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 🥰

[Mounjaropen]

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 🤗

Congratulations on all counts! That is absolutely fantastic 🙌 so far I found that medical professionals are absolutely fascinated by my weight loss and only have good things to say about MJ. I bet your blood results will be fantastic!

In before times, I would’ve definitely eaten the bounties even though everyone knows they are the worst ones 😂

I love a bit of ASOS these days, previously I only ever used it to buy things for my DD’s. if you stack discounts, you can often get things much cheaper too! And who doesn’t love a bit of top shop?

I am sorry you have to deal with this.

If it makes you feel any better, someone in my life does the same. Every phone call starts with 'how is your health? You haven't lost more weight, have you?' as though I was a cancer patient or something.

That person seems to spend all of their time thinking about someone else's weight. What a sad way to live.

Sorry you have to deal with that with your MIL @Goldleafcat I’d have told her to lady fork off!!

Thank you so much @PinkArt @SerenePeer @TheSlimmingPumpkin @RayonSunrise @Mounjaropen @Cantbesure @LindtCurves

I wasn’t sure if I was being over sensitive. I thought it was outrageous but you never know deep down and I also started my period the next day so hormones were flying about! I’m still simmering away now.

I do definitely think she is projecting her own insecurities. She is absolutely of the generation obsessed with her weight and that of everyone else. She often talks about the weight of other people. You’d think she wouldn’t given as much of a shit now she’s older but clearly not! Leopard and their spots I guess.

DH wasn’t in the room when she started on me. I told him after and he agrees she is out of order, but hasn’t told her she is out of order or to butt out. In the end he did speak to her, but only when she once again brought it up when they were waiting in the car whilst I took DS to a park later that day! Years of conditioning I expect. I told him if she does it again I’m shutting it down straight away and will tell her to stop being so bloody rude. If things escalate from there then so be it. It’s on her.

Some fabulous comebacks from you all - I especially love the ‘lady fork off’ from @Cantbesure and the retort from @PinkArt . I have saved these in my response bank!!

@Mounjaropen yes you’ve hit the nail on the head - definitely a case of ‘that’s just Maureen’. She says herself ‘you know how I am’ ‘you know what I’m like’ as a way to excuse her crap behaviour.
I’m sorry you had this with your mum, awful when the person who should be the closest to you acts in that way. @LindtCurves I’m sorry to hear you’re experiencing the same with someone. It’s absolutely rubbish and exhausting.

Met up with a friend yesterday who I haven’t seen since I was heavier and she said I looked amazing and really well so that was lovely.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend

Weighing in.

W75D7
SW: 19st 9lbs
CW:12st 12lbs
1st GW: 17st 13lbs
2nd GW 15st 4lbs
3rd GW: 13st 9lbs
4th GW: 11st 4lbs
TL: 6st 11lb

Things seem to be on the move after that prolongued plateau just above 13 stone and for a point mid week I was 12st 11, which feels delightfully close to the 7 pound milestone. Even with Easter! I realised yesterday that I've again shopped the egg sales like I'm eating in a 2024 way and now have a chocolate hoard that'll see me to next Easter, while definitely having at least one bag of mini eggs from last year still. Maybe next year I'll remember this before the 'ooooooooh discounts and shiny wrappers' part of my brain gets over stimulated.

Well done on the continued loss! I hear you on the chocolate. I have a small mini egg hoard.

I wish I had a small mini egg hoard!

Ok I caved and jabbed again after three months of maintaining cold turkey. Everuthing has been going so well and my target weight has been 9.10 but can creep up by 4lbs on a Monday and then is back to normal by Friday. However, we have just had a weeks holiday, am travelling again tomorrow for 5 days and then we have lots to events coming up and a holiday next month and I can feel myself picking up bad habits again. I don’t realise until this week how important a routine is for me to stabilise my eating and having time for the gym. This week away has definitely cocked my healthier eating and balance up and I had a panic. I also realised that whilst I’m happy with my weight at 9.10, when it does creep up to 10st I start to feel uncomfortable in my (now smaller) clothes and I also still have a tummy I hate she wouldn’t wear a bikini still. So I’ve started one pen ago , agreed with myself to do the 5 weeks inc bonus and try to get to 9.5/9.6 so my +4lb will take me to 9.10 where I know I’m comfortable. Let’s see how this pans out…

Good luck! I can totally understand that, it’s sounds like you’ve been doing really well anyway which is brilliant.

