Mounjaro - 10 Stone or more to lose - Thread 13

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Let No.13 be lucky for all of us.

Good luck, losers.

All welcome!

Thankyou ..yes it went very well ,they are very pleased with me
Going up to 56 mg ..with the option to go back to 36 mg if I get any side effects I can't tolerate .
For the first time in a long time ,I was able to say to a doctor I feel ok .
Have you been taking them long yourself @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden

Weight is moving 15 .11
I'm walking a lot ,and swimming a lot more
I knew deep down the issue was me being a lazy lump
And that I needed to move my body more
Took the meds to enable me to do more

Wow, that's so good to read. Well done!

Some Brilliant updates here!

@AlicesMum2025 you look fab!

nice and steady @FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden - I’m around the same and it’s slowed right down.

I remember that feeling @afaloren and it wasn’t that long ago! You will motor through the sizes in a trice!

I went out shopping today, bought a gorgeous dress from Jigsaw, lovely red linen, long, beautiful v-neck, side-split, POCKETS (obvs!). It’s a size 12 and is a perfect fit.

Then I went to Primark and tried on shorts. I feel as though my legs are a bit ‘melted-candle’ but I’m kind-of ok with that at the moment. They were the wrong length anyway!

I caught sight of myself a few times and I just look normal now. I can’t begin to express how good that feels!

Sizing is all over the place for all shops! I’m a 12 in Sainsbury and appear to be the same also in Jigsaw tops, dresses and elastic-waist trousers. But I’m also a 14-16 in Primark.

So I’d say ‘true’ size is almost impossible to gauge…

I can't remember if it was this thread or another, but I'm sure there are a few cottage cheese connoisseurs here. Our Morrisons has put price of longley farm cottage cheese to £2.19!! I'm not sure I can bring myself to pay that much. 😭😭😭

Good to have found out I guess so you could get treated. Well I’ve booked a full body composition one for later this week so we’ll see what it says. As my BMI is still 33.5 I know all the fat etc will be too high but gives me a measure and after another 6 months of weigh loss and exercise I have another to see the progress. Plus it would have been far far worse a year ago!

Good morning ladies.

I have had a lovely run of a few NSVs over the past week and I am feeling quite good!

I have a whole new wardrobe of clothes without spending a penny. All the clothes I have stashed away over the past 10 years because I couldn't fit into them now fit, nearly fit, or will fit at some point. Every morning I am excited about what I am going to wear, rather than throwing on the same trousers and jumper just because it covers me.

Our shower has broken, so my only option is a bath. I have not had a bath for many many years. My first attempt was not very successful, but I realized this was more of a case of me being too nervous than me actually not being able to get down into the water. So I tried again on Sunday. Easy!! I had gaps either side of me and I relaxed fully in warm water!!

Then on getting out of the bath my towel actually wrapped around me without the upside down V across my front!

When I first started on this journey last June I remember reading here that someone was excited that they had been able to cross their legs and balance their Bible on their leg for a Bible study. This resonated with me and I loved it. Last Thursday evening I was able to do the same and sat with a smug smile on my face the whole time!!

On Sunday a lovely friend gave me her normal hello hug and whispered in my ear, "hello skinny you look gorgeous!". Ok, I am not delusional, I am in no way skinny, I am still over 15 stone. But it felt sooooo good!!! 😁

It seems that just as the weight loss has slowed massively I am being encouraged to keep going by all these lovely things that are happening to me.

Thank you for all sharing your stories of ups and downs. It's so good to read the positives and know that we are not alone when I read someone struggling in a way I am.

Wishing you all a wonderful day, to the best bunch of mumsnetters I know.

@PositiveAttitude those are lovely NSVs!

I've got a potentially exciting one coming - I may have inspired my daughter to make some positive changes for her health. I have two teenage daughters, one is naturally slim and has a BMI of 18 despite living off processed carbs and doing minimal exercise. The other takes after me and has a BMI of around 26. I've always been so careful about not giving her any body image issues or making her feel like she is overweight but it is hard when she has her sister to compare herself to. Anyway, she has been trying to get more active and last night (and again this morning) she said she might like to try running with me. So tonight we will be starting couch to 5k, everyone keep your fingers crossed she likes it!! Her diet isn't awful but she is quite restricted in what she eats (likely autistic) but a bit of exercise will probably be all she needs to get into a healthier weight.

@RenegadeKeeblerElf That’s lovely that you will have a running buddy! I completed C25K earlier this year and I can now run 5km! Never in million years did I think that I could do that. Have you run before? If yes, ignore my comments, if not, hope this helps… the first few weeks are the worse and every time I increased the running time, I felt out of my depth but kept going and it started getting easier. But you have to do the regular runs! I run 3-4 times a week to build up the fitness. If I wasn’t ready to move up to the next stage, I did one extra run with the lower running time but kept going. Afterwards I always felt good. And remember to stretch before and after!

Good luck, hope you and your daughter enjoy it! ❤️

I've done C25K loads of times, most recently finished earlier this year and I run 3 times a week now including parkrun every Saturday. So this will be in addition to my normal runs, I'll go out with her in the evenings to keep her motivated, and help my step count!

Yay!
I've finally lost another lb.

It's taken a whole month, but it's gone.

I'm now 10st 4lb.
That's a total loss of 9st 12lb.

