I can't believe it's been a year since we started on this journey together - you've all been such a support.

I'm still holding at goal really easily - I'm microdosing 1.25mg twice a week, which is keeping inflammation at bay without impacting my appetite really at all since I don't really need MJ to help with that, I didn't have any issues with eating sensibly in the period off it. Pleased to report that the saggy skin is slowly catching up with the weight loss - including on my neck which I was a bit worried about. Having tried a few different things - I can report that cheap and cheerful thick Nivea cream in the blue tub is the bomb for helping with turkey neck skin, forget anything else. And plain old Vaseline Intensive Care body cream seems to be the most effective thing on my body. Super pleased that something at least in life is cheap! Even my stomach and underarms are looking a lot better.

I've got a lot on my plate right now - started a new job, it's a complete gear change, and doing it alongside still having my own business, so it's stressful. DD is coming up to A-levels and waiting to hear from a couple of Universities re offers still. And my friend who was so unwell during the summer is still in need of a huge amount of support, as are her children - very much co-parenting. All in all super stressful, so I'm pleased that I haven't put weight back on as a result of not having that much time to focus on good food and exercise,

Tomorrow is my 1 year anniversary

stopped November after 27kg loss , restarted end of December at 22 kg loss . Was back 26kg loss and reduced doses down to 2.5 (from 5) for 4 weeks (bad SE with enxiety) but starting to gain again now going back to 5mg currently at 24kg loss

still want to loose 15kg more

Posting for my own accountability, still here, still plodding on.
sw 114.4kg
cw 61.7kg
gw 60kg
its really exciting to me that I may actually achieve this, it’s never seemed doable before and I’m just so excited to get to a normal bmi for the first time ever in my adult life.

Last night was the first Thursday in a year or so that I didn’t jab. I’m going it alone and seeing how I fare. I had today off work and in the spirit of trying new things I pushed myself to run 10k instead of 5. I have never run that far in my entire life. But I did it! Monday I’m staying small group PT in a women only 30s+ gym. None of this would have been possible or even on my horizon without Mounjaro. I feel very lucky. Here’s hoping I can maintain 🤞

The very best of luck @Buscake

I've been maintaining since October. Titrated down from 12mg to 7.5mg in mid-January. Then I had to take three weeks off for surgery. The day I took my first jab post-surgery I weighed 5lbs more than usual, but I'm not sure if that was fat gain or just swelling post-surgery. I started back on 7.5, which was too much, so I came down to 6.5 for the last two weeks. Back down to my normal weight now. I only took 5mg yesterday as I wasn't bothered getting the pliers out to get the extra 1.5mg from the golden dose. So we'll see how we get on this week appetite wise and scales wise. I'd be happy to stay at 5mg a week for the next four or five months, and then see if I could reduce a little further.

I know I'm being quite conservative when reducing my dose but I can afford the 5mg for the moment and I'm so afraid of putting the weight back on. I'll be following all you ladies who are taking smaller doses/have stopped altogether with so much interest to see how you get on.

@TheBossOfMe I'm going to pick up that Nivea blue tin this afternoon and try it on the neck. I've been tempted by the Trinny Elevator but it's so expensive. Blue tin here I come!

Hi all - thought I would do my one year anniversary reflections…

I did Mar25-Dec25 on 2.5mg and lost 3st. After Christmas I did about 8 weeks on 1.25mg and have been fully off MJ for two weeks. Early days of course but my weight is the same 10st 7lbs. There have been some disordered eating day blips, one involving three packets of crisps 🙄 but generally I know how to eat and if I prepare then all is well, if I wing it or don’t plan ahead working from home a lot means forays into to the kitchen that don’t end well! My family are also stressing my out a bit with different needs - poorly DH and teen girls.

That said, I think my mood has improved coming down the dose and now off. I don’t feel so flat or anxious which is good.

I know this is a long haul, and I need to stay mindful of what I eat. I don’t weigh everyday but force myself too every few days so that I can see when the weight tracks up and do something about it. I’m not going to put 3st back on in a week but it’s the creep which represents danger I think, so I have to face the number. I really need to find a way to exercise, move my body more and hoping Spring and maybe the freed up money from MJ will help with that. I am also going to get some Nivea to try on my slightly saggy face! My body is far from perfect and I would love a flat stomach and a bum but in clothes I feel great and now love nothing more than clothes that show off my (to me) iddy biddy waist 🤣

Overall I don’t think I could have reached this point without MJ. Only my DH and observant elder DD know I took it… unlike some I harbour some mis-placed shame about the whole thing but it allowed me to re-set and I feel and am so much healthier. I just need to hang on to that now - and I feel hopeful I can. This thread, reading and posting has been so supportive - to not do it alone is a huge bonus and I’m grateful to you all for your honesty and encouragement this last year and to @TheSpoonyNavyReaderfor getting us going. I hope you are well whatever is happening at home x

I must admit coming off MJ (and slightly when I was on it) I seem to want sweet stuff more. Thought while I was on it that it was just because I was eating less and my blood sugar was a bit low, but now I am eating more for maintenance I find myself craving chocolate in particular. I'm still eating a good balance and there is still a tiny bit of mj in my system. Also it could be a menopause thing. I'm trying to have a tiny bit of dark chocolate a day but last weekend I just demolished an entire 100g bar of it.

