Mounjaro - 10 Stone or more to lose - Thread 14

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Wow. Thirteen threads behind us and many friendships forged.........

We've even been turned into a Group Thread.

All are very welcome.

I wanted to add that this thread has kept me going! I am so grateful for everyone here. For sharing your stories, concerns and achievements.
I may not comment as much as some of you, but I read every post.
Just thank you to every single one of you. 💖

@PositiveAttitude wow wow wow, you look bloody amazing!!! A massive well done, you should be rightly proud of yourself. Your words resonate, it truly is a life changing journey ❤️

Looking great @PositiveAttitude!
That is such a transformation, you should be so proud. Love the username, seems so appropriate.

What an incredible year @PositiveAttitude and you look wonderful! What a change. You should be so proud of yourself for how far you've come. Imagine where you'll be in a year.

I had my 'MOT' with the Mounjaro friendly GP this morning. Long story short, my BP is now the low side of normal, after being high for the last 30 years. He reviewed all my meds, and I no longer need 3 of my 6 repeat scripts, he's ordered a ton of bloods to see if I'm lacking anything with my hair thinning, and best of all, I cheekily asked for a Dexa scan, and he's agreed to refer me. One of the meds I've been on for 10yrs carries a risk of osteoporosis, and coupled with my weight loss and my age (rude, I'm only 55!), he agreed a Dexa would be a good idea.

He did say that I should step up the resistance training, but apart from that, I am doing everything the absolute right way, and have clearly made a massive improvement to my health. He was sorry I was having to fund it myself and if he had his way, he would be prescribing it to many of his patients.

I can't say I usually enjoy a GP appointment, but this one was very positive, and the first one ever where my weight has been discussed positively. What a refreshing change!

You look amazing. 🤩. Well done 👏

Looking fab @PositiveAttitude! I think many of us have had the same observation that once you get below 20ish you can drop through sizes fairly quickly. So lots of good thoughts for that for you.

I am feeling wretched. Lots of stuff going on. And I think I messed up my dose for the last 2, totally forgot I was counting clicks to take 10 from a 12.5 pen. So have high-dosed accidentally.

I keep falling over/stumbling, close to crying f most of the time, radically underperforming at work. It’s all a bit shit.

So I’m going to get my bloods done. I think I might have a Vit B12 deficiency.

Fingers crossed eh?

Well done @PositiveAttitude you look marvellous. @Billybingbong that sounds like such a positive appointment! Well done!

Hope you get some answers and things improve @TragicMuse B12 deficiency is very common but treatable!

Sw 144kg
CW 82kg

Wanting to show you all my healthy chicken salad lunch. I stole this fr gousto I bought a few weeks ago.
Sweetcorn, peppers, tomato, red onion, spring onion, lime juice and chilli flakes to make it interesting. Add protein of your choice - chicken for me.
Omg it tastes so nice!!
Definitely feel my taste buds have changed during this process because I'd have laughed if you offered me a salad 18 months ago. 😉

Forgot my picture!

Thank you call so much for your lovely comments.
It took a lot of courage for me to post a photo! 😏

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOnei hope you are home and feeling well again soon.

@PearlsTeapoti hope you are at home now and can relax with your family.

@TragicMusei hope you feel better soon, too and can get to the bottom of why you are feeling so rubbish.

I absolutely love this heat!! We spent a few years living in South East Asia and got used to intense heat, loving it even as a big person. But I am enjoying it even more now that I am significantly reduced! 😁

I'm getting discharged and going home on Sunday!

DW driving down Saturday to collect me. It can't come quickly enough, I am melting in my hospital room, it's unbearable.

So I need some people to tell me to pull myself together or something along those lines.

Tomorrow it will be 4 weeks since I last weighed (29th May). In that time the scales have been hidden in a cupboard, I've had a 10mg jab (accidental, was aiming for 12.5 🙄) and 3 x 15mg jabs. Can't say I've stuck to my deficit 100%, more like 95% ish (there was a few large bags of malteasers and a takeway I seem to remember but nothing that I didn't move straight on from and go back to my usual healthier calorie counted food.

My problem is this, I was going to weigh tomorrow but now I'm too scared to in case I haven't lost anything. My fear is being exacerbated by the current high temps (35+ where I am) and I'm sure I must be retaining water, I can't believe most people aren't at the moment as it's freakishly hot.

