August 25 Starters - Thread 3

[MrJollyLivesNextDoor]

Here’s the link to the previous thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5401981-august-25-starters-thread-2?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

@ArtfulCrowVersion2 ill be interested in how you got on over the next few weeks.

Ive really reached a stall and I’m less motivated as well at the moment which isn’t helping. Was counting calories religiously but I’ve not bothered for a few weeks now and I’m not losing. I’m quite flat mentally which won’t be helping, I’m not one of those people who seem to have found bags of energy on MJ, the opposite really.

so I need to start counting kcals again and drinking all the water etc!

Hi all! Haven't posted for a while so just catching up.

Interesting to see how people are doing with some reducing / coming off MJ.

Hope your husband is on the mend @Blowingrasberries

@Jean74 that's great to hear about your experience with Ozempic, it's certainly more affordable.

I went up from 8.75 to 10mg MJ about 3 weeks ago - it's funny how you forget about side effects until you go up a dose. I still get the crushing afternoon tiredness, feeling cold and thirsty whenever I go up. So I guess for me it's a balance between not going up too much / too often and keeping the dose enough so I'm still losing consistently.

Losses are still slow, about a pound a week when I go up a dose, but generally it averages out to 0.7lbs a week over time. At least it's consistent. However I'm getting very close to 12 stone now (SW 14 stone 7) which is great as it's my 'normal' weight so I feel much more like myself, and the belly is (mostly) gone!

Nearly a year since we started, wow. I'd like to lose another stone, which means another 3 or 4 months.

Has anyone thought about transitioning to pills at some point? Apparently they have been approved for private prescription but don't seem to be available yet. I would imagine they'd be cheaper. A lot of the talk around GLPs seems to be that they are designed for long term use in the same way as blood pressure or diabetic medicine is.

Weigh day again. Now back to same weight as when I went on holiday.
SW 18st 8lb
CW 13st 0lb
10mg pen

So close to the 12 st bracket. Constipation is bad but not painful. Aiming to increase water and protein this week.

Weight day and another 1kg gone.

The scale gave me a glimpse of 69kg but settled on 70.1kg. Just 10kg to go to goal (and 100g).

I can't wait to go shopping end of July for Summer clothes for the holiday.

Hello,

well just home my holiday during the night there.
was eager to weigh myself this morning to see what damage I had done and I’ve gained 6lbs. 9st2lbs to 9st8lbs.
my legs are still very swollen, I’ve drank full fat Coke for 2 weeks and lived off pizza, pasta and nuggets at my AI as it’s all I liked lol.
I will be heading into the pharmacy today to make my appointment to get back on 2.5mg, I’m away again 4 weeks today to the same hotel so I’m hoping if I go while taking MJ I won’t find myself snacking at the pool bar as much.

I was down at 8st10 so would like to get back there, as on holiday all my denim size 8s did not even fit me by day 3😂
xx

@sfraxx hope you had a good holiday. How long had you been off MJ for?

I dropped my dose down from 10mg to 7.5mg last month. I've not been very sensible with eating recently though and have been constantly putting on a pound or two, then losing it again so I still haven't reached my goal weight of 10st 7lb. I'm back at 10st 8lb this morning. I need to get back to sensible eating and drinking and see how things go this month as I'd like to keep moving back down the doses if possible as I'm quite happy with my weight now and worry if I lose much more it won't be sustainable when I stop MJ completely.

i was off MJ 3 weeks before I went, so 5 weeks now. I was doing ok until I went on holiday, I didn’t actually eat a lot of food, but I did snack on crisps and chocolate and drank coke non stop for 2 weeks. Since being home yesterday morning I’ve ate rubbish too, as our Tesco shop got delayed so had to phone a takeaway, today I had a family members funeral and we got a chippy on the way home too.
im just about to head into the pharmacy just now, I’m having to go to a different one but same business as the pharmacist at my usual one has left and they’ve no one who does the weight loss anymore. I need to start back on 2.5mg and have a feeling for 4 weeks it won’t actually do anything but I’m hoping placebo effect will kick in and stop me snacking. I weighed in at 9st10lb this morning 2lb more than yesterday so hoping in these 4 weeks I can at least lost 8lbs of those lol xx

Good morning,

1st 2.5mg done again this morning. I have a feeling it may not even affect me due to being on 5mg before but I’m hoping it can mentally put me in the right frame of mind to start eating healthy again. As I’ve ate like a pig for weeks lol. I will be taking my MJ with me on holiday to prevent the snacking.

so I will update you all next Sunday with my weight and see if I’ve lost anything.
weighed in at 9st10lbs exactly this morning.

SW - 13st11lbs
CW - 9st10lbs
GW - 9st

xx

Im bringing my jab day forward by a day every 2 weeks as I want to get back to a friday. I changed as was going on holiday. So today I am:

SW 18st 8lb
CW 12st 11lb
10mg

Another 3lb to go to hit 6st off in total so that's what I am focusing on. Can't believe I'm in the 12st bracket 😁

Hello,

little midweek update.
i weighed this morning as i was mentally telling myself this 2.5mg wasn’t going to work. I am still hungry and the suppression isn’t great. But it’s enough to keep me to my 3 meals a day. After weighing this morning I’ve lost 3.1lbs in 3 days. I know this is post holiday weight and water but still, it makes you feel better seeing it come back down.
i will definitely be moving up to 5 for my next pen again as I’m currently snacking on sour patch kids just now but I haven’t eaten today yet due to a funeral and then work.
roll on dinner time lol xx

Hi everyone.

I started back on 2.5mg on Monday. I weighed msyelf and I am 11st 6lbs. I think I was 10st 13lbs at my lowest back in March so haven't gained a terrible lot considering I've not been that strict. Had a sneaky weigh in and I'm 11st 4lbs.