I'm starting saxenda this week.

[Saxendastarter]

I'm 33.

I'm 1m68 (5ft6)

I don't actually know what I weight and I got rid of my scales last year when getting on them just made me cry every time and I was just too depressed to even try and start loosing weight - I have ordered scales and will weight myself tomorrow.

However last time I weighed myself nearly a year ago I was 94kg (14st 11) and I know that I have gained since then.

I started gaining weight the beginning of covid, before 2019 my very highest weight had been 68kg ( 10st10) and my normal weight had been round 62kg for most of my adult life, so I have massively put on weight over these last four years. (Separation, depression, stress at work, and just general giving up).

My body is ruined by stretch-marks and my boobs that used to be great are now just swollen and saggy and stretch marked.

I'm really depressed by my weight and have decided its time to do something about it.

I have an office job and I'm not at all active.

I've tried to start making small changes, walking to the underground instead of getting the bus, getting the stairs up the one flight to my office instead of the lift but everything feels like a struggle and I have such awful thigh chaffing that walking is often excruciatingly painful.

I how I need to make a change because on top of it being so unhealthy being so over weight just makes me so upset. I've stopped going out as much and have just retreated into a shell.

I also have an appointment with a psychologist tomorrow.

I decided last month that enough is enough and I need to do something about it all.

I've started using face cream, and am finally having laser on my very very hairy thighs and - the point of this thread - I'm going to start saxenda tomorrow.

I thought I'd journal here.

Looks like a busy day here!
Welcome @Smokeahontas. Sounds like it is going to work for you. It is exactly how I felt and still do! I'm on 8 weeks today and have lost 1st 5.5lb with a weeks all inclusive holiday in week 6!

I checked boots this morning and it was showing as an existing customer I could order 5 pens. I ummed and ahhed as that is a lot for me in one go. I just went back on as @BeagleMum1 said she had got some, and the 3 pens were now showing. Phew! So I've ordered that. I still have 2.5 pens, but I like to order when down to 2 especially now I'm thinking of upping my dose. Relieved - for another few weeks anyway!

Has anyone managed to order any ? I can't find it anywhere because I haven't had it before. Only available to existing customers.

@greyhairnomore from what I've read, most pharmacies are only supplying existing customers and not accepting any new ones because they don't have the stock to be able to guarantee it for everyone they have on their books already. Some of the ladies here have had to take breaks / reduce dose because of stock issues.
You never know, good luck!

Thank you.

Thank you all for the very kind welcome. Just had some dinner and it was strange feeling full so quickly!

@greyhairnomore I would sign up to UK Meds stock alerts, and go ahead and create your login & add card details. When you get the alert, you’re half way done already then, you just need to do the prescribing questionnaire. You might have some luck with them, that’s what I did.

Just tried to reorder 3 pens from Asda pharmacy who I’ve used twice before.

At the beginning of the process the site said they weren’t taking new customers/patients but it was only at the very end they said I’d need to pick up and it turns out that none of their pharmacies in Scotland have any Saxenda!

I’ve placed the order and I’m hoping they’ll come back to me with information on how I can get them.

Oh that’s annoying none in Scotland, if you message them through your account I’ve found they respond quickly they may be able to give some info? I was annoyed to find it was click and collect only too, nearest with stock is a 45 mins drive away but have gone for it

Day 69 (Friday)
Breakfast
Black Coffee
water
Lunch
water
Supper
Lots of alcohol
Tomato and mozzarella brochettes
Roast beef with confit garlic, red wine and shallots
Roast Potatoes
Mushrooms
Green beans
Berries and whipped cream
More alcohol
Really impressed that FPTOM pulled off cooking and laying the table for 12 with minimal stress ...