So now I'm thinking do I wait til Tuesday ie. the end of the month as it should be significantly cooler by then but I'm still freaking out that I could have put weight on (I'm basing this on nothing but sheer panic, not any concrete evidence I should add). I just feel I might have a mental meltdown if I don't see a drop in the number. It's not helping that I'm only 5lb away from being under 100kg and 6lb away from a 10st loss so it feels like pressure (from myself I hasten to add, no one else).

I had the break in weigh ins because the weekly ones were stressing me out and I wanted to step away from the scale number, as it turns out, I'm far more stressed now, lesson learnt in think.

Help?

Yay!!! So pleased for you, wishing you all the good things and good health

Oh @Fffreeeeezing don't beat yourself up so much.
Step on if you want. Or stay off if you want.

Whichever you do is not going to change anything and won't make you put on a load of weight anyway.

Your weight will be whatever it is.
Maybe if you did stand on the scales and don't look at what they say. But take a photo of the weight and only look at the photo when you are ready. That would separate the anxiety of the scales from the actual result. If you see what I mean.

What's the worst that it can be and how will that impact your future.
If the scales go in the wrong direction, or not enough in the right direction, what will you do? How will you feel and why will you feel so bad about it? You will not have put on everything that you have already lost.

Deep breathe.
Big un-mumsnetty hugs and do what you feel happy with.

@Fffreeeeezing I am also a bit scale shy at the moment and haven't been weighing for a while. Mainly cos I can't seem to shift significantly below 70kg and just feel a bit stuck. If I gain a bit I can get back down to 69 to 70kg but I just can't push down to well under that barrier. In stones, it means I am hovering just under 11st when I really ideally want to be at 10st or thereabouts. I am unwillingly in maintenance at a weight that is higher than my original target. I need some sort of regroup and forward action plan, but it's too hot to think about that at the moment!

I would not stress about weighing yourself until the temperatures have calmed down and we are out of the red/amber warnings and any chance of heat-related water retention has gone away. I agree that looking away and taking a picture instead might work to get over the hurdle of actually stepping on the scales. Or if your scales connect to an app you wouldn't need to look at the scales themselves, just later in the app if you want to.

NSV of the week: I tolerate the heat much better now after I've lost 6 stone (BMI 44 to 32). In fact I feel that I suffer even less than "normal" people who I hear complaining about the heatwave a lot.
Yes, it's hot but I feel so much better than in previous occasions. I can function normally, go to work, run some errands... Of course I haven''t done any sports this week and have skipped some of my daily walks. Other than that I'm doing perfectly fine.
Going for a morning walk right now.

Morning all! Hope you're all coping well in the heat. I don't mind it at all, as long as I'm careful with the timing of my walks. My poor Golden Retriever is not doing well though, and with typical stupid dog stubbornness refuses to sit on her cooling mat!

@Fffreeeeezing - deep breaths. You will be fine. Worrying about what is happening with your weight won't change the reality of your weight, in fact it will make it worse if you spiral off into anxiety about it. So easy to do, we are all scarred by a lifetime of obsessing about our weight aren't we?

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne - hope you're doing okay and hoping you get some peace and recovery time now.

@PearlsTeapot - yay, home time!

So like most of you probably, I keep records of my weight, health etc. I happened to look at this exact day this time last year. I'd started MJ in the March of 25, and by the last week in June I'd just gone up to 5mg and was still feeling fab. So, with all my blips, hiccups, meltdowns and MJ mini-break and restart, between June 27 last year and June 27 this year, I've lost a grand total of.... 7 whole pounds! Honestly, I have to laugh or I'd cry. I don't even want to engage with how much I've spent on this drug in that year, especially as I was up to 15mg by the end of it.

Since my break and restart I've had decent enough suppression, but nowhere near like it was. I'm still capable of binging, getting take aways when nobody else is in, drinking a bit too much booze. I definitely feel like the 'old me' is just lurking around under the surface, constantly trying to bust through, whereas in the early days of MJ I genuinely thought this was life-changing for me. I know it has been for many of you and I do take inspiration from that, but some days it's harder than others!

Anyway, onwards, upwards, downwards, sideways, and in my case a big squiggly line of all of those...

Have a great weekend all.

Week 68

I put my big girl pants on and got on those scales. Sod the weather, any retained water will disappear by next week.

