August 2026 starters

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Hello everyone, I'm due to start on MJ in the next few days, and I'm feeling nervous!

I've been above size 20 since I was about 14/15 years old. The highest weight I've ever logged was 134kg, about 14 years ago. I'm currently 117kg. I also have issues with my heart caused by Cushing's, type 2 diabetes and PMOS.

In the past few years, I'm yo-yo'd between 125kg and 110kg three times. I know how to lose weight and can do it... but as soon as work gets busy or stressful, I fail and give up. I also have an issue with binge and secret eating.

I went for my annual diabetic review yesterday and the nurse basically used the whole time telling me about going on MJ, because my BMI is over 40 (well, as of yesterday's weigh in, I'm 39. something) and because of my other health conditions. I didn't have to fight for it, or request it.. they're just giving it to me.

Now I'm doing as much reading/ video watching as I can to clue myself up.

On my on-track days, I eat:

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with some flavouring- chilli flakes or marmite or 15g cheddar.

Lunch: Chicken thigh fillet in some kind of seasoning mix, salad made of lettuce, pepper, tomatoes, cucumber, sugarsnaps, carrot. Sometimes 3 cream crackers and a laughing cow triangle as well.

Dinner: Varies- roast chicken dinner/ 5% fat mince spaghetti bolognese with wholewheat pasta/ beef burger without the bun with cheese, salad on half the plate, usually without chips, noodles with chicken and stirfry veg.

Snacks: Usually a portion of berries/ a nectarine/ cherries/ 25g peanuts at 4pm.

How does that sound?

I have a treadmill and run/walk at 6.5/6km/hr pace for 30 mins three times a week. The nurse said I should do some weights for my arms too.

Any recommendations for which day I should inject?

@LunaTheCat in order to get 3.5mg from a 5mg pen, you would only turn for 42 clicks instead of the full 60. You could then get 5 doses put of the pen with a bit left over.

It’s still early days for me, only taken my 2nd dose of 2.5, but I have been reading up on this. If I feel I need to go up from 2.5 when the time comes, I won’t go straight to 5, I will titrate up more slowly with the aim of finding the minimum effective dose that gives me enough appetite suppression so that I can stick to my eating plan without much effort.

Is there anyone else on here who has an eating plan which does not include counting calories, or macros? Or who uses intermittent or extended fasting? Just looking for someone on a similar path to me.

First weigh in and I've only lost 1.5lb. feeling dispondant. was hoping for something more dramatic for first week.

I did leave it 11 days between jabs due to holidays so it may be due to that.

Second jab yesterday afternoon. Some muscle aches but no other side effects. Not sure there is much suppression.

Another late joiner! First injection Thursday evening. Some very mild nausea and upset stomach since but nothing dreadful.

Noticeable suppression from Friday morning and interestingly NO desire for carbs - and they are definitely my biggest craving.

SW 13.2 which is very nearly 35 BMI for my height.

I don’t propose to meal plan, but rather eat when I’m hungry (I live alone so don’t have to fit round anyone else). Fridge is full of yogurt, fish, chicken, salad. Am I missing anything?

Are you doing weekly weigh-ins? I confess to being VERY impatient for a loss…..

Morning all!

I had a rubbish night yesterday 😫 my stomach got so bloated and trapped gas was horrible ended up having a real upset belly too and woke up twice through the night running to bathroom. I have IBS though so I have a sensitive belly anyway. I guess I am lucky I wont be one who suffers with constipation.

Feel so much better this morning belly has deflated a little. Still having sulfur burps.

My mum was on mounjaro previously and had to stop. She had 1 month on 2.5 and then went up to 5 the month after and think it was too soon. She was in agony with her stomach. Both she and the GP thought she had pancreatitis luckily it wasnt. I will stay on 2.5 as long as I can and go up slowly I think as others have suggested too.

How is everyone else doing?

Second 2.5ml jab taken last night.
I’ve lost 6 pounds in week 1, which I’m really pleased about.
I’ve also been sticking to Keto and have changed my whole diet. Other than a few glasses on wine on Friday!

