January 2025 starters - goal weight era

[HeidiLite]

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@myladyjane they were compass jellyfish, the ones with brown stripes, according to Dr google the sting is meant to be quite painful…still not sure how the people already in the sea managed to avoid them? (Not many kids in there though).
Glad you’ve ruled out diabetes and nothing too sinister has cropped up in the more recent results.

@tinyemmy there’s a gorgeous sea pool here that I meant to book before getting here, but wanted to wait till nearer the time as I thought it would rain this week. Of course, sun has been out and it’s fully booked. But good reminder for me to check out other pools near our next location.

@HeidiLite yes, beach life is easier, this is my second summer at this weight. I now own three pairs of shorts! I also changed under a towel on the beach into my swimsuit without too much of a struggle.

Good news on the test results @myladyjane. Good luck sorting the stress out and if you manage it then please let me know how! Despite being retired nowadays I still feel like I’m running on adrenaline a lot of the time.

Weight slightly up this morning following a greedy portion of lamb stifado made by my own fair hands from some slightly freezer burnt lamb. Had it with new potatoes and broccoli and it was really nice. I’ve decided to bring my jab forward so I won’t feel so hungry at the festival and grumble about the lack of gluten free options. Might push levels a bit higher than I’m used to but hopefully not into side effect territory.

I fell into a rabbit hole big time yesterday looking for ways to dispose of large quantities of polystyrene left over from a few projects. Now I’m trying to track my acetone down and looking for things to waterproof 🤣🤣🤣.

Ooh freezer lamb sounds nice @Jins . Apart from the obvious question of how to bear cooking anything when it’s hot. I really need to clear my freezer and use some of the stuff that’s been there too long.

Still hovering around 60, still on 7.5. I have some swimming/running stuff coming up so will maybe wait until after that to try to eat less and in the meantime try to make better choices (looking at you bag of left-over prawn crackers 😳)

Wishing everybody a happy weekend ☀️

My darlings does anyone use swift dr as a maintenance provider? I use pharmulous at the moment who are fine but i rarely get codes and it’s not the cheapest. Are they ok/ easy to switch/how long between orders?

No, but I’m thinking of swapping to them. Mentioned il thread I’ve had an absolute nightmare with Pharmulous and have lodged an official complaint. I used IQ doctor this time with a 30% off code. Apparently you can go 8 weeks between pens with Swift Doctor:

currently over on the continent WLI access seems to be wild west. I have gotten my prescriptions from Germany and France, but friends for example in Netherlands and Sweden say the same. Tons of online providers, one asked me for photos, but the rest of them are happy to prescribe whenever and whatever. A little worrying as I'm sure plenty of people with eating disorders etc will get their hands on the drugs.

Catching up!
Good news and no doubt a huge relief @myladyjane, hopefully just heat related and kidney etc ones ok.

@DGmaintainingholiday sounds wonderful! Are you in Madeira? Hope it’s been amazing and you managed to find somewhere to swim!

can’t wait to hear about the festival @Jinsand especially the Wurzels!

quietish weekend here, lots of jobs done including humping a huge load of logs up our drive and some steps, so that was a good workout! All packed for holiday and only 3 more sleeps!! Have had an annoying tooth niggle so trying to get an emergency dentist appt just in case! DS back from Boardmasters today so lots of washing no doubt!!

i finally managed a successful golden dose extraction on Saturday ( just in time for new pens with no golden dose!!), 7.5mg. Will jab again with new 5mg pen on Thursday. It feels like MJ isn’t having as much of an effect now, is anyone else finding that?

hope you all have fantastic weeks!

