Anyone starting Wegovy in June ?

[LoSlo3toGo]

I did my first jab on 27 May and am 3.5 pounds down … would love to chat if anyone else is starting around now

Me! I’ve been approved today and waiting for delivery to the pharmacy to collect.

Does it quiet food noise?

Me! Just got an email to say my prescription has been approved and it will be dispatched in next couple days.

I have a charity walk at the weekend, so looking to start next week so I dont feel iffy for the walk.

What are you looking to lose? And how are you hoping it will help?

I want to lose 2 stone. I am mostly hoping to get rid of the food noise, i think about food/eating/exercise 95% of the time and it is mentally draining. Also maybe to feel fuller sooner as I can eat a lot, and dont need to be hungry to eat, I just eat if its a meal time. Dont snack too much but my food noise tells me too I just have to work extra hard to ignore as much as I can! Which isnt working, hence the 2 stone.

In my experience… yes

I jabbed Wed night, I’m able to eat & get physically hungry (but less) and I’m satisfied with about half the serving sizes

Re food noise: I normally spend lots of time thinking about food, recipes, what to eat etc … that’s gone, as is the urge to snack

Today I am a little hungrier than the last week but still less than normal

@Sanch1 : my goals are similar to you, I want to lose 2-3 stone for health & looks reasons - which will get me to high end of a healthy BMI

I’m perimenopausal and have been gaining & losing the same couple of stone for years (decades) but notice it’s getting harder so thought this may help

Ive able to lose this weight in the past without WLI but it’s mentally demanding and tbh I just don’t have the bandwidth for an obsessive focus on diet right now

So I want to use a low dose of wegovy to help manage my appetite and cravings, to lose around 1-2 pounds a week for next 3-4 months, after which I will maintain for a while

It’s helping enormously already in week one, & it builds up in the system over 3-4 weeks (so next weeks lowest level in my system pre jab day will be the same as this weeks high)

I jabbed on Wed night - so far no side effects, lack of interest in wine or sugar, and eating much smaller portions of healthy foods is easy - so it’s a way to make dieting as I normally would easy

i think the blood sugar management is also helping as I’m not hangry or desperate to eat (but I get stomach rumbles from physical hunger a few hours after my last - smaller- meal)

I actually wonder if this is how normal, slim people feel?

This is what I mean about building up in the body …

looks like it builds over 4 weeks & then you have a ‘peak’ & trough in the week

Im trying to get my peak over the weekend as I find the work structure helps me eat more ‘normally’ on week days

Seems we are very similar.

I have lost considerable amounts a lot of times but rarely maintain.

I have maintained around 1.5 stone higher than I'd like for 2 years but I just cant seem to shift it now I am older and I am working so hard all the time with exercise and constant food planning/thinking just to stay heavier than I want to be.

I am looking to jab on a Wednesday to hopefully have more help with the noise, food/alcohol over the weekends.

Is that an app you have?

It’s a website I saw posted here - GLP 1 plotter

its making me think that next week may be even better than this week (which has already been pretty easy tbh) as the levels build up

Ive had a bmi over 30 for a few years now but resisted going on these drugs as I was concerned about gaining weight when come off them

Given cost is around £20 a week (which I am saving on junk food, wine at the pub etc) & that pill versions of these drugs are expected in the UK this year which I hope to use to maintain I think that the impact on my health of having a BMI over 30 (it’s currently 35) outweighs the costs for me

Thought I would say hello too given that I did my first injection last night. So much of what has already been said I relate to and can repeat; early 50s, peri menopausal, v busy job, always struggled with weight and have lost before (last big loss was 5 yrs ago and lost 3 st) but all now back on and same strategies are perhaps less effective but there has been something missing from my inner motivation to "dig deep" over the past year which ultimately means I have been yo-yoing up & down about half a stone and not got past it so have given up. I have been debating WLIs since Aug last year and I think booking holiday now has given me the final push. Even the decision has been liberating before the meds arrived - the energy, focus and motivation have come back.
Like others, given previous strategies have worked ie intermittent fasting and C25K, I intend to employ those again but supplemented by Wegovy - I can fast pretty well but as soon as i eat the flood gates open and it's hard to contain to the right calories. I'm hoping W will help with that.
I am nervous it will take away all appetite. It could well be the reason I'm here but my partner and i love food - a large part of weekends for us is what we're eating on Fri and Sat nights and I do also like a drink. I know some compromises are needed and I'm ok with that to an extent but it's ultimately not going to work if I just can't engage like that - boring for us both. It sounds a little dramatic but without that at weekends as we don't do much else regularly then it will have quite an impact. I want to still enjoy food albeit in smaller quantities.
But questions I also have; what are people going to do with old needles and pens? My supplier (Bolt) sent me a yellow plastic sharp waste container but no further explanations what to do. I'm guessing not to put it in house hold waste.
I'm also not sure what will happen on holiday - we go away in 6 weeks, ideally I would love to lose half a stone before to "get me started" and at least fit back into some clothes i wore last summer. But not entirely sure of options - can i stop the week before and have a break from injections while away? Perhaps it may be best to stay on low dose to keep me in check - though the thought of not salivating over greek food every night while away already makes my heart sad 😁 I guess i can wait to nearer the time about holiday dilemma.
But, so far, after taking it last night I don't think I can feel any effects - does it have to be immediate or perhaps will develop over the next day or 2?
CW; 13 st 2
GW; 10 st