Hello All,

Reflecting in my one year MJ anniversary this weekend, what a year! Without doubt I would not have been able to preserve through the awful side effects without the support, guidance and practical help this thread gave. Thank you to everyone who posted, questioned, queried and shared the good, bad and ugly.

I started at just over 14stone, 5’6’, mid fifties. Have lost about 50lbs which is insane to me 12 months on, the weight had slowly piled on over ten years with lockdown then accelerating the increases. My goal had been 10.5 stone as I remembered being consistently on or around that in my thirties and early forties so that’s where I am today. I am now remembering my body and how if felt to just be a size 12 and able to wear and be comfortable in clothes from underwear to coats. This winter in knee high boots has been amazing after so long not being able to get them to fit my calves. As other posters have said, I think I’m still adjusting and stressing still about being so over weight again. I am so grateful to this medication and have often wept with overwhelm with the whole transformation.

Collected my last 5mg pen today which is the dose I’ve consistently had with the exception of the first one being 2.5mg for onboarding. I have used the golden dose having learned of it here for all but the first two pens. I also have used separate syringes to drain every last drop from the pens even if only 10mg and then top up to a full dose from the next pen. I’m in Ireland and it has been €35 monthly for a 3 minute online consultation to get the prescription plus €360 for a 5mg pen so this has cost literal thousands. The last couple of 5mg pens have been €320 which is slightly better.

The pen I’m just finishing I stepped the interval out to 10 days and intend using 375mg at the same intervals with the next and final pen, perhaps bringing the dose down to 250mg before stopping which I’m really nervous about. The elimination of food noise and irrational hunger has been such a relief, I can’t believe it has been a year really. I also enjoyed the better sleep and other positives posters have noted, my creaky back is supporting 3.5 stone less which has been amazingly good at relieving pain. Curiously, periods restarted for me even with a coil fitted, very irregular and very light but about every 4 months and only for a day or two. No raging pain thankfully, another MJ benefit perhaps.

One year on I am grateful I could keep going physically and financially the drug is just amazing and I feel very emotional this weekend reflecting. After many failed dieting attempts I’ve come to understand that for middle aged woman it can be a very difficult struggle to control weight gain. I hope to be vigilant now, weekly weigh ins and action to keep at a healthy weight. I will continue to read every post here and thanks to those who who kept the thread running, I has been so important to me.

Sending thanks and positive vibes to all on this health span journey.

So… between work travel and skating travel for the last 6 weeks or so I haven’t been jabbing regularly and I’ve been eating poorly too thanks to restaurants out being coordinated by colleagues etc. this has meant that I bounced back up to 15st4. But I got it back down to 15 pretty quickly but have been ‘stuck’ at 15/15st1lb for several weeks.

thankfully something seems to have clicked this week finally. And I’m back down at my lowest weight from before this blip.

SW: 20st
CW: 14st10
GW: 11st7(ish)
-4lbs this week. 🥳

good to hear about everyone’s maintenance journey even though I’m still slogging onwards.

Hi all, some amazing success on this thread and sorry to hear your news @TheSpoonyNavyReader .

I think I'm the group failure. But actually I don't regard it as that.

I've been on MJ for a year. I've only lost 20kg (15% of my body weight). BMI from 43.5 to 36. The last time I weighed this was in April 2018.

I haven't been consistent with anything except going to pilates. I've been stalled for weeks and then in the last two weeks I've lost almost 3kg. I'm still on 10mg.

I still need to lose another 34kg to get to goal (gulp). But I suspect I will plod on slowly doing the slowest weight loss ever on mounjaro.

Hardly anyone has said anything. I'm still wearing the same clothes (but now they fit) and I have dug some stuff out that was previously too small. I certinly haven't had to buy anything new :-(

But, I feel loads better in myself.

SW- 127kg
CW - 107kg
GW - 73kg

Beatwix that’s still a fab weight loss. Average weight loss on MJ is 22% and that’s only when you max out on the dose. Given you’re still losing (albeit slowly) and haven’t maxxed out the dose then it is still working really well for you. And as frustrating as it is, the slow weight loss means you’ll probably avoid the vast majority of the downsides to MJ (the rare physical conditions, saggy skin, muscle loss). I know they haven’t done studies on metabolism or whether you are more likely to maintain a loss if you lose slowly, but it seems logical to me that your body is more like to adjust to a new weight if it’s sort of “duped” into it by stealth.

@BeaTwix you are emphatically not a loser! 20kg is an incredible amount to have lost - pick up your suitcase the next time you fly and that is how much you have lost.

comparison is the thief of joy. We all have our own journeys with this, yours is still moving in the right direction 💪