My Mounjaro Journey Week 16 - Feeling Positive

Hi

I surpassed the two stone 7lbs mark this week (2 stone since starting Mounjaro) and I'm chuffed to bits.  I've been trying to lose this amount of weight for about the last four years.  I just could never get in the right head space and only ever managed to lose about 7lbs before giving up and putting it back on again.  By the end of last year, I was the heaviest I'd ever been.  I'd started buying size 22/24 clothes and generally felt unattractive and unwell.

The weight loss works out at over 1.9lbs per week, which is the optimum amount, so I'm quite surprised that SheMed have prescribed me 7.5mg.  I would've been quite happy to stay on 5mg.  I took my first dose this week and I've noticed the suppression is much stronger already.  I had planned on making a Hello Fresh chicken dish tonight but I've ended up eating two bits of toast with cheese spread instead. The eggy burps are back with a vengeance.  Let's just hope the diarrhoea and constipation don't become a daily feature like before.

I've mentioned a few times that I'm on a clinical study with SheMed so I'm on this journey for at least a year.  I suspect that the participants have been put into groups and we're being prescribed inline with certain criteria.  I seem to be following the standard plan so I think I'm going to be on 7.5mg for at least 8 weeks.  Some of the 99ers (the name for those of us on the trial) are very upset with their progress and the rate at which they're moving up the doses but we're paying a discounted rate so that SheMed can gather data. 

A friend was telling me they've bought some GLP-1 patches. He said he wasn't sure whether they're actually working or if he just thinks they are, but he's lost half a stone in a month.  I've done some research into them as I thought they might work for maintenance when I need it but everything I've looked at suggests they're ineffective and have no scientific evidence.  In fact, the only studies so far have been on animals.

I pulled out my summer clothes and there are loads that are too big.  I can get away with baggy t-shirts but the shorts and trousers look awful.  I'm going to buy some cheap replacements in the hope that they won't fit longer than one summer.  It's a lovely problem to have but it took me half an hour to get dressed the other morning.  Every pair of trousers I put on looked ridiculous.

My sponsored walk is going well.  Me and my husband did a 5.5 mile walk at the weekend around Hayling Island.  It was a beautiful day and we stopped at a pub for a well deserved alcohol free cider.  I've noticed that some of the AF ciders are rammed with sugar and a bottle can have over 200 calories.  There's no point watching what I eat and doing more exercise if I'm going to ruin it by drinking sugar laden drinks. I might have to go back to zero alcohol gin and slimline tonic.

Something I noticed when I was out on one of my walks was a weird 'donk, donk' noise as I walked along.  It wasn't my feet so I thought it might be my bra.  I grabbed hold of my boobs but the 'donk, donk' persisted.  I thought it was my phone in the pocket of my shorts so I held onto that but the noise carried on.  I put my hand on my stomach but it wasn't that.  Finally, I put my hands on my love handles; and the noise stopped.  It was my flabby hips slapping against the tops of my legs!  It sounded muffled because of my knickers.  Oh well, at least they're getting smaller.

I took one of my grandchildren to the beach on Saturday.  They asked for an ice cream so we went to the parlour and they picked out a chocolate and orange one.  Just as the woman scooped it out into the cone the little darling decided that wasn't the one they wanted after all.  The upshot is that I ended up with an ice cream I hadn't planned on eating.  It was delicious though so I didn't complain too much.

Now for this weeks stats:

Weight  - 14st 2lbs
Mounjaro dose - 7.5mg
BMI - 37.4
Total loss - 1 stone 13lbs
Walked 45 miles - 55 to go

I'm so happy with my progress and I'm so happy that I don't feel like I'm missing out. I usually feel like I have to eat everything in sight because I might not get another chance.  Ridiculous, I know, but that's what food noise and addiction is like. I actually look forward to planning meals and weighing in each week.

Here's to another good week!

x

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