Mounjaro - One year on I am a normal weight but feel fat.

Well done you . Great for your health as well as your looks. It will probably take time to adjust to the new you. I think your confidence will grow.
You are no longer the “girl in the baggy dress”!

I lost a lot of weight years ago and I was the same, I looked in the mirror and still saw a big reflection. When shopping you still walk to the plus size section and when you eat until you are full you feel so fat. You have done really well, especially to keep the weight off. Buy yourself a new outfit and walk out in the sunshine with your head held high to boost your confidence.

I’ve just started on Wegovy 10 weeks in & lost a stone. Can’t seem to loose any more. Keep putting a pound on, loosing it, gaining it. Felt bloated this morning.
Also I am still hungry, more so than when I first started it.
These people who seem to have lost stones, have they been on these jabs a long time?
Read that it takes weeks to kick in.

MT62 . I think wegovy works slower than mounjaro . My DH was on mounjaro and has lost 3 stone in about 6months . He started in July last year and was at his target of 11 stone in January this year . He came off it 2 weeks ago and is trying willpower and exercise to keep to around 11. My dh was a snacker between meals and the wlj has stopped that . Food noise has gone .
Well done to op for her weight loss . I think it takes some getting used to a new slimmer you. My DH is wary of getting rid of his old xxl clothes . Enough they are huge on him .

Tenko

MT62 . I think wegovy works slower than mounjaro . My DH was on mounjaro and has lost 3 stone in about 6months . He started in July last year and was at his target of 11 stone in January this year . He came off it 2 weeks ago and is trying willpower and exercise to keep to around 11. My dh was a snacker between meals and the wlj has stopped that . Food noise has gone .
Well done to op for her weight loss . I think it takes some getting used to a new slimmer you. My DH is wary of getting rid of his old xxl clothes . Enough they are huge on him .

Oh well done to your hubby.
Yes I have heard Wegovy is a slower weight loss.
Double prong approach , ‘if that makes sense’ to Mounjaro. I be on these drugs for two years so don’t want to loose to much too quickly.
My chin is already wobbly & plucking, like an over used elastic band 🤣

Pleasebenice, I know how you feel. I lost a stone on my own,

Then started on Mounjaro. Two years later, I have lost 6 stone 7 lbs.

I am now on a low-maintenance dose. As it is to help

the body to adjust and not regain the weight. I am worried I

might start to gain when I stop. I still think of myself as large.

I am not sure what suits me anymore. I am now exercising

daily, though I have never experienced the high people talk
about after exercising.

Did you do a period of taking a maintenance dose.?

Nothing to do with weigh loss drugs but in a way related to I was a dietitian and in my early twenties went through an anorexic phase for a short time Since then I have maintained a sensible weight with a BMI hovering about 20 to 21. I am small bones. However I have to rely on the scales as I view myself bigger than I am
Congratulations and believe what the scales tell you. Somehow a photo may make you view your present size as a better reality

When I stopped smoking it took me weeks to stop wandering outside to have a quick smoke, looking for my cigarettes when having a coffee, etc. When I cut my long hair very short it took weeks before I recognized myself in the mirror. Old habits die very, very hard indeed.

Maybe stop focusing on your weight and size and focus on something else, like increasing your strength training, or doing a new hobby. Your brain takes time to adapt but it will. If you are buying clothes focus on the colours and styles. Have a new hair style to distract you when you're looking in the mirror?

That’s for the comments. I don’t take any maintenance dose. I found it worked by making me feel slightly nauseous for months!

I have had a personal shopper experience to help me work out what suits me but I still struggle with fitted clothes. I know in my head they look good but still think they are not for me. I also got my first ever pair of Levi’s and love them even though I am a bit old for them,

I once list loads of weight on a Cambridge diet , it was awful doing the diet as it was so restrictive. I caught sight of myself in a mirror in a clothes shop and I gasped I was so not used to seeing myself slim lol

You're never too old for jeans Pleasebenice. I'm never out of mine!

My daughter who had previously had bariatric surgery has lost 5 stone on Mounjaro and looks fabulous but she can't see the difference. I always thought she over egged what size she was. She would say she was a 16 and I'd think she was nearer a 20 although I wouldn't say anything to her.
I'm on Mounjaro but my weight loss is slow. I don't mind because I have stopped bingeing on sweet stuff and that is what will help my diabetes most.

I too am on mounjaro and have just reached the end of the first month on 5 mgs. I have not lost any weight however my diabetes control is brilliant. For that fact alone I will continue and am hoping for some weight loss in the next month.

I lost 4 stone about 40 years ago, I'd been overweight since being a small child, I'm in my late 60s. I'm even smaller now, a uk size 8 but I always seem to buy things that are too big for me, then I'm surprised when I look in the mirror and see how baggy they are.

