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.

Maybe get some Movicol to clear yourself out? Nothing wrong with taking a small dose of that regularly. Your nosy boss could get you a prescription for it... 😬. Or maybe some suppositories? From memory the doctors in France were quite keen on prescribing suppository style medication for DSs pain relief (sooo weird...) so you should be able to find some!

I'm feeling a little resigned to the fact that only having a good clear out once or twice a week has an affect on my weigh ins. Although now having looked at suppositories.....

Hi!

Nothing special this afternoon! I'm still crossing fingers that the transit issue doesn't last too long ... but if nothing has happened tomorrow evening I may try something stronger.

Day 7

Breakfast:
2 coffee with coconut milk
1 flavored San Pellegrino
2 boiled eggs

Snack
Black coffee

Lunch :
2 Big glasses of sugar free squash
Black coffee

Supper:
2 flavored San Pellegrino
1 Big glass of sugar free squash
2 Campari spritz
Share of a cheese board with salad and bread

So is day 8 and I weighed my self this morning - I’m 95kg so I’ve lost 1.8 kg this first week. I was hoping for more but given the fact I haven’t had a bowel movement for 3 days - I’ll take the 1.8kg (3.96 pounds )

Week 2
Weight starting Saxenda 96.8kg
Starting weight of the week 95kg
weight lost last week 1.8kg
Total weight lost 1.8kg
Current BMI 33.7

@Saxendastarter that's a great loss, well done! 😊I'm sure the no movement has probably had an effect on those numbers too, I think seeing that some other people are pulling in huge losses in their first week can be a bit disheartening but we have to remember that almost 4 pounds is an amazing loss! and those people with big losses might be a lot bigger, we're all wired differently and will react differently/have different lifestyles which all has an effect.

This is as much a note to myself as anything else, I'm terrible for comparing 😅

@BinnityBoo Thanks, I'm feeling a bit deflated to not have lost more to be honest - and I'm just down at how long this journey is going to be ...

Wish you all the best. The appetite reduction suddenly stopped.with me. Even when I was on a full dose.so I stopped

@Saxendastarter - not that long a journey, really. The first half of the weight loss will be the most significant - so within 3 months you and I will look so different. Size wise I will have gone down from a size 18 to hopefully a 14. I'm hoping to be down to a 16 by the end of May/early June for my dress shopping, 6 weeks away.

Yes the journey to our ideal weight loss is a long one, but those early goals are within our grasp, stay positive!

@Saxendastarter by all accounts you've done amazingly this week though 😊

Day 4 has been absolutely no hunger at all for me.

I've had a fibre one bar, a protein shake, an apple and two mini chicken skewers. I got my lunch out to warm up it on my dinner break at work and ended up putting it back in the fridge, just was not hungry at all and didn't feel like eating. Just had a small bowl of pasta & low fat meatballs for tea and I'm stuffed. So ending the day on 836 calories which is a bit low 😬 but don't want to force myself to eat!

I'm in a bit of an awkward work situation tomorrow, I work with quite a small team and I'm going to pick up some bits for an event next week and she's excited about us picking up some sweets & chocolate for 'fat friday'. Obviously usually I'd participate, but on this occasion and for the foreseeable I don't want to 😩 she keeps randomly buying me kinder buenos and dropping them on my desk. She's an absolute darling and I really like her, but how do I say nicely to stop being nice 😂

Ahhhh the joy of work politics 🫠😂

Day 8

Breakfast:
2 coffee with coconut milk
2 Big glasses of sugar free squash
1 flavored San Pellegrino

Snack
coffee with coconut milk

Lunch :
2 flavored San Pellegrino - wasn't hungry at all

Snack
1 icetea no sugar

Supper:
Glass of Orange juice
Glass of Kir
Whilst cooking picked on : bric au brie canneberge, honey carrots, mushrooms, butter leeks, chocolate cookies, nuts, purée
2 flavored San Pellegrino
Chocolate cookie
Peanut & Jam cookies

Not a great day, slightly tired and stressed from work. Also realizing (thanks to writing it down) that I drink alcohol most evenings. It took me much longer than usual to drink two spritzes yesterday though and this evening I only got through half a glass of Kir before pouring it down the sink because I just didn't want it.