No side effects so far 🤞
I love not having the food noise and not being hungry!

I am super sensitive to medication usually so was expecting horrible side effects but maybe that’s why I feel the suppression already.

Week 3 weigh for me

SW 11 stone 9 (73.9 kg)
CW 11 stone 1.4 (70.5kg)
GW 9 stone (60kg)

height 5ft
starting BMI 32

current BMI 30.5

so 7.5 lbs lost in 3 weeks.

I’ve included my height and BMI this time as it gives context to what I need to lose as I’m quite short

I’ve had a rough week with nausea and constipation this week , my constipation made me feel incredibly unwell this week, with cramps, nausea and sweating. I was at an event and felt so dizzy and thought I was going to pass out. I had sweat pouring down my face at a professional event, it was horrendous .

I then had a lot of bleeding when I went to the loo, which was quite frightening. However I do have diverticulosis and I assume the constipation has aggravated that but it does mean I probably need to see a GP, which with still trying to juggle work and school holidays makes me feel quite stressed. It’s eased off now though which is a relief,

but it’s given me a wake up call to not underestimate the constipation.

last jab of the pen tonight so need to order from a new supplier as definitely sticking to 2.5 - even more so with how rough I’ve felt this week.

I weigh in daily to be honest but count weight in day as Wednesday. Welcome to the newbies. Make yourself at home

@MabelMoo23 I hope next week is better for you - sounds frightening x

we are similar height and agree including bmi gives context - 7.5lb is absolutely amazing!

Oh, and keep the photos from now (even if you hate them) and compare them to ones you take in 6 months time!!!

@MabelMoo23 that sounds really scary! Please do go see a GP and make sure everything is ok! It’s an excellent loss though. Well done. I seem to have dropped a kg in the last few days but I’d been eating better in preparation and beginning of period always seems to throw things off so I think I should stop weighing in every day and do a weekly weigh in.

I’ve been talking to the AI again! I gave it my background, including my BMI and visceral fat score when I started this journey in January 2024, and now. Then asked it whether it was possible for me to get to a visceral fat score of 7 (the average for women my age) if I reach my goal weight of 11 stone, which will give me a BMI of 24.1.

It said yes, it’s highly likely, and in fact I will probably reach that score at a BMI of 26-27. Further loss, it said, would be mainly for aesthetic reasons and to provide metabolic insurance, or as I like to think of it, wiggle room.

Well, that’s reassuring. And also increases my determination to get at least to the top of the healthy range, which for me is 11-5. I was 13-2.9 this morning, or 13-7 if you use the moving average.

I was once 22 stone.

I had my first jab on Thursday afternoon and today I do feel some side effects. Felt sick after some bacon, eggs and toast (Pepto helped, but, boy, is it foul!) today. Possibly too a bit of suppression.

I'm very wary of constipation so bought a pack of milled chia and flax seeds to mix in with my evening fruit and kefir yogurt. Hope everyone is OK.

You have done really well @PuzzledObserver, even before starting the meds. If you feel you are missing out on buddy who follow the same type of fasting plan you could post separate discussion or check the over 30kg to lose, over 50kg discussions. Without leaving us of course! I read and post in the over 30k as well.

I woke up hour later this morning and my body is tired. I am going todo my strength and walk to work but I am going to do my morning walk in the evening. 17000 and 18000 steps Saturday and Sunday - 10k is good goal for today

I started new job in June and I felt awful about my weight. I bought some expensive clothes and they are now hideous on me! I am 6.8 kg down on total, some lost before the jab. I need to get through piles of clothing I have in different sizes and find what fits now. I will wear my favourites of each size while loosing on repetition, hope the weight loss continues. I needed the clothes but in the same time it's waste of money.

I will choose one pair of trousers to use for the before/after :)

Weigh in day today.

I have eaten a little more this week due to staying with family and not being able to plan meals.

no shift at all in weight loss. Hopefully better this week. Then I will place my next order.

Not sure what to do, stay on 2.5mg or move to 5mg…!?!