Hi @pickle75

re the sharps box - I’m going to use it to full them take to a pharmacy I suppose

I think with your concerns about appetite you can see how you go on a low dose & choosing your jab day taking things into account? I wanted to have most effect on weekend so am jabbing mid week but maybe that’s not right for you?

so far I definitely feel less food compulsion but I still enjoy my meals - I do understand not wanting to lose the social aspect of eating

re your holiday - I think you can decide nearer the time once you know how this drug affects you personally- a weeks break will not be a huge thing if you are still on a low dose or you could eg take a half dose if you want to

@bellyjelly472- hi, hope your 1st jab is smooth and look forward to hearing how you get on

PS - @pickle75- I jabbed before bed last Wednesday, felt reduced appetite on Thursday & definitely Fri - Sun. Still got a bit peckish for meals but wanted a smaller serving

I read on here not everyone feels much from 0.25mg though (and it was also boiling last week which makes it easier to eat less…)

starting to wear off a bit today but I’m similar/a bit less hungry than off the jabs

a relative is on these jabs too & says she felt the hunger returning when her jab was a few days late (this was a couple of months in)

My understanding is the half life is around a week so it will build a bit after week one

Thanks @LoSlo3toGo it would literally be my dream to still want food, feel peckish but just be v happy/satisfied eating less. I think someone else mentioned it (not sure if here or on another thread) but it has been a life-long wonder if that is how slim people feel/think. I've always been utterly amazed when hearing the phrase "I forgot to eat", for me they might as well have said "I just popped to the moon and back" ie like...how does that even happen when I am mainly always consciously/back of my mind, thinking about the next thing I am going to eat either later that day, later that week etc
I don't know anyone else that has taken W or other WLIs so the help/input here is really useful so thanks for sharing.
Thanks - Can you take along sharp boxes to any pharmacy or do only some do this? I was thinking i was going to have to investigate local hospital to see if they have drop-off boxes etc but a pharmacy would be much easier.
I will wait and decide re holiday.
re half life, I think you mentioned it earlier and sorry about being dumb but I don't really understand what this means...i get perhaps the dosages are accumulative so build up the more you take, but is there something else I'm not getting?

Hi @pickle75- I think any pharmacy will take a sharps box but worth asking I suppose? I think the box would take many months of needles as it’s just one a week

re the half life - by the end of week one, half the drug has gone (and 3/4 by end of week two etc…). So when you do jab 2, your ‘low point’ is not as low as end of week one as some of week one’s dose is still circulating… these pictures show it - peaks are just after injection and the trough just before the next one is due

1st pic shows the build of week 1-4 and the second shows weeks 1-12 if you stayed at 0.25mg

Definitely feeling a bit hungrier than last few days today (still a bit under my normal level), but otherwise it has been ‘the dream’ - still able to enjoy food, eating less & losing weight effortlessly this week . Looking forward to seeing how things go with my second jab tomorrow

That is great news @LoSlo3toGo best of luck and long may the "dream" continue! 😊Keep us posted with your second jab.

What day of the week are people injecting and why?

Mine has arrived now, although without a sharps box so trying to sort that. Am not going to start until after the weekend as I have a charity walk and don’t want feel potentially rough. Want to balance not feeling rough over the weekend when I start but getting hopefully most suppressions over the weekend so thinking Tuesday night or Wednesday morning? What do people think?

I’m doing Wed night so that I have most impact over Friday (when wfh so can snack!) & the weekend

I did notice myself a bit hungrier on Tuesday & Wed this week - but it’s only week one and I lost 5 pounds while still eating a healthy amount

Obviously some of that is water but that says to me it’s doing something more than just suppressing appetite and is really helping correct my metabolism…

@sanch- the needle that comes off unscrews and then has a cover - looks similar to this

(Photo is under review)

there us an outer & inner cap. After you inject you put the inner cap on to dispose which covers the needle end that touched your skin

My point is it’s not a giant stabby needle so yes you will want a sharps box to dispose but in the short term you could use eg a jam jar or similar as you’d have to try hard to stab yourself with it

Thanks. Didn't think about just using another container! Will look one out.

I am also trying to find somewhere to hide it in the fridge so friends and family who come over dont start asking questions. Can't be doing with that right now.

I think I will either do Tuesday or Wednesday night. I dont want to have to do it rushing about with the kids in the morning, at least at night I can take my time the first few times once they are in bed. And with any luck I'll all my side effects while asleep ha ha

I can understand wanting a bit of privacy! Mine is in the fridge in an opaque water bottle

Good morning can I join you? Waiting for my delivery today, brand new to this and very apprehensive. Late 50’s with 5stone+ to lose, been really stuck these last few years and heading towards pre diabetes so really want to heal my metabolism. It would be good to do this with others.

Im starting tomorrow or Monday. Any tips for how to do it - time of day, before food etc?

Hi @GoldenGumballsand @Frieda86!

@GoldenGumballs: I’m only 2 weeks in but no side effects at all, mainly I get full very quickly so my portion sizes are a lot smaller

@ Frieda - I’ve been jabbing about 9pm at night so that if I didn’t react well I could sleep through. Fortunately there have been no issues

I wanted max ‘effect’ at the weekends so I chose Wed as jab day … what would suit your schedule & can you start on a day when you don’t have too much on the next day?