Mounjaro - 10 Stone or more to lose - Thread 13

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Let No.13 be lucky for all of us.

Good luck, losers.

All welcome!

@MummyInTheNecropolis that sounds fabulous, for you I mean. I had to go to London yesterday and walked about 3 miles and I am so stiff today I've sat gaming on the couch all day. So unfit

Wow your an inspiration x

...........if I can get in a swimming costume at a size 32, the gym in actual clothes should be a breeze

Sorry @Springflowers2 but that made my burst out laughing.

You have a very amusing turn of phrase.
🤣

Wow I wish I liked exercise! I genuinely dont, and I hate walking, which is part of the reason I got so fat in the first place.

I go to aqua once or twice a week, and the gym. I actually went to the gym today for the first time since I came home from hospital, it was ok, DW took me to motivate me into going back. She goes every day at 6am, rain or shine. I wish I was like that!

Well done @Springflowers2 I'm proud of you for signing up to the gym. I advise you to get into a good podcast or audiobook, DW and I have just started listening to the Mel and Sue one that @GnomeDePlume recommended. I also watch things on netflix on my phone while I'm on the exercise bike or treadmill.

Just to add my pennies worth on going to the gym- I used to really hate it, hate walking, hated getting hot/ warm/. The idea and fear of everything rubbing and slapping together basically. I was also scared of feeling tired, it feeling hard, feeling I couldn't keep up with my kids/ family/ my feet aching/ not wearing the right clothing. You name it I hated it and after a while of taking every small steps towards being more active I realised I had been so scared but these things weren't actually things to fear of that makes sense. They were stories I was telling myself and I didn't have to keep believing them.

I would never walk the school run, or just to the local shop but by slowly being more active, getting into strength training I just started to conquer some of these fears.

I also noticed how if we were all out for a walk and going up a hill everyone would be out of breath, not just me. Other people also got tired and needed a rest at times. My fear was holding me back so much, making me more inactive as I was spending ages comparing myself to everyone else.

Anyway don't mean to sound evangelical about it as no-one needs preaching to and I'll start to sound like a dick-head, but for me I've become a lot less fearful along this journey and realised how unfounded some of my fears were.

On days where I don't feel so great/ have less energy/ can think of lots of other things I want to do, I think of the exercise like brushing my teeth- I try not to overthink it & just get it done. I also tell myself I'll just do 10 mins but once I'm there I get into it and when I don't do it/ couldn't when recovering from surgery I actually missed it.

I hate exercise, absolutely hate it. I used to think it was because I wasn't physically able to do it, but now I am able, I still hate it just as much. I have bought a treadmill, and have been gifted a vibration plate, and I force myself to do half an hour every day on those, but I just find it a chore, and really don't enjoy it.

Nice to not feel so alone @Billybingbong im exactly the same. It is purely through will power and gritted teeth that I exercise, I’ve never known an endorphin arrive from it!

I also hate most exercise. Can’t stand the gym. I get bored very quickly. I’m also very uncoordinated so find a lot of classes very tricky - aerobics is a nightmare!

The main thing is I don’t get exercise endorphins, no high, nothing. So I can deal with exercise as a byproduct of something else. Cycling to work is fine. But as a thing just for its own sake, no. It’s just tiresome, dull and I can’t switch off my brain long enough to get it done.

I have bought a treadmill, and have been gifted a vibration plate, and I force myself to do half an hour every day on those

I've bought another vibrator and don't need half an hour a day on it.
At my age (69) ten minutes is sufficient.

I'm hoping this counts as exercise since I don't go to the gym.

Good luck @Springflowers2 - that's brilliant! It's so good to at least try, and so brave to do something new - one of the things I love about reading all your posts is seeing people's lives grow. Many of us ironically became smaller as we became bigger, all of the shame and embarrassment and the way we were made to feel by a sometimes cruel world bringing us so low we wanted to become invisible. I remember doing a Yoga with Adriene video and she said 'take up space', and I realised how alien that was to me - that despite being hugely obese, I was always hoping people didn't notice me, always trying to not take up space, always scared. Doing a new thing like going to the gym is stepping outside your comfort zone - pat yourself on the back for that at least!

So, as you know, I'm currently on a break from Mounjaro (which when I say it out loud reminds me of Rachel and Ross in Friends!), and I realised this morning that for about the last four or five days I've woken up stiff and sore, and that I've had pain in my hips and the ankle I broke and had repaired. I always knew there were more benefits to MJ than the weight loss, but this has absolutely proved it to me - the anti-inflammation properties are definitely real! No point to what I'm saying, I just find it interesting - it took me a moment to join the dots, I just spent a few days thinking 'gosh why am I so sore? Why is my ankle playing up again?' and wondering if I should go swimming (which I deffo should!). Then I figured out it was three weeks since my last dose, and the drug was leaving my system. It's the only explanation, I've had no change in lifestyle - some gain, but that's been gradual. If this all clears up when I go back on MJ, then honestly, I think it'll be worth staying on it just for that!

I am enjoying far less pain and joint stiffness in my knee, which I mangled 3 years ago, @eibbed999. It's good to know that it is likely the MJ that is keeping that at bay. You sound positive on your break. I hope it goes well for you.

I am another exercise averse person here. I used to love swimming but have only been a few times since we moved to Scotland 6 years ago. Maybe I should try going again. What I hate about my local pool is that the showers are right beside the pool, not in the changing rooms where I felt more "hidden". Everyone that is swimming can see you have a shower afterwards, which I found just weird!!! When I asked a friend she was confused as she has always had this.
Is that a Scottish thing???

