Starting Ozempic Wegovy July thread.

[goingdownhopefully]

Hi all. I’m starting Ozempic jabs on Thursday. My prescription is sitting in the fridge ready to take to see the nurse who is going to show me what to do. I’m excited/nervous. Anyone else about to start who wants to join a thread. (I couldn’t see one already for July starters).

I weighed this morning (early, weigh day is Wednesday) and I’m down a pound after losing nothing last week. So seven and a half pounds down so far (6th jab due Wednesday).

my calories vary day to day. But would average out around 1100. Sometimes down to nine, sometimes up to 13. The thing is I feel I’m eating so much that I find it hard to believe I’m tracking correctly. I’m using MFP but also putting photos and info into chat gpt. They don’t exactly tally but are roughly the same every day. Some times I skip a breakfast or lunch but do try to eat a little protein at least. I’m not really getting any food noise but I eat my evening meal earlyish, and sometimes get a little fancy in the evening but I can ignore it. I’m finding now the weather is a bit cooler than it has been my appetite has increased a bit. But I’m still on .25. Sorry to waffle on. Interested to hear how you’re all feeling.

I did my fourth jab on Sunday. I didn’t lose anything in week 4, so 5 pounds overall in my first month. I was hoping to lose more but everything I’m reading on line says that’s about right. I decided to stay on 0.25ml for month 2, although I’m wondering now if I should have gone up. Will have to see how it goes!

Calories - I’m about the same as you @goingdownhopefully

I did my 3rd jab last night (0.25), I've noticed that my food noise is less and I am eating less. Ive lost 1kg since starting and I'm a bit disappoined really as I've read so many people lose almost a stone in the 1st month. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong. I'm definately eating less, I dont eat breakfast (cant stomach food 1st thing) then for lunch I have a wholemeal wrap with a small amount of mayo and either ham and salad or chicken breast and salad and a packet of wotsits or quavers. Then in the afternoon I'll sometimes have an apple or a yoghurt. Dinner in the evening is usually some sort of chicken, last night I had a chicken supreme, some microwave rice and salad.Other nights I might have a chicken skewer, flatbread and salad. Any tips would be useful.

You don’t say how much you’ve got to lose @ButryMashPotbut I think most of the larger initial losses are with people with lots to loose. I have loads to loose and a medium weight loss, but at least it’s going and I do feel better, less achy certainly. Also I like the diminished food noise.
I’m glad I did an early weigh and saw that pound gone because it’s back on today🫢. Injection six coming up. It’s gone very quickly.

Ok. So I just did my Jab myself. Daughter has done it for me up till now. It was easy and painless. I was just worried about getting it wrong.

I've got about 3-4 stone to lose, feel much less hungry this week so hopefully will see some movement next week. I've got one more 0.25 jab to do next week and then will be moving up to 0.5 so maybe will see more a result then.

Oh good luck. I’m more in the six to seven stone need to lose range. But I’ll take whatever I can get. I’m going up to .5 next week too. It will be week seven but I’ve used up extra I’ve had left over in my pen the last two weeks. But not feeling the suppression so strong this week.

@goingdownhopefullywell done for doing your jab alone. I do sometimes struggle with my cals and feel they are a lot for me at 5ft 4 but it’s the way the app I use works, they give you some rope so you don’t feel massively restricted and go off and binge, even on the GLP 1 plan 1600 is a good amount of calories. I lost another 0.5 last week. That brought me to a 7lb loss in the first month of wegovy which is a bonus for me being such a slow loser usually. I did see the stone bracket below twice last week too so I’m deffo going in the right direction, shame it bobbed back up again though !!
I’ve been feeling a lot better, no bloating or nausea this week, although the food noises is deffo not as quiet as it has been. @Quartzfairy Are you still on the same dose or did you go up? If so how have you felt?
@ButryMashPot have you thought about trying breakfast for a week, and introducing some protein first thing in a coffee or shake form or maybe some scrambled eggs? That might get the fire burning early? I’ve heard some say they see results after eating breakfast?
@LoopyGremlinhow are you getting on?

Hi @Notadream
so I am 12 days in. No side effects as such but struggling to eat enough. Averaging about 1200 calories a day. Lost 4lbs in the first week and will weigh myself again on Wednesday. Trying to do some strength training but fear I might lose muscle.