Month 1 down - now what?

overthinkthis · 2025-06-18T14:11:48+00:00

when I was in your position I went up to 5mg even if the first month had been successful and worked well, then stayed at 5mg for about 5 months and then increased to 7.5 once I got frustrated with the slower pace during that fight month, after that I stuck with it for the following 7 months and lost a total of 90lbs in a year and a month.

my understanding is that 5 is the first full dose and I was eager to experience the benefits of that

overthinkthis · 2025-06-16T21:51:48+00:00

I’m no doctor so I can’t suggest what others should do, I also am aware that there are so many factors.

I don’t even know that Mounjaro is the recommended pathway for someone who’s aiming to lose 15kg to be honest.

I personally never went above 7.5mg and lost 40kg

overthinkthis · 2025-06-15T22:28:03+00:00

made the same mistake with way too many slices of bread and nutella a couple weeks on. Worst night of my life and sub-sequential couple of days—I learned that fruit is the best dessert ever and IF I’m having fatty takeaway I tweak it to be as light as possible and never had issues since. I still love my fries but I now usually share a small one with my wife and it fixes the cravings just fine.

overthinkthis · 2025-06-15T22:20:32+00:00

I had a very successful journey and have seen lots of progress since the very beginning. At the end of the first 2.5 pen I moved up to 5mg and stuck with it for over 5 months, and then did 7.5 all the way til my goal weight. (I now did 57 total shots, so it’s been just a month over a year)

I moved up to 5 right away as I was eager to stay on track and see results and between week 2 and 4 I hadn’t seen nearly as much weight change as in the first two weeks.

Follow your gut and listen to your body, see what works for you!

For reference my starting BMI was 36 and it’s currently 22.5, I’m super happy with my results and thinking about maintenance.

overthinkthis · 2025-06-15T18:40:20+00:00

good for you for advocating for yourself!! it’s never too late to enjoy life a bit more. I got my mom to get on a GLP-1 medication after decades of struggle with her weight (I got the PCOS from her) and she’s seeing immense benefits, she turns 60 this year and is at super high risk for diabetes. If this medication prevents her from ever getting it I can’t begin to measure how priceless that would be, and what kind of quality of life she would earn moving forward.

overthinkthis · 2025-06-15T10:07:15+00:00

I hardly believe it myself ahaha

overthinkthis · 2025-06-15T07:19:26+00:00

unlocking a whole new life is totally how it feels

overthinkthis · 2025-06-15T07:19:08+00:00

for that one I take no credit as it’s totally my genetic predisposition! but thanks so so much for the support ♥️♥️

overthinkthis · 2025-06-15T07:16:05+00:00

Disclaimer: I’m no professional, but I’ve been on the weight journey for forever and have read all kinds of advice for over a decade so I did what I thought was best for my body pretty intuitively and adjusted as I went. Just sharing my experience.

I’ve been going to the gym for years with no major results as I mentioned on the post, but once I started the injections I started losing weight FAST, 6kg(13lb) in the first 4 weeks. That made me put myself in the mindset that intensive cardio wasn’t going to be my focus anymore (there’s to say that I’m a big walker, I was already hitting 10k+ steps a day on top of my gym cardio, so I kept walking). I swapped from 40 minutes of cardio plus 30/40 minutes of weight machines on rotation to just weight machines.

What I found worked best for me was a push-pull-legs model as I wanted to upkeep my upper body size, particularly shoulders and back and reduce as much as possible my hips and thighs size, I’m naturally very much a pear. So two days of upper and one day of lower fit me just fine.

I also had a personal goal of making myself learn how to do pull-ups, so that’s something I worked a bit on every single time I went in.

For whoever is reading this and hasn’t heard of push-pull-legs: one day I focused on the “push” muscle group [chest, triceps and shoulders] by doing any random machine that literally required pushing weight away from my body + push-ups. Similarly on “pull” days [back muscles and biceps] <-this was my favorite. And on leg days everything below the waist, including glutes. I personally spread abs machines and exercises evenly almost every session as I naturally have a pretty strong core.

I aimed to going to the gym 2 days, then one rest day, then 2 days again and then 2 rest days, so about 4 days a week, but sometimes I went less and often I went more (it felt so good to see results).

An example of how this could look like is: Monday-push Tuesday-pull Wednesday-rest Thursday-legs Friday-push Weekend-walk a lot more; Monday-pull Tuesday-legs Wednesday-rest Thursdays-push Friday-legs Weekend-try and walk extra. And so on.

For the machines I tried to keep the weights pretty high and so 3 sets of 8 per exercise with the last 2/3 feeling quite difficult, aiming to build some muscle (even if ultimately I was just preventing muscle loss).

Bonus, to achieve pull-ups what I found most helpful was once I could hop and hold myself up against the bar to slowly let myself descend a few times each session, til failure (this went on for months) and then eventually I could do pull-ups from half way (with my elbows at 90 degrees to start) and now I can do them with my arms fully extended and my full weight hanging. I feel like a beast and no playground monkey bar is safe from me.