I have a dinner party tomorrow evening - I'm hosting -so I spent most of the evening prep cooking and getting spare room and office ready for the couples who are staying over, because I won't have time tomorrow. I managed to prep an awful lot without picking or grazing too too much, and have got every possible component that can be preprepared prepped and in the fridge so that I can have everything ready for people arriving at 8pm tomorrow - but I'll only get home from work at 7.... It's 12 guests with 2 of them only arriving at 3am ish ( driving from very far for the weekend) and 5 in total staying over, so between work being stressful and getting my home ready for an "invasion" it's been a bit of a tornado. I'm just winding down.

Tomorrow I have to play hostess ( long planned party ) and provide plates and plates of food that I'll probably not want to be eating at all ... but I will absolutely have a lovely evening of good company and interesting and fun conversations. I still have to put a note up in the lobby to warn the neighbors we might be a bit loud...

@OrderOfTheKookaburra @BinnityBoo Thank you both for your kind words and encouragement. I'm going to keep the end goal in head!

@OrderOfTheKookaburra I'm going to keep the end goal in head! and maybe plan a shopping trip for a nice summer dress for this summer at the end of June with an aim of being a size smaller.

@BinnityBoo Honestly, if it was me I would dishonestly I was having issues with a tooth and needed to avoid sugar until it was sorted and that I was struggling with it so could she please help me not be tempted. Tell her that as long as you avoid sugar the tooth isn't bothering you for now.)
( I yes, I am aware of how crazy this is, but I find it even crazier that it's a more acceptable social position to ask for help and support concerning your teeth that it is your weight, and believe people will try harder to help and not shortage or mock or expect results and think your weight is their business too ... )

@OrderOfTheKookaburra

Also reading this

From memory the doctors in France were quite keen on prescribing suppository style medication for DSs pain relief (sooo weird...) so you should be able to find some!

makes me feel so so French! because I feel I absolutely need to reply to you that in children medicine in suppository form is great... they go direct to blood stream without being digested and work much faster for pain relief for example in such a French French way ..... ;-)

🤣🤣🤣

I got told off by the Dr for giving DS paracetamol for pain relief, as he didn't have a temperature. In his mind paracetamol for temperature, ibuprofen for pain relief.

I glared back at him with a raised eyebrow and a "Don't fuck with me, I have a sick child on my hands" look and he quickly wound his neck in.

Week 2 weigh in and I've lost another 3 pounds. That's 6 pounds in 2 weeks which I'm happy with.
Have also decided to stick to 0.6 as any more than this and the nausea is awful. 0.6 seems to control my appetite perfectly and I've been recommended to stay on that if it works for me.
Bonus is my pens will last longer!

@CocoKenny thays great ! Well done - I’m also sticking to 0.6 + 5 clics because it’s still working so we’ll see how long that lasts !

I'm following the recommended doses through Juniper as I'm not keen on going to my GP for them and I don't know what my other options are. Very strict on pharmaceuticals here.

Also don't want to be unable to buy it when my BMI gets below 30.

@OrderOfTheKookaburra I got mine at Doktoronline https://www.dokteronline.com/fr/produit/saxenda/ seems legal and legit but ... well I don't think they take very long checking who they are prescribing too. Mine arrived quickly by UPs in a thermos (that I've kept in the fridge) with icepacks and a massive box of needles. They are horrifically expensive tho ...

