For background, I've been a yo-yo dieter my whole adult life, but had a phase in my 20s when I weighed about 9.5 stone for a couple of years because I had a very active job and a youthful metabolism.
I'm mid-40s now and I got up to 15 stone last summer, so I started on Mounjaro. When I was setting a goal, I had 9.5 stone in my head as something I'd managed before, but my lifestyle is nothing like it was back then and I didn't know if I'd be able to get there again.
Maybe because I wasn't expecting it to happen, I didn't give much thought to what I might look like if it did. And now that it actually has, I really don't like what I see. I suppose I wasn't daft enough to think I would look the same as in my youth, but I'm quite shocked by the difference. Before, I looked slim at this weight but now I just look flabby and slack. I have some loose skin on my upper arms, stomach and thighs and my boobs look like semi-deflated balloons. And I still have a lot of fat around my hips and legs while having very little on my back and chest, so I look comically out of proportion. I feel like I still look fat and I'm still completely covering myself up even in this hot weather we've been having.
I'm wondering now if I would look better either with another half a stone off, in the hope that some of the "pear shape" fat would go, or if I should even put half a stone back on to see if it fills out the loose skin a tiny bit. I worry though that I'll never be happy and maybe I just need to stay at this weight for a bit and try to get used to it? Any thoughts or advice?