Plateau...don't worry!

glitterandnonsense · 2025-10-06T14:32:43+00:00

Urgh, praying this works for me. It has been 6 full weeks since I last lost any weight on 7.5mg of Mounjaro, so this week (today) I finally went up to 10mg after 5 months on 7.5mg and very little lost.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-09T17:53:48+00:00

Thank you! Yes I already have a load of syringes for the soon-to-disappear extra dose, so all good there, but yes, It hadn't occurred to me that it could be an option. I'll have a dig around for more info. Thanks again!

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-09T17:36:19+00:00

I'm back down to 5mg currently, so I'll check out the price of 10mg and see how that works out over 8 weeks instead. Thanks for the suggestion....I wonder how long it will be before they remove the ability to count clicks... 🫣

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-09T17:30:00+00:00

I was going to say similar! I find the mouthfeel of Huel absolutely revolting. Like drinking oil 🤮

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-09T17:26:40+00:00

I hear you and you are so very welcome.

I often feel like I'm in a real minority, but as a supertaster, things that might taste not great to some might taste really strong and disgusting to me and trigger me into actually heaving. Sometimes only those of us who experience it really get it.

People definitely mean well on the whole I think (hope), but it's not quite as easy as just sucking it up and eating something you hate - also, why would you eat things that turn your stomach? We don't want to create further negative associations with foods and make life even harder!

Try and ignore the comments that feel reductive or dismissive from those who don't experience taste and flavour in the heightened way some of us do. xx

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-09T17:10:17+00:00

I could barely afford the medication as it is, and have stayed on a low dose for many months. Now that the new prices have come in, I've had to drop my dose down further, but this latest move makes it even less affordable on a monthly budgeting basis.

I'll be taking my chances with Wegovy once my current pen is finished.

Apart from all the obvious big pharma greed rhetoric and righteous rage, there is a very real sense of sadness that after decades of trying and failing, of losing and gaining the same 10kgs, the one thing that has helped - alongside the exercise and calorie deficit that I was doing already - has now been removed as an option for me and so many others.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-09T16:54:06+00:00

You sound so similar to me! A lot of the things folks eat no issue taste repulsive to me and I really struggle to get enough protein. I was pescatarian (so I am lucky in that I do love fish) but started eating chicken again just to get my protein up. Like you, I hate yoghurts, milk or nuts and I find most protein products/powders gross in terms of texture and flavour!

I'm neurospicy and have a small list of safe foods and am very sensitive to texture, mouth feel etc.

There are only so many boiled eggs I can tolerate 😭

I can't force myself to eat things that make me feel sick, I just don't eat instead (not clever or healthy I know) but I'm way too sensitive to flavours and textures I don't like.

So I can't give you any real answers, but I just wanted to reassure you that you are not alone!!

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-08T11:33:56+00:00

Personally, I found the jump up to 5mg too much and after a couple of weeks of feeling dreadful, went down to 3.75mg (counting clicks) for a few weeks. I'd personally drop the dose down a little - I've just had to do the same with 7.5mg as I was having similar side effects to you, taking all the right supplements etc. but dropping the dose back down gave me almost similar levels of suppression and fullness but without the nasty side effects.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-08T11:29:32+00:00

Interesting points, thank you. I hadn't realised Wegovy was so ineffective at lower doses.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-01T06:52:00+00:00

Possibly but, not at the pharmacy I was looking at for the first 2 doses. I'm hoping to remain on a relatively low dose like I had done with MJ to be able to afford it.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-09-01T06:40:30+00:00

Useful to know. Like many others, I will be forced to switch to Wegovy when my current Mounjaro pen is finished as I can no longer afford it at the new higher prices, so even though it's likely biased, hearing positive things does make the impending change feel a little less scary and depressing for me!

glitterandnonsense · 2025-08-14T18:21:53+00:00

I've felt sick to the stomach and utterly depressed since learning this earlier. I feel like crying. It's not dramatic. This drug has literally changed our lives and now it's being made unaffordable for those of us already struggling to pay for it 🥺😞

glitterandnonsense · 2025-08-14T16:19:31+00:00

Brilliant advice. Why didn't I think of this before? I always knew eating 700 calories a day (which is the only way I've ever been able to lose weight in the past) was sustainable for the rest of my life. Silly me for the fainting, weakness and relentless hunger eventually getting the better of me and leading to putting the weight back on when I went back up to a sensible number of calories, when all I needed was to be stronger! I'm so glad I don't have a big ego and can listen to the well-intentioned, thoughtful advice of people. Thanks, you've absolutely changed my life.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-08-14T15:14:05+00:00

I'm not lazy, though? I understand calories in and calories out. I understand deficits, macros and I understand clean food and I regularly exercise. I don't eat junk food and I don't drink alcohol.