Still no movement on the transit side for me ... I'm on day four of psyllium and lactulose and coffee and yet no improvement, I even had cows milk in my coffee on purpose this morning because that normally send me straight to the loo, but no luck ... I'm starting to get constipation tummy ache so if it hasn't improved I'll be at the pharmacy on Saturday asking for more radical solutions

Hi everyone, hope you don't mind me joining? I was on another thread but it's very quiet.
I've just restarted Saxena again on Wednesday after using it for 2 weeks a few months ago but getting so violently sick that I had to stop. I'm now taking antisickness medication when I get the warning signs that I'm in for a sicky few hours and so far it seems to be working, early days yet though.
I'm trying to calorie count with Myfitnesspal and keep around the 1200 mark. I have a horrible amount to lose but I know I need to break it down into smaller chunks, my first goal is to get into the next stone bracket, which will be a 9lbs loss.
I am going on a road trip to see friends and family at the very end of May / beginning on June and I'm a bit worried about how that will go. Noone apart from my husband knows I'm dieting or using Saxenda so it's giving me the fear. I'm hoping the side effects are manageable and I'm still on it by then but I guess I need to cross that bridge when I come to it.
It's been great reading all your posts and feeling not so alone. I enjoy reading what other people eat in a day too as I'm always after some inspiration! 😃

@Bloodylovecrisps Welcome! I really hope the anti nausea drug works for you. I’m finding Saxenda quite magic for the appetite reduction and apart from headaches the first nights, constipation and cold feet im not getting any side effects yet - I’ve just started week 2.

I don’t calorie count as it makes me to obsessive - but I’m trying to avoid sugar and carbs ( yesterday was a failure on that front though). 1200 a day seems like a good goal! 9 pounds (4kg) is a great first goal, you may have reached that by your holiday and hopefully the worse of the side effects will have tapered off.

Ah well I've decided to leave the office and take the rest of the day off before my guests arrive this evening - I'm hoping that a long walk and more coffee with help the "no poo" situation because my tummy is really starting to ache and I feel horrible and bloated and uncomfortable. I'm also nauseous today and think it might be the psyllium because even drinking it made me queasy

So, self indulgence for this weekend starting with leaving work before lunch today - which I will regret because it means taking a half day of PTO, and I'll have to work Sunday to catch up anyway because if not Monday will be horrific , but of course I won't be paid for Sunday ...

I've planned for my cleaning lady to come tomorrow midday to finish the clean up after the dinner party so I don't have to stress about that ( I'm aware of how indulgent that sounds - but in two hours she'll have turned everything around whereas it would take me the rest of the weekend, with the extra washing up and three beds to change, she's about 5000 times more efficient at cleaning and tidying then I am!).

I've booked a hot oil tummy massage with castor packs for tomorrow and am just praying that works - if not I'm going to have to take the horrible strong laxatives and I'm worried that in the long run that will just mess things up further. It's worrying me because I don't thing I can deal with longterm constipation as a side effect and if this is what it's going to be like every week I'll have to stop saxenda unless the suggestion @BinnityBoo made of not having an injection one day a week works...

Anyways, trying to be positive, having the cleaning lady in on a weekend and the massage are two nice things that I'm doing for myself that are not food related.

Welcome, @Bloodylovecrisps!

Maybe increase doses at a lower rate? I inject at night so that I sleep off most of the potential side effects. Also maybe not drop all carbs as some carbs would help with the nausea.

Red wine helps things get moving for me, would that work @Saxendastarter? Not sure why that works for me when other alcohol doesn't.

I'm not calorie counting at all right now, I'm just eating a lot less. I think my meals are probably half the usual size. If I get too strict I self sabotage and I really don't want to do that.

Hello! @Bloodylovecrisps, love the name 😂

How long have you been on it since you restarted? Glad the antisickness meds are working for you so far and hope that continues! It definitely helps mentally when you break it down into smaller chunks and really motivating when you have something to look forward to, I'm a bridesmaid a few times end of this year & next, got a trip to Oz booked in 7 months 😨amongst a few other things which i'm aiming for but the first thing is to wear a nice dress for a girls day out at the end of may!

We are all in the same boat here I think with not really telling anyone, so I'm glad it's made you feel not so alone, as it has with us too!

