Mounjaro starters November ‘24 - thread sweet sixteen - the one where we have a spring in our step and are selling all the big sized clothes off 🥰

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Welcome to thread 16!
Link to our last thread here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5450177-mounjaro-starters-nov-24-thread-15-the-one-where-we-wear-all-of-the-party-dresses-and-are-happily-in-all-of-the-festive-photos?page=40

Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we spring into spring not obsessing over Easter Eggs for the second year 🥰

Join us here to celebrate NSV’s, weight loss milestones, maintenance and new stone brackets!
I’m on W68 D6 and on w12 of 2.5mg maintenance dose.

F in my early 50’s
H 5’ 5.5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 9st 10lbs
GW 9st 0lb
Total loss so far at lowest weight was 61.0 lbs (at 9st 6.0) maintenance has seen 4 of those pounds go back on.

We recommend the Shotsy app to monitor the amount of MJ in the system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free.
Feel free to swap recipes that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for managing side effects, exercise tips, tips for maintenance, titrating up or down and we love a wellness/supplements/beauty/ style/vinted chat too 🤗

What a fabulous dress! I bet you look gorgeous!

Hear hear. Glad you got it sorted. I think some pharmacies have confused their place in the WLI gold rush for talent rather than luck.

They're similar to the ones in Celebrations but without having to find someone to palm all the Bounties off on!

Haha I’ll take the Bounties!

Just realised ASOS is another shop I’ve always avoided because it’s for the ‘skinny people’, ie, definitely not me. I need to change my mindset! They’ve probably even got a curve range too. So mad I’ve marginalised myself so much (still not braved Uniqlo).

How do people rate ASOS?

I think the dress is true to size - it still stuns me that my boobs fit into a size 10! I’m hovering around 9 st 10 so very similar to you, so I bet it would fit you.

Asos is a bit of a mix - I like its own brand jeans, but it’s very much on the cheap and cheerful side so can be hit or miss with other things. However it stocks loads of other brands like Topshop, Levi’s, Arket etc, and I like the styling on the website. Don’t rule yourself out of it! It does have a curve range (not that you need that now) and it also has an Hourglass range in some jeans, which caters for smaller waists/bigger hips, which I used to like a lot. Also a fuller bust range. And it does Petite.

Thank you that’s really helpful. My boobs are so much smaller than they were! Still have my super broad ribcage though which can be awkward for bra sizing.

I shall be happily scrolling ASOS!

ASOS got me through my fattest years. It’s like a jumble sale, you have to filter really hard to find the gems

Just been through immigration and the chap said “you’ve lost a lot of weight since your picture” with a big grin. What a great start to the day.

I'm currently in Canada and have just done my first proper 'skinny girl' clothes shop. I bought leggings (size 6!) and a zip up top (size 8!) in Lulu Lemon. I feel like I may have joined an expensive cult, but damn they are ridiculously soft and comfy. And flattering.

I was just reflecting on childhood Easter's yesterday. I can still vividly remember being physically unable to leave the Easter eggs alone. I can remember secretly nibbling away at them, hoping nobody would notice and then my mum going ballistic when she realised I'd eaten all of mine and had a good go at my brothers too 😳

Great big 12 stone klaxon for @pinkart! 🎉🎉🎉

Love lululemon - but yes, it's a rather expensive cult 😂 Make the most of the Canadian pricing!!

Hello lovely skinny minnies. Reporting in after finally dropping another lb after no movement in 2 months. Feeling quite pleased with myself though as I booked myself a full medical through work health insurance - felt like a proper grown up thing to do! The GP nearly fell off her chair when I told her I'd lost almost 5 stone with MJ and said I certainly didnt look like I used to be 5 stone heavier and was the picture of health! The nurse measuring my body fat told me it's 22% which shocked me - i still have a bit of a tummy so that confirms that the tummy is probably more lose skin pouch than fat. Considering I'm only in a bikini once a year, I think I can live with that! So positive news all round. Just need to wait a few weeks to get the results from the blood tests they did. Feel very reassured that everything is tracking in the right direction and I'm setting myself up for a much healthier journey to old age! God bless mounjaro and all who sail with her!

That’s fantastic about the GP! Hooray, hopefully your results confirm how much healthier you are now all round.

Well, I’m back home after visiting the mother in law (and other in law family members). My DS had a lovely time and we managed to squeeze in the beach, a castle and lots of parks.

