April 2026 Mounjaro Starters thread 2

[NorthDevonBeachLover]

Looks like our first thread is almost full so thought I'd start a new one and link it.
The one where we head into the summer feeling lighter and hopefully on the right path x

I’ve lost 3.4kg in last 2 months but just 1kg in the past month on 7.5

I’ll see how it goes on the next 7.5mg pen and when I get my water and sleep and bloating under control.

I bit the bullet and ordered a 7.5mg pen, nearly had to take out a second mortgage with the price! Managed to do 6.25mg on Saturday so will see what happens, no side effects so far.
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@NorthDevonBeachLover i know same so expensive !! I got my 7.5mg for 194£ with a discount…so if I lose 1kg in 4 weeks again I might as well stop and try myself again lol

Picked up my first 5mg pen today and counted clicks to 3.75, hopeful for no side effects.

117.8kg today!! So happy! -17.9kg in 5 months on Mounjaro and total loss now 32.2kg in a year 💪

I’m 1.5kg away from being at my pre 1st pregnancy weight.

Still got 22.8kg till my end goal but it feels so much more achievable now. Ahh I needed a good drop finally!

Excellent! That's brilliant, well done.

2lbs down this week, which brings me back down to where I was before the previous two weeks gains. I think I am going to start dropping my dose, so will go back to 3.75 on Sunday.

3 lbs to goal weight! The weight is coming off much slower now though…

I think I’m at a stall. I put on half a stone over my holiday, did a week on 2.5 and then went up to the 5. I’ve lost 4lb but nothing since, and I’m also incredibly hungry. I don’t want to go up, and tbh I’m happy being 10stone but I do wonder if this is it for me and my body is telling me not to lose anymore.

After three weeks of plateau, this morning I have lost 3lbs! I am now very close to goal but thinking I need to start going back down to a maintenance dose (currently on 5mg but considering going to 2.5mg today instead).

I am not sure what to do because I have stopped losing weight since I started taking 5mg. I have not lost any weight at all in September, in fact I now weight a 1lb more than I did on the 6th September.

I wanted to avoid going up to 7.5mg because of the cost but there is not point at all if I am not losing anything. I started my second 5mg pen last night and I have 3x5mg left.

Did this happen to anyone else at 5mg?
How are you finding 7.5mg if you have moved up to it?

I am feeling very disheartened at the moment.

It's happened to me. I have near total appetite suppression & find it really hard to eat. I've seen it suggested elsewhere that your metabolism goes into starvation mode to protect you, and stops you losing weight? So the answer is to eat more 🤷🏽‍♀️

Sounds like quite a few of us are stagnating, up and down in appetite suppression.

my weight is going down but so slowly now!
last week felt great suppression, this week I could eat eat and eat again and chocolate and cake….

Protein 150g/day, but I’ve been low on water so maybe that’s it

I really struggle with the protein, as I dont like eating anything that is not actual food - so shakes and powders are out. I have dropped anonther 0.7kg this week after sticking at the same kind of place for a couple of weeks. I looked back on my journey and it seems to have happened a few times, so Im just breathing and seeing how things roll.

and yes I think a 'feast and famine' every now and then is probably good to kick start the metabolism, but just not with cake and bread, in my case! Im guessing thats kind of how our bodies worked for thousands of years

This is the same for me, I am still not eating a lot and the suppression is there. In fact, I often feel quite nauseous at the thought of food for the first few days after an injection. I am busy with work and active through the day, but the weight loss has just stopped.

Are you counting calories?
I didn't want to and hoped MJ would do all that for me.
I stalled for a month and thought it wasn't working. Soon as I started counting calories with Nutracheck it's falling off again.

I was in the beginning and I am going to start tracking everything again, thank you.

I have struggled with weight loss since being in hospital. I delayed the jab for 4 days until I felt well enough on nurse advice, and then the next jab was also delayed so 11 days between each jab, which nurse said was fine.

