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!

@SmallTreeDeepRoots @AmberLime that's funny because I was going to say the same thing - it was at the 4 stone mark that people started noticing. Now I've lost 8 stone, if people ask how much I've lost and I tell them, a couple of times they've said "I would have guessed about 4 stone" - I think most people just don't realise how heavy heavy is, if you see what I mean?! 🤷‍♀️

@SmallTreeDeepRoots you are doing brilliantly! Keep going - the comments will come and then you can grump about it being shallow of people to be saying anything 😁👍💪💪💪

Hi fellow losers,

Lovely to catch up on some awesome losses and NSVs. To those who worry about it going slowly, try not to. Everyone's journey is individual and comparison can be the thief of joy.

I hope the hot weather is treating everyone kindly. For me, it is quite nice not to feel constantly cold and even nicer not to feel like a hot, sweaty mess in this heat!

SW: 15st 5.5lb
CW: 8st 11lb
Loss: 92.5lb
Current BMI: 21.79
Target Weight 1: 12st 1lb (overweight BMI) - Achieved!
Target Weight 2: 10st 1lb (healthy BMI) - Achieved!
Target Weight 3: 9st 5.5lb (6st loss) - Achieved!
Final Target: 8st 8lb - 9st 1lb - Achieved!

Was away for just over a week, and my normal eating habits suffered due to not being able to cook and having to eat out every evening. As such, I was expecting a hit on the scales and was dreading standing on them when I got back yesterday... However, I managed keep my water intake right up, hit 10km walking daily and also found a local gym to go to a few times during the week, so the scales responded in kind and I have lost another 2lb in the last fortnight.

I don't really want to lose any more weight - I am pretty much slap bang in the middle of where I targeted my final weight to be and it feels 'right'. I have been tapering down and injecting 7.5mg every 10 days. Due to being away it was actually 13 days this time so I know I need to taper down the dose again - I think I might go for 5mg every 10 days and see how I respond to that.

Maintenance is as complicated as trying to lose weight, maybe even more so!

I've lost another pound today. That's 3lb since I got home on Thursday. I don't really understand but I'll take it anyway!

Down 3st10 since cutting down sugar and snacks.
Down 2st5 since starting MJ 3rd March.
5 stone exactly to lose the healthy BMI range.

Morning all.
I wonder if someone could explain about moving suppliers please? I’m currently with Bolt and no issues but thinking about starting to bounce around to save money. Can you move around as long as you want to in order to take advantage of the first timer offers and then return to just one or two? How do they know you are on 5mg and not make you go back to 2.5mg? Are there any disadvantages to moving about has anyone found?

Hmm - so today marks a month since I lost any weight 😮 It's the first big block of time that I haven't lost weight since starting on MJ in Jan 2025 and I have lots of thoughts about it...!

I've lost 8 stone and am 9lbs away from a healthy BMI and a stone away from my own final personal target.

On a very shallow level, I look great 😀 - I finally look how I've always wanted to look - I have bones and muscle (ignoring completely the loose skin everywhere!) and I feel incredible - I can walk for miles, even go up stairs (not hills!) and am just so much happier.

So... I'm not massively stressed, but kind of cross I'm spending £250 a month on MJ and just struggling to get rid of this last bit of weight. But I've had 2 x eye surgeries and a holiday in the past couple of months, plus it's been bonkers hot, so maybe this was inevitable as my body has slowed down/been a bit out of kilter.

New plan - give myself 3 x months of buying the 15mg MJ (Aug/Sept/Oct) and see if that does the trick. Keep focused on the basics. If I'm still around the same weight by the end of October, start to taper anyway and accept that this is the new normal - size 14 - 16 depending on clothes and happy in my skin for the first time in my adult life. I have osteopenia (borderline now with osteoporosis - thank you Coeliac disease 🙄) and had advice years ago that I should keep a bit of weight on to protect bones re: falls, so that's in the back of my mind - but I don't want excuses playing into this! My goal will always be to hit the magical healthy BMI and stay at the top end of the range.

I suppose I'm wittering about this to get it out of my head and also as a note to people at the earlier part of this journey when you have lots of weight to lose - it will slow down and somehow we have to get our heads around it and think of new tactics etc. In the past it would all pile back on for me and that absolutely cannot happen - in a way I'm glad I've maintained for a month - also unheard of pre-MJ!

