Mounjaro - 10 stone or more to lose - Thread 15.

[PositiveAttitude]

Everyone welcome - we are all friends here.

Some starting the journey, some already reached their goal, all sharing the ups and downs along the way.

😁💖

@Billybingbong You look amazing!!

@PearlsTeapot congratulations on the job 🥳.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne You look amazing! What an incredible transformation and so pleased you can titrate down.

@MCR24 Still in awe. I started at a similar weight to you and have a similar end goal but im 20months in and have really plateaued lots since Jan!

I jabbed 11mg yesterday but not sure keep going up is the answer either as I'm not eating tons.

I had the "could be going onto hrt/ could be the heat/could be where ive started fitness things again" but .... its frustrating now!

11 stone 8. So near and yet.... so far!

@PearlsTeapot that's great, the job and the jeans!

@EnterSandfan I still get surprised when I go try on clothes and small sizes actually go on me 😂 I never thought it would happen.

@FatsiaJaponicaInTheGarden thank you! Since January I've lost 11.7kg / 1 stone, 11 lb and 12.71 oz, so it's really slowed down, I've also had a couple of weekends away. However it has continued to go down slowly so keep going! I'm hoping I can be on/under 60kg on Thursday 🤞🏼

@PearlsTeapot awesome, it's so nice getting into sizes that start with a 1 isn't it 🥰

@MCR24 haha yes it's so weird holding something up and thinking 'there's no way', but then it fits. I wonder how long it takes the brain to catch up 🤔

A nice NSV is hanging washing on the line and thinking how small it looks, like 'ooh these jeans are not a metre wide like my old ones' 😆

Ten and a half stone difference. I struggle to believe I look like that now. Well done everyone on the thread. Whether your beginning or ending your journey I have been over 20 stone for 40 years and if I can do it anyone can.

Wow, @wendywoopywoo222 what an amazing result for you! Love the pictures.

Well done @wendywoopywoo222!

@wendywoopywoo222 wow! Your photos have blown me away. I was feeling despondent this morning but I feel motivated again now after what I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing, you’re gorgeous.

Such wonderful achievements and pictures! Well done losers, well well done!

I’m back from holidays and braced myself for WI. Against ALL expectations I have lost! Either 0.75 of a pound or 1.75 pounds depending on whether I count the lb I put on at Latitude right before I went away. Either way I am surprised, and chuffed to bits!

Brilliant, @TragicMuse you must be thrilled! I remember old me putting on a stone in a week when I was on holiday once!

Apparently, the Eli Lilly tablet orforglipron, which is branded as Foundayo in the US, has just today been approved by the MHRA for UK use. It is not a peptide GLP-1, and so the tablet can be taken without any restrictions on when or how to take it. The weight loss reported from the trials is quite modest at only 9 to 12% of starting weight after 72 weeks, but it might be an interesting option for maintenance, depending on pricing. I wonder whether it will get many takers in comparison to the Wegovy tablet that seems quite popular despite the 8 hr fast needed before taking it, and then at least 30 minutes of no food or drink afterwards.

Rubbish, just received a new 15mg pen from MMP and it's the new kind 😫🤬

Extra £13.30 a week, £691.60 a year.

Just moaned about this to mum who said, don't worry, you'll have to come off it at some point and when I said I have no plans to ever stop, I got told I was being ridiculous, non MJ people just don't get it do they?!

@Fffreeeeezing I am taking 12.5mg at the moment and contemplating getting a 15mg from SwiftDoctor, hoping it might be an old-style pen. Then I'd get 6 lots of 12.5mg from it. But if it's a new-style pen, then I'd only get 4 lots of 12.5mg, with a 5th dose likely to be a bit less than 12.5mg.

Such a bummer after having been using the 5th dose for 2 years now. Before the big price hike in Sept 2025 I would have been paying around £120 for a 12.5mg pen with 5 doses, making it about £24 a week. Now I'm paying £240 for a 12.5mg with 4 doses, making it £60 a week....! Ouch.

Thankyou for that information..I don't know much about this
But anything that allows me to continue my journey,for less pennies is welcome x

I dropped down to 10 mg so it's a bit cheaper and I'm trying to go longer between injections..managed 8 days this time ..will try for 9 days next week.
I am anxious at the thought of coming of
Hopefully there will be cheaper maintenance options for when I do

I'm so sick of being hungry all the time. I wish I could just up my dose but 3 times previously have taught me it's a massive no. I'm going up a click a week, from a 10 pen. I'm on 5.7 now and will be at 7.5 in 10 weeks. Just need to be patient... the time will go past either way I guess.