Anyway, KLAXON!!!!! I can comfortably cross my legs!!! 😁
I love crossing my legs. I feel so much more ladylike!!

Has anyone else tried the new app called "needled" which is an alternative to shotsy? I have just got it and I am quite impressed with it. It is far easier to log jabs that are not the normal dose every 7 days. It also has handy other things about the dose on there. It was designed by someone who uses MJ and fiddled with dosing. And it's free.

Hope you are all having a good weekend.

As of this morning I have now lost 3 stone!

I’m still on 7.5 and I’m losing on average 1.5 lb a week. Although it doesn’t come off in neat 1.5 lb blocks, it stalls for weeks on end, testing my resilience and anxiety and then 4lbs come off at once. But I’m learning and I’m hopeful that I’m getting better with coing with the process.

I have about another 10 to lose so it’s not really visible, although I can feel that some clothes fit better . but I can now walk downstairs without holding onto handrail, walk down the aisle on a train. Put the table down on the train. Am in generally less pain and am more mobile . Which is amazing.

Congratulations on losses and leg-crossing and holding steady!

I also have a lot less pain in my joints from MJ. I injured my back over 40 years ago and right now it’s feeling the most comfortable it has in years and I’ve been all kinds of weight and sizes since I was 18!

Anyway. KLAXON! 🔈 📣

I have finally hit a loss of 7 stone or 98lbs!

I am very relieved! It feels like the last few pounds have taken ages - my current long-term average is a pound a week.

Week 59, 10mg

SW 19st 4lbs (Jan 2025, pre-MJ)
SW on MJ 18st 11.5lbs (1 Mar 2025)
CW 12st 3.75lbs
Change this week -1.5lbs
Total loss 98.25lbs/7st 0.25lb

I’m away for my mum’s birthday this week so I will try to keep it in control, I’m jabbing today, away Tuesday to Friday. But there is going to be cocktails and dinner out so…

We’ll see!

Onwards and downwards Losers!

1.5lb off this week, it's tipped me just into the 14s.. 14 st 13lbs! Haven't been in the 14s since 2013, I can't believe it. Swear I felt smaller then though.

Struggling with clothes at the minute, I've got size 18 jeans from Primark and Asda etc which are falling off me, yet those online clothes calculators where you enter your measurements tell me I'm still a 22?!

I'm another one who hates exercise except for swimming and playing sports or zumba etc, or lifting weights, and I still struggle to motivate myself to do those 😆. I hate running, and the cardio machines at the gym etc. Running actually hurts me but I wish I liked it, I'd love to do our local park run if I wasn't so crap at it!

@Janie934 yep I'm having the headrush/fainting issue! I've always had headrushes since I was little but I've almost fainted a few times since going up to 5mg. I read it's down to mj lowering blood pressure so I presume it lowers it lot more when we're sitting down. I'm trying to remember to get up slowly but I do forget!

Have a great Sunday everybody ❤️

Well done for all the achievements, @PositiveAttitude @diggitydoo and @TragicMuse !

I think I must be the only person who doesn't get an anti-inflammatory effect from MJ. I still have plantar faciitis, I still have tendonitis in the other ankle, I still have a slightly dodgy hip/lower back that gives me a warning signal from time to time. I have noticed an improvement in my overall mobility, but I think that is mostly from weight loss and exercise rather than the jabs.

On the other hand, I do genuinely enjoy my exercise and have even started seeking out opportunities to walk places rather than drive! I do get endorphins but I also really respond to other motivators like the challenges in my Garmin app! I'm currently on a 125 day streak of meeting my step goal every day (it's set at 5,000 to be achievable but I may increase it soon), and I've also exercised on all but 3 of those days (when I was on holiday). Keeping up those streaks is a huge motivator for me and gets me out of bed at 6.30 to swim or run before work!

Ooh I also meant to mention, I got an email from My Fitness Pal to say they'll be updating the app to include a GLP1 tracking function, just for anyone who's thinking of downloading it

@RenegadeKeeblerElf that's a very impressive streak, well done! I wish I had your motivation 😁

I'm a very all or nothing kind of person - if I let either of those streaks break then I would completely lose all motivation to exercise and possibly also to eat well. So it's kind of self-preservation.

This was me. I'm traumatised ny my lying, untrustworthy scales. Now I go over to the healthcentre and use theirs.

I'm so cold today three sweatshirts on and a vest and my electric blanket my hands are so cold teeth chattering. I hate it makes you feel so cold and hungry so hungry. Wegovy is useless. I'm so fed up 😞

I have a NSV! I went to Ikea yesterday and look at my haul! Why is this a NSV? Because I paid for it entirely with the surplus I have built up since starting mounjaro and not buying takeaways and junk foods.

Oh god
Don't feel proud of me
I went this morning and I didn't like it
It was so busy and no fresh air ..I felt like there was artificial air ,like in a premier inn where you can't open the windows and it's fake air .
So I was already still joined because I'm joined for swimming,so I just had to pay for a session.
I love my swimming each day ..but honestly I didn't love the gym..maybe week days will be less busy .

I had a similar experience on Wegovy.

I have a feeling that if people are used to the effects of MJ then Wegovy just won't be as good/effective.

However, people who start off on Wegovy seem to get positive results.

I'm utterly and horribly freezing cold today. It feels like I'm only wearing a thin top, whereas I've actually got two jumpers on.

Right, I'm going to put on a big cardigan and roast some vegetables. Having the oven on always warms me up.