However I was absolutely raging on Monday. After my BIL and his partner left, my MIL decided to resurrect the weight loss conversation (AGAIN! After I told her previously to stop). Grilling me about it, asking how I was feeling - I said I felt a lot healthier, and pleased to be fitter for my DS. She then said my face ‘looks different’ and pulled her own face. I asked ‘do you mean different as in worse?’, she paused for a long time then said ‘not worse, but different’. And then went on about how she worries about my DS (as in I’m risking my health by losing weight?!). I said she was rude to keep talking about my weight and body. I also asked her if she asked my BILs partner about her weight (of course she bloody doesn’t). I was so angry after, I nearly told her to piss off but managed to hold it in (not sure if I should have just told her to F off really). She used to slag me off for being fat (‘she’s a hell of a size’ ‘she’s too fat for my son’ etc). Now I’m slimmer and a healthy weight she can’t seem to stand that either and now’s she’s bloody critiquing my face?! She’s put on a lot of weight herself, but practices performative under eating (whilst later stuffing herself with crisps, cake and sweets). Whilst we were there we had a Chinese takeaway one evening, she put out a side plate for herself to use rather than a normal dinner plate. And for myself and my SIL, we were given tiny dessert forks to use (she’s been doing this shit for years). She calls them lady forks. 🤦‍♀️ I compared the size to my DS (age 3) kiddy cutlery and his fork is actually bigger (pic attached - his is on the right).

I was actually really upset after and had a little cry. I’ve had people picking at my weight and appearance since I was a child. I’m so sick of this now. I’ll be 46 this year for gods sake!

I was very happy to come home yesterday. I don’t want to see her again for a very long time.

Forgot to add the pic.

In other news I’ve only put on less than 2lbs over Easter (and my period has arrived so that may be some of that). I’m also doing my plank a day for Cancer Research.

Hope everyone had a lovely long weekend.

I would just tell her to fuck off. She's being rude to you so match her energy. If you're feeling less scortched earth maybe something like 'it sounds like I'll never be the right weight for you MIL, so let's not discuss my weight any more'. If she dares say that you're being rude, point out that discussing anyone's body like she does is rude and reiterate again that it's not something that will be discussed further. Shut it down any time she tries, because fuck that!

Not sure if it's a NSV or not, as it's a nice frock, but I've just seen myself in a mirror at work and the dress I thought was refreshingly loose actually just looks straight out too big. I had a bit of a panic this morning as I've been HUGELy enjoying fitting all of The Thin Jumpers that I pulled out of a storage bag and hadn't quite got as far as seeing if The Thin Dresses fit. That shit weather that's on the way should buy me a bit of time 😆

Oh @goldleafcat that's awful. You MIL sounds utterly vile. Of course, everything she says and does is purely a reflection of her own poor relationship with her own body. It's not really about you, even though she's making you feel like it is. Ignore the stupid old bat.

You know you've done an amazing thing for your health and wellbeing and that of your ds. Tell her to F off.

I agree with @PinkArt and @SerenePeer. Time to put your foot down @Goldleafcat . Call her out on this shitty behaviour and tell her to fuck off next time and say at least I am slim enough for your son now.

Lady forks 😂😂 very hyacinth bouquet. You need to ask her if Lady Forks was a band from the 1960s or whenever as none of us have ever heard of that term.

I confess I did eat a lot of chocolate over the weekend but I also did a parkrun in a pitiful attempt to undo the damage.

Ugh, she sounds a nightmare. I don’t blame you for being upset at being spoken to like that, especially after you’d made it clear you wanted her to stop.

How did your spouse react? Did he see any of this go down?

Morning all!

DH has been off since last Thursday… Our love language is basically food and wine so I thought it best to stay away from posting anything given that I seem to have been permanently located with a glass of something lovely in my hand 😂 annoying really because I’d got down to 133.4 LB S before the boozy Easter weekend and obviously I’m back up at 136LB S this morning. It was good fun though!

I’ve got to that exciting point in the year when I’m going to start planning my summer holiday wardrobe. I think last year I was still playing it safe taking along my usual kaftans but this year I think I might get quite adventurous (go me!)

Back on the exercise trail this week as I need to get into a size 8 to 10 Princess Leia outfit for a fancy dress party on Saturday and the Roksanda dress D-Day is less than two weeks away…🤞

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Bloody hell this is appalling! I think the issue here is often when other family members minimise that sort of behaviour with it’s just Maureen being Maureen “ or other such bollocks. It really isn’t, it’s bullying and targeted behaviour. When it comes to Home life, I’m quite the reverse of my work persona in that I’m quite conflict adverse. This is mainly due to growing up with an narcissistic mother who eroded my self-esteem and often questioned why anyone would be actual friends with me so I do cherish family and friends that I actually trust and would be devastated if someone continually attacked me like this because it just triggers all of those feelings I had from being a child. In the end I went low contact after a period of no contact with my mother. Obviously her being a narcissist meant that she had no ability to self reflect and consider whether or not she may have been at fault in her behaviour. I suspect your mother-in-law is probably quite similar. And that she’s criticising your weight and then your subsequent weight loss whilst not being a supermodel either. How did your DH react to this?

As for lady Forks, that really is up there isn’t it?

I hope you can try and put it behind you, and that you are continuing to sashay along in your fabulous pink coat!

Well done for continuing to exercise over the Easter weekend! You did way better than me 😂

My own mother was the epitome of of hyacinth bucket 🙄

Oh dresses that are too big it’s a lovely feeling isn’t it? I think it’s time for you to dig out the thin dresses! 👏👏👏