Sorry, been MIA for a while- started my new job and the first week has been intense but really interesting.
@26inprogress post festival laundry is always a different experience to usual laundry! Good luck 🤞
@HeidiLite that’s interesting about access to wli on the continent. I haven’t tried here for many months so I don’t really know what it’s like in the UK right now. Still working through my stockpile and really hoping I will finish then but who knows?
@Jins I put a load of polystyrene in my recycling ♻️ bin. The bin men took it all out and disposed of the rest of the recycling and put it back 🤣it’s impossible to get rid of - more good luck to you xxx
Got a week off now. Hoping to get a lot of house jobs done and we are also away for a couple of days. Looking forward to it xxx

@26inprogress I too have a teen returning from Boardmasters today. Well I assume he is. We’ve only had one message from him and that was yesterday and it was a photo of him eating his ‘only proper meal’ of baked beans and 8 hash browns 🤪

I have started the week on a downer. Another 4lb on. So that’s 8lb in a fortnight. I didn’t even think that was medically possible, but here we are. I could understand it if I was binge eating, boozing and lying around. But my life is pretty much the same. Still eating about 1500 a day, walking lots and not drinking.

Back from farmer Phil’s festival and a day of perfect camping weather. Lovely small festival with a fabulous relaxed vibe. I have to confess to consuming what turned out to be the perfect amount of cider as I was out for the count before the sun set and missed the evening entertainment entirely. Including the Wurzels I’m afraid but DH tells me they were brilliant and the videos he took looked fab.

in polystyrene news the bin bags full of polystyrene and solvent have shrunk to about half the original size so we’ll have to get rid of them gradually in the black bin. It’s very hard to dispose of indeed @BreezyPeer and I really don’t feel like hiring a skip at the moments as we don’t have much else to put in one

Oh @Jins proud of you (and I said the wurzels rocked)

so my thyroid tests are in and they are fucked! Turns out they did do T3 and T4 as well as tsh which is good but it did show that I am very much overactive at the moment. So repeat tests to see if it’s ongoing or just a short term blip.

tonight is reading up on mj and thyroid stuff. A quick google tells me you can do both once controlled but perhaps I need to ease off a bit. Don’t know, need to take a proper look. I actually feel a bit relieved as I knew something wasn’t quite right.

@myladyjane do you have the numbers? Just curious. And if you are thinking that surely you should be dropping pounds when overactive, not necessarily. I had it the first time I got symtoms, could eat a ton and kept losing, but the second time I did not have any weight loss, just other not very pleasant symptoms.

It’s very reassuring to get a result back when you feel something isn’t right @myladyjane. Hopefully the follow up will give a better idea of the plan. Thanks also for the misplaced pride It has caused great amusement amongst the younger generation that I managed to sleep through the sounds of a festival yet can’t manage more than a few hours at home.

DH is off on his annual camping weekend with old school friends on Friday so I’ve got a few days to myself. I’m going to spend a bit of time going through my lotions and potions to get rid of things that either don’t work or don’t get used. I did my makeup box a few months ago and haven’t touched what’s left once so I think that can go as well. I’ve got yet another wardrobe sort earmarked for next month as there isn’t much in it that fills me with joy.

Hope everyone returned from Boardmasters safe and sound and are fully recovered.

@HeidiLite my tsh is less than 0.01 mluL (last check in December it was 2.8). My t4 is 32.1 Pmol and my t3 is 9.3. Symptoms are weird - the weight loss was what worried me and goes in fits and starts - last 2 weeks I have stayed the same but this week I’m down another 2lb. I am teary and anxious but work is tough, I am totally exhausted and sleeping like a log. I have been getting light headed and dizzy but it’s hot and I don’t drink enough. My throat has been weirdly sore and my voice has been hoarse but it’s high pollen and I get a bit of hayfever. So my symptoms either don’t fit like the sleeping or could easily be down to something else.

i did read up last night on the mj - fine to use but not with uncontrolled overactive thyroid. I am quite scared about just stopping and I am scared that the weight lost because of this will come back (I know it will but whilst I could live with a few pounds, not more than that). I am emailed pharmulous to confirm I can take a 12 month break and I have quite the stockpile so I know I’ll be able to restart. Also the urge to eat a ton of cake or a huge pizza is definitely there and that is a bit upsetting. I loved the lack of wanting to overeat. So I am a bit of a tizzy really - relieved I know what’s wrong but worried about how it is going mess with stuff as it’s put right.

the anxiety can definitely be thyroid, I got full on panic attacks last time I went hyper. Hope they manage to get it under control.

