#mounjaro

[missionslimpossible418]

Now this is a progress picture!!!!! I am utterly shocked that this is the same person a little over one year apart!

[emma-dennehy-on-ice]

I hate the ozempic ads/banners so much. The stuff has basically been a miracle for several diabetics in my life and instead they are using it to try and convince us ppl like Serena Williams is fat and needs to lose weight.

[withloveandcourage]

As a precaution, me and my family have had to treat scabies. Long story short, we've been in contact with someone with it. It's not their fault, it happens, but my goodness, what. a. faff.

I've been feeling queasy on and off since Friday but I went outside to put the bedding on the clothesline and sheesh the sun was HOT. Then I watered my plants and did a tiny bit of deadheading because like.. you gotta! Anyway, by the time I came in, I was like I'm actually gonna pass tf out. Lol.

Currently sat on the floor hoping that Bub is okay too because (do not read if you are eating) he was sick Saturday and then Sunday he was fine but then this morning he.. uh.. yeah... he's got the runs. I was like fantabulous. I went up there to help him out when I was stripping the kids bed covers and I was like Christ. All of a sudden my stomach feels off too but I have a very weak sensitive stomach so I think it was just the smell. I hope so anyway. I haven't been able to eat much due to the nausea so the last thing I need is an upset stomach. Like no. That is the wrong way to lose weight like I don't have time for deficiencies and feeling like my muscles are made of jelly. I need to feel strong enough to pick my kids up and run if needs be and if I dont feel that strong then I feel vulnerable. But anywaysss this week is the first week that I've wondered "if the mounjaro worth it" because feeling nauseous is one of the worst feelings. I'd say pain is worse but I am one of those who also throws up when they're in pain so it's in that category anyway! Boo. Down with this sort of thing

[missionslimpossible418]

Really starting to feel like a whole different person and I truly wouldn't trade it for the world! I can move easier. Breathe easier. And am in such a better place mentally. I can do this!

[iainpope73]

Week three On the Pen and I have noticed a lot more things about Mounjaro and the attempt to improve my lot in life.

My metabolism has defo slowed right down. Without going in to gory details, up until I started on the injections I could set my watch by the frankly glorious morning unburdening which followed my first coffee.

Now i appear to be holding on to my...byproduct...like a jilted lover. I'm not bunged up or anything, it just feels like my body is making the most of everything I eat.

My Little Room moments are a longer, more drawn out affair than before. Not painful, or worse, just different. TMI?

Also I am drinking much more fluids. At the moment that still means lots of sugary diluting juice. Long term I know I will have to either switch to less sweet options or move to water, but at the moment it frankly it seems like a minor sin.

Also I think and crave about food less and less, which is somewhat ironic in that I prepare meat and meals for a living.

A friend who iost five stones on weight loss injections called this constant preoccupation with where the next meal is coming from "food noise", a term which I liked a lot. He said the injections cutting it out were the biggest advantage he found.

I've also been noticing other ways of living lately such as total carnivorism and fasting. Oddly I met two customers seperately yesterday who were 100% carnivores (in a butcher shop you say? Imagine!) and i think they were the first true carnivores I have ever knowingly encountered.

Both of them no carbs, veg, fruit, nor owt. Just meat. The first customer, a young woman, seemed a great walking advert for it. Good skin, hair, clear eyes and she eulogised the lifestyle.

The second convert was a gym bunny, muscle bound, also in great condition. He had fallen off the wagon on his summer holidays and had managed to put, he said, two stones on in two week, but was ready to get back on it.

While I can see how a blog by a butcher about only ever eating meat might be quite a cute angle, and as much as I love a good banger, I don't think it is for me, at least not now.

Likewise fasting is, i don't think for me. Not true, water n black tea fasting. However only eating in a given window in 24 hours -18:6 and the like - doesn't really count as fasting in my book, that is just sensible eating; so I am much more likely to get on board with that.

What I have cut back on, at least for the last few days, is carbs. Not to the point of silliness or anything, but just getting rid of pasta n the like as I eye the prospect of a looming summer holiday to Corfu, which is currently sweltering in 40c. (Greece? In summer? Roasting you say? Imagine).

At the end of the day I have only one more week until I am plopped into that living sauna and, whichever way I cut it, no matter how well I do in week three and four, i will still be A Fat Man.

Images of Dr Michael Moseley, the tireless health campaigner who was, unsurprisingly 100 times fitter than me yet still uccumbed to the oppressive Mediterranean sun, keep flitting across my consciousness.

Conversely, i know that the more timber I manage to shift between now and touchdown, the less uncomfortable I will be. That is motivation of which Dr Michael might approve. The Jet2 Plan.

The only other thing to mention over last few days is a bus diversion turning my short walk into work into a vefitable (ok, 2km) each way walk.

Three weeks ago, this would have been a tragedy of epic proportions. Now I can see the value in an extra 600 calories burned and today as I left work I felt the sun on my back and a joy in life. Take them where you can.

[itschellyanne]

7 months & 50lb down.

[150lbs-less]

An introduction~

Hi friends 👋🏻 I’m starting up this page to diary, journal and connect with fellow weight loss baddies.

A little about me…

I’m 27 years old, female, 5’6”, 303 lbs, BMI of 48

Longtime PCOS

Recently diagnosed with high cholesterol

Borderline prediabetic

I’m about to begin my journey with metformin, a calorie deficit & a dream. Hoping to be at my goal weight of 150 within 2 years, and have my life back.

Welcome. I’m so glad you’re here 🫂