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 🤗

Oh love. Thinking of you all 😘

Wow!! This is MASSIVE. My thoughts are with you all.

@Mounjaropenthey don’t have a Google listing but I have just left a trust pilot review.

That is HUGE news. All love to you and your family, hope he’s recovering well. Xx

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@Goldleafcatsending all the virtual hugs and handholds. Hope he comes through smoothly.

Welcome to my family haha. And then they wonder why I don't see them much! Growing up there were constant comments about my weight/shape and everyone else's, everyone is scarred and just 'keeping the tradition alive' for the benfit of their daughters.

I actually really gladly stepped on the scale because they assumed I was lying and actually weighed under 100lb, eating disorder was mentioned numerous times. So I took great pleasure in showing that I weigh 130+, that actually shut them up for once.

Reading about some of the people in our lives genuinely makes me angry as well, such as your mum.

No wonder our weight and body image got out of control with influences like these.

It's funny how it's socially acceptable to make nasty comments to slim people, too. Now that the skinnies think I have always been a member of their club, they are all sharing the skinny-related bullying they've been subject to. E.g. saying to a teen girl "well don't you look anorexic" if they are quite thing but certainly healthy weight range. Would a stranger get away with saying "wow don't you look chubby?"

I remember as a teenager feeling absolutely furious with my best friend who had been (like me) a little overweight and then quickly lost it and became slim. I'd love to say it was because I cared about her and was worried about her and it was certainly partly that, but it also made me feel awful about myself as everyone asked her how she'd done it and told her she looked amazing. And I was still the same inadequate person.
Sadly she did take it much much too far and was in and out of hospital for several years with anorexia... I believe she did recover but she left the school and we lost touch.
It was a pretty toxic environment all round. Lots of competitive undereating at my school.

Thinking of you all, @Goldleafcat

Been there! I think that weight is just such an emotive topic, especially for those of us who went through the 90s and early 2000s as teen girls. It's so utterly divorced from health in our minds, that even the most heartfelt concern is inevitably tinged with messier feelings like envy. That doesn't make us bad people, it just makes us products of our society. I had the same conflicted feelings (and a weird sense of abandonment!) in sixth form when a friend of mine lost weight.

I don't blame anyone who has made unkind comments towards me about my weight loss for feeling this strange mix of emotions. But, unlike poor teenage you and teenage me, as adults it's their responsibility to recognise these feelings as a 'them problem', so I do blame them for not doing so and making their problems our problems.

Thanks!!

Weighing in

W96D7
SW: 19st 9lbs
CW:11st 11bs
1st GW: 17st 13lbs
2nd GW: 15st 4lbs
3rd GW: 13st 9lbs
4th GW: 11st 4lbs
TL: 7st 12lb or 'a Mature Rough Fell Ewe'
Pounds to go:7!

Such a skinny bitch. Work pressures have just lifted a bit, so the stress diet might relax alongside that but it's got me on to the home straight.

Friday update for me:

Weight: still hovering around 135LB S hopefully this is muscle as I have been hitting the Lagree hard of late (in actual fact I’ve signed up to train to become an instructor 😱)

Exercise: still doing my 5 Pvolve per week and I’m now doing 3 x lagree classes trying to do either Tennis or a treadmill walk each day Monday to Friday too. Trying to get much fit before my instructor training at the end of the year.

Food: although I’ve had a couple of squares of dark chocolate, and I have made my Powerball’s/filled dates, I have completely cut out UPS snacks (Cadbury’s buttons and Haribo giant strawbs are a particular weakness😂) also been concentrating on maxing out on at least 100 g of protein per day through food rather than shakes etc and I have mainly prioritised salmon and chicken breast. I did this week make Emily english‘s protein apple cake which makes for a nice low-carb Ish sweet treat after dinner.(Look up em the nutritionist on Instagram) if anyone is looking for reasonably priced protein, Sainsbury’s are doing a 3 for 2 Nectar promotion on Salmon joints so you can get 1.5 kg of salmon fillet for 20 quid so my freezer is nicely stocked! I did have a blowout last Sunday at a fancy Sunday lunch at a vineyard which was cooked by Mark Hix and Richard Corrigan which was really lovely (although the booze was very plentiful!)

