January 2025 starters - goal weight era

[HeidiLite]

New thread!

@HeidiLite how funny! Interesting how calories appear to people who have never counted them!

obviously he then loses 2 entire kilos after 2 days of very moderate calorie deficit...typical

@cloudjumper that sounds stressful and rubbish. Do get out for your own wellbeing. I'm now on my third new job in 12 months after staying somewhere toxic for too long. My physical health has improved since leaving the toxic workplace, actual physical health, let alone everything else.

Pleased to say I have a good gut feeling about my new job, two days in. Clearly that isn't very long at all, but I had a very bad gut feeling on day one earlier in the year and I was right.

My weight is boringly static which is good. I was thinking of MJ as I drove home yesterday. Food isn't important to me these days. Feeding everyone was really important to me prior to MJ, I was always planning recipes, buying gorgeous ingredients and being really creative menu wise ........these days buying a M&S gastropub meal deal so that I don't have to cook on Friday evening because one of the kids is home with me feels like a chore. 😅

How things change!

Hi all,

Sorry to hear of the PIP @cloudjumper have you thought about getting signed off by your GP while you job hunt?

@Jins Malta sounds lovely, it’s definitely on our list.

@HeidiLite That was a short story! Man gains 2kg, man restricts food for a day, man loses 2kg.

I am at my heaviest since hitting target last year, I’m eating more my appetite is back. Last weekend weighed in at 61.85kg. But I kept to 2mg as I still wanted to maintain the energy I have on this dose. However, along with the weight, anxiety has crept up this month and my workaholism is back. DH lost his job end of August, and there are more threats of another reorg at work, and the potential promotion has not come through.
The ‘taking the edge off’ effect I used to have on MJ has gone, my brain is back to its slightly neurotic base level. Also, feeling hot and sweaty! Maybe I’ve also ticked further along the perimenopause journey…even though cycles are still regular and I’m on day 2 of another heavy one.

Despite feeling chunky all my clothes still fit, although my bras cups have filled up. But I do think this is my upper limit now. So I’m thinking I need to get back down to 60kg or just below ‘to be safe’ which means increasing the dose back up to 2.5.

DH has a new job lined up for Monday, so things are hopefully going to turn a corner.

@DGmaintaining maybe it is peri? Up until
my thyroid thing I was very regular but still had a load of symptoms?

@cloudjumper I don’t know if your place is the same but if anyone gets signed off whilst they are on an active pip, sick pay is withheld. Therefore whilst I think getting signed off could be a great idea to give you some space, either check your policies at work or go asap before the pip starts. Also no sick pay whilst on notice. Good luck with it, it sounds horrendous.

@HeidiLite honestly it’s so annoying. I remember when dh lost 1.5 stone in as many months by cutting out the biscuits he ate (he did eat the entire pack tbf) and drinking more water. Sizing down from a large fries to a regular. Arsehole.

@PenelopePitstopPersists pleased the new job is good. It’s interesting re the food - I am now firmly on my medication and the desire to eat everything in sight has significantly reduced. I am tapering down my calories and it’s not been too tricky at all. I have found myself thinking maybe I don’t need the mj after all? The food noise is back in that I can pick (I just ate dds flump) but I seem to be ok.

I do have 3 pens in the fridge though and they run out in April iirc so that seems like a hideous waste of money plus I actually think it may help with my inflammation symptoms so I think I probably will go back on, albeit hopefully at a low dose.

i am feeling heaps better. Symptoms are way better and whilst i still get tired very easily, nothing like before. I am making sure I have a couple of long walks a day and that is really helping mood and energy. Weight wise it’s stable at the low end. Looking at my weigh ins, i stopped losing ‘too much’ weight back in June so hopefully I won’t put too much back on, especially if I moderate my calories down to what they should be, not those of a 15 year old boy…….

Pleased you’re feeling better @myladyjane . Health issues can take a while to sort out, adjusting meds etc so take it easy. Really good that you’re managing to walk. I need to prioritise building that into my day because I can see me going from car to car park to desk and the same in reverse while I get going at work, when I look up the clocks will have changed and I’ll be in hibernation mode.

we need a new thread!

@myladyjane glad you're feeling better!
@DGmaintaining that must be stressful! But yes for the symptoms, perimenopause is not entirely unlikely. How's your sleep? That was my main issue.

I am still too chicken to come off meds - quite curious to see the new ones coming out though, the research is very promising, so I may swap if there's something better.

oh, travel topics - we want to do something a bit different next summer and I was looking for Norwegian cruises, has anyone been? Not one of the massive 6000 people ships, something smaller.

@HeidiLite I have been twice. Once was a huge ship, went in summer but it pissed down to the extent trips were cancelled/cut short.

first time was smaller (it was pre kids so must have been 20 years ago), went early autumn. Probably my favourite ever holiday. It was so restful, beautiful and almost serene. Breathtaking scenery. We did lots of touristy trips both times including that famous railway and going round the fish market in Bergen.

i would say dds (who were 14/15 when we went) quite liked whereas we loved. But like I say, weather was dreadful (although dd and I were sat in hot tubs in the rain on deck as no one else was outside)

I weighed myself. I have gained half a stone. 😱😱😱😱😱

I am going to inject 8.5 today and see if that helps.

New thread here before this one fills up: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5585478-january-2025-starters-weight-stable-life-increasingly-unhinged