Awww @PearlsTeapotthat sounds like hard work!! I hope you manage to up gradually and get the suppression you want without the bad side effects.
Have you started work yet? If so, how is it going?
And how is slimming world suiting you? I lost 6 stone with sw 12 years ago. It suited me well until I got to about where my weight is now and it just would not budge any further down no matter what I did.
At that point I had a lovely consultant. Then, when I wanted to go back, after covid and gaining a load of the weight back, we had moved and I never liked the new group or consultant and I had to drive 50 minutes each way to get there. Have you told them you are taking MJ? What was their response? Sorry,lads of questions from me. You don't need to answer ... I am just typing as I think. 🙄🫣

On the topic of price and how to keep it as low as possible... I am ordering 15mg every 6 weeks from Medicine marketplace, but taking 10mg each time. I have dropped back to 5 days between jabs at the moment before I eased up to 12mg every week. MM seems to accept every 6 weeks ordering, and I have managed to get ahead and always have a full pen in the fridge.

This morning I am under 200lb!!! I can't quite believe it!! 199.4 to be exact. 😁🎉

My weight loss has slowed massively, but my clothes sizing is dropping faster than it ever has done. I am desperate to wait until the autumn before splashing out on new clothes. No point buying summer stuff now as I would only wear it for a few weeks and then hopefully they will be too big next summer!

Thanks for posting the photos!! You all look amazing!! So well done!!

Enough morning rambling from me. Have a good day everyone.

I use 15mg pens which I use in a similar way to you @PositiveAttitude - 10mg a week. In fact I jab 6mg on Mondays and 4mg Fridays, that works better for me.

I'm with Juniper. They routinely allow order gaps of 8 weeks. All that happens is my new pen arrives, I go on the app and it will tell me the date my next pen will be delivered (4 weeks) and asks if I want to change the delivery date - the max it let's you change is 8 weeks from last delivery. I've been ordering every 8 weeks for over 6 months now, without being asked any questions about why.

Oh I had an NSV I meant to mention last week.

I put an apron on and can tie the strings at the front! And it wraps around me really well so I am actually covered!

A proper win for not getting splashed by tomatoes and turmeric!

@PositiveAttitude hurrah for seeing 199 on the scales! Great achievement!!!

I start my new job tomorrow. It’s in a garden centre that I love and it’s a 5 min walk which is lovely! I’m nervous though, I’ve been out of work (and the world really) since Sep.

I told the consultant about the mj and she was fine with it, she says lots of members are on it. You can’t win Slimmer of the Week/Month but I’m fine with that. There’s a section on the app just for WLI.

Ugh I have received my first pen which doesn't contain the golden dose.

I've ordered another from a different place - surely there are still pens around which are the old style. We'll see.

@PearlsTeapot good luck for tomorrow!

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne where did you get the new style pen from?

I got under target at the weekend but then on Monday I'd increased again so I very much doubt I'll be at target tomorrow 😔 starting to have some sympathy for those people who try and lose weight but don't need to lose a lot!

MMP

Weigh in and jab day

SW 140kg BMI 54.7
CW 90kg BMI 35.2
GW 63kg BMI 24.6

14 stone 2lbs in old money.

No change but I am quite pleased with that. We have a lot going on but I havent used it as an excuse to give up on a healthy diet.

Hope everyone is doing well. I'm not very good at keeping up at the moment but wanted to check in.

I'm currently 103 kg (around 16 stone) and my clothes have started falling off me. I've sat with my legs crossed for the first time in 25 years this week.

But ...

My BMI is going up.

Because I suspect this bloody osteoporosis is collapsing my spine. 103 kg at 162.5 cm (5ft4) should give me a bmi of 39 and put me in the obese level 2 zone. But over the last year I've shrunk dramatically and at now 157 cm i'm still obese 3 bmi 41.8. 😭

Oh that seems doubly unfair! @MrTiddlesTheCat Not only the doagnosis but moving the goalposts for bmi too.

I have gone from 9.5mg to 10mg to 11 mg over the last few weeks and struggled with sulphur burps again the first week of 10 and 11. Well I do the second 11 this friday I hope its just the first week 😬.

I'm still in a plateau. I did finally think I'd dropped a pound earlier this week and it's gone back up!

Shotsy is tormenting me. It says over this last month I've "gained 0.2kg" and last 3 months Ive lost "1.25kg".

I don't feel I'm eating a lot. To the extent others have asked if Im eating anything/anything else at lunch time.

I did have new hrt/then back into exercise/weights but out of justifications now so trying to up the dose. From reading it does seem that many people with a lot to lose do reach a proepr plateau . Im hoping mine is "body trying to defend it's weight" and budget soon.... clutches at straws.

Im 7lbs from bmi 25 . So I'm still very happy with where I have got to. But I'm still clearly overweight as so much of the remaining fat (and considerable loose skin) is on my stomach/front.

I had so so so hoped to be looking at maintenance/managing reducing pens/slowing down by now not going up! 😬.

I order 15mg 6 weekly from Pharmulous no problems, and take 11mg now. Although I did my first order for 3 pens last time and was lucky to get 3 old ones but it was a while ago now! Ive put a calendar alert for 18 weeks from the order!