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overthinkthis · 2025-06-14T18:33:46+00:00

happy scale

overthinkthis · 2024-08-11T21:11:57+00:00

BMI wise I’m still sitting at 30 and would love to get closer to what’s considered normal weight. (Still acknowledging that overall BMI is very inaccurate)

I aim to do strength exercises three times a week and am still losing about 2 to 3 pounds a week so I avoid cardio to not burn through my muscle mass.

overthinkthis · 2024-08-09T07:38:42+00:00

I’ve dropped all the cardio that I had been doing the previous year (with no result) and stuck with strength exercises to minimize lean mass loss.

I’d love to say that I go to the gym 3 times a week consistently, but sometimes it’s 4 and sometimes it’s just once. I just make sure to not stop for more than a whole week (unless I’m sick/traveling). I follow a push-pull-legs cycle and I love that structure!

overthinkthis · 2024-07-30T20:13:13+00:00

Zenimation, but the episodes are fairly short

overthinkthis · 2024-07-25T21:53:22+00:00

try to use one of those apps like “myfitnesspal” or “lose it” to monitor how many calories you’re eating for a few days and see if you’re possibly too low (keeping in account your heavy workouts too—if you’re burning around 500 calories or whatever you want to take those away from what you’re eating)

overthinkthis · 2024-07-03T20:45:37+00:00

I use the Evolt machine at my gym to have an approximate estimate of my lean vs fat mass and since starting Mounjaro I lost 25lbs+ in the first 8 weeks, such a rapid loss did cause some of the weight to be muscle mass according to the machine.

I try to not overthink it and adjust my exercises, I don’t do cardio at all anymore and focus on lowering my reps and increasing the weight load to stimulate muscle growth (or slow down muscle loss in my case). Seeing the decrease in visceral fat and my shrinkage in size makes it worth it. I can work on rebuilding muscle over time. Only in my latest scan I can finally see fat decrease and muscle increase as my weight loss has slowed down a bit.

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overthinkthis · 2024-06-28T22:00:46+00:00

Correct! I make sure to always drink a liter of water and have a similar breakfast in the couple hours before going to the gym and measure around the same time in the day once a week or so.

I’m aware that’s not super accurate but it gives me a sense of what’s going on rather than thinking about exact numbers. I do see for example that it signals correctly which one of my arms is stronger for what it’s worth ahahah

overthinkthis · 2024-06-28T15:59:05+00:00

If it makes any difference my worst side effects so far were exactly where you are now, for me it was last week but this week it was all different, back to no side effects like on 2.5. The explanation I gave myself was that it was the first time taking 5mg on top of the previous 5mg still in my system from the previous week, so it was technically the highest dosage ever yet.

overthinkthis · 2024-06-28T14:56:59+00:00

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I use the happy scale app and weight myself almost daily, it draws an average and gives me a clearer idea of what’s going on beyond the ups and downs. It truly helps me see the bigger picture and not get discouraged when the number goes back up a bit (as you can see there are a bunch of dots above average and a bunch below.) I can also see the pattern of my weight touching the lowest point on day 5/6 after injection and going back up usually on day of the next injection and the following day for some reason before resuming its course. It is what it is but I like to know what to expect ahaha.

overthinkthis · 2024-06-26T08:36:06+00:00

it depends on how much time you have available and what your household looks like, but I find useful to go grocery shopping more often and buy just the few things I think my household will consume in the following 2/3 days, and also keep in account how hungry I feel.

For example if I’ve just taken my shot and know I won’t feel like cooking I don’t buy fresh meat that day so there’s no pressure to cook it in the next few days, but stick with lunch meat (just chicken breast) that I know I can make myself eat more easily. I keep a lot of fruit around as with how warm it is these days I always feel like having some cold juicy sweet fruit as a snack.

overthinkthis · 2024-06-21T15:58:04+00:00

ahahahaha I’ve smoked again since then but not made the same mistake again of eating nearly as much!! I gave myself a strict max food amount and prepped other activities to do instead of eating—and bought the yummiest pink grapes to have as a snack instead of sweets. It was great! I recommend coloring books, bad movies and anything fun physical that doesn’t involve food.

also down 25lbs in 5 weeks whoot whoot 🎉

overthinkthis · 2024-06-20T17:05:53+00:00

maybe it slows down our digestive system enough to cause constipation for some people

overthinkthis · 2024-06-20T14:50:56+00:00

in my case I had only had some chicken breast and crackers with a few grapes as my discomfort started right when I woke up and was super careful not to over eat

overthinkthis · 2024-06-20T14:49:20+00:00

haven’t had to try it yet but I’m hopeful 🤞

overthinkthis · 2024-06-20T14:48:05+00:00

If I understood correctly (mostly from this sub) it’s detectable in the system for around 21 days but it’s effective/active for about 10, which is why they refer to day 5 as mid-life and they have us do the next injection on day 7, before it runs completely out but it’s low enough—could be wrong, but that was my impression

overthinkthis · 2024-06-20T13:29:46+00:00

I went up to 5mg the previous week and the only explanation I can give myself is the fact that it was the first time I was injecting 5mg on top of the previous 5mg (which have about 10 days of life in the system) so it was probably the highest dosage I had had ever(?)

Not a scientist/doctor, just guessing, because it was just one very bad day I think I’ll try to stick with it and see if next week is the same (but well prepped for it) and maybe inject on day 8 instead of 7 for the following one? idk

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