Mounjaro/Wegovy with more than 5 stone/30kg to lose - thread 13!

[MooBaggage]

Thread 13 and we're still going strong! Everyone welcome 😊

We have kiwis, yoga, smart scales and hammocks and there is always room for new advice, top tips and whatever's on our minds!

Welcome home @MooBaggage . Sounds like you had a fab holiday and 4lbs is nothing. Similarly to @Onegramatatime over the last few days I seem to have added almost 3lbs in heat weight and drinking too much fizz when it's been too hot to go to bed.

But I'm fine because thanks to MJ I trust that either it'll fuck off by itself as things cool down or I'll go back to being sensible, and it'll all be right within a week or so.

Hi everyone. Its been a really long time since I have posted - so many new names, and so many familiar ones too!

I’m at 22 months on MJ, and I have been not doing it properly for about 9 months. Life has been challenging and its really not been a priority.

In Feb, I briefly got down to my low weight of 12st 6lbs, but I am proof you can gain on MJ - I’ve been hovering around 13st or a little under for months now.

My head just hasn’t been in it at all - but I have diligently taken my jab every week and I think that’s kept me mostly stable at my current weight. I benefit from the suppression, but I think I am not getting the lack of food noise that I used to - probably cos I am eating like crap, just in smaller volume.

But, today, I started back calorie counting. Forgot to blimming weigh this morning, so will do that tomorrow, but I am ready to be back at it.

hoping to keep posting here to keep me accountable.

hope you are all doing well!

I am down 19lbs in 4 weeks 🥳 chuffed to bits and had my first NSV today! We are at Legoland and went on fire & ice drop tower, and the restraint just closed! Normally have to manoeuvre to get the correct position to get there. Flipping long way to go but a massive boost not least because with so much to go it’s not actually visible yet.
@Onegramatatime its the same as Windmill towers at Paulton’s Park to give you an idea

Hello @Darlinghag ! Nice to see you and I feel your pain... I'm at the 18 month point and although I swore I'd get completely back on track today, I've been at friends tonight - didn't drink, but did munch a whole load of popcorn and minstrels, for no reason other than they were in bowls in front of me 🙄 6 months ago I would have resisted...

Somehow we have to find a long, long term approach to this - let me know if you find it!

For me - it's start again tomorrow, acknowledge that I did at least drink 3 x litres of water, had no alcohol, a small breakfast and small dinner portion - so did really well until this evening. Just need to not snack, even if it's staring at me...!

We are long term losers and we can do this thing! 💪💪💪💪

Also, yoga tomorrow! 🧘‍♀️😁

@LetitGoDLP Yay for the NSV!! It's like when I didn't need a seatbelt extender for the first time on a flight last year - the relief and joy were crazy! Life just gets easier and easier to manage in so many ways - congratulations!! 💪🥰🥰🥰

@LetitGoDLP , that's a brilliant NSV !!🎉
Congratulations.

The fire and ice drop towers was my first theme park ride as a Mum! Hadn't done it before. I was petrified before, during and after.😂 And i still did the Windmill towers at Paulton park and then cried afterwards.

But honestly, big congratulations on your NSV. This whole weight loss thing is tough..even with Mj (or Wegovy) being such a great support.

@MooBaggage Thank you, definitely a great feeling.
@Onegramatatime Peer pressure from the little folk is real!

"Life just gets easier and easier to manage in so many ways"

So true.
What strikes me most that i appreciate daily is how much less painful my knees are, how much easier I find stairs, how much healthier I can actually feel my body is and for the vanity side - being able to look at clothes and not think twice about wearing them. I hated how everyday picking what to wear was akin to working out the country's budget for the next financial year.

I do seem to have stalled. Mind you, it's not helped by the fact that we have had so many social events on involving food in the last couple of weeks. I've eaten far less at those than I used to so at least I haven't gained.

I can't do anything about my dose for the next two jabs but then I'll go up to 6.25. or maybe I should go straight to 7.5.

Thanks @MooBaggage! Its so hard isnt it!! I really wish I knew how to maintain my progress or even maintain a maintain! I have long accepted I will be on a WL medication for a long long time, or even forever, funds allowing, but it is hard knowing it will always be hard!

I have found that the only way I stay on track effectively is to keep busy. Sometimes it even errs on the side of too busy and forgetting to eat. But its hard to get the balance right.

Yesterday was my first day in months that I tracked from beginning to end. It was ok through the day, im the evening the snack temptation was tricky - I usually have a sweet treat in the evening, which is in my deficit, and stuck to it, but it was hard!! Day 6 of the jab cycle was probably not the wisest day to restart getting on track 😂😂

Remembered to weigh in too - new weight of 13st 1.6lbs. Logged it on Nutracheck and everything 😬😬 First goal is getting back down to 12st 6lb!

I have a holiday on November so I will be planning a target for that too at some point. Maybe 11st 7lb?

Well done on your NSV @LetitGoDLP!

