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@weeksy, I hide it well under black clothes. It also helps that it doesn't show much on my face. 14st with a body fat % of 30 on the smart scales is where I was in Feb. I am now at 24% and 11st 10. As I am only 5ft 8 i am about right weight wise now but need to drop some more fat from around the chest and stomach along with building back some muscle loss.
Awesome... I need about the same loss, but i dunno, i'm not sure it's the right plan ... but... Well, i'm not sure what is 😀
As this thread popped up again I thought I add an update.
I used my last 5mg pen and was dosing at 2.5mg per week for about 6 weeks, I found week 5 and 6 that I was starting to get that old feeling of wanting to eat and drink which I'd not had at all pretty much from the very first day since starting on Mounjaro. Even though I wasn't acting on the urge (which gives me some feint hope for the future) I wondered whether it was extending the pen beyond the 30 days (I was keeping it stored in the fridge the whole time) had made it less effective or maybe after being on 2.5mg for 12-13 weeks that maybe I needed to think about upping the dose.
I used the last 5mg in one dose and it definitely helped, back to not really thinking about food and most importantly beer. The lack of interest in beer had been the biggest most notable changes for me, I'm happy having a few pints at the pub on the rare occasion I end up at one post ride (but no longer think about getting more on the way home), I'm now hardly drinking at home where before at my worst was everyday and at best was 2-3 times a week. So I've stuck with 5mg doses but having seen the price has gone up by another £50 I am at the point where I am considering switching to one of the cheaper options.
So since the end of July when I started I have now lost 27.5kg and I'm around 1.5kg from the original goal weight. Which at the current rate is another couple of weeks, but I think I'm going to push on and continue to the end of the year and see where I get to and then begin weening off it which will be when the real test starts.
Looking back through MFP, around this time last year I was 140kg! I managed to get 12kg of that off the old fashioned way before it plateaued for a few months which is when I started on the Mounjaro, I'm now at 101kg and feel really good. Sleeping better, BP is down, in fact I've reduced the Ramipril as my BP was too low at the previous dosage, but best of all my fitness on the bike is probably the best it's ever been, I ride pretty much everyday and absolutely love getting out even in this weather.
The chemist I get my dose from has just advised another price hike, £266 for a 7.5mg pen!
Every day's a school day I guess, I knew people had differing experiences on Mounjaro but I always assumed the nausea part was either something that went away as you got used to it (I had it briefly going from 2.5 to 5mg) or you stopped it and tried one of the others. Using the nausea as the primary method to reduce food intake sounds unpleasant but fair play for sticking with it, not sure I could!
Nausea isn't really the right description, it's more like a version of feeling like I've massively over eaten, but worse. The boundary between feeling like that and normal isn't much food though. I'm now used to it so it doesn't happen often. One thing to remember is that from the clinical trails is that it doesn't seem to work for some people at all.
My biggest frustration is I can no longer enjoy a single beer or whisky. I either have none or need to drink enough to mask the stomach ache.
The chemist I get my dose from has just advised another price hike, £266 for a 7.5mg pen!
https://monj.co.uk/mounjaro-price-list-non-discounted-uk/
Is a useful resource to compare prices. I've used AYP a few times and been happy with the service and they've consistent been one of the cheaper options.
I believe Jordan Parke 'The Lip King' is offering killer deals on weight loss jabs.
As a final follow up on this for the year, I switched to 0.5mg dose of Wegovy from 5mg Mounjaro about 6 weeks ago after Mounjaro went up in price again and by that point I was pretty happy with the weight I'd lost having already hit my goal of getting under 100kg by the end of the year.
The most noticeable difference between the 2 for me is that with Wegovy I am definitely thinking more about eating, even though I'm not feeling hungry on it. So I can definitely see why people lose more with Mounjaro, but I'm ok with the Wegovy as it's less than half the price and even though I'm not riding as much at the moment due to injury/weather it's controlling my appetite enough that the weight is still very slightly coming down.
Currently I'm at 98kg and over the last couple of weeks that has been pretty steady. I have 2 weeks left with the current pen and in the new year will check with the pharmacy or GP about whether to taper off it or continue at a lower dose.
It's so far cost me £650 in medication (probably a similar amount in clothes) but I've offset a lot of that by not buying alcohol and do feel so much better so IMO it's been money very well spent.
It’s worth pointing out that the two drugs don’t work exactly the same way. Ozempic is a pure GLP1 agonist. Montjaro is really a GIP agonist that tickles GLP1. There are about 20 of these signalling incretins and we are just starting to understand their signalling roles.
Wegovy is as approved as an oral tablet yesterday. This is impressive given your GI tract does a great job of breaking down peptides. About 3% is actually absorbed. Lilly has also shown great data with the proper tablet small molecule orfoglipron. In Time this will be a game changer.
And congratulations on achieving your goal. I genuinely think that in the right hands and at the right doses, these drugs will be life changing for those at high risk of type 2 diabetes and associated morbidity.
Americans will soon be heading to Canada for theirs. In the history of admin errors, this one is slightly amusing. https://www.legal.io/articles/5691258/Novo-Nordisk-Lets-Canadian-Semaglutide-Patent-Lapse
Not me personally, I got told I was prediabetic in March and my BP was through the roof despite being on 10mg amlodipine and I was around 21st 10lbs, similar to you, 6ft3 bloke with size 12 trotters, so I'd had enough and went balls in on a low carb low sugar diet and excercise. I've lost 5.5 stone.
The Mrs not wanting to be left behind went on Mounjaro, she's lost 6 stone. But she eats virtually nothing at this point.
She will get up, go to work and not eat a thing until around 7pm when she gets in, even then she will struggle to finish a full meal. She's on 12.5mg currently. Other problems come with this though such as hair loss, muscular atrophy, vitamin deficiencies if you're already prone to them etc
She's lost more weight than me and overtook my progress sometime around September, but that being said, I've got better eating habits now and I'm fitter than I ever have been, I can maintain this indefinitely, but she is worried about coming off of Mounjaro as shes not developed the good eating habits that I have.
Horses for courses!