I just feel like it isn't working, I am feeling hungry and wanting to snack. I don't feel like the suppression or food noise switch off is working any more.

The counting calories advice above, is very good. I have lost track of doing that and am sure that it has not helped, as it doesn't make you accountable for what you are eating if you are not logging it. I have Glucopal, so will start logging meals again on there.

I have put 4kg back on over 3 weeks, and am very annoyed with myself. As they weighed me in hospital when I hadn't eaten for a week, it will look even worse to them and more like 6kg gain :( . I have my pre-op on Thursday, and am jabbing again today at 7 days so fingers crossed that it starts to work better again.

Perhaps if I start jabbing every 7 days again, it will go back to how it was, or maybe I should go up to 10, but was hoping to do that after my op, not now.

Good luck to those wanting to lose again, and well done to those still losing.

Very true what someone said above about fast and feast , it definitely works.

If I look back I’ve also had “hungry” weeks and then the scale moved down after those actually or it eventually passed and I was back ok in a bigger deficit and finding that the food noise got quieter.

I just took my 24th jab, I think it’s week 5 on 7.5mg

weighed in exactly as last week, so in the last month have lost about -0.5kg/week on average.

I am 1.4kg away from having lost all of my 2 pregnancy weight, which will be a major milestone.

I am in maintenance mode now, I seem to have settled at 10 stone 10lbs, which is 3lbs up from my original arbitrary target, and gives me a BMI of around 23.5. I feel pretty good at this weight, I definitely feel a difference in my energy levels and mobility, I have spent the last two weekends walking miles and swimming in the sea.
I have been back down to 3.75 the last two weeks, and if anything it seems more effective than 5mg was strangely.
And I am still not vaping or smoking! Hurrah.
I am however all over the place hormonally, currently having my second period in a week! Ah perimenopause, what a delight.

Lost 0.2kg this week so while I have slowed right down, it’s still happening. I need to move to maintenance now too I think. Have others gone down again in dose and what happened when you did please?

Has anyone ordered with Curely?
I ordered with them last Friday and my order is still just showing as processing on their website. I’ve emailed them a couple of times now but no response 😕

Sorry @22sra am with MedExpress. They are very quick to send out each time.
I have a wee dilemma. As I posted above, I have 3lbs to go…last week. I actually put on some weight, got stricter with calories and am now exactly back there again! A short stall, but a stall nonetheless. I seem to have these from time to time, but thought this month I would up the dose as my stall was continuing and my appetite much stronger.
I have nbeen on 5mg for two pens, one of which has two doses left. This week I have felt very nauseous, much more so than before. (Have been drinking ginger and turmeric tea which has helped, in case this tip helps anyone else).
This week coming up involves a trip away overnight and may involve a few drinks… my question is, should I try my 7.5 for four weeks, and risk feeling rubbish this coming week, then titrate back down using the last two weeks of 5 mg pen (still well in date) just to boost myself past the stall and finally hit my target. Or should I just finish the 5 mg and hope I keep losing , then have the 7.5 for four weeks and just order a new 5 mg pen after?
I hope this makes sense. I suppose I’m worried, that as my side effects seem to be increasing a wee bit, with no real weight loss, will 7.5 be worse?
You can see I’m getting myself muddled…

NSV! Weight loss has been SLOW the last few months, as others have been experiencing similarly. My super stretchy jeans have been hanging off me recently, so shapeless. So I thought to try on an old pair of size 12s, hard denim, no stretch, H&M. Have not worn these for more than 4 years! And they fit! With a bit of wiggle room in the waist! I’m sure once I’ve eaten and throughout the day I’ll have to pop the top button, but I couldn’t get these on at all earlier in the year. I’m over 2 stone down so far. Slow and steady. Still more to go though. No one has mentioned anything about weight loss but I don’t care. I’m still mostly in the same clothes as before. But my midsection is reduced so everything fits better overall. I’m feeling so much better healthwise already.
I’m currently 74.2kg so over 11 and half stone.