Definitely all symptoms of hyperthyroidism. I'd definitely reduce mj significantly not for any other reason than you don't want to lose more weight than necessary. There won't be any issues stopping mj as it will just continue to reduce and will take many weeks so it's not like suddenly stopping. You will continue to be exhausted and lose weight until your thyroid gets back under control, when are they testing again? At least you know! May be worth asking for an ultrasound on your thyroid so they can check for goitres etc...

Losers, I had a bit of blast from the past today. One of my best friends just started WLI a few days ago and we were discussing it today. She had literal tears in her eyes describing the freedom from constant food noise. How her brain is just..silent. That she gets so much done suddenly, as she is not spending all her energy fighting with the desire to eat everything and planning next meals and feeling guilty about treats.

I had forgotten what a torture it was. Was actually angry with DH, because how come he never had it and was happily living her life without the noise?? Not fair.

That’s a great reminder @HeidiLite. I’d completely forgotten the struggle I had to ensure I didn’t eat everything in sight. Snack foods are barely on my radar nowadays and I used to make sure I had something gluten free in my bag.

I had a strange NSV at the weekend on a heritage open day. We’d visited a lighthouse and the guide was demonstrating ‘drawing the short straw’. Needless to say I got the short one (obviously planned) so she could say how unlucky that was as I’d not sustain a shipwrecked crew for long. I felt strangely proud of being the thinnest person there 🤣

My weight has crept back up to 8st 6ish which is probably a better weight for me at the moment. I’m still letting MJ do all the work and enjoying it so titrating down remains on hold. I’m going to speak to weprescribe about a break in orders as I have a stockpiled pen about to go out of date. They’ve been very helpful so far so fingers crossed.

@Jins it's funny isn't it, suddenly being the slim one. I had to remind me several times after I had lost the weight that I also need to stop making self-deprecating fat jokes, as people were looking at me funny.

Morning 🌅 everyone!
what a great reminder @HeidiLite of where we’ve come from in terms of food noise.
spent last night watching the eclipse really enjoyed it xxx

@Jins i had the opposite experience yesterday. Finally saw a pelvic floor physio (only 12 months wait for that) and she looked at me and said ‘being overweight won’t help. You can ask your GP to refer you for the healthy eating course’. Oh yay! I had no idea that eating less and moving more would make me slim! I then said I had been on MJ for 18 months and she said ‘oh are you diabetic then?’ Nope. Just fat. You can’t win.

A level results day today though. Very pleased to report that my DS got 4 A* grades and his place at first choice uni. I’m very proud of him, he’s a superstar.

@Polkadotdash you can tell DS that random formerly fat women on mumsnet are also very proud of him 😁

Oh @Polkadotdash🫣how flipping dare people…..
yay that’s bloody amazing, congratulations and enjoy being super proud!! Where’s he off to? Exciting times! What did you decide re the voucher ?
off on holiday tonight, so excited and I have a new job to come back to so that’s a relief! Pharmulous have refused to credit me the £10, so I will never be using them again and telling everyone to avoid!

Jabbing today, I
really don’t feel MJ is doing much atm, the food noise is back and I did 7mg on Saturday. Will see how it goes and may move up for a while when I’m home!!

@Polkadotdash ahhh well done him. Thats ace news.

also fuck off to the physio. I mean I get it but we all do - we are intelligent women who appreciate not optimal. But so fed up with problems being swept away because of weight: what were you meant to do? Saw off a limb?

I am leaning into my crappy thyroid. It does suddenly make sense and that all the stuff I’d been blaming the heat or hayfever for are very likely not that. Bit nervous about no MJ this week but it really doesn’t appear to be sensible!

I have a highly inappropriate nsv - yesterday 2 separate people told me they were worried about me as I was too skinny (I am actually not at all, bmi is around 23 now but I am built to be plump so I am skinny for me). No one in 50 odd years has ever told me I’m too thin so I am so taking it even if it is a health issue!

@Polkadotdash the pelvic floor physio needs a smack. But your DSs results must overshadow that nonsense. What a clever lad.