Moving on from Wegovy

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I've lost 4 and a half stone on wegovy. I've gone from an obese BMI to BMI of 21. I'm so happy. It took me a year. So now I'm going to taper down and stop. Has anyone else stopped yet? I'm going to keep up the calorie counting and exercise of course to keep the weight off.

@Menora , oh lovely, that's such a crap thing to say and I'm sure it's not true at all. Remember that it came from someone who has their own weight struggle, potentially jealous of your achievement? Please try to see their hurtful comment through that filter.
Also: People can just be bloody horrible.

At 51 and after my massive loss my face and neck has certainly changed and my hair is much thinner but I'll take this version of me any day. A changing, ageing face isn't dangerous and I'm sure you are still very beautiful. Yes I'm more jowly now and my neck sags, wrinkles are a bit more visible, but my skin is better and my eyes appear bigger and sparklier (well, I really am a lot happier!). I'm making more of an effort with skin creams and makeup, I have lovely new glasses and I've whitened my teeth professionally (game changer), I style my hair better and I wear prettier clothes. Everything is just more fun now, and I think that shows.
Big hug to you, these changes are really putting us through an emotional roller coaster aren't they? x

@Menora ive also had a comment about my face not looking like me anymore. It was from a thin ’friend’ who was obviously feeling a bit miffed/threatened. Yes my face has changed but I’m 54 and it was already changing before I lost weight. I don’t love jowl sag or neck wrinkles but I’m pretty sure they would be there with or without weight loss. I’m constantly surprised that people volunteer their critical opinions about appearance un solicited. I can’t imagine what would make me do that. They must be very insecure and quite self obsessed I guess.

Sorry to anyone else who has had this too, it’s awful.

Im still the exact same weight so in a plateau 😂 it will all work itself out in the end, this final part is such a push taking months!

I’m out of my plateau so the exercise has paid off. 67.2kg today. 67kg was my original goal. I thought about attempting 66kg. I probably will. I think it will give me a bigger gap of fluctuations. I’ve worked out I need to stay under 69kg to stay in a healthy BMI, so this gives me some range at times like Christmas or holidays. However just the effort of trying to get a couple of KG off over the past 3 months has been so slow and drawn out, I don’t want to be yo-yo ing up and down

Hi @Menora and well done. I am finding my way in adjusting to what I actually did for many years - which is weigh regularly and be attentive to what I ate and my overall activity level.

Pleased to say that after 10 days the little bit I gained on holiday is off.

@Menora (and others who have endured rude comments) basically rest on the fact that whoever said that to you is a rude-so-and-so with their own set of issues. All of us who have been on this journey have our own subset - for my own part I was anxious about my looks and figure partly because my mum had awful insecurities about her weight and partly because I grew up in a society quite hostile to women who had the temerity to be intelligent and ambitious so constantly telling them that they had failed because they weren't a tanned blonde with long legs and big tits as well was a convenient way to keep us in our place. (FWIW I am a milky white (ex) brunette with a flat chest and sturdy peasant legs).

At 53 I don't have the glow on my skin anymore- no one my age does. My face looks different - more angular - a bit more creased and my neck is a little crepey. I have a few age spots and lumps and bumps.

But that's no-one's business but mine

@UnicornAndSparkles welcome and well done.

I tapered gradually, mostly because I ended up with an assortment of pens secured when there were acute shortages last year and I didn't want to waste them. It's a funny phase because yes I did realise that feeling properly hungry again and not feeling queasy was actually good. Let us onow how you go.

How lovely to read about all of your progresses. After a few months of not posting or reading the forum, I went onto the pages and no one's posting about Wegovy anymore! Apart from you.

Anyway, I'm still on W, but had a few occasions in the last couple of months where I skipped an injection (because, reasons) and had a few serious giving in to cravings episodes. Like, I decide I need to drive to the shop to buy the nice thing and it doesn't even occur to me to talk myself out of it. Prior to a couple of years before I went on W, I would never be that bad. It wasn't one slip, either, it was sliding down that slippery slope. Residual W in my system meant I really didn't gain to speak of, and I've recently upped the dose a little and I appear to be back on track.

Those experiences worried me. I feared I would have no control at all off the drug. Even now I get quite hungry.