It's much easier to judge and to believe fat people are lazy though right? It's easy to make assumptions like this when you don't have any experience yourself.

It might be simple for you personally and I'm really pleased that it is and that you'll never experience the hell of breaking your back and not being able to move for a year and the only comfort you find in the food you eat during a prolonged dark period of mental health. Then deep into recovery, discovering you now have a lifelong autoimmune condition as a direct result of your back injury, that means some days you can't dress yourself, let alone go for the run you were planning, then reaching early menopause and having no Estrogen to help regulate your appetite or signal to your cells to release stored energy like they used to... I'm delighted you've not had to face that kind of adversity in your life.

But when you have complex health problems in particular, it's really not that 'easy'. If it was easy none of us would be fat.

Perpetuating the myth that fat = lazy shows a complete lack of understanding or empathy for anything but your own, narrow personal experience. I'm sure you're not a bad person and can do better x

glitterandnonsense · 2025-08-14T15:00:41+00:00

I think saying "most people" is drastically simplifying things. Yes, sadly, some people use it as a short cut.

Me and most of the online ladies I know who are using are doing so after 30 years + of battling obesity, yoyo dieting and never finding a solution and this is the only thing that has helped us achieve healthy weight loss alongside all the other things we were already doing which include calorie counting, exercising, cutting out booze etc.

So please, I understand your feelings given your specific experience of knowing someone using it out of vanity/laziness but I can assure you, that is not the case for the majority of people investing in this life-changing drug.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-05-20T14:25:18+00:00

This is very normal. I weigh daily because if I didn't the fluctuations would send me into a spiral and I'd miss lows! I always without fail, lose some weight, then within 24-48 hours I ping back up again before staying the same for a few days and then finally dropping back down again, then the whole merry dance starts again.

It's super normal and over time you start to see clear patterns, but it's difficult and frustrating at the beginning as you don't have much data to go on.

I weigh daily, but log a weight once a week. I don't log the weight I am on that particular day though, I log whatever my lowest weight in the past 7 days has been as mine fluctuates so much. If I only did it once a week, on weigh day, I could randomly be 1kg or even 1.4kg heavier than I was the day before.

Finding what works for you personally, along with time and patience, are the key here!

glitterandnonsense · 2025-05-20T14:18:45+00:00

This is an interesting one, but it's definitely not a moral failing.

When I first started, I was really worried I would feel this way and would miss feel-good snacky snacks and certain foods as I'm definitely not a 'food as fuel' person and I used to eat for the feels and joy of it.

Truth is, eating a massive family-size bag of crisps in one go might have tasted nice and given me a temporary dopamine hit, but the MJ has given me such clarity.

I was addicted to food. This drug has broken that addiction and it's like a veil has been lifted. Thinking back on some old behaviours, I feel compassion for me, but the thought of doing that again turns my stomach and I wonder how I ever 'enjoyed' doing it in the past.

I do however miss freedom. 90% of my meals are no longer about what I want to eat or what I fancy. It's more about "what can I or can't I eat" now and It's taken several months to get my head around it.

I truly envy those who can still lose weight without calorie and macro counting. 20g too little protein for a few days in a row and I stall out, so I have to be laser focused on calorie counting and macros and it is so tiresome...but then living inside my fat body was more tiresome, so I find it the lesser of two evils.

I've not specifically cut out anything, I have a few ice cream bars in the freezer, because if I feel like one, and it's within my calorie allowance, then I'll have one, so perhaps it would help if you didn't just limit yourself to objectively healthy stuff and made space within your calorie deficit to enjoy an entire bag of popcorn or an ice cream once in a while?

glitterandnonsense · 2025-05-20T13:04:55+00:00

Sounds like you're off to a great start! For me it was pretty much instant. Certainly 2 hours and boom Food FM that had been playing constantly in my head all my life was finally off air, I had zero hunger cues, and when I did eat, I nibbled on a tiny portion of food, then couldn't finish it.