Day 70 (Saturday)
Breakfast
Black Coffee
water
Lunch
water
Ice tea
Coke Zero
Supper
Wine
Steak haché
Tomatoes
Courgette
Rice noodles
Pierre hermé macarons
More Wine

Day 71 (Sunday)
Breakfast
Black Coffee
water
Pecan croissant
Chocolate eclair
( the patisseries tasted amazing as FPTOM cycled from our countryside camping place on a bicycle they lent us and ended up doing a 21km (!) round trip to find a boulangerie with pecan croissant because I said if they had one I'd like one ... So it tasted of young romance and smugness - delicious)
Lunch
Cheese toast
Shady
Coffee
Supper
Tomato and mozzarella salad
2 glasses of white wine

Day 72 (Monday today )
Breakfast
Black Coffee
water
Lunch
Shared Mezze plate
Black coffee
Iced coffee
Water
Supper
Indian naan and curry
Water

@Sotiredmjmmy

I've ordered and paid as I couldn't see a message facility (very tired today!) and so if they cancel hopefully they'll have some information as to when they will have stock. Otherwise I'll have to scout around for pharmacies that do have it.

Oh and two red martinis today too

I've just gone through this thread and taken down all my weights and charted it. I wasn't charting it other than in my head, but I was starting to struggle to remember it all.
I've just looked back as it is my 8th weigh in, and I had some brilliant results in weeks 1-4. But since week 5 I have only lost 2lb and that is in 4 weeks.
I think I'm going to put my dose up. I know I've had my holiday in the middle of this, but I think I just need to try something else so I don't get pissed off and give up. I don't think I will, but I do want results. I'm going to go to 1.5, then 1.8 after a few days of that. I've got a supply of pens now which I think was bothering me about increasing as I was considering increasing a few days ago but held off.

www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/the-economics-of-thinness

Hello all does anyone by any chance have a subscription and a share token ? Would be very much grateful !

Not I, sorry OP. Your menu sounds delicious BTW and I love that FPOTM cycled such a long way to find you your pastry.

Other than a couple of days of tiredness and slight gastric issues when I first started I dont think the jab has had much of an impact for me at the lower doses (just a collection of bruises on my thighs), have experienced no change since upping to 1.2 infact regained some weight (but that was after a weekend of overindulgence which felt like it took a week to recover from!) so am going to 1.8 this evening. Wish me luck!
The supply issues are worrying aren't they - I'm struggling to control my complex hypertension and don't want to start messing with my meds again so really need to shift some serious weight to reduce it that way instead. I've never tried to access ozempic as didn't want to use something 'off-label' when I'm taking so many other meds, really need saxenda to work for me (and be able to get hold of it!).
Have a zoom session with weight managent service next week, am not expecting much but who knows perhaps they will surprise me.

Here's to a good week for us all 👊🏻

@Saxendastarter , glad you had a lovely weekend . The food sounds amazing , your camping site looked beautiful as did the Palace.
I really haven’t travelled much but I have been there ( Honeymoon in Paris like you do 😊) .

Thanks I'll have a look.

Morning all!

I'm sorry I don't have anything useful to add about supply issues in the UK as I really don't know how things are working ... can anyone get hold of Victoza?

TL:DR Not really weight related very long ramble ahead
My weight is going up and down again but I'm getting used to the spikes so trying to just go with the flow even if things are slow. I also haven't done anything that would get @cherrypied censored should she mention it ;-) in the last fews days as I can't go when I'm not home/in a luxurious soundproofed hotel bathroom. FPTOM thought this was hilarious and told me I need to get over it or the chemin de Compostelle is going to be the chemin de constipated instead. He did tell me that when he was still working as an MD he worked with some nurses in a peads department who had a guaranteed make you poo song for the children post surgery and offered to call so they could sing it to me, I declined but I do really really want to hear that song. It felt really special even if that sounds stupid to be taking about body functions with him as it's quite an intimate thing to talk about, I know I write everything here but it's not the same.

We also had another maybe insignificant but lovely moment Friday evening when we were doing the last of the food prepping ( and as I said earlier, I think I've previously had very low expectations in relationships because I was impressed that a man in his thirties could A) plan and execute a meal for 12 B) Lay a table C) Not be totally stressed out by it and still greet people properly offering a drink D) The kitchen not be a war zone.
When I arrived he was nearly done, the table was laid, most of the food was prepped and ready to go and the kitchen was pretty clean and given that he'd worked the full week and had be working that day until 4.30 and I arrived round 5.30 ... pretty good going.