Beauty: I took a delivery for DH earlier this week and it is the liberty advent calendar! Obviously I’m not supposed to know this, but I was quite surprised as in the January sales he bought a skims advent calendar which he also thinks I haven’t noticed on top of the wardrobe in the spare room - mind you I suspect it is a present more for him that me…😂. Still going with my red light therapy, and will report back to you all after I have given it 8 weeks. I’m also considering getting sculpting facial – has anybody had one of those? My neck definitely looks less saggy after using the ‘this works’ neck and décolleté serum, but again our report back after I have given this eight weeks too.

Fashion: I succumbed this week to a dress on club L only because I saw the Instagrammer Lorna Luxe wearing it to the Italian Grand Prix last weekend (I’m a sucker) I chose a size 10 and aside from the fact it’s a touch too long so I’ll need to wear a slight platform heel it does fit really nicely. Lovely quality, very heavy. I got 15% off as it was my first order (so it worked out at £80.50)and the only one on Vinted was being sold by someone who has worn it but wants new money for it too 🙄 I’m wearing it to a fancy wine dinner in London this evening (happily, lately my social life does seem to revolve around alcohol-related events)

Hope everyone has something lovely planned for this weekend, and something lovelier in their glasses.

@Goldleafcat I hope your DH continues to get better. Thinking of you all 💐

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👏👏👏👏 keep going!

off to look up a ‘mature rough fell ewe’ 😂

I agree with this. I’m still mates with my school friends (we grew up in the 80’s at school) and for sure my recent WL has provoked what I’d politely call an ‘interesting reaction’ from one of them. No mention about the WL of one of our other mates (also on MJ )or the other one who had a gastric band. And I was thin at school… 🤷‍♀️

Ah yes. Competitive under eating at my girls school also…

Glad you’re ok. I just think a bit like when you’re pregnant and people give their unasked for opinion on childbirth, people also love to give their unsolicited opinion on someone else’s weight. Bizarre really!

I have got my mojo back a bit this week - back to tracking my food, have done two cardio sessions at the gym, three weight sessions and one pilates. Feeling very achy so something is working! Am hoping it pays off when I weigh on Sunday.

Just a word of caution. I was a bit late with my Pharmalous order (I had an extra pen due to the ordering difficulties during the price rises last year) and they questioned my late order. They did OK it in the end but it made me a bit nervous!!

I've googled and they look.... substantial!

Thanks @Mounjaropen and others for your well wishes, it’s absolutely lovely and means a lot. 🩷

He’s doing really well all things considered, surgery today to close things up and will potentially reduce sedation this weekend. He was on mechanical support for a long time which means overall recovery will be long but at least things are now moving in the right direction 🤞

DS has at least loved reception so far, our neighbours have kindly had him to play with their DS who started this week a couple
of times and this afternoon I repaid the favour so had two excited 4 year olds running about 😂

That sounds like very positive news for your DH. Sending recovery vibes to him 💐

Love your little fella is excited for school - such a magical age! (although beware of year 1 when they realise school isn’t just about playing - DD felt very cheated 😂)

Hope you have some support for you too- I cannot imagine the stress you must be feeling ❤️

Very substantial horns 😂

Im now 9 stone because I got sick and more weight fell off. I had not planned for that and now Im looking too thin. Luckily it's something that is easily cured with surgery.

Gosh, I hope you’re ok and get the issue resolved quickly? Sending speedy recovery vibes 💐

I’m losing again. Just 8.5kg to go, which feels so much better than 10kg to go that I’ve bounced around for months.
Ive a set of exercises from the GPs physio and a referral to the hospital physio to get my shoulders going. I’m planning to soak in the hot tub and try the exercises at the weekend.

The last piece of furniture I’ve ordered comes tomorrow so I’ll be in the living in my home not just unpacking and organising stage which is lovely.