Mounjaro - 10 Stone or more to lose - Thread 13

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Let No.13 be lucky for all of us.

Good luck, losers.

All welcome!

Hi all, I've been quiet and would love some advice, similar to @Kay2000 after 120lb loss in 14 months I have just had enough and I just want to be at goal. "Diet fatigue" is real! I have 26lbs to go but the scales haven't moved in the last month despite being on 15mg. I jabbed on Monday and don't feel anywhere near the suppression I want or need.

I'm also struggling to go back onto the horse after Easter. It's always the case. As soon as the routine changes, my whole eating/exercise regime goes out the window. Is there a thin person to ask if this also happens to them?!

The kids easter eggs are all half eaten in the fridge which I have also helped myself to.

Had a big argument with my mother who wanted to give me the big box of cookies she bought for Easter which no one finished. I said I didn't want it, worked so hard and can't have that crap in the house etc. And she wasn't having any of it "take it, take it, it will go to waste, don't waste it, take it to work, give it to a friend, do this do that". I can see why was so overweight as a child. I took it home and ate 3 yesterday. I can't bring myself to bin it...WHY?!?!?! Why can't I bring myself to bin it?

Don't beat yourself up! What about whilst you're feeling strong, squirting something in it like washing up liquid or cleaning stuff so they HAVE to go in the bin.

@tescovaluebread I think it's been said before on these threads that we are not ourselves human dustbins, and that it is absolutely ok to throw away food that you don't want. I think for many of us, it is tied up with the idea of wasting food as being a big deal, something that we've been taught from a young age and is very deeply embedded.

If you have a partner, could you ask them to throw the biscuits away for you? Or, is there a food sharing local facebook group you could offer them on? Or do as @EducatingEater says and do something right now that makes them inedible.

You can also decide that if this sort of thing happens again, that you will stop at the nearest public rubbish bin and immediately get rid of the food rather than have it in your house. If you have already decided that's what you are going to do, then it may make it easier to deal with next time. I also wonder if your mother wants them out of her house, so she doesn't have to deal with the temptation to eat them?

Would it help to take the kids easter eggs out of the fridge and put them somewhere out of sight?

I gave up crisps about 2 years ago ..so the ones I used to binge on ,I can't / won't have in the house .my DH once brought some home for himself and I threatened to bin them if they came in the house ,so he kept them in the car ..
I won't have any food in the house that i know i can't control myself with .
I also freeze food in individual portions,so the cookies you could wrap in brown paper and freeze for another day for the kids ,lunches

@tescovaluebread the biscuits thing is impossible.

My mum was simultaneously going on and on about how much I’ve lost (seriously, it was 3 days solid) AND pressing cake/biscuits/snacks on me. She did eventually say ‘I must stop doing that’ and I agreed. But man alive, the cognitive dissonance was out of control!

It’s not your job to pick up her waste. Depending on your relationship with your mum, could you say ‘mum, it’s not up to me to assuage your food waste guilt. You bought it and you need to deal with it. I don’t want it.’

Would that be at all possible?

I’m sure this group will appreciate my latest NSV: I’ve now lost enough weight that I’ve officially misplaced my built-in cushion… fat padding is gone and I need to get a better desk chair, this is actually quite uncomfortable 😳

Oh god yes! My tailbone is frequently agony! Get a coccyx cushion!

Oh yes - there have been many conversations here about Skinny Arse Syndrome - the struggle is real! But it's a good problem to have.

@TragicMuse It's so hard isn't it! I'm actually at mum's house now again and she was telling me how proud she was that I have lost so much weight, and I didn't want to ruin the moment by bringing up Sunday's "cookie monster". I can comfortably say to her that she needs to deal with her own food, I back chat her for everything else😂

@Springflowers2 @SilenceInside @EducatingEater Thank you all for your feedback and help. I'm going to throw the food in the bin when I get home and put a load of bleach or something on it. I'll also put the kids' Easter eggs in their room. So it's not what I am looking at as soon as I open the fridge.

Thank you all

@tescovaluebread i hereby give you permission, if you need it, to bin anything you want to bin. If it’s not something you ever wanted to have, it’s surplus to requirements. It’s EQUALLY wasted if you eat it not wanting it.

Your mum pushing them onto you is exactly what my family members do. Could it be they don’t want you to be thin. I have always been the fattest by some distance in my family and one January my slimmer sister brought a load of chocolates over when they visited and said “I’m bringing these to you because you’ve got much more willpower than me”. Erm WHAT. Sorry WHAT.

Thanks to those who shared info about HRT journeys a few days ago - all really useful insights and food for thought for me.

@Theringcycle It really is a big thing, isn't it? Realising that we can say no and turn things away, or put them in the bin.

I totally get how you feel @tescovaluebread . I haaaaaate throwing things away, especially if it's a treat-type food/something I like, but the willpower is just not there. If I have to physically go and buy something, then I must really, really want it. If it's a walk to the fridge, then saying no is too hard.

Like @tescovaluebread, I've been having a tough time mentally recently. I'm just so over the constant vigilance and thinking about weight loss. I'm a very all or nothing person so I've become quite obsessed with getting to goal. I've only lost 0.5kg (1lb) over three past 3 weeks and I'm royally fucked off.