Anyway the potatoes were prepped but raw and he was like ah I should probably precook to very soft them so I can just toss them in oil and they brown up in the oven in the 20 minutes it's going to take the beef to cook. So we have this massive pile of raw quartered potatoes in a big plastic salad bowl and he's rooting around for a big enough pan that doesn't already have something cooking in it and keeps on glancing back at me and I can't work out why - in the office we have a very strict kitchen rule about no plastic at all in the microwave even supposedly microwave safe stuff ( because of bisphenol and endocrine disruptors https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7071457/ ) -

And all of a sudden he stands up from the saucepan cupboard and gets out some clingfilm looks at me and says "fuck it I'm going to steam them in the bowl in the microwave because I don't want kids and you've got no uterus left so YOLO, less washing up". When I had my emergency hysterectomy a couple of years ago we'd of course talked about it as he was the person who got me to hospital and also did all of the explain what the doctors actually meant vs what they were saying in doctor terms to me and we'd spoken a lot about me coming to terms with not being able to be pregnant and the whole transitioning from a childless to a childfree mentality. But he'd never mentioned his views on parenthood. After the lovely party we went to bed and I drunkly asked him if he was serious about bisphenol and BPA not being an issue for him and asked him why he hadn't mentioned his views at the time I was having my hysterectomy, and he had such a thoughtful answer, he just said "Sax, I wasn't the one having a hysterectomy back then, my opinion on anything wasn't important, I'd of been a shit friend to tell you that you being sad about not having children at that time was in anyway similar or equal to me making a conscientious choice to not want/have children". And I just found the way he used microwaving potatoes to tell me this so lovely because in the back of my head I had asked myself what happens if we do fall in love and it gets to a point where the child question starts to be an actual question because I know I can't and even though I think that adoption is a wonderful thing I also know it's not for me for so many reasons. And so now that question is answered.

That is so lovely @Saxendastarter - he sounds like a wonderful man for many reasons.

@Footgoose Where did you stay in Paris for your honeymoon ? Can you remember ?

That sounds lovely @Saxendastarter. Something you really needed to hear. And excellent to hear of a competent man! Mine is good, but I'm not sure he would execute it in similar fashion. I know already that the kitchen would be a total war zone 🤣.

After my moan last night, the scales only went and jumped down this morning. Bastard scales! Bastard weight loss! It's frustrating so many times! I'm still going to put the dose up though. But I'd love a good loss again this week!

That's a proper love story Sax! Makes me feel all goey. It's so nice to find a nice man especially after you've been through some shit!

Well. Today is the first day I've been to the loo since the surgery on Friday. I think it's a combination of jab / painkillers / GA. I've been feeling a bit off and not eaten much which is good. I've just stepped on the scales and I'm 10st 13. So I've lost 10lbs in 6 weeks. It's not as fast as I'd hoped but it's not too bad considering holidays and surgery. I did 1.2 yesterday and I'll do the same for a couple more days, and am planning to go up to 1.5 before the weekend. I think I have about 20 days left with the pens I have and I'm going to have to try and do it on my own or with some other kind of help.
@Saxendastarter what did you say you're taking? Is it a pill? I've been thinking I could try another kind of appetite suppressant- does anyone know one they recommend?

@CiderJabs I'm taking Victoza but it's just Saxenda (Liraglutide) in another pen - it's the exact same thing, same dose etc, it's just that it the marketing for diabetics (please don't bash me for this, I know there are shortages etc )

Oh @Saxendastarter, he sounds a lovely man and I hope it continues to go swimmingly for you both.

Thank you - don't worry about bashing! There is enough of that over here already. I don't think I'd be able to get it in the uk though. I'll have a look.

As ASDA can't supply me at present due to shortages, can anyone share where they've got their pens from please? I'm doing so well (1lb off 2 stone in 3 months) and I don't want to have to take a break just yet.
Thanks