So it's good to read so many stories of people managing to maintain. I hope this will be me. I have enough pens to taper when the time comes, so that is the plan. Although I know I will need to be in a good head space to make that transition. Stress events leading to emotional eating are my downfall.

@Striving4Better all of the injection chat was moved to its own forum in weight loss x

Yes I agree with you that it’s now about doing the mental work and eating mindfully. I do eat treats but I balance them out with other things and I think my cravings have changed in that I see things in calories now 😂

I reached goal today of 10st 7 and when I asked DP if I should carry on (in his opinion) he said no, he thinks I should stop now. I value his opinion so I agree and that’s it… I am going for maintenance and fitness now

>> all of the injection chat was moved to its own forum in weight loss x <<

I know, but it's all Monjaro!

Congratulations on reaching goal @Menora . Wishing you every success of staying there, or thereabouts.

I wasn't allowed to get more pens to help with maintenance once I got a BMI of 25. So trying to maintain with good old fashioned diet and exercise. So far it's going fine, I am about 3kgs above my lowest Wegovy weight when I stopped but staying around the 70kgs mark is proving to be maintainable.

It feels weird but in a good way. I'm still trying to get used to tops that tuck into trousers instead of hanging loose to hide my belly. I'm still getting used to straight leg jeans that zip easily and have comfortable space left over, instead of needing stretchy jeggings. And suddenly all my shoes are too wide for my feet!

I'm not skinny or even slim, but agree with everyone else that not having to think about clothes is very freeing. Everything fits!

That said, I haven't got comfortable enough to think about throwing out my size 14 jeggings yet... it feels too soon and still too good to be true.

I've just caught up with all the messages. @Menora sorry to hear about the unrequested comment about your face. When you lose weight you lose it from everywhere including your face. My face looks extremely different to how it looked over 5 stones ago but I loved my face then and I love my face now. People have a lot to say but at the end of the day we are healthier and that's all that matters really. Even my own mother who kept telling me how fat I was has told me I've gone too far and I just ignore the comments as I'm a BMI of 22.4 which is healthy. I just take no notice of people and keep living my best life.

I haven't discarded any of my old clothes, they are in the loft as I have plenty of room up there and I don't feel like getting rid of them just yet or ever.

I'm still on a low dose of Wegovy and planning on using the pens I have to taper off at some point but I would still like to reach my personal goal. I started at 16st 1lb and to get to healthy BMI I needed to get to 11st 10lbs. I'm currently 10st 7lbs but would like to be 10st to give myself a lot of buffer space of just under 2 stones though just over a stone is still good wiggle room and I'm happy to maintain at this weight if I can't lose anymore. I'm just scared of regaining so need space in case that becomes an issue.

Really loving my size 12/10 body and enjoying wearing gorgeous clothes again. This drug has changed my life and I wished they allowed you to maintain on a low dose on it as I'm not sure how I will handle being completely off it.

I got some size 10 jeans in a charity shop and although I can get into them they are tight and not the best fit for me. 12’s are loose fitting but at least comfy!

Had a long weekend of events and have gained a kg so no longer at my goal 😂 but going on a big hike with my friends today so hopefully can work off some of the birthday cake!

Recently I wore active wear outside (whilst engaging in exercise) and I really did not enjoy being looked at the way creepy men looked at me. Hasn’t happened for so long I forgot how grim that was.

I have all the old clothes in a pile… I’m moving soon so can’t really take them with me. I need to let go of them at some point

@Menora Hi, yep weight does fluate a little bit but that's why I wanted to be at least a stone under my what my heaviest weight should be so that if I go up or down a few pounds it's no big deal. I went away for 4 days and ate food and ice cream etc but only put on just over 1lb so maintained really. But I don't want to feel I can't go away and eat a bit of what I love and be stressed about it.

I have loads of clothes I kept when I was smaller and the majority of them fit me know but any that are still too small are bed. Given away as I doubt I'll get smaller than 10st 7lbs and even if I do it's too hard to maintain so I'm going to go through my clothes again and what is too small is going to the charity shop or sold online, haven't decided which yet.

Yes I need to move more, exercise more which will also help me maintain. Very happy that I was 16st 1lb and know 10st 7lbs. That's a huge achievement that I'm proud of.

