May 2025 Starters Thread 8. Happy One Year Anniversary To Us!!

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As promised a new thread for our Anniversary!

Just checking how @DidILeaveTheGasOn is? Sounded like you were having a difficult time last week with it all.

took a gamble. Missing taking MJ this week. Let’s see if I feel any different or not.

@Gingercar I hope @DidILeaveTheGasOn is just enjoying her newly comfortable cowboy boots, her gold belt and her jeans. I have the impression that her life is very busy.
Maybe she'll give us a wave so we know shes OK??

I’ve taken mine four or five days late a few times without even noticing. Fingers crossed for you.

@Gingercar and @Apprenante I'm a little unsure of myself this week. I'm definitely hungrier, but in practice that means I'm eating twice a day and proper meals, which I think is a good thing. I think I might be due on next week, so maybe that's what this week is, but I might need to go up a dose as well and I cannot afford it. Who can afford 15mg?! It's around £330. I can't really justify 12.5 as it is. But actually, my heating and electric now costs more than that in the current economy.

I remember when it was £60 a month.

I'm also shopping for stuff I don't need, pretty make up brushes and new blushes (is it just me that called it 'blusher' when growing up? Was it a northern and slightly Geordie thing? That would be 'blusha' though, right?)

I think if the job market was in a better state I'd have applied for lots of different things this week. My job involves a lot of politics and knowing precisely the right thing to say, and I'm reasonably good at that but not amazing. A lot of tightrope moments already this week.

Okay, back to Vinted to look for more things I don't need... because again, if heating and electric is more expensive than private medical treatment, then why shouldn't I have a new blush(a) for a tenner?

Hey, thank you for checking, I really appreciate it. Sorry for being a bit up my own arse there.

Good to hear from you. You weren’t up yourself,
Glad to hear that you’re eating better and sound good in yourself. Hope I’m not bugging you checking!
I know what you mean about pen prices at the top end. It’s one of the reasons why I will have to stop. Easier decision as it doesn’t have much affect on me anyway.
And yes I too called it blusher. Still do. Wasn’t that what it was?

I really feel like that's what it used to be called, but now it's blush, which leaves me feeling a little wrong-footed!

It looks like pens from April won't have the bonus dose so that makes the 15mg pen the equivalent of £82.25 per dose, or £411 a month, compared to its £65.80 per dose predecessor. That's crazy. Perhaps they didn't anticipate that we'd use the extra dose, but on pretty much every pen I've used, the 'spare' dose has been 60 clicks and change. What a curious anomaly. They must have known.

I wonder if there's another element to it that we're not privy to unless working in law, that they could do this for a certain amount of time and then (Trump administration permitting) enter into a situation where: the cost of the original offering is increased and then the product itself is reduced at considerable expense to the consumer. It's medicine so it should be regulated. I don't know. I might as well yell into my armpit for all the good it'll do.

<edited to provide some clarity to my ramblings, for the love of god>

I know, and combined with the increase in the cost of the heating oil and the cost of hay for the horse, both of which have doubled in price recently, I am just not in the market for MJ anymore, can’t justify it. I’m sure I can do the last stone on my own. I’ll have to!

I hope I can, I feel like there are lots of 'excuses' (genuine or otherwise) around me at the moment, the most critical being that the consultant said I need to go back onto crutches and rest until my knee stops hurting (it hurts all the time). That's a pretty big one. The other one is I went for a role paying a lot more because I thought I'd be providing something much better for my family, but cost of living has not only wiped out the additional monthly increase but took me below what I was on before.
I'm definitely at risk of just saying fuck it and taking whatever easiest route there is left.

Oh @DidILeaveTheGasOn and @Gingercar I wish I'd got some helpful suggestions. I think you probably can manage without MJ but it will just take longer to achieve what you're aiming towards.

Are you near enough to be titrating down - sorry I can't remember. I've found increasing the intervals between jabs quite effective. That saves a bit of money.

Hugs to both of you.

I'm about a stone and a half away from entering the healthy BMI range but I suppose I was expecting a non-human result from myself at this point - that I'd be eating salad and eschewing each thought or opportunity that said, have you heard of fried chicken?

There's a lot I still need to get my head around to move on from the all or nothing mindset of old. Some compassion and allowing myself to be a standard issue human would go a long way.

I’m about a stone and a half/two stones away but I’m not bothered about bmi numbers. I don’t mind myself as things stand and if I can lose another stone I think I’ll be more than happy.
Ive only lost a stone since Xmas and absolutely nothing for the whole of April. I hope I’ll be fine without it. I can eat and eat on the pens and am constantly thinking about food. So if hope it won’t be too much of a shock! I’m eating pretty sensibly, have been the whole way through. I just don’t get the suppression to be able to eat tiny amounts. I’m strangely excited about stopping, seeing if I can do this without MJ. I really want to.