With regards to the side effects, have you been upping the dose as per the guidance? I am planning on moving up at my own pace and when I feel like I'm ready rather than moving up as per guidance. I'm on a saxenda support group on fb and seen a few people say they stayed on 0.6 the whole time and lost all of the weight they wanted to! Which is good for my purse strings 😂

@Saxendastarter Oooo sounds like you've got a lovely weekend in store! the massage sounds great! and having the cleaning lady in for a few extra hours means you can totally relax instead of spending time off cleaning, bonus! 😊 I hope the poo situation clears for you, for me I'd honestly rather have diarrhea than constipation 😅it can make you feel sooo rubbish.

I can't vouch for that method obviously as I haven't tried it myself, but seen it mentioned a lot and I don't see the harm in giving it a try to see if it helps.

I'm very loosely calorie counting, not doing it every single day as I can get quite obsessive with it as well, I eat the same things most days and I've done it for a looong time so I'm pretty good at eyeballing things these days

Thanks for the advice on work colleague! That was a really good shout, I've managed to avoid all of her temptations today despite her offering to get me a kinder bueno twice! bless her😂I feel like as soon as people get a whiff of the fact you're trying to be good/lose weight they turn into little saboteurs 😂husband included!

@OrderOfTheKookaburra well done on the loss!! Amazing 👏

Can hop on the thread and join in!

Started Friday

Start weight 15st 1lb
Goal weigh 11st
Interim goal 13st july 25th

Day 3 today.

I'll probably just weight in each week rather than log food

4lbs in a week is incredible! Keep going and keep titrating up. If you buy from boot keep it in your basket and about 12 hours later they sent me a 10% of code.

In 10 weeks that would be 40lbs or nearly 3stone.

Just emerging from my party last night!

We were still up at 5 am. Woke up round 11 for coffee with one friend who was leaving and did a first clean up. Two couples are still sleeping. The cleaning lady is dealing with everything and basically sent me back to bed with a coffee so she can have "space" to clean which honestly feels amazing and very spoilt. I have my tummy massage at 4pm and have high hopes that It'll work!

I ate a lot yesterday, but I still ate less than I normally would, I normally have an almost compulsive tendency to stuff my face at big meals and parties and have far too many of the nibbles or canapés and then still go on and eat masses of the main and pudding, I just don't have a stop button, if food is out and I'm there, I'll eat it, even if I'm full and sometimes even if I don't particularly like the food.

Yesterday I managed not to stuff my face, and didn't have the feeling I was eating more than everyone else and constantly picking - which is a good start for me. It felt almost restful to not be shoving my hand into every passing plate or dish.

We also drank a lot, I counted the bottles this morning - averaging out at 2.5 bottles of wine per head + spirits and some of the men also had beers... But again, I drank less than I usually would. I had quite a lot of fizzy water between glasses and probably "only" had 1 spritz, 2 glass of champagne, 6 of red wine and 2 small rhums. I know thats a massive amount of units, but for me over 8 hours of drinking it's relatively tame.

It was all in all a lovely evening.

Day 9

Breakfast:
2 coffee with milk
2 Big glasses of sugar free squash
1 flavored San Pellegrino

Snack
Coffee with coconut Milk

Lunch :
2 flavored San Pellegrino -
Snack
1 icetea no sugar

Supper I had a party I was hosting :
Lots and lots of food ( lamb, roast potatoes, mushrooms, carrots, leeks, fillo pastry brie and cranberry pockets )
Strawberries, raspberries, cream, orange salad, hazelnuts almonds etc.
Aperol Spritz, Champagne, red wine, rhum and a lot of water

This morning I've just upped to 1.2 of the Saxenda, for the first time the injection actually hurt and stung afterwards, that may however be a bit of the effect of "the morning after" so much alcohol!

@cherrypied Welcome Cherrypied! We're basically the same starting weight and have the same goal.

Happy to have your company on the journey. I'm only logging my food because it's helping me rethink my whole relationship to what and why I eat what I eat when I do... And on top of Saxenda I'm also on a bit of a path to try and find more "inner peace" in my whole relationship to food and my body.

How are you feeling ? Have you got any side effects? Have you told people you're on Saxenda?

What's happening on July 25th ?