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

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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.

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@PearlsTeapot I would phone them back and tell them about the RM tracking email and ask them to get onto Royal Mail and update the delivery address.

Although @PearlsTeapot , if you have the Royal Mail app you may be able to change the delivery to a Post Office or Delivery Office even if the pharmacy can't make any changes.

Thanks I’m on the phone to them now but nobody is answering, I’ll keep trying. So worrying!

Fingers and toes crossed @PearlsTeapot

Hello ladies, i love reading everyone's NSV's. Pearlteapot I hope you get your pen okay.

I'm currently in the 12's just now and I'm giving myself till the end of August to get in the 11's. I just want this weight off now. I'd love to go into christmas time being at goal and concentrating on maintaining.

Can I ask is everyone aiming for a healthy bmi? A healthy bmi for me is 10 stone but I would be happy somewhere in the 10's and dont know if im silly not trying to aim for 10 exactly

@Newmummy343 my target has always been 60kg. I think it's because the middle of my Ideal weight range according to the NHS is 61.1kg so 60kg would give me leeway in any gains.

I'm currently 61.8kg so almost middle of my ideal weight.

I haven't decided on a target just yet, it's actually quite scary to think of not needing/wanting to lose weight as I have never experienced that. For now I'm going to see how I feel at around BMI 26/27 (currently 30.9). I would love to aim for under 25 but I don't want to put myself under too much pressure, I think that genetically I would find it hard to get there, I am aware that there is growing evidence that going into menopause at a slightly higher BMI may be healthier, and I also don't want to negatively impact my daughter's body image by being obviously thinner than her (age 15 and has a BMI around 26).

They’ve emailed me back saying they changed the shipping label. Phew!

I would check at your pre-op whether they mean you can inject a week before or whether it has to be clear from your system for a week.

For my gallbladder removal earlier this year I had to be clear for four weeks —which meant five weeks before Hand. And then it was six weeks before I got the all clear to go back on MJ. I was on 12.5mg and I’m now only on 5mg which I’m very happy about

@Newmummy343 my goal if possible is 10st 6.4lbs, that would be exactly 13 stone loss, I'm tall so it puts me around 21 BMI, my goal though really is to get to a healthy weight and size. Based on BMI I will be in the healthy range at 12 stone 5 which is my current next target.

My scales were teasing me in the week and showing how close I was to a weight beginning with 13 but was not to be and settled on 14st 1.4lbs. I have now lost 131 pounds though so I've lost the weight of a newborn giraffe 🦒.

That's a relief!!! Now to wait for the parcel to arrive to be 100% sure there are enough hiccups!

I’ve been away, working at a festival! Walked over 95000 steps in the last 7 days! Our camp is up a hill and it’s been so much easier with less weight to carry.

I got stopped and told I looked fantastic in my outfit! (I was wearing a corset at the time) and one of the official photographers took my picture!

I feel so much fitter than before and although I am absolutely knackered it’s because I’ve done loads of stuff, not because I’ve had to haul my sizeable arse around!

Now to catch up on your news and chat…

I'm through the 2 stone loss barrier now. I managed to lose 5 lb on a 10 day holiday in France. I was a bit worried before I went because I didn't want to put weight back on again. Pleasantly surprised we hen I stood on scales after we got back.

You are amazing. I started on 235.1kg. I'm currently 122.5kg. I'm on 10mg and losing about 1 kg a week. I'm staying on 10mg for another month as long as I'm loosing well. If it slows I'll go up to 12.5kg.

Amazing you've lost 13 stone in 2 years. Keep going you'll soon get to your target.

Loved reading all your updates-well done looser!
some serious big milestone among you-well done!
I am trying to stay positive as the scales stay at 92kg for me. Been stalled nearly 2 months.
in that time I hover between 91-92kg so frustratingly staying around the 200lbs mark and 30BMI. I so want to break this boundary and have been running and gym going. I feel I look different and feel more squidgy but the scale not budging. I go on holiday next week and know for sure I will not reach my milestones before that. Hoping I can not do any damage in a week all in clusive.
I am shuffling my jab day this week so I can jab before I go and avoid taking it with me.
ahhhhh wishing for the under 90kg/200lbs weight with BMi sub 30 and reaching 100lb weight loss marker.
This is a long stall!!!!

It arrived! Phew!!!!

Oh that's great, good to know that MMP managed to do what they said they would for you.

New style or old style pen?

Hello, I feel a little sad today. My friend reposted something on SM saying anyone seeking to deliberately lose weight is ‘participating in starvation culture’ and should be ashamed of themselves. My quality of life is so much better since losing 11 stone. I can walk my dog. Do my housework. I’m still obese. Hardly starving. My lovely mum who is also on the jabs and lost four stone has been badly injured lately and without us both being slimmer and (in my case) fitter I don’t know how we would have dealt with it. I just took it a bit personally :( Felt like she took my weight loss as a slight against her personally.

Oh @afaloren what an odd post for your friend to make. Presumably she knows you've been losing weight for a long time now- has she been weird about it before?

Obviously she's wrong! Maybe, if you are already at the lower end of the healthy weight range and you are actively trying to lose weight then maybe that's something that other people could be critical of. Even then, I don't really know what anyone would mean by "starvation culture"? Is that the current buzz phrase like heroin chic was in the 90s?

New style pen 😭

My first one. It’s a 10mg from Medicine Marketplace.

@afaloren unless people have walked in our 20 stone + shoes they can’t possibly understand how our lives have been. Don’t take it personally, brush it aside as her ignorance and her good fortune that she’s never had to live trapped in a bigger body like we have.

Thank you @SilenceInside @PearlsTeapot the irony is she must weigh 20 stone herself but still doesn’t seem to understand! I hope I haven’t said anything to upset her. I’ve obviously been losing weight for a long time and have never brought it up.

It's definitely a her problem and not a you problem, @afaloren .

@afaloren I've found more negativity has come from my larger friends. I'm more than 6st down and 4st to go. My 'slim' friends have been really supportive, interested in my journey and my choice to use the jabs. The most negativity I've had is from larger friends acquaintances/colleagues.
I think some of it stems from jealousy - I am aware that I'm lucky to be able to afford them privately.
Among the comments from people who were smaller than me, but aren't now -

'Why would you want saggy skin, you know that's going to happen right?'
'Your face is going to look older'
'When your hair falls out is it going to be worth losing a stone?'

My response has always been that I am doing this for my health, and that is more important than anything else.

So pleased it arrived safely @PearlsTeapot. My 15mg from MMP last week was still an old style pen, but I expect it to be the last one of them I get. 🥹

People are a bit weird with what they say @afaloren. As @SilenceInsidesaid, it's not a "you" problem.

I have had my first "don't lose too much more" comment from a lovely lady who would never say anything to hurt me, but I was a bit 🙄🤔 because I am still over 14 stone and a size 20.
I have also suddenly had a lot of people bringing up MJ in conversation with me. I haven't told people I am taking it and I am sure they are digging to see if I will "confess". On the flip side of that there is one guy at work who I am convinced has been taking it and I would love to discuss it with him, but we both avoid any conversation with others and each other.... It's becoming a little awkward to be honest. 🙄😁

Some amazing losses being reported here recently. This gives me hope that I will be able to keep going downwards. I sort of can't imagine being less than I am now.