I lost 5lb in the 4 weeks which takes me to under 100kg and an annoying 1lb from a 10st loss. I might weigh in on Tuesday to see if I've lost that pesky lb (and pretend the WI never happened if it's worse than todays 🤣)

Would I have liked more than 5lb? Of course. Did I deserve more? Definitely. But here we are, we keep on ploughing on regardless.

I do keep wondering if I should reduce my calories (I've been on 1600 since week 1) but worried both about being hungry and the wrath of my PT who already thinks I'm undereating. If only there was a way of getting a definitive answer to these questions, kind of like how there's always a right answer to medicine dosing for example, no one says " just take a handful of paracetamol, as many or as little as you like, see what happens"

Anyway, onwards and downwards losers

Absolutely wonderful pearl xx

Slow so slow at the mo ,and a fair bit of up and down fluctuations.
15 ,3 ,this morning....3 pounds of a 12 stone loss
The heat has killed my appetite at the moment
Moving the 10 mg on the next pen
I'm trying to come of it .. slowly..
If I find I start putting weight on ,I can increase doses back up ..
I'm just seeing if there's a chance I can manage on less ...and eventually come of it ..

I’m so thrilled for your homecoming @PearlsTeapot

I’ve stayed the same from last Saturday but my ankles feel swollen and I’m fairly sure I am retaining water.

I have a fan going and am planning to do very little today. But man alive am I enjoying being slimmer. Everything is easier. I’m wearing a little slip dress. I feel cool and comfortable and there’s just less of me to haul around. I can do this. I can.

Had to place an order for a 2.5mg pen today in order to re-establish a prescribing history before my BMI drops below 30 (it's currently 30.3). I bought unused (legit, unopened with pharmacy labels attached) pens from my DSIL when she stopped due to pregnancy so I haven't placed an order since February, and it dawned on me that I was in danger of being cut off for too low BMI. Not something I ever thought I'd have to worry about but, shockingly, I'm on the cusp of 'only' being overweight!!! Another 0.8kg should get me there.

I've lost my mojo a little bit over the last few days - I'm really feeling the loss of effectiveness towards the end of the week at the moment, and it's scary how easy it is to fall into bad habits. Even today when I have good suppression, my brain is constantly having the instinct to eat, even though my body doesn't want to. All that is a roundabout way of saying I've only seen a small loss on the scales this week, but hopefully that's mostly due to my mini binge yesterday plus heat and I'll be back on track soon. On the plus side, I tried on my size 14 uniform dresses this week not expecting them to fit, and they were fine! So I've been wearing them all week to help with the heat, and have loads of comments about how much I've lost - it must be more visible in the dresses than tunic and trousers!

SW 139.7kg

W1 -3.8 2.5mg
W2 -1.9
W3 -1.7
W4 -0.9
W5 -1.5
W6 no change
W7 -2.3
W8 -1.2
W9 -1.3
W10 -0.3
W11 -2.0
W12 -0.6
W13 +0.7
W14 -1.1
W15 -1.6 increase to 3.75mg
W16 -1.5
W17 -1.0
W18 -0.9
W19 -1.0
W20 -0.4
W21 -0.2
W22 -2.1
W23 +0.1
W24 +0.7 (Xmas)
W25 -1.9 increase to 5mg
W26 -0.7
W27 -1.8
W28 -1.3
W29 -2.3
W30 -0.6
W31 -1.3
W32 +1.1 (holiday)
W33 -3.2
W34 -1.0
W35 -0.4
W36 -1.2
W37 -0.7
W38 -0.4
W39 -1.6
W40 -1.0
W41 -1.1
W42 +0.7
W43 -2.3
W44 -1.4
W45 +0.5
W46 -1.1 increase to 6.25mg
W47 -1.7kg
W48 -0.3kg
W49 -1.1kg
W50 -0.2kg

CW 87.5kg, 52.2kg lost in 50 weeks

@MCR24 You look incredible!! I've been catching up with this thread so may be asking you things you've already said (and of course you dont need to answer) but ... what bmi and size are you now? You look incredible!!! And are you managing a lot of lsoe skin as if so its not obvious (I still have a lot of skin and fat on my stomach and thighs and cant imagine looking as good as you without surgery! But I have further to go!)

Did you find the last stone or two took longer? Have you stopped losing now? Are your recijng rhe dose?

I am in awe 😊