My Mounjaro Journey Week 3 - Move More

 Hi everyone

You'll be pleased to hear that, after my disastrous attempt at injecting myself last week, I did a bang up job this time.  I injected the left side of my stomach and I made sure that I held the primed pen in a way that ensured no slips. The reason for rotating injection sites is to stop you getting lumps under your skin.

I've had hardly any side effects at all this week, save a bit of constipation, which I've taken tablets for.  I used the ones supplied by SheMed and they've done the trick. I mentioned before that I'm prediabetic and, apparently, some of the worse things for causing sugar spikes is white bread, white rice and white pasta, so I'm only eating wholemeal.  This is, hopefully, keeping my bowels moving as well as keeping my sugar levels stable. 

Too much?  Okay, let's talk about my appetite instead..

As I said last week, I'm not getting full suppression but it's mostly enough to stop me from snacking.  I'm consuming around 1200 to 1400 calories per day, which is keeping me satisfied.  Having said that, by day 5 I start to get cravings for cakes & biscuits, which I'm just about managing to control.  Mostly.  Last week, on jab day, I went to the pub at lunch time and had an apple and blackberry crumble with custard.  Delicious, but I paid for it later in the day when I had trapped wind followed by an emergency bowel evacuation.  Sorry, we seem to have ended up back where we started.

Let's talk about my increased exercise instead.  I used to do a lot of walking because it's free and enjoyable.  I walked around 25 to 30 miles per week which kept me fit and kept my vitamin D levels topped up.  Like most people, after Covid, my daily routines changed and I got more and more inactive until I was rarely doing any walking at all.  This meant my weight increased considerably - which made walking more difficult - and so on.

I've made a conscious effort to walk every day, even if it's just to the shop. I have three days where I walk for at least an hour. This means I'm covering at least 10 miles a week and I feel so much better for it.  At first my back and ankles really hurt but I rarely have any aches now.  I've climbed Scarfell Pile, Kinder Scout and Snowdon in the last 8 years so you'll see I was quite a keen hiker.  Walking up to high points is so rewarding and there's no feeling like looking out across mountains, countryside or the sea from on top of a cliff., so one of my targets is to get back to hiking regularly.

I've mentioned the Facebook group for SheMed to you before and one of the things that comes up a lot is how much water should we be drinking? Now, as I've said before, I've never been able to drink a lot but there is a way to know if you're fully hydrated and that's the colour of your wee.  If it's dark yellow, you need to up your fluid intake; if it's pale yellow, then you're okay.  However, if your wee is almost the colour of water, then you're drinking too much.  Your kidneys will be struggling to get rid of the excess water which results in the sodium in your blood becoming diluted.  This is dangerous and can be life threatening.  My point is, listen to your body and don't drink 3 litres plus per day if it's not what your body needs.

Time for this weeks stats:

Weight - 15st 8.5lbs
Mounjaro dose - 2.5mg
BMI - 41.2
Loss - 6.5lbs

Tomorrow will be my last 2.5mg dose because my new prescription is 5mg. I'm quite looking forward to the increase as I'm hoping it will get rid of the food noise completely.  But that's for another day.

See you next week.





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