What are you doing this week that you couldn’t do before you started using WLI?

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As an antidote to the endless barrage of anti-WLI threads on MN, a thread to share how your life has changed since being on WLI (whether you are still losing weight, maintaining or have reached your goal and stopped using them).

Things I’m doing this week that I wouldn’t have been able to do before I lost 5 stone with WLI

• spend hours working in my garden enjoying the lovely weather without feeling too exhausted to continue

• being able to squat down in the garden (and then get back up again 😊)

• looking forward to choosing which of my lovely clothes to wear for a day out and going out enjoying looking nice

Buying size 8 jeans.

There’s always one.

Putting my head on my knee in yoga class.

I’ll be going on a plane on Sunday and fastening the seatbelt without an extender

I’m now light enough to ride in a hot air balloon so just booked it for next month. Only 8 weeks in and already living the lighter life.

Loving all these 😊

Wearing Zara jeans.

Knowing I can buy a bra that fits from my local M&S instead of a trip to Bravissimo.

Running for 30 minutes on a treadmill.

Feeling my ribcage and hipbones.

No longer snoring.

I am 2 months in to my Mounjaro journey, and have found these stories so inspiring, such amazing results. @measuringtaep your description of the before and after in your day is just incredible!

What a lovely thread.
For me:

Enjoying lots more room in the bath

Going from a size 18 / 20 to a size 8 or 10 - clothes shopping is a joy instead of dreading it and ending up in tears

I always exercised but now I feel fitter and have tried other classes that I wouldn't have thought to do before

No rash under my boobs in hot weather

Not feeling self conscious if I buy chocolate or go to the chip shop. Before I thought everyone would be judging the fatty stuffing their face with chocolate / chips

I don't have to spend hours deciding what to wear before a night out because I know whichever outfit I choose I will feel confident in. I can literally be ready to go in half an hour. Unheard of before I lost weight.

Just sat in the sunshine and enjoyed an ice-cream with DC without any feelings of guilt or shame. Before MJ when I was on a "diet" id have constant negative self talk in my head and feel guilty for being "bad" having an ice-cream etc as I was meant to be losing weight, then of course I'd think well I've blown it now might aswell have a binge. And repeat. But on MJ it's like a soft blanket coating my brain, and I can damn well have an ice cream if I want one, or I can easily pass, and now I've had one ill probably "naturally" (thanks to MJ) eat less dinner later, or not, and that's fine too!

The lack constant inner negative talk and guilt about eating too much, especially on the way to work.
Also, stopping eating at the first sign of feeling full and not finishing all of a meal/ a piece of cake etc so I never get that horribly-stuffed Christmas Day feeling.
Not binge-eat.

I’ve had a couple of heavy weekends recently for DP’s big birthday and then visiting family. I relaxed what I was eating and drinking and enjoyed it to an extent but also very happy to get back to eating healthily with less stodge and wine. I love what I’m eating on MJ, really enjoy my lunch and dinner and planning what I’m going to eat. That has been the surprising thing for me as I didn’t expect to enjoy food much. I love it.

@Thelessdeceived I completely agree with you - how easy it is to stop eating when I start to feel full. I have retrained my appetite responses since starting it in January.

yesterday evening after an afternoon waking and playing with the grandkids in the forest I walked into a chippy and ordered supper for 8 people. I would never have done that and would have ordered from home to be delivered as would have been embarrassed that everyone would think all that food was for me.

Great thread!

I can sprint again! I used to be a fast runner, but couldn't run properly after having kids, I was too heavy and stiff. I was at work last week, and there was a big expanse of grass around me, and I thought 'I'll try it'. And I could sprint!

Booked flights today. Didn’t pay extra to choose and am not dismayed to find I have been allocated a middle seat.

last time I flew I booked two seats to save the embarrassment of having to spill into someone else’s seat.

Being able to cut my toenails without having to hold my breath while my head turned purple.
And being able to wear budgie smugglers this week in Majorca! (sorry, TMI!)

I sat in a theatre seat! When I was 6 stone heavier I couldn’t fit. I was too embarrassed to say I couldn’t so squeezed in, overflowed on to neighbouring seats which I felt guilty about the whole performance. I got bruised hips digging in and felt like I’d held my breath entire time to take up less space.
No problems today! I can even cross my legs

I entered my gym's pull up competition and came second. I could not do a single pull up last year.

Being a normal size.
looking like a normal size human.
Wearing what I like, not the least worst option to try to cover up my size.
Finishing a dog walk and thinking it was a bit short.
Saying no to dessert.

Wow what amazing progress in a year @HeidiLite i am proud of you!

I tried on a bikini yesterday and it didn’t look grotesque 😂 Major win!! I’ve hated my body since giving birth!! So I’m hoping when I go on holiday in 3 months I might actually look/feel good 😊

Playing football with my DC!!

My thighs don’t rub together now. I had to buy cycling shorts from Primark to wear under dresses last summer!!

I had sex for the first time in years.

Im a widow and I’ve got together with a lovely new man. I still have loads to lose but I’m sure he wouldn’t have fancied me pre Mounjaro.

and I definitely wouldn’t have been getting my kit off at my biggest weight.

This is apt as I'm visiting our favourite holiday spot that we come to a few times a year. This time I have really noticed how comfortable I have felt compared to previous trips, no painful knees, hips or chafing thighs or sweaty underboob, I've not been out of breath once and have kept up and been faster than my family that used to leave me in the dust once my red spotchy sweaty face was showing how unfit I was.

Being able to order size 10 clothes from vinted and knowing they'll fit. This is a big one for me as I've been size 16-20 for the last 25yrs.

Exercise is a joy. As a former TV addict, smoker and couch potato, I actively avoided any sort of exercise from childhood. It's been a long road and a lot of mental reprogramming but now I love the gym, feeling fit and healthy. A complete 180 turn around.

As of this morning, I can see shoulder and collarbones. I can't stop staring at them in the mirror