Mounjaro - 10 Stone or more to lose - Thread 13

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Let No.13 be lucky for all of us.

Good luck, losers.

All welcome!

I am inching down! It’s very slow at the moment!

I’m now half a pound off a 7 stone loss, and I so want to hit that….I want to lose more than that overall but that little target is taunting me!

Keeping at it…

The magnesium thing is interesting. I have tried taking it but the capsules are so huge! And I forget. But I got a magnesium foot cream in my advent calendar and with CBD drops and a pillow spray I can get 6 hours unbroken sleep, which is incredible in its rarity! I don’t do it all the time but when I do it’s great!

So for the last few weeks I was dropping a pound a week, which I know is still progress but it was frustrating me as I was close to the 7 stone and 100lb total mark. Today's weigh-in I've finally had a whoosh and lost 4 pounds, so I am now fully over the 7 stone mark and have lost a grand total of 101 lbs. It's funny how motivating these points can be!

I can't stop thinking that my scales aren't working properly and that actually I haven't lost anything at all. I've never weighed on another set (in the last year at least), what if mine have been broken right from the start? I don't think I've ever replaced the batteries, ever.

I also think I've got significantly fatter in the last few days, my legs look way bigger and wobblier, I actually did a double take when I looked in the mirror, they did not look this bad last week, can't even describe how horrific they now look.

I'm not having the greatest week, I'm worrying about everything and I look awful 😡

Oh bless you @Fffreeeeezing - you're having a moment! Deep breaths. This too shall pass! I'm sure you don't look awful, you're being overly self-critical as we all can be (and which doesn't help because it makes us feel crap, and when we feel crap...)

@Fffreeeeezing you've lost over 9 stone, there is no way that your scales would be that inaccurate! Change the batteries today if it helps, or find a scale in a Boots (do they still have those?) and check you are in the right ball park. A different set of scales at a different time of day, in outdoor clothes and shoes won't give you the same number but should be close enough for reassurance!

I think sometimes body fat changes consistency (if that's the right description) as you continue to lose weight, it goes squishy before it goes completely. It could also be water retention as well, perhaps?

@Fffreeeeezing Can you check measurements? Are you measuring yourself once a month? Sometimes I find I've lost inches but not so many llbs.

I know I'm being silly, mostly about the scales but you know how these mad things go through your head even though you know they're nuts. I might get new batteries though, even though logically if they were knackered, why would they go down in a logical way each week, I'd be getting out of kilter results and I always stand on the scales lots of times at WI and they always give the same results multiple times!

Maybe I am retaining water and that's why my thighs and calves have gone epically wobbly. Maybe I just need to live in gym leggings for the rest of my life to hold my flesh in?!

And I was not clever enough to either take photos or take measurements. I thought about it, and then couldn't bring myself to do it as I was scared of seeing them. It took enough courage to get on the scales in the first place

@Fffreeeeezing I didn't (couldn't) take measurements at the start. I think if I had measured my waist during my first week on Mounjaro I might have mentally imploded. Standing on the scales was all I could manage, and that was only after making sure it was displaying in kg. I could not have managed to look at my weight in stones and pounds. Even though the spreadsheet that I made automatically converts my kg weight entry to st/lbs .... somehow seeing it on the scales under my feet is terrifying, where seeing on screen on a spreadsheet I can cope with. Brains are weird things.

@Fffreeeeezing aw you’re having a wobble that’s ok! We all have them. I’m sure your legs don’t look any different from last week. It’s just our brains twisting things. Thank goodness for gym leggings! Remember everything will keep changing, size shape everything. Big hugs lovely ☺️

I never measured or took specific photos either, I wouldn’t have been able to cope with it but I wish I had now! I like the idea of taking a photo in the same clothes every month. If I could go back I’d do that.

@Fffreeeeezing what mag citrate did you buy? I want it for constipation but every one I've bought have been too big for me to swallow. Please let me know the size of yours!

@GnomeDePlume what's the name of the podcast please? Other than aqua occasionally I haven't been back to the gym since I came home from hospital two months ago. I could do with some motivation.

Hey @Fffreeeeezing don't panic my darling!

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I look fatter than the day before.
That's due to whatever clothes I'm wearing, of course.

The scales have informed me that I've gained 6lb this week. I'm not surprised as DS1 was here, and I took my eye off the ball for four days.

But I know it's water weight. I can't possibly have gained 6lb of fat in a week.

All I need to do is OMAD for three days, and I'll be back to 10st 5lb.

I also look at the labels in my clothes:

• Size 10 jeans.
• Size 8 - 10 tops.
• Size 32 bras.
• Small-sized knickers.

Also, my biggest achievement - my legs are definitely getting thinner, and that makes me very, very happy.

You're having a wobble @Fffreeeeezing but you'll be okay, I promise. We all have them. I don't believe there's anything wrong with your scales. Your emotions are playing tricks on you, that's all.

@PearlsTeapotI got it from Amazon. I just took some pics of the capsules for you but realised they need to be next to something for context - so here's a grubby teaspoon (my dishwasher has let me down hasn't it!) and a packet of bog standard paracetamol for size comparison, I don't think they are too big and they are capsules so a bit shiny, but I don't have problems swallowing any tablets so I'm probably not the best judge!