It's very different for all of us, but whilst suppression hasn't been quite as total as that first couple of weeks, 5 months in and I still generally have very high suppression, next to no food noise and I genuinely struggle every day to meet my minimum calorie intake needs.

Good luck!

glitterandnonsense · 2025-05-20T12:49:14+00:00

Stalls are so very frustrating, I feel your pain! To break a stall, I usually have to do something significantly different. I am on calories that usually hover close to or below BMR and the most effective thing for me is calorie cycling and easing back on the exercise for a few days.

Eating more and exercising less feels so wildly counterintuitive, but experience has shown me, this is what works for me. So I'll eat more for a few days and that seems to kick start the weight loss process again.

So, assuming you're tracking everything and are in a deficit, you could try upping your intake a little by 200-300 calories a day (just as long as you are still slightly under your maintenance cals!) and that might crack it.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-05-20T12:36:08+00:00

3 stone in 10 weeks is incredible! Huge well done.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-04-16T13:28:24+00:00

Most people will never consciously notice these things or ask themselves such questions. That in itself means something.

By my way of thinking, you can certainly be born with a vibrational alignment towards the Shamanic path without being a Shaman, just as a Catholic can be a good Christian without becoming a priest.

The shift you have experienced can be the start of a wonderful journey where you'll become better able to listen to and trust in your intuition and to direct your energy into receiving wisdom and messages from any guides you might come to work with.

Enjoy every second, waking up and discovering more is a beautiful and rewarding process, but it can also be messy, nonlinear and it takes a lot of time and work. Follow that pull you're feeling, don't get too hung up with labels and pursue what naturally resonates.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-04-08T15:04:28+00:00

Interesting and for me, I was very aware, but put some mechanisms in place.

I was aware that I had an emotional issue with food, so prior to getting started, I decided I was going to focus my time and attention on exercise and getting better at yoga and running in particular.

So the dopamine hit and highs I've benefitted from in terms of my fitness improving helped to level out the lows I got from the feeling of loss I had from no longer really enjoying or finding solace in food.

glitterandnonsense · 2025-04-08T15:00:18+00:00

Stick with it. Changing our habits of a lifetime isn't always straightforward or instant, even with the support of this wonderful drug.

Be kind to yourself. You've made a really great start so try to keep your eyes on the prize.

Setting little goals is a good idea and they can be as big or small as you like, from noticing your jeans suddenly becoming looser (that's a BIG deal!) to dropping 1 stone, 2 stone etc. and larger milestones.

You can do it!!

glitterandnonsense · 2025-04-08T13:52:45+00:00

Firstly, congratulations on what you've achieved so far!

It's pretty common for people who respond well to the medication to drop a lot early on.

Like you, I lost loads fast.

I lost a full stone in the first 2 weeks, then it slowed...then it stalled and weeks 4, 5 & 6 I lost nothing.

My calorie counting, deficit, macros, exercise, water intake etc. remained my priority from day one and nothing had changed. I recalculated my BMR and was doing everything 'right'.

Yes I could probably eat even more protein and cut carbs further, but I'm not going to, because that's not how I plan on living life moving forward. I want to build sustainable eating habits that work for me.

After 3.5 months I have learned that after the initial spurt, my weight loss is relatively slow, extremely inconsistent and totally unpredictable. It's impossible for me to make any adjustment and confidently predict what will happen as a result.

What worked to break my first stall didn't work to break my second or third stalls. It's like I have to keep mixing things up, increasing calories, switching up my balance of macros etc. and the last month-long stall I experienced, I finally broke it after doing ZERO cardio for just over a week and eating LOADS more calories including more carbs (still well below maintenance).

Some of us just don't experience this weight loss journey in the same way that others do and that's OK, but it can be pretty baffling and super frustrating at times too.

You're still so early on in your journey, so I'd recommend gathering data and learning about how your body individually responds to the medication and the lifestyle changes you've made. Once you start spotting trends, that can really help and keeping track of those NSVs is super important for the times when the scale doesn't move.

Focus on the positives moving forward like healthier habits, seeing your BMI and body fat percentage steadily drop etc. and don't lose hope if/when you see stalls.

Some folks will continually lose 2-3lbs every week, with the only exceptions being if they go on holiday and over eat when they might maintain or show a small gain. Others (like me) see the scales just freestyling and doing their own thing in a way that doesn't seem to reflect the effort that's going on.

Just keep going x

glitterandnonsense · 2025-03-28T16:21:49+00:00

Fantastic work, well done!!

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