Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

  So the administration of the second shot 2.5mg went without any issues.    And the exciting part  is that I weighed in at 341 lbs which is a 15 pound weight loss … not sure if that is reflective of how this will go or if it is just a first week reset.   I did stay at between 1500-2000 Calories per day for the entire week with no slip ups.  I really think the shot is doing something as I feel that if I had just done the caloric goal for the past week that I would not have lost this much weight!  And I would have been way much hungrier the whole week. So what am I eating?    I make sandwiches for lunch … half using Healthy Life  keto bread  30 Cal per slice and half using Arnold Multigrain sandwich thins 150 Cal per roll.   Lite mayo with a slice of cheese (havarti this past week) and a slice of uncured ham.   I love the Fairlife Core Power drinks chocolate and vanilla (170 Cal each).   Snacks with Two Good Greek low fat yogurt (80 Cal).  And for a treat cream cheese and Skinny Girl su

Looking to need smaller wings …  So far this week, no nausea nor vomiting so Yay!   I had three days of absolute appetite suppression but ate preplanned meals with no problems … no cravings … but constipation present.   I started a probiotic and with Day 4 I started feeling little bits of hunger here and there that resolved with eating small amounts of food.   Still no cravings but constipation much better!  I feel like this is very doable.  I am shooting for 1500-2000 Calories per day.    My guess is that I need to go to the next dose when I finish this first month.   I am looking forward to weighing in two days (I am only going do weigh ins on my shot day).  For those wondering … yes it is annoying that other people in my same boat got insurance to pay for it or they are using a grandfathered discount coupon I am not eligible for!   If I had gotten my prescription 6 months ago I would have been eligible for the coupon … ugh!  I am hoping that when the FDA approves it for non-diabetic

I am a 58 year old man weighing in at 358 lbs with two very bad painful knees who would really like the rest of this life to be fuller and way more active than it is now…. And although I was told I could get knee replacements I kind of want to avoid them as long as I can.  And our local center of excellence for knee replacements categorize me as having too high a BMI to be done in their system … kind of hard to deny being way overweight when they basically are telling me that I am too fat to undergo knee replacements and expect good results.  Kind of sobering really. I started this blog as I start Mounjaro … this is my first week and when I web searched for Mounjaro blogs I can only find … mostly short tiktok videos and a very few long youtube videos … so I decided I would do synopsis updates of my journey that would not take up much time nor require having the volume on … I do a lot of my mounjaro searching in public places and don’t really want to have to listen in to hear what is be