Onwards as ever and downwards, hopefully!!

@MooBaggage that sounds very wise. Good luck with the last few pounds!

@MooBaggage youve done so bloody well. Totally get though that this must be VERY frustrating.

Plan sounds great

Putting my update here.

Just into week 7, started with 44.9 kg to lose, so far lost 6.9kg and am very happy with that.

Started a bit of strength training this week as my next step to fitness. I have hip issues so I need to start slow on exercise but weight loss will help loads there too.

Stayed on 2.5mg MJ from week 5 and as it’s still working fine for me, I’ve just requested my next order to be 2.5mg too. Particularly as I’ve a couple of holidays coming up and I really don’t want to be dealing with any side effects from increasing the dose while I’m away!

@MooBaggage I could have written your post, mainly, except the osteopenia/ possible osteoporosis (sorry to hear that) and your specifics - re eye surgeries....I completely get it. The despondency regarding the scales. Urgh. They shift 1 to 2 weeks out of 4 these days BUT, I too am loving where I am at - I feel the best I have felt in adulthood and love being a size 14. Having everything in my wardrobe that definitely fits! It is so wonderful.

I have had times when I have wracked my brains, went over my food intake, put things into my carb manager (to double check my macros, etc) but it is, as it always is, completely spot on. I rarely waiver (and if I do, I will have a gain on the scales which I accept). I seem to be super insulin resistant, (so know I cannot do sugar or refined carbs) BUT my body is 100% recompositioning / recalibrating or whatever the in-phrase is!

Get your measuring tape out - I measured myself the other day (for a dress I was buying and wanted to make sure of the size), and I thought, hang on, I swear I was a lot more than that, and when I checked, yes, I was! My eufy scales (I know you have those also) are saying my muscle mass is increasing and my body fat decreasing. I thought it was a fluke, but it is now consistent! Yesterday I wore a dress that was tight just weeks ago, and is now loose and the scales are not that different.

Hang on in there. I am exactly the same - 7 pounds to get into "healthy" BMI category and it seems so far away (on 15mg also). Sometimes I want to chuck my scales - but I have a love hate relationship with them. Like you, I know I will never ever regain the weight, and agree "that absolutely cannot happen". On we plod. We have got this💪

@MooBaggage you have been through a super tough time. Hopefully you’ll see that move over the next few months. So close!

A quick warning to those who are a size 14 at just over the top of the healthy BMI zone - don’t go wild on clothes buying! So was I but at BMI 23.5 I’m suddenly a small 12 and sometimes 10. This was totally unimaginable for me. But things I bought last summer in size 14 are decisively too big now. At this point the differences between sizes seem to be just a few kilos, even though I’m quite tall and large framed.

Hello it's actually really easy. I just use monj website to find the cheapest available then click the link from monj to get the first time user discount. I have to send a photo of my last MJ box to show what dose I've been on and a photo of me and that's that really. Easy and worth it!

@MoneyJo that’s great, thank you very much.

@ShrankLastWinter that’s really good information. I’ll try to remember that.

Thanks @ShrankLastWinter - seems bonkers to go down from a 14, but will keep it in mind. I am still selling a lot of my bigger stuff - you are right, no sooner have I bought clothes, it seems they are too big just a wee while later.

@NewbieMJ yep I have PCOS (or PMOS as it is now called) and am the same re: carbs/sugar - am so grateful to the MJ for finally tackling this - it really is a wonder drug!

I do measure myself and record my measurements once a month and they also haven't changed now for about 2 months 🙄🤦‍♀️ It's a proper stall from my very stubborn body! But am not despondent - I am so grateful for this group because when I was a newbie MJer, there were people in our position who had slowed right down, but were still going and in the end, they got there and so will we.

In the meantime, I had a lovely day yesterday - chose to walk to the shops, not drive, and cleaned, cooked and generally kept nice and busy and enjoyed being active. I can't do my yoga for another 10 days or so, so have been missing moving my body - but no reason I can't walk..!

Hope everyone has a great weekend - onwards and downwards 👍💪💪💪

That's a nice and encouraging post @MooBaggage . It's really good for me to read it.

