My Mounjaro Journey Week 15 - I'm a different person

 Hi Gang

Well, I'm absolutely thrilled to have lost 2.5lbs this week.  I'm losing an average of 1.9lbs per week which is exactly within NHS recommendations. That's even with my holiday snacking! I've been prescribed 7.5mg from next week and had my last 5mg jab this week.  I'm a bit apprehensive about going up a dose because I've been relatively side effect free on 5mg but I'm excited about it too.

I've really racked up the miles this week.  I've covered 24 miles in total but I'm knackered!  My legs are really aching but I know that my body will adjust and that it'll get easier.  Me and my husband walked from the hamlet of Finchdean, over the hill and into Charlton.  We stopped at The Red Lion and had a drink (non-alcoholic Strawberry & Lime Kopparberg; delicious) and then walked back again.  

The beginning of the walk is a mile of uphill gradient, some very steep, but I managed to do the whole thing without stopping.  Before Christmas, I was struggling to walk to the shop because my back and ankles hurt so much.  That's a definite non-scales victory and I felt great afterwards.  The amount of calories I'm burning daily has increased by around 10%. 

My last blog mentioned that some people in the SheMed Community were getting a bit fed up with their lack of progress and frustrated that SheMed weren't putting them up to higher doses quickly enough. I do wonder if they're seasoned yo-yo dieters like me or people who are quite new to weight loss.  We all want to be a size 12 by next week but that's not how it works.  Losing weight takes dedication, discipline, difficult decisions and, most of all, time.

The reason most of us fail so often is because dieting is hard. Those of us who suffer from food noise have that constant nagging voice telling us to raid the snack drawer. It's easy to keep it quiet for the first couple of weeks but, as time passes, it gets louder and louder until you start to give in.  The odd biscuit here, a bag of crisps there soon becomes a packet of biscuits here and a family bag of crisps there, then you weigh yourself and you haven't lost weight and it's game over; all your willpower dissolves and you give up and put the weight back on.

What's so great about Mounjaro is that it's just not possible to give up.  I have days when I eat things I shouldn't (I had a Belgian bun yesterday) but I feel more able to stop at one bad thing rather than telling myself I've blown it and may as well eat the rest of the hobnobs. Before I started on the jabs I was really struggling to gather my willpower and often ate well for a couple of days but give up the next day and then eat enough calories to make up for the two good days.  I was struggling to stop drinking every day too.  

I can't say, hand on heart, that I don't have any food noise at all because I do.  The difference is that I'm able to dismiss it.  I've got myself into the habit of eating breakfast, lunch and dinner at set times.  If I feel peckish, which doesn't happen often, I'll have some fruit.  If I've got enough calories left at the end of the day, I'll treat myself to some ice cream or a wagon wheel.  In other words, Mounjaro is making me eat like a 'normal' person.  

I was really lucky to stumble across SheMed's clinical study when I did. I've no doubt I'll need to carry on once the 52 weeks are up but it's definitely money well spent.  I'm saving around £200 per month on wine and takeaways so it's literally paying for itself.  I really can't recommend it enough.

This is my progress so far:

Weight  - 14st 3lbs
Mounjaro dose - 5mg
BMI - 37.6
Total loss - 1 stone 12lbs
Walked 24 miles - 76 to go

During a work meeting this week, a colleague told me she'd noticed how much weight I've lost. Bizarrely, I felt embarrassed and told her I'd stopped drinking.  This isn't a lie but it's also not the whole truth.  I don't know why I didn't just come clean; maybe I'm worried about being judged or maybe I'm just not ready to tell people?  To be honest, this blog is my way of keeping a record and telling people about it, so I don't need to tell anyone else. So thanks for reading.

Ta ta for now x


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