Let’s talk about the weird obsession people have with tearing down anyone on Mounjaro… and the people quietly putting up with it. If you’re on Mounjaro, you’ve heard it. That’s cheating. You’ll gain it all back. Just eat less and move more. You’re taking the easy way out. Some of it comes from strangers. Some of it comes from people close to you. That’s the part that hits different. I want to hear it properly. What’s the worst comment you’ve had? And did you say anything back or just leave it? And for anyone saying this stuff, be honest for a second. What’s actually behind it. Is it frustration because you’ve been trying for years and nothing’s worked. Is it pride because you went through it the hard way and think everyone else should as well. Or is it just discomfort watching someone else change while you’re still stuck. Because the reality is this. Nobody on Mounjaro is skipping the work. They’re still turning up. Still training. Still trying to undo years of habits that didn’t happen overnight. The difference is they finally have something that helps them stay consistent. If you’re on it, you don’t owe anyone an explanation.

So I put all my data in, and whether I have a sedentary lifestyle or do light activity it reckons for me to lose weight I need to eat in the range of 1000 - 1100 kcal. Really?

Hi everyone, I had a great week food wise, hitting my protein goal of 120-140kg per day, which I'm finding is naturally keeping me circa 1500cals. It's definitely been a tougher week appetite wise, it's been much lower, so I've had to push harder to get enough protein in. I also found that the food noise has come back a little towards the end of the week when I was due pen #4. It coincided with the arrival of my period so that could be playing a role in craving chocolate. I allowed myself to have some, I just tracked it into my daily calories and in fact the amount I had weighted out and calorie counted for was far kore than I could eat/wanted to eat. Like Mark mentioned recently I just had an off switch, I was 100% satisfied with the lesser amount, less than a third of what I had allowed myself. It's amazing! This week I weighed myself halfway through the week (Tuesday)and was on for 0.4kg drop, but then period arrived the day before weigh day and by Friday morning (and repeated this morning) I clocked in at the exact same weight as the week before....so I went back up those 0.4kg. my diet remained stable though, my macros and calories were good, so I am trusting the process and I know that it's not a true gain, it's a hormonal fluctuation. So I've done my final 0.25mg starter jab and can't wait to move on up to the next titration dose of 0.5mg on Friday! 2.6kg down so far, I'll take it!!! Especially as it's been not effortless, but simple to achieve if you get me?

Scale’s been stubborn this week, but I had a moment yesterday that reminded me why this journey is worth it, and why celebrating the non scale victories is important. Went clothes shopping. For the first time in a long time, I could walk into most stores and things actually fit. Picked up a large, and it worked. But the bit that got me — I stood there and thought about whether I liked it. The colour, the cut, whether it suited me. Old me didn’t get to do that. Old me just bought whatever fit and left quickly. I didn’t need the scale to move to feel like something shifted yesterday.

Evening all, I wrote a big update post and it didn't post for some reason! So here's what I remember from it! I took my third 0.25mg (titration dose) of ozempic/Wegovy on Friday night. I have lost 1.9kg week one and another 0.7kg week two, so I'm super thrilled to be responding this early. I have very little food noise. My appetite is reduced/low depending on the timing of the week. It has been so easy to make the changes to healthier options, that's where I've never found it easy before. This is such an amazing crutch in that area! I'm hoping that that stays with me as the doses go up....have heard lots of people say they got less of those effects on higher doses than the lower ones, which seems not ideal to say the least! My diet focus is on protein content instead of calorie goal/deficit. I'm aiming between for 140g protein per day....but I'm happy once I'm over 100g on a bad (v low appetite day) day. I'm finding that that is naturally keeping me in or around 15-1600cal per day....but I'm happy to be between 1500 and 1800 day to day for now. Will see how things continue, but I'm thrilled, beyond thrilled to have shown a response on these early doses to enable me to easily start making changes to my diet which I hope can become habit/established with the scaffolding of the medication. Open to using it long term at a low dose for maintenance, but my journey will be whatever it is. No major side effects apart from constipation....but I've got that massively improved by adding in psyllium Husk supplements this week. So hopefully it stays that day as I've got to add iron in for anaemia again this week. 🤞 I have had two totally unexpected side effects.....my lifelong insomnia is more or less gone ....I have ADHD and my inner monologue becomes oscar-worthy at night so I fluctuate between most of the time managing 4/5 hours with restless periods scattered in between (when I toss and turn so much I literally move the superking mattress off my edge of the bed despite having to 100kg+ bodies in the bed) to full no sleep insomnia nights every 10/14 days ish!!!! So no more tossing and turning, IF I wake, I'm asleep again in a couple of minutes. Sleepless ness was my norm, so it has exhausted me getting used to sleeping more as bizarre as that sounds. I think this weekend I'm finally getting used to it.....also I'm probably adjusting to the fatigue that the medication may have given me, still sleeping well so I'll take it!