My weight loss is slowing right down too. I am losing about 100 - 200g a week. But i also have not really been properly active like i have been for the earlier months. I strength trained 3 - 4 times a week and walked a minimum of 10k steps a day everyday. I was consistent.
Then July arrived and I sorta lost my mojo. I am really surprised by this as I was really enjoying working out and looked forward to it.
I want my mojo back. I seem to have seriously fallen off the wagon.

Back to work this week and I have struggled to fit in as much physical activity as I was when I was away. I've also been incredibly busy, so only been to the gym once, but I will be going today and tomorrow to make up for it.

To those who have stalled a little, please don't lose heart - think of how far you have come and how amazing you feel right now. I am in awe of all of you guys 💕

SW: 15st 5.5lb
CW: 8st 9.5lb
Loss: 94lb
Current BMI: 21.5
Target Weight 1: 12st 1lb (overweight BMI) - Achieved!
Target Weight 2: 10st 1lb (healthy BMI) - Achieved!
Target Weight 3: 9st 5.5lb (6st loss) - Achieved!
Final Target: 8st 8lb - 9st 1lb - Achieved!

I am still losing weight (1.5lb this week), so I have not got this maintenance lark right. I feel like I have sensibly upped my food intake and lowered the MJ dose (as well as increase the number of days between doses) and I do not feel hungry. Despite this, the weight is still dropping off and DH gently said this morning that I need to "stop now" - I know I do, and I am trying to!

I am a size 8 which was unthinkable when I started this journey and I was a size 18-20. If you told me then that, not even a year later, I would be worried about still losing weight and actively trying not to, I'd have burst out laughing. As well as the cost of the MJ, I have had to replace my wardrobe a few times now - this journey has not been cheap! I echo @ShrankLastWinter's comments - at the top of healthy BMI I was a size 12, and since going from 24.9 to 21.5 I have dropped to a size 8, so you may find you are replacing your clothes more than once even when you are in the healthy BMI range.

Not sure where to go from here as I feel I have made sensible choices so far; I could start eating crap, but that would destroy all the hard work I have put in and I really do not want to do that. I guess I will continue tapering down and trying to further increase my food intake until the scales decide I have got it right, hopefully without losing more weight.

Well done @Bunnyjo!

Another week in the bag for me - 1.1lbs lost. For a good chunk of the week, I didn’t lose anything and then it came all at once!

CW - 12st 9.4lbs. 3.7lbs left to get back to my low weight.

I won’t be weighing in next week, as I am away, but I should be on track for all but one meal of that.

Been pondering my goals for a while, as I do well with small, incremental ones, and I am calling it - I want to weight under 12st in 9 weeks time - 19th September! There’s not a huge amount of events to derail things - just a couple of single meals here and there, so this is doable with consistency!

Weighed in this morning at 97.2 and still feeling good. My next mini target is 92 and in the spirit of goal setting it would be great to reach it before school goes back in September! Seven weeks seems doable if I stay focussed.

I’ve stopped losing for a while.. actually since our holidays in June. And it looks like I’ve even gained a bit and am back to just over 25BMI🤦‍♀️..
But I know I’m not exercising. Can’t summon the will to do my weights and generally find myself terribly sluggish in this hot weather. Or it’s something else still.

Not despairing yet but at the same time wondering how to get out of this impasse. 🤔

Well I shouldn't be pleased, but a slightly off stomach yesterday has finally seen me lose 1lb...! I know it'll be fluid, but am very pleased it's broken my 5 week stalemate so I'm taking it - and my Eufy scales figures are all green now except subcutaneous fat, which is still a bit high - but again, given everything was red when I started, I'll take 😃

13.1.25 SW 20st 3lbs BMI 43.0
21.7.26 CW 12st 4lbs BMI 26.1

Next mini target is to lose one more lb to give me an 8 stone loss.

Then one more lb will take me into having a BMI of 25.something!

Onwards and downwards, slowly slowly...

@SecondCircuit the weather has been a bugger for even attempting exercise. I can start doing weights and yoga again from next Wednesday (4 weeks post cataract op), so am looking forward to that and hoping it keeps the weight trundling downwards...

Well done on all the greens @MooBaggage

@MooBaggage great news, you’ll soon have the next two milestones!