@HansHolbein lovely to hear from you. Sounds like you are doing a great job with your weight. I'm impressed with all the steps..how do you find the time? I'm up at 5.30-6am and back from work at 6.30pm, exhausted by then.
@WildOneWalker putting on only 5-6lbs in a year is good, it sounds like it could have been water retention from coming off the jabs. A lot of people put on a lot more and in a shorter time. Glad 2.5mg is working for you, 8st 5-7 is brilliant to maintain at. What bmi are you?
@letshavetea hope you are healing well from your op.
@igivein I was on 15mg now I'm at 6mg, I tapered down slowly after getting to bmi 25 and then 15mg and 12.5 and then 10mg felt too strong for me and I was struggling to eat.
@Bluenose1966 happy 60th birthday 🎂 🥳 how did it go?
@FizzleGONE how are you doing?I feel the same with lack of motivation with losing more weight.
Well update from me, I've been busy with work, had an exam on 21st May which was for a 6 months training qualification, which preceeded weeks of poor interrupted sleep starting from my yoga retreat on 8th May! I'm just starting to sleep through the night this week again. Bought myself aubergine blackout curtains from amazon, as kept waking up around dawn, I already have wooden shutter style heavy blinds, put the curtains up Wednesday evening when they were delivered and I'm sleeping through the night now and for longer.
Last Saturday, I had a body contouring session on my tummy, it's called quad lipo and it actually kills fat cells and takes 3 days to be removed from body, where with weight loss it leads them to shrink but they can fill back up again quickly if you gain. It uses radio frequency, LED, vacuum and cavitation. It was fine until she started the vacuum and was pummelling me for a while, over the boney areas like the sides of my body at the bottom of my shoulders and tops of hips hurt a lot! Anyway I was bloated and sore for days, felt like doing a heavy exercise session and getting DOMS, I felt bruised but didn't have any bruises as it was inside. Within days, my waist is definitely more defined and I have more of an hourglass shape now. I was always more rectangular shaped and bloated, have IBS and had prediabetes, insulin resistant from teenager, remember my mum telling me i looked 3 months pregnant when I was 21. It cost £75 and I'm doing a package of 5 sessions and get one free so looking forward to the results. It's best for stubborn fat on a slim body, rather than major fat loss, and tightening the skin and encourages increased collagen. I did look into fat freezing but the side effects sound horrific.
I am maintaining at 8st 10lbs bmi 21.8, would ideally go down to 8st 7lbs but I'm quite happy with my body other than my tummy so not putting in effort to lose and eating at maintenance cals. I went down from 15 to 5mg but find I'm a lot more hungrier on that and craving carbs and sugar so I did 6mg from a 10mg pen last week and that has been better but i feel more tired, but I had a carb blow out yesterday 🙈 2lbs heavier this morning than last week 🤷♀️. Starting to build up a stash of pens 2 x 10mg pens in fridge, so not sure what to do for my next pen that needs delivering in 3 weeks so I don't have a big gap, stick to 10 or go down to 7.5.
Have an essay to do by 12th June then I must focus on doing exercise or my muscles will waste away!
Currently looking for new cars, hit 101k on my current mazda 3. Looking at electric cars, I do around 16k miles a year so hoping it saves petrol. Looking at a tesla or MG4, any advice appreciated.