July 2026 Tablet Starters

[nearlyemptynes]

Has anyone taken the step to order the tablets and wish to share their journey?

I'm 7.5Kg down since 19 July. I'd like it to be more, but I have had several holidays! I can still eat a normal amount if it's put in front of me, but I don't bother if I'm on my own.
I've stuck with 4mg for this month but wondering if I should have gone up. I'm definitely more prone to snacking. I wasn't bothering with breakfast before but now I seem to want it, although I think it's partly the colder weather.
My BMI is bang on 30 & I'm about to to under 12stone for the first time in many years.
Overall I'm pleased, without feeling it's too drastic a loss at once.

I’m another one that can only manage small portions now and developed aversions to things I used to enjoy - namely cheese!

I’m on my second month of 4mg and finding I’ve got enough appetite suppression and feeling of fullness, with just the occasional bout of nausea and acid reflux (but manageable). It’s weird, I’m finding certain things I used to love (wine, espresso) absolutely grim. My gag reflex is also through the roof. If I wasn’t on the pills I would seriously consider whether I was pregnant (I’m not!).

Also similarly no thirst (so I have to force myself to drink, which is new!)

Oh drinking - yes!! Alcohol or otherwise! I couldn’t drink red wine before but have flipped completely - white wine gives me indigestion whereas I really fancy a small red wine now and then! Loved Korev lager - just can’t drink it now (is that a volume thing). And my love of gin is wavering 😭

Meanwhile my coffee habit has dropped to 2-3 cups at most per day and all I want to drink it water, ideally fizzy! I can drink pint after pint of soda water on a night out!

Food cravings - I used to really really dislike bananas but currently having 2 (small child’s sized) in the morning on top of weetabix!

Its all quite unexpected and weird!

Agreeing with it being weird!
My diet was appalling before Wegovy…cake, chocolate, pastry, chips, cola, ice cream, fried stuff, the lot!
Now… haven’t eaten any of it since Aug 18th when I started the pills.

I just don’t want to eat it, I’m early 60s, and it’s so strange as I’ve eaten junk food all my life, but now - nope! No alcohol either. Eating my way through plenty of punnets of grapes and strawberries, raspberries each week😀

Sw: 14s 6lbs
Cw: 12s 12lbs. 🎊🥳🎉 ( today!)

Im so chuffed, I was desperate to get below 13 stone, and I’ve done it!
Am on 4mg and food suppression is very good.
So pleased this medication exists, I feel so much better than I’ve done in many years. I couldn’t have lost this weight without it.
think the speed of the loss has spurred me on, I can actually see the weight coming off me. Showers are funny too - when I lathered myself last night, I found my ribs! There’s no back fat by my bra either.
Happy days.

Fruit! Yes me also, @OnlyBoltCanSaveMeNow . ( and congratulations on your weightloss so far) I haven't really eaten fruit since befores my low carb days, when the 5:2 diet first came out and yet now I'm eating blueberries, raspberries and chopped apples with Greek yoghurt every day for breakfast. It seems to have become a bit of a craving. Last week I stewed 4 huge Bramleys with a handful of raisins and ate the lot in 3 days .
I have always eaten a lot of green veg as I really like them but now things like French beans, broccoli or cabbage have become over half my plate each dinner.. . Weird.

I've also never really known the feeling of stopping eating from my plate because im ' full' ( always as children we had to finish our plates ) .I remember once having a naturally slim ( not dieting) colleague who'd regularly put her knife and fork down with food half eaten because she simply couldn't finish it, I never understood that at the time and thought she was just saying it to maybe prove a point . but thats me now ! So very weird.. I wonder maybe if some of us just don't have the same Off switch as the ' naturally thin' do ? Or they have better GLP type receptors than those of us who tend to gain weight easily . Maybe we have some sort of enzyme, gene or something else missing or inactive in our make up ..

With the food aversions and just the thought of coffee making me feel nauseous it has reminded me a bit of early pregnancy!

@Laska2Meryls

what did you do? Im in exact same position. Im wondering if i can alternate and do 9mg some days ans 25mg on others

Im finding that i sm hungry more in the mornings and at lunch time and struggle to eat in the evenings

I did think of alternating 9mg and 25mg but Asda/ wouldn't let me buy one pack of 9mg and one 25mg. Anyway seem to be ok on 25mg , losing but still slowly) ..