I've lost 5 stone ( through WW not MJ).
I weigh less now than on my wedding day 45years ago.
I'm 6foot tall , now a size 12.
My BMI is less than 22 ..... and I still see that fat chi and fat lady in the mirror.
I focus on my bingo wings , which are familial and will never go and I just feel huge compared to everyone else.
Clearly I am a lot bigger than many people because of my height but it's a life time of being called Big and chubby that's done it.
Almost 70 and the first thing I think when I open my eyes is about my weight and how fat I am.
Sad isn't it?

Pleasebenice

That’s for the comments. I don’t take any maintenance dose. I found it worked by making me feel slightly nauseous for months!

I have had a personal shopper experience to help me work out what suits me but I still struggle with fitted clothes. I know in my head they look good but still think they are not for me. I also got my first ever pair of Levi’s and love them even though I am a bit old for them,

I think that you're going about it the right way, since I've been large I've regarded clothes more as camoflage than as decoration, and you need help from a personal shopper to change that mindset. However if you have a young personal shopper they may not be choosing the right clothes for you?
If I have to buy special occasion clothes I don't use a personal shopper but go to a large prestige department store and have a look around there. The sales assistants are often older, are not pushy at all, and very often have a better idea about what will suit you than you do yourself. You're under no pressure to buy and can try on as much as you like. You may find a different style to what you are used to, and they will be able to assess what suits your new figure and your age.

I know what you mean, I have lost 3 stone thru mounjaro and I’m now below what was my target weight and although I’m delighted, I still find that I’m dissatisfied with my body shape e.g size 10 fits me everywhere but my waist. I’ve yo yo dieted all my life and went on the jabs because I was prediabetic. That’s ok now, but I’m terrified of putting the weight back on because I’ve done that in the past. I’m now microdosing mounjaro - taking a smaller dose than you are supposed to, lots of info about how to do it online. However, the pharmacies don’t want you to do this as it cuts down on their sales, so I’ve had to be economical with the truth. I must add that I’m very sensible and well informed, I eat a good diet, exercise regularly and would not take any risks with my health.

I have just lost 4 stone on MJ and I know what you mean, all my skin is flabby, and my tummy apron massive, so feel super ugly! health wise I am better, less pain , more mobility but do not like what I see in the mirror

Pleasebenice I too had this happen to me. When my marriage broke up which was traumatic, I lost several stone in a few months. I was getting annoyed because my jeans kept slipping down. I went into a clothes shop and asked for size 18 jeans. The assistant said I wasn’t a size 18 and I said oh no am I size 20? She laughed and said no I needed a much smaller size. I was flabbergasted (pardon the pun) when I tried on a size 12 and it fit perfectly, yet in the mirror I still looked like my overweight self. I would liken it to when anorexics look in the mirror they see a fatter self.

This is, a think the way childhood misfortunes affect you.

At times, I am still the girl standing in the corner of the school playground all alone because the other children would not play with "the doctor's daughter". (They were called posh if they did so.)

I’m so envious when I hear of people lose weight on these injections,I was prescribed ozempic for type 2 diabetes before it became the famous weight loss drug and the diabetic nurse told me one of the possible side effects was weight loss, I was so pleased as I had four stone to lose.
About a month after that I saw all these celebrities who had lost weight on it but I hadn’t even though I had very little appetite and was eating tiny meals, it was increased but still no weight loss, and because it was keeping my glucose levels stable the health professionals wasn’t concerned, I eventually asked to go on mounjaro instead and that is worse as even though I haven’t suffered from any adverse side effects from either drug the mounjaro hasn’t suppressed my appetite at all.
I’m thinking maybe because I can’t exercise due to pain and limited mobility that as I suffer from several diagnosed muscular skeletal problems this could be the reason I haven’t lost weight, I’m seeing the diabetic nurse next week so maybe she can shed some light on it.
Well done to all of you that has lost weight on these medications I would be interested to know if you did much exercise for your weight loss.

cookiemonster66

I have just lost 4 stone on MJ and I know what you mean, all my skin is flabby, and my tummy apron massive, so feel super ugly! health wise I am better, less pain , more mobility but do not like what I see in the mirror

I hope you don’t mind me asking but would you be willing to tell me what dose mounjaro you were prescribed to lose weight as I’m currently on 7.5 mg and it’s doing nothing at all

Recommend a series of pictures or a video trying on new clothes that suit your new body shape it takes photos not the mirror for me to see how fat I am.

I kinda had the opposite problem. Always naturally really skinny, (think 7st at 167), I ballooned post menopause, but everyone kept saying you can carry it as you are tall. I still bought tailored clothes as I could only seen myself in that way.

I too started on Ozempic for diabetes and didn’t lose weight. I was moved onto Mounjaro and in nearly two years have lost only one stone. I had to stop using the 15mg dose and go back to 12.5 mg as the higher dose had lots of bad side effects. My appetite has decreased but the weight loss has been minimal. I think it’s because I find it difficult to exercise as I have severe mobility problems. I do chair exercises but when upright cannot stand for long and use a Zimmer frame when walking indoors.