ChatGPT helped me get some perspective though and it seems to have helped a bit. Instead of just focusing on having another 28kg (4.5 stones) to lose, I've been trying to remember that I've already dropped 50kg (8 stones), which is the equivalent of a cheetah or female chimpanzee, and that if someone had told me 11 months ago that I would do that, I would think they were mad.

I just wanted to share and also reassure @tescovaluebread that they're not alone. I'm not sure if this helps but I haven't tended to share less than positive things on here and I'm trying to be more open.

NSV: I saw photos from a work team meeting. I looked normal. Still lots of weight to lose, I'm still bigger than I would like to be. But getting there.

So I've just done my first wegovy jab, I like the pens they feel much more robust and the needle is self contained so you don't stick yourself.

Weight today 156.4 so I've lost almost 2lb since I last weighed, but still not at my lowest weight. I have 12b to get to BMI 25 which is my first major goal. I've lost 97lb on this version of Nutracheck and about 40lb before I started the 'help' I think.

Not sure what's happening after this month. Still unemployed and my benefits have stopped now as it's been six months. I can't claim anything as total household income is too high, but I don't feel I can ask my oh to pay for the jabs on top of everything else he is doing.

I'll see if I can find a cheap supply if I don't get any side effects

Week 53, and 2lb off, total now 7st 6lb. I'm now the exact same weight I was when I first joined Slimming World almost 25 years ago, and this has unlocked a few memories from that time.

I thought I was huge then, and remember struggling to fit into size 20 clothes. Back then, online shopping wasnt really a thing, and the only real plus size high street option was Evans (I live in a sleepy seaside town, shopping options are limited at the best of times!). I used to take my own shopping bags because I was too embarrassed to be seen walking through town with an Evans bag. How strange that I am now the same weight, but a size 16. It just shows how much sizing has changed over the years. Thinking back, that was the start of my 20+ year long yoyo diet. We all know the drill, join a slimming club, lose a bit, stop going, pile it all back on and more, re-join, rinse and repeat. And before we know it, we are 10+ st overweight. The money I have spent on hi-fi bars and scan bran over the years would pay for a fair few MJ pens!

Anyway, just my ramblings of the day 😊. Have a great week everyone x

SW 22st 8lb
CW 15st 2lb
GW 11st 4lb

@Billybingbong oh your post about how much you have spent on hifi bars really resonates with me! Not to mention (in my case) the number of new membership fees, countdowns and missed week fines I have paid in my lifetime!
I have recently dipped under the lowest weight I reached when I last lost a significant amount of weight, which was with Slimming World, about a decade ago and similarly this has unlocked some memories for me.
I have no issues with the plan, it’s a plan like any other, and I support any decision people make when trying to tackle their weight. Believe me. I have made good, bad and ugly decisions aplenty over time so have no place from which to judge. For me, however, I feel like Slimming World was, when I stopped being able to “do it properly”, when the wheels absolutely came off and my eating patterns spiralled out of control. I really remember eating a crumpet in 2015, when I was “off plan” and battling with myself every day about it and texting my sister saying that I felt both freedom because I’d chosen not to eat speed food for breakfast and massive guilt over not counting the syns for it. A crumpet should not have this much power over a sentient human being!

Uggh, Slimming World - it could potentially have been a healthy way of eating, but if you get a load of obese people and tell them they can eat as much pasta as they want, it's only going to end badly! Also the sense of judgement and the slightly competitive feel of it - I remember once putting loads of coins in my cardigan pocket on my first weigh in, just so I'd show a decent loss the week after! I mean, how insane is that???

Slimming world..every recipe seemed to be add an egg ,..I did it so many times as a vegetarian,who hated dairy .and it was so difficult.
Not tried as a vegan ,but can't imagine they have many recipes I will eat
I think I lived of carbs ,jacket potato and pasta for lunch and dinner when I was on plan ...you couldn't just make a sandwich with normal bread everything had to be cooked for lunch and dinner ,even making your own pasta sauce.
I sound negative
But I tried really really hard to ,Iike slimming world and to make it work
But I just never lost weight on it..I was always getting told to eat more ,more fruit more veg more speed this or that .
Weight just stated the same ..I know it works for some people,I just wasn't one of them .. genuinely no idea what I did wrong

You're not going to believe this.

Yesterday I had an massive argument with my 17 year old son. His girlfriend got involved and was so aggressive I had to tell her to leave. DS left with her and said he wouldn't be back. I relapsed and binged on chocolate.

I woke up this morning feeling so guilty and ashamed that I'd thrown away another week's weightloss. A moment later as I woke up more, I realised I don't have a 17 year old DS, he's 12, doesn't have a girlfriend, and was currently sat at the end of my bed playing with the cat.

Damn you Tamoxifen and your side effect of hyperrealistic dreaming.

🤣

@MrTiddlesTheCat .gosh ..I was just going to reply with that's sounds difficult.thankgoodness it was a dream xx

They're so real that afterwards they feel more like a memory than a dream. One time I was nervous about opening the bedroom door because a family of bears had moved in and taken over. Obviously I knew there weren't really bears on the other side (although you can never say 100% seeing as I'm in Sweden) but the was still lingering fear.

I am still sane. Honest!

Wow @MrTiddlesTheCat I was so sad for you and then so happy at how your post ended, what a rollercoaster!

Jeez, I'm glad that didn't really happen @MrTiddlesTheCat

Gosh that is scary!

Following the hrt chat I've got an appointment booked with my GP for the end of the month. Has anyone had any issues with it and MJ?