I only got them yesterday and took 2 straight away and they've already made a difference, I think I'll probably be back to normal by tomorrow.

I got the healthy metal, you drink it, it's a miracle for me and my insomnia also sold cramps and constipation

@PearlsTeapot it's called Mel and Sue should know by now

If you find them funny (and I do) then I warn you, it's dangerous to start laughing while using resistence machines!

Thank you all!

@Fffreeeeezing ill order some, thank you, never tried to swallow capsules but ill give them a try. I’ve got some macrigol (Movicol) to start next week too which I’m dreading because I gag easily. And the texture of Movicol that I tried once was awful. Someone said to try it through a straw so I’m going to give that a go.

Why do I feel so bad about falling face first into some of the Easter chocolate that my daughter wasn’t eating. My total food intake was still nothing like what I would have typically eaten in a normal day before and I didn’t finish my lunch and yet I feel like I’ve fallen off a wagon.

Hi, im mummy343 but forgot my password and using a different login now.

I was 7 stone down and delighted then went out on Saturday and have gone completely off the rails this week. Up about 4/5 pounds 😭
Thing is im away abroad 4 weeks this Saturday. So enough is enough I want to clean eat i was hoping to get to the 12's as I was 13.6 but this will never happen the way im eating. Sorry just had to moan. So frustrated at myself!

Week 61 weigh in for me this morning and I've lost 2lbs which takes me to a total loss of 10 stone exactly!!

Still feels like a dream come true, I never thought I could get anywhere close to a normal weight. I've had enough wobbles now to know mounjaro isn't a magic bullet (Easter became worryingly similar to Christmas for me - eating just went completely off the rails and I struggled for a good week or so to get back on track and still am to some degree) BUT I do still feel like there's something miraculous about it. I'm so grateful I took the leap, and continually grateful to be able to just about afford to.

I'm 15st 5lbs today so still got a fair way to go but even if I got 'stuck' here my life is so much easier than before - I'm in size 14/16 clothes and I can sit on friends settees and not spend the whole visit worrying I'll break it, I can go to a restaurant and not scour the website for pictures of the chairs beforehand, I can bump into someone on the school run and not feel panic because I'll have to sustain a conversation and walk. I realised the other day that I was meeting someone who didn't know the bigger me and that felt strange.

Thanks for being the best, most supportive thread. Absolutely love hearing about everyone else's journeys too, so glad I found this.

@UsernameShmusername2024 10 stone! That's amazing , well done, 🥳 you should feel so proud of yourself.

I have worked out that I have lost a whole person with a healthy BMI. And I'm still obese!

The range of sizes at the same weight is fascinating. At 14 stone 2lbs I'm still in size 22 clothes. But I dont know if this is because I am a funny shape (barrel balanced on sticks) or because I am now too used to clothes which are baggy. 'Fitted' feels constricting.

Had my Monjiversary / Jabiversary on Weds whilst away with friends (and a lot of wine and eating out). Yet to weigh. But did manage to walk 20000 steps each day without complaint - although hotel room on top floor with rickety stairs made me puff. Wearing size 22 jeans instead of size 26. I know I am a slow loser (5.5 stones in a year) and I've been on 7.5 a long time so I am content with that and usually with the wiser choices I am making.

Amazing successes here, and wonderful NSVs!

I’m still bouncing around the same bloody pound. It’s just irritating because I know I’m doing the right things, I’m working hard, and I’m not getting my reward.

Ah well. On to the next!

You and me both! But it's great to see others winning their battle. Off to London today so I better get my arse into gear.

Week 54 and I've stayed the same this week. I'm really annoyed with myself because I was showing a 3lb loss a few days ago, but its all piled back on again thanks to Tesco and their reduced price Easter chocolate. I thought I would treat myself to a little bag of Lindt mini eggs. They were lovely, and so was the 2nd bag, and the 3rd. God I'm such a dickhead sometimes, I can't have anything in moderation! It just goes to show, even after all this time, that bloody self sabotage gremlin is always there, waiting to pounce as soon as you let your guard down. But I've paid the price, I've been up half the night with acid reflux. And I've sent DH off to work with the remainder of my stash, so it's all out of the house now. Onwards & downwards, ffs.

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

Well done for all the scale & non scale victories this week, solidarity to those of you who are struggling, and a great big up yours to the easter bunny & his cheap shitty chocolate bollocks

@Billybingbong and yet even if the Easter bunny did actually have chocolate bollocks, I imagine most of us would still struggle to not eat them, be weird though eh?! I can't actually imagine a shape of chocolate that would deter me.......🤣

I will join the club of irritable losers 😄

my weight in April so far:
01/04 82.8kg and I managed to get it down to 81.5kg.
04/04 82.6kg
09/04 81.3kg
13/04 82kg and this morning 81.8kg

and the dates between, the weight was either been moving up or down towards the weight I’ve written down.

Im not sure what’s going on. Calories in/out and deficit have remained consistent on the tracker. I know that I have still lost 1kg in two weeks but this is the first time I’m going up/down as much as I have done between days. I will see how it goes for one more week and then start thinking of tweaks.

EDITED: after I posted and reread my message, I’m thinking that maybe I should be more positive and focus on the 1kg loss which is still 0.5kg per week instead of looking this from negative point of view. But it’s hard!!! I also need to remind myself that I’m much closer to my target vs where I started this journey.