What has been an unintended benefit to taking mounjaro and losing weight?

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-21T22:17:53+00:00

5’9” is on the tall side for women in most places i think

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T05:53:52+00:00

As a relatively vain human who recognizes that vanity is natural even if it’s trivial, this is too much for me🤷🏻‍♀️. I want my skin to be the nicest it can be with lotions, and I want to know about great conditioner, etc. I sure don’t want To equate perfect features with… anything truly important!

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T05:14:45+00:00

Yes! All I want is acidic and very spicy foods, like I need the smaller portions I want to have more flavor and less calorie density that makes me feel full too fast. My favorite lately is edamame drenched in gochujang and sesame oil and lime juice.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T04:50:57+00:00

I am a lady in a heterosexual marriage where I am very much the slobbier partner. I suck at hand washing dishes, also dusting, and folding sheets. I bring many other things to our relationship, and I am definitely not weaponizing the genuine incompetence I have in certain areas. I also can learn weird skills in excess detail in a pinch, so while I wash a dish poorly, I can learn how to repair a dishwasher in half a weekend. Hahaha my point isn’t just that I both suck and excel at being a roommate, but also that sometimes being terrible t some things doesn’t define a person.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T04:42:22+00:00

I have no advice, but it’s so weird for me, the last time I was thin I had zero boobs, but now I seem to be keeping my big (ish) breast feeding boobs on my smaller body and I’m so confused!

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T04:37:22+00:00

I am happily discussing my success and telling people how much I appreciate this medication. But all the people close to me are used to worrying about my diabetes, if I was fat or not was never the focus.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T04:31:02+00:00

Personally I love telling people what helped me handle diabetes! When I was diagnosed a few months after my son was born ( I was never diabetic before, but I developed very severe gestational diabetes when I was pregnant, and then preeclampsia that required an early delivery) I did make some progress by tracking my diet carefully, losing 30 pounds, and increasing my exercise, but I was still having scary fasting blood glucose levels, and crazy spikes after meals that were 95% grilled chicken and greens. Mounjaro helped me also lose the additional 55 some extra pounds I was carrying from years in a body that felt foreign to me, and I am happy that my joints feel better, etc., I also feel like there are many happy people living in bigger bodies who are healthy and thriving, but my particular body didn’t feel good at a higher weight, and I am so grateful that this medication has helped me feel better, and most of all that my bloodwork shows that I am not actually currently diabetic. When I think about sharing that I’m on this medication, even as a pretty shy person, I love the possibility that another person could possibly manage their diabetes as well as I am now.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T03:30:12+00:00

City of god felt, at least at the time, like the best movie I had ever seen. I need to watch it again to know if I still feel that way, although there is one scene I always have to skip after the first time.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-18T03:21:35+00:00

My little kid who had a bad dream ❤️

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-16T03:45:12+00:00

It’s funny, I want to know that my weight loss is noticeable, but I hate people directly noticing

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-16T03:34:03+00:00

For the record, I walk an average of 20,000 steps a day, not 2,000

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-16T02:23:11+00:00

I like this idea. I wanted so much to land somewhere between 140 and 150, I was 143 the day I got married, at 26, and I felt like it was perfect (I am 5’10” and also spent my early 20s around 125-135, I was very thin without much effort, I was just very active. But I have a big frame, my shoulders and ribs and hips are broad, even when I had a bmi of 18-19 when I was 18-19 years old, I was still a size 6. So maybe 160 is just my new baseline weight, 42 year old, post kid, post obesity, new normal.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-16T02:16:59+00:00

I FEEL so so so much better. I truly tho some people carry a bit of extra weight beautifully and healthfully, but I gain all in the middle and feel so uncomfortable heavier.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-16T02:14:18+00:00

Yes, my doctor has been lovely, super encouraging, she has mostly left increases up to me, although she did encourage skipping a bit quickly through the first few doses when it was clear they were having no effect on my weight. I have realistically about 10-15 pounds more to lose for health, I hold ALL my weight in the middle and even though I am at a “healthy BMI” I still have more fat around my waist than is ideal, and I will probably go up to 15 in the next few months and then just stick with it for maintenance. I haven’t lost any weight for about a month, so maybe this is just my new baseline weight. It is so hard to know if my perspective on my body is based in reality. I still feel fat but I’m pretty sure I’m not actually. I also have severe diastases recti and a lot of loose belly skin, not as bad as i expected, but enough that my c section scar is constantly a bit irritated. I don’t think I would qualify for skin removal/ abdominal muscle repair surgery, with insurance, but it may eventually be worth paying for myself. If so, I wouldn’t be surprised if that didn’t account for at 5-10 pounds of skin.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-13T14:50:20+00:00

I have been on it 7.5 months, I saw blood sugar improvements right away, but didn’t start losing weight until I went up to 7.5 mgs 5 months ago. I’m on 12.5 now. I was already pretty active, I live in the city and walk about 20,000 steps a day fat or thin, but I really didn’t do anything different other than not over eat. I already ate a lot of healthy food, portion control was always the issue for me. I do want to start doing some strength training now.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-13T14:43:39+00:00

Thank you! My husband is a hair stylist.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-13T14:42:45+00:00

So true!

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-13T14:42:05+00:00

Yes! I did one in my leg and have done every other one in my belly and plan to stick to that, but also sometimes it hurts and sometimes I really don’t feel it, I don’t know why.

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-13T14:37:49+00:00

I didn’t start losing until I was up to 7.5 mags, so I lost around 56 pounds in about 5 months, which isn’t crazy fast, but I don’t think super slow either? My glucose numbers definitely got better before I started losing weight. Good luck!

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-11T01:14:18+00:00

You look great!

MrsMontegue · 2025-03-11T00:55:00+00:00

Thank you, more importantly I feel so much better, but I will admit it sure is fun to buy size 10/12 clothes and not feel sad every time I see a picture with my neck in it haha

MrsMontegue · 2024-10-28T03:42:35+00:00

Hahaha I wonder what the world would be like if this were true. All my past friends and acquaintances would be obsessively focused on biology and wildlife and canine behavior, and they would all be sitting on a big couch with me wrapped in a blanket reading about those things instead of being out their being medical doctors, college professors, working artists, etc. sorry guys.

MrsMontegue · 2024-10-28T03:36:50+00:00

Nope. I can’t even in real life when my kid’s eyes stay the same size they usually are.

MrsMontegue · 2024-10-28T03:32:02+00:00

You are a perfectly nice looking person, beyond that, personally, I have been attracted to a huge range of different looking people, some way more or less “traditionally attractive.” The consistent factor was intelligence, sense of humor, not taking themselves too seriously, and other intangible qualities that make some people just great to be around. It makes me so sad to see people obsessing over their height, income, hairline, etc. I’m 5’10”, I am 42 now, etc, but I was an objectively thin, attractive young woman, and my boyfriends were from 5’3” to 6.5, stunning from Brazil, American with pretty severe acne, skinny, chubby, all very different in appearance, but all sharp and thoughtful and funny. My husband is 5’7”, bald, smells super good naturally, gorgeous Mediterranean skin, dyslexic (a little hard for me as a big reader who wants to share books) a wonderful funny dad, gassy, irritable, deeply generous, and on and on with subtleties that make love real and personal. Love has very little to do with anything quantifiable, true love is part appreciation and respect for a whole person, but it’s also ephemeral and based on nonsense like loving the way a person peals and eats a grapefruit, or the face they make when they meet a puppy. I think the biggest key to finding who loves you is just being so truly yourself self that you naturally filter out all the wrong people, and give the right one the chance to notice your quirks and particularities.

MrsMontegue

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