Weigh in day and lost 3lbs.
So far a loss of 7lbs.
SW 14st
CW 13st 7lbs
GW 12 st
As I mentioned before I started dieting before Mounjaro and have now lost a total of 1 st 2lbs.

Thanks, that’s a good idea. I am part of an online fasting program, and have posted in there inviting people using GLP-1’s to form a little group on there, so attacking it from both directions! I’ll check those threads you suggested out, though.

@PuzzledObserver I find Ai very encouraging too, so I'm not boring my friends and family by going on about weight loss either. Even more encouraging is such positivity from you, a person I can relate to as someone who has been over 20 stone too.

@MiaN what a pleasant dilemma about clothes! It's like having baby clothes stored for a younger sibling, you have to remember to get them out in time and try them on before they're too big ( or in your case too small) for the clothes. I have found in the past when I've got down to 12 stone that it was like re- winding time as well. "I weighed this when I got married, now I'm divorced I weigh this again"- it was enormously satisfying emotionally, like a chance to rub out mistakes

First time eating out last night and it was an interesting experience. It wasn’t planned, DH and I went for a walk and ended up watching the sun go down with a glass of wine. Then he suggested getting some food at the pub. I had nachos as I thought I could pick at that, but ended up eating most of it! I was really suprised! I had however been for a 5k run, done 13,000 steps and had only had a protein shake and some eggs on a slice of sourdough all day, so just a little over 600 cals.

This morning though I’m tired and not hungry AT all. Have drunk loads of water and am just about managing a cup of tea!

The other thing is how I stopped eating when I was full and stopped drinking without finishing the wine. Normally I’d have had pudding when it was offered, finished the wine and would probably be ploughing into the toast this morning too!

The thing that I'm noticing that really surprised me is that I have much more energy on MJ because I'm not getting big energy dips when I'm hungry.

This suggests to me I've been living with metabolic syndrome, but the strange thing is I recently had various tests prior to starting MJ and my blood sugar levels (HBa1c) were normal, when I thought they might be pre diabetic.

Anyone experienced similar?

A little late to the party. Hope its ok to join.
First jab was on Saturday. No nasty SEs so far, just gassy, phew. Portions less and evening cravings have completely gone, which is my main issue. Today I feel tired and lacking energy so trying to eat small and often. Do not want to exercise but will see what Joe Wicks is offering today.
Main SE is that I am so cold. I know the heatwave is over for now but I'm at my desk in a fleece and fingerless gloves. 😆
Anyone else cold? Totally appreciate it could be a heck of a lot worse!
Some amazing progress and support on here. Great to read and well done!!

@MiaN I can really relate about the clothes - it’s a quandary to know what to do, isn’t it?

I use charity shops a lot so that I’m not spending too much on the way down. As time goes on I have been buying more new stuff, but still holding off from buying anything expensive. It took quite a while after the initial phase of this weight loss before I had the confidence to get rid of at least some of the bigger items, believing I wouldn’t need them. But the 24’s, 22’s, 20’s and 18’s are all gone, I’ve been wearing 16’s for about 18 months now (and 28’s and 30’s are a distant memory, although they were part of my life and my wardrobe for a very long time.)

And now with this new “final push” with MJ, if I get where I’m hoping to then I should be a size 12. But will I have the courage to get rid of the 16’s, and transitional 14’s? The doubt in my mind comes from my desire not to stay on MJ long term.

@purplepie1

Not sure what to do, stay on 2.5mg or move to 5mg…!?!

I’ve had the same thoughts. I asked AI about it, and the suggestion was that if in your third week you lose between 1.5-2.5lb, stay on 2.5. If you lose less than 0.5lb, go up to the next dose. Not sure what you’re supposed to do if you’re in between 0.5 and 1.5lb, though - your choice, I guess. And if you’ve lost over 2.5lb, DON’T go up.

It said to ignore the first couple of weeks loss, though, because the water weight from the reduction in inflammation is significant for many people. Plus it’s only after the third jab that you get to the blood level you would have an ongoing basis if stay on that dose.

Can I just ask why you wouldn’t go up anyway?

Only because I’ve seen some people didn’t go up and then we’re stuck for a month and not losing.