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?

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?

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!

Since moving into maintenance on Mounjaro I’ve changed a few things. Not because something was wrong, but because I don’t need the same level of control anymore. 01 Timing: I used to inject midweek so it hit hardest over the weekend. That’s when I needed it most. Weekends were always where I’d slip. Now I take it on a Sunday. By Saturday it’s wearing off a bit and I actually prefer that. I can enjoy food more and be a bit more relaxed without it turning into old habits. That’s a big change for me. 02 Injection site: I’ve used stomach, legs, all of it. Never noticed a huge difference. Recently I tried the back of my arm and for me it did feel different so I’m sticking with that for now. Main thing here is rotate properly. Don’t inject into the exact same spot every week. That’s how you build scar tissue and it can affect how the medication works. 03 Dosing: I tested split dosing for a while, half the dose twice per week to keep things more level. It worked fine but I’ve gone back to one injection weekly. I don’t mind the drop off towards day 6 or 7 anymore. I actually see it as useful now rather than something I need to fix. Maintenance is a different phase. It’s less about control and more about trusting what you’ve built. Curious where everyone else is at with this. Are you still running things the same as fat loss phase or have you changed anything?

12 stone down and this is the first time I’ve ever been comfortable enough to show photos like this. Not because everything is perfect. It’s not. The loose skin on my stomach bothers me. I won’t pretend it doesn’t. Some days it’s the first thing I see. But I’d take this over where I was… every single time. Because this isn’t just weight loss. It’s getting my life back. Mounjaro helped me massively. Not as a magic fix, but as a tool that gave me control back when I didn’t have it. The loose skin? That’s part of the process. Maybe I’ll deal with it down the line. Maybe I won’t. For now, it’s a reminder of what I’ve done. A battle scar I’ve earned. If you’re at the start of this, don’t let the fear of loose skin stop you. That’s a better problem to have than the one I was living with before.