I think my eating is tied to my mood and stress levels, both of which have been shit for a while. Also, you have a fantastic figure and I'm just not at that point 😄

Oh there’s still plenty of bits that wobble! And your figure looked pretty good too.
I know what you mean. I have always comfort eaten. Had a lot of crap things happen over the last five or six years, but now I feel like even if I did comfort eat and gain a bit, I’m fighting it from the bottom end of being overweight, rather than looking at six or seven stones to lose. It doesn’t feel as daunting. It feels doable/manageable.

I think you are both inspirations. True story.

😘
How are you doing HKG?

Ah you know, ups and downs. Work and family juggle, builders in trying to fix the subsidence damage at the same time as other builders in trying to replace the leaking roof. And working on top means my good intentions to start running took a back seat again! Instead I’m playing yo yos with that one lb! 😆😆😆 Still tirating down to come off too now and hoping to go the last stone alone like you. Hope we’re still allowed on here when we going it without MJ!

We’ll just gatecrash!

Morning all - Happy Friday 💜

Whoever shared that they weigh daily - thank you! I finally changed to it this week and it's been a game changer. Really takes the pressure off to see the weigh fluctuating each day.

I've lost 2lbs this week overall - treating water drinking like it's my new hobby seems to have really helped. Just peeing for England now!!

Any nice weekend plans? We're having a picnic with friends at our beach hut tomorrow - fingers crossed it's sunny or it'll be the pub instead 😁

Happy May Jabversarry all

I have a new NSV (well not sure about the V) .. at a work leadership offsite Wednesday and we headed to the bar after dinner .. over the evening, a few individuals (work & non work) definitely flirted with me .. one started stroking my back 😱 .. I’ve been with my partner for 28 years and I can’t recall the last time I was flirted with (other than DP)!! I didn’t behave any differently than any other time!!! I’d had a few glasses of wine, but tolerance levels a lot less than before. Obvs I didn’t respond .. a bit shocked to be honest.

Last years event prompted me to start my MJ dinner as I felt so fat, frumpy & old. Whereas this year, even during the day I felt I was being treated differently. Fatism is a real thing .. definitely amongst my male middle aged colleagues.

@Herewegoagain80 , @AlicesMum2025 and @PandaIsMySpiritAnimal - fabulous photos , you’ve all done so well ! 🥳🥳🥳

@Seahorsesplendour and @WhynotJanet, @HKG and @Foreveronaplane - good to hear from you all .
What a long way we’ve all come in a year !
Definitely don’t think it’s as easy as I naively thought it would be at the beginning , quite a few bumps in the road but we are all here. clinging on to the wagon.
Not quite my personal anniversary yet , but feel all the May starters deserve some cake and a tipple to mark the year.
🎂 🍾 🥂🎂🍾🥂🎂🍾🥂🎂🍾🥂🎂🍾🥂

Crazy busy two weeks here, nothing exciting though - hospital appointments, poorly relatives, GP/ dental/ Vet appointments, Covid boosters etc etc.
Managed to get to my WW meeting this morning , have lost 1lb but would like to get back to my lowest weight of 9st 8lbs.
Hasn’t helped that being busy led to poor food choices and missed meals, so hoping to take control of that again.Think I’ll copy @DidILeaveTheGasOn and aim for two sensible meals ( and no biscuits …..).

@SussexLass87 - your beach hut picnic sounds wonderful ! Hope you have the sunshine, but am sure you’ll all have a great time regardless.

Wishing everyone a happy weekend of “joining in the fun “ -
Onwards and downwards , our wagon continues to rumble along !

Well done on the loss this week and the WW meeting @ElsieJay 👑💖

Hope that the busy-ness is over now and things are all okay.

Really interesting to hear everyone's titrating down plans and experiences - I'm taking notes ladies and feeling inspired.

Only problem with the beach hut is that it's a 5 mins walk to the loos...which doesn't sound much, but when you're a perimenopausal lady with a hefty water habit it does mean you've got to organised / quick!

It’s my anniversary today so I thought I’d post progress on the thread where I started all this!
SW 140kg 22 stone BMI 50
CW 93.5kg 14 st 10lb BM 33.2
loss 46.5kg 7 st 4lb

Still a way to go but the change so far is enormous and I am also exercising regularly and feel so much better. So many NSV as well.

well done to everyone else for all the amazing achievements over this past year, look how far we’ve come!

That’s absolutely fantastic @ConfusedMiddleAger83. Well done!