NSVs while I'm working on getting rid of the holiday weight gain...

I blew the dust off my weights and actually used them this morning - first time in months so only did a few minutes but it felt really good 💪

Yoga also completed this morning 🧘‍♀️😁

Finally, I got out for a quick stroll around a local cricket pitch - only 3,000 steps in total, but better than nothing!

Trying to get back in the zone - lots of water, back to small portions, but the bits of exercise really help me feel positive and engaged with it all 💪💪💪💪

Well done on the weights and the walking @MooBaggage !

NSV for me - my resting heart rate is 69 this
morning, first time it’s been below 70 since I got a fit bit partway through 2023 🙂

hopefully the slightly cooler weather will help us all feel better this week!!

@HelenDenver that is a really good NSV! Every time I check my watch, my resting heart rate is in the high 70s!

I have a v exciting NSV - I'm going to get all my hair cut off tomorrow!! I've decided I finally have enough cheekbones to get away with it 😁 I have post-menopausal wispy stupid hair, but my face has been so fat I've not felt able to do it - but am taking the plunge and can't bloody wait..! Haven't told anyone - am just taking myself off to the hairdressers in the morning and will hopefully come back looking all swish and edgy 😀

@MooBaggage exciting times!

ooh, hope that the new haircut is fun and foxy @MooBaggage :)

It’s odd (but good) to be up late helping stressed teens and then not feel like a piece of toast or some crisps would be a good thing right now, as that’s a definite downfall, the “I should be in bed by now… but LIFE!” snack.

@HelenDenver yep - I'm still flabbergasted at the lack of snacking I do now! Ds1 (24) moved back in with me recently and he can't believe (and is v disappointed!) at the lack of nibbly things in the place these days! He asked if there was any chocolate going yesterday and I genuinely have none in the flat and haven't for months - poor ds1 😁

My go to for something after meals in the evening are a couple of Aldi sugar free lemon sherbert sweets. 2 is enough to make it feel like a treat for my mouth and I don't want anything else. Bonkers..!

Loving your NSV @MooBaggage . Have you got a particular style in mind or you will discuss with the hairdresser and take it from there?

@Onegramatatime yep - I actually put a photo of myself into ChatGpt and asked it to show me different short hair styles 😀 It gave me some absolute shockers, but one or two that I really like, so I've got one to show the hairdresser.

At the minute, my hair is shoulder length with a fringe. I want it cut close over my ears, shaved at the bottom and then longer on top and keep the fringe. Am slightly worried it'll be a bit 'grandma' hair, but want it a bit spiky - am thinking gel will be key 😄

Either way it will hopefully look less straggly and thin 🤞💪💪💪

That sounds great. Such an adventure. Looking forward to hearing about it when done.

With my weight loss journey, I am starting to feel happier in my body. I decided to take the plunge and get braces (Invisalign). I had not felt worthy before but now I feel more self-love and self-respect, so i am doing it. It's an adventure for me not knowing if my teeth would lokk how i have always wanted them to look.

Amazing, isn't it? how taking one action to better your long-term health can lead to making changes about other things in your life.

@Onegramatatime Yes that's exactly it! I can't decide if I'm now more shallow and vain since losing weight, or just enjoying having a different shape and one thing really does lead to another...! I'm Vinted obsessed - out of necessity as am 5 clothes sizes down so couldn't have afforded to buy new all the time, but it's now an addiction and I have more clothes in different colours and styles than I've ever had. That's led to stuff like thinking about my hair and just making more of an effort now I don't have just 3 x huge tops in the same style that I used to put on because nothing else fitted and I hated my body.

Very exciting re: your braces - how long do they take to 'work' and do you wear them all the time?

Work lunch today. Bit worried how I will cope but hopefully it will be a buffet type thing and I can skip eating without it being too obvious, and pop to Pret for a protein bowl or something instead

I am excited for your new haircut, @MooBaggage ! And your soon-to-be-straighter teeth @Onegramatatime . DH did some version of invisalign a couple of years ago and it was great. He'd had braces 40 odd years before as a teen but things move on and teeth keep shifting about so he wanted to neaten them up again.

@HelenDenver yeah, corporate lunch catering can be challenging. Hopefully there might be some chicken skewers or similar? I've also happily extracted the better fillings if it's all sarnies. Honestly, so many people are gluten avoidant these days, it's par for the course and will barely be noticed.

My heat/fizz weight gain noodled off with the heatwave so I'm back to around 10st 11.75 again.

Relative newbie here; just completed my first 4 weeks of jabs, 5.5kg down and now less than 40kg to go. Tackling it in 5kg chunks so I don’t get overwhelmed!

Hi @wendyla and glad it's going well! Good idea to have small targets - I tend to have mini targets of 3lbs or so, as that's roughly 1/4 of a stone and I'm losing about that much each month these days, so every few weeks I feel like I've hit a mini milestone - much easier to cope with than very big, far away targets!