Inching closer....... nearly at the finish line.

Guys, please stop worrying that your losses have slowed down. It's completely normal when you're getting closer to your goal.

I'm dreading my post holiday weigh in tomorrow even if the gain is caused by inflammation and water, I'd only just got rid of the last weight I'd put on. It's like groundhog day 😂

I still remember my joy at being able to have a bath @PositiveAttitude - I've always hated showers, but was forced to use only showers for ages, due to being too fat to fit in the bath and later because of a broken ankle. Now I LOVE my baths!

I recently discovered Arla cottage cheese @Castlebark - I'd always had Langley but I have to say I think this is even tastier!

Hello everyone. I’m still reading every night just struggling with what to share.

Week 3 in hospital and pretty miserable. 😞 am eating like crazy. Deliveroo most days because I just hate the food but just having subway salads or sandwiches so not too bad. Have just decided to try not to care too much and deal with it when I go home. There was a gap of 9 weeks between when I was here last time and I only lost 3kg in that time. And who knows what I’ll gain now.

In good news, I had blood tests 11 months after the first set. My hba1c has gone from 39 to 29, so that’s positive.

@Castlebark £2.19 is a lot!! I get it from M&S. I live opposite a Dobbies that sells it but it’s £2.99 there and I refuse!

Well done gorgeous 😻

@PearlsTeapot good to hear from you, I have been thinking of you and wishing you well with your recovery and hope you’re back home with DW soon. Great blood test results you’ve doing fab.

Lovely to hear from you @PearlsTeapot - lots of love to you x

Hi @PearlsTeapot I am sorry you are struggling but you are doing well. You’ve come through so much and despite it all, you’re still making better choices. Ordering takeaways when the food is bad is so easy to do but you’re ordering subway salads and rolls, it’s not perfect but you’ve made a positive choice when you think what you could have been ordering. In the past I used to rotate between 3 or 4 different pizza takeaways so they wouldn’t be aware I was eating takeaway pizza 3 or 4 times a week as well as Chinese and a kebab from other places.

This is a time to be kind to yourself, think of it as you are having a hard time but instead of resorting to a less healthy takeaway you are still making a positive choice. Yes, you may put on a few pounds but will be significantly less than if you had made different choices so you are still winning.

Look after yourself x

Hi @PearlsTeapot
I think a loss of 3kg in nine weeks is very good. That's 7lb.

Do you think it's likely you'll get another section, when this one runs out? Or will they send you home? I really hope you get discharged.

@PearlsTeapot that HbA1c result is a phenomenal drop, that must be very pleasing.

I have a NSV or a non-scale experience maybe. My partner just physically lifted me up, picked me up. And he could do so without doing himself an injury! He has never been able to do anything like that before - I’m lighter than when I first met him, donkeys years ago. Not sure I like the fact that he can lift me off my feet!

@RenegadeKeeblerElf I split dose and until recently it's been working very well for me. Now up to a 7.5 pen, but I do half the dose (3.75) twice a week, 3.5 days apart. So for me, on Sunday night and Thursday morning I do 30 pen clicks each time instead of 60 once a week. I found it helpful in keeping food noise steadily low; when I was taking the full dose once a week, I would sometimes get a little nauseous the first day after jabbing and cravings would start up again on day 5. I think this split dosing keeps the levels in my body steadier, which until recently has better for me than going up and down each week.

It does mean you need more needles for your pens, but a package of 100 is like £5 and lasts forever? And I also got extra alcohol swabs and carefully clean the end of the pen before and after use each time, as potential contamination from more frequent use of the same pen is one of the official reasons not to do it.

However, I once made the mistake of mentioning this in the online questionnaire when getting a refill from my provider, and got scolded for not using as directed. But I've had absolutely no problems (in fact, I've had fewer problems) and am taking the same overall dose each week.

I've also seen people say online that sometimes after split dosing for a while they have to go back to once a week, as they feel their body gets used to the steady dose and it stops working as well. That may be the case and I may try going back to 1x/wk if my month-long plateau continues.

Of course all guidance says we shouldn't use prescription meds in a way other than directed so this is not medical advice!

@EverybodysALebowski I think I've decided to go up to 6.25mg for now and keep it once a week - I've done about that a couple of times when using the 5th dose and it was fine, I'm definitely getting less suppression across the week now so I think I need the boost. I really don't want to have to go up to buying 7.5mg pens due to cost, but I have enough spare pens at the moment to keep buying 5mg but take 6.25 or even 7.5 for a few months, by which time I will hopefully be at goal and be able to start titrating down.

I'm going to have to come of mj..
I've got 2 weeks of 15 mg left ,that I'm going to split over 4 weeks.
Then take a month of to see how I do .
If it's horrendous,I will start at the beginning again with a different company.
It's entirely my own fault ..
I didn't declare to my ADHD meds prescriber that Im taking monjroro
I gave a list of the medication in my meds bag and just totally forgot ( genuinely),that I was on monjroro.
Then I thought oh well ,to late now ,might as well carry on ..but the anxiety got the better of me ,and I was worried they would take me of the ADHD medication.
So stopping monjroro seemed the logical thing
This way ,I can ask the ADHD meds prescriber if it's ok first .,before starting at the beginning
Madness ,I know ,but fairly typical of the frequent messes I get myself in 😭