Which dose pen have you restarted on?

Just checking in after two weeks' holiday. Stood on the scales slightly nervously yesterday and weighed 9 st 9. My maintenance weight is supposed to be 9 st 7 so not awful as I haven't counted calories for this time but I am looking forward to getting back into a routine this week. Have enjoyed seeing the sun this week! Well done everyone on progress.

Folks who've been using collagen, what have you found is the best way to take it? Knock it back, in a drink, in food?

I mix 20 g vanilla flavoured collagen, prefer it mixed into yogurt

@PinkArt Like @lovealongbath I also mix mine in my breakfast yoghurt. It changes the texture slightly, but not in a bad way - kind of makes it slightly denser/glossier. I much prefer it to putting it in coffee.

Happy Spring everyone! I’m still maintaining, and switched to Pharmulous after realising how much better their pricing is compared to Oushk. I’ve booked a maintenance call with them. Has anyone done one of their maintenance calls? I was quite keen to engage with Oushk’s but remember finding it distinctly underwhelming, and then they didn’t flag me as being on maintenance anyway…

@butternut123I agree with @Goldleafcat, you’ve done really well and I don’t think anyone can take too dim a view of you wanting to jump on any post-holiday gain! Well done on keeping your exercise going and staying on top of things.

I take the revive collagen sachets. The enhanced +ones they are quite expensive but you can usually find them on eBay for a lot less. Currently I’m paying on average about £40 a box of 28 from eBay – if I bought them directly from revive it would be closer to £75 they’re not unpleasant tasting And I don’t need to add it to any food or drink. Both my now, chap and my hairdresser have commented on my nail strength and hair regrowth. Revive is hydrolysed marine collagen.

I think the most recent experience for all of us with Oushk is at best questionable… I’ve found Pharmulous much more straightforward to deal with. The jabs turned up on time, excellent packaging and with Royal Mail..

👏👏👏 brilliant achievement!

I was exactly the same… Went back to 5 mg dose weekly and frankly feel 1 million times better… I’ve accepted that I’m on this medication for life now I think

I’m actually wondering why I don’t have an egg Hoard 😂 I’m very susceptible to FOMO

Thanks all. I bought 3-4-2 of these - thanks Style & Beauty - as I've used Symprove on and off for years and it's added to my stash of random collagen sachets that will definitely be more effective if I actually use them! https://www.boots.com/boots-premium-wellness-box-10383078?

Thanks @GoldleafcatI’ve got 2.5. I never went above this though. I’m hoping one more pen will help and just give me the headspace to get back on track.

Interesting to see your post @butternut123 I’ve been maintaining without MJ for 10 months and have just ordered a 2.5 pen from pharmulous. I’ve put half a stone on over the last month or so and really want to clamp down now before it becomes a bigger issue. I’ve done two half marathons over the last month so it’s not due to a lack of exercise but a lot of bad snacking habits have crept back in. I was also quite conscious of getting close to the 12 month cut off zone, so now I will be back in the system.

Very interesting, @Cantbesure. I’m still stretching out 5mg pens and maintaining (well, very slightly losing - a couple of pounds since January, give or take normal water fluctuations).

Someone - was it Mounjaropen? - was talking about set points a while back and how you need to be at a lower weight for quite a long time before your body learns to “recognise” it as normal and stops trying to correct it. Was it 2+ years? By that standard we won’t reach that til this November.

Or I may be misremembering/talking nonsense. Please take my half-recollections with a massive grain of salt!

In other news, I have rediscovered low rise trousers. THAT wasn’t on my bingo card when I started this, but I’m enjoying it!