Bump thread for any new people coming off

Sw: 15st 6
wegovy weight loss about 2st
cw: 10st 7lbs
gw: 10st 6lbs
non wegovy weight loss about 3st

Keeping up fitness and moving to maintenance weight

I usually weigh in KG so I am 66.7kg and will stop around 66kg then maintain with a leeway of 2kg fluctuation. Over 69kg puts me back into overweight BMI but I am done losing weight now just the last 1lb but I am not stressing about it

Morning!

Me: SW: 85kg (13 st 7)
Lowest: 67.2 in February this year.
Current: 68-69kg maintained over the last 5 months off W

Amazing, well done x

I know it’s not an airport and no one needs to announce a departure, but I am starting to get fed up this platform as it doesn’t have a block/ignore function on the boards and some people seem to have no self control to just scroll on by if they don’t agree. It’s fine don’t agree with each other sometimes, and I’m open to debate, everyone is a stranger anyway, I don’t really care per se, they don’t actually know me, but it’s always so aggressively personal and tbh creeping me out recalling my history I’ve shared here against me. I already left once for the same reason but came back after a while, I had a good think over the weekend and will call it a day on here. I have a choice as to what to share or not share and I shared in good faith with good intentions even if they weren’t always agreed with. I’ve been on MN since it started and never had any problems before, I’ve stuck it out but life is too short to stress about creepy angry strangers 😂

I’ve really enjoyed sharing peoples journeys and wish you all luck! x

Oh no Menora that's sad. Do you think you could just keep posting on this thread and ignore the rest?

@Menora I would miss you if you left. Wishing you all the very best. xx

Don't leave....will miss you

Just to share and report.

I am tapering off my dosage at the moment to stop. Initially I was due to stop before the summer holiday but decided to stay on it during my holiday as we travel a lot and will have lots of nice food which will be too tempted to say no to. So Wegovy made me stayed in control during the holiday, eating a little of all the nice food offered and had fun. Coming back from holiday I noticed I gained a few pounds but those came off within the 48hours, I think they were mostly water weight.

Starting weight 80kg (176.4 llb)
Current weight 59kg (130 llb)
Height 160cm (5' 2")
BMI 23

It took me 10 months to lose the weight helped by fasting and exercising.

I am worried about weight gain after stopping, read so much about it. My weight gain was mostly due to pre-menopause (hormonal issue) so it is not so much about not controlling my portion or not exercise (Im quite active). Anyone in the same situation?

I have been on Wegovy since January, lost 2.5 stone so far, about another stone to go to get in the middle of a healthy BMI.
Lovely to read stories of buying new clothes and fitting into anything. I feel a bit down as I have always had a tummy, fat goes there first and leaves last. The rest of me is fine, probably a size 10, but the tummy ruins it! I still can't wear skirts as they ride up or down, and still have to wear floaty tops to hide the belly. I really don't have much more clothes freedom than before. I think I would need to be a skeleton before the belly went. I'm not bloated, think it's just a combination of fat and posture. At my heaviest, I was asked when I was due, hopefully that won't happen again!

Great to hear Wegovy is working for you! And that you have lost a lot of weight. Are you doing stomach exercises as this may help flatten your stomach. Glad it's going well for you

I'm trying to taper off as my body still hates Wegovy and for the first time ever I threw up last week 5 times in a row and it was a horrible experience so know I think it's definitely time to go cold turkey for me as my body doesn't like Wegovy at all! Annoying as my body was fine for the first 8 months!

But I'm transitioning onto Berberine which is supposed to be a natural version of helping to reduce appetite and reduce cravings without side effects. Not sure if it's working yet as I took Wegovy week ago so it's still in my system. We'll see if it can help me maintain my weight. Hope so!

Has anyone else heard of berberine? Or it's effects.

@BellyButt well done. I lost a fairly similar amount of weight (about 18kg) and have been maintaining since around April. I spaced my final doses (of .5mg W)over 2 week intervals so it just sort of faded out.

Hi Radish 12, may I ask what is the lowest BMI that Boots, or any other supplier, will prescribe? I went from 27+ down to just under 25 through simpleonlinepharmacy, but would like to continue till I am below 23. Thank you. @Radish12