Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

So today was my 11th shot … again at 10mg. Yesterday I weighed in at 311 pound for a 47 pound weight loss which is great... As a percentage of my starting weight though I have lost 13% of my bodyweight so I have ways to go. This week was my Eureka moment….  So according to the BMI tables I have been morbidly obese for quite some time.   Despite my great weight loss on mounjaro I am still morbidlly obese!  I reviewed the cutoffs and the reality is that I need to lose about 25% of my starting body weight to be...270# which would be obese but not morbidly obese... That would be an 88 pound weight loss. And to be just overweight and not obese … I would need to get to 210 pounds which would be a 158 pound total weight loss which is a 44% body total weight loss.  The last time I weighed around 210 pounds was in my early to mid 20s. Yeah … very sobering indeed.  I think shooting to get out of the obese category entirely will be very very difficult. So I am setting my sights on 270 for a 25% w

  So … like the picture above … it is so easy to be so set on the journey that we don’t notice big things happening around us … I just realized this morning that was happening to me!! So I have noticed that my mouth has been more dry at night … for the past month or more I go to bed with a bottled water next to my bed so I can drink some when I wake up with a parched mouth … I thought it was a side effect of my CPAP machine completely ignoring the fact that I never had that problem before going the mounjaro!!  So I did have another side effect of the the mounjaroo this whole time … DRY MOUTH!   I don’t notice it during the day much because I am drinking throughout the day but at night I literally wake up one or twice or three times with a crazy parched mouth!   I drink a whole bottle each time and get another bottle to put by my bed!     And I have started using chaptick during the day because my lips have started to chap … again I did not put two and two together … I thought maybe it

So I am really liking the 10mg dose.... I am tolerating it very well and my weigh-in this morning was 315 for a total 43 point weight loss so far.... Yippee!!  I had already added a hole in my belt and guess what … time for another hole!  I know I could buy a smaller belt but it feels so good to make the new holes!! I do wonder about all the people who are unfortunate enough to suffer from severe nausea and/or the inability to eat … I am not feeling any of that at all/.  I eat when I decide to eat but without having the starving feeling all the time in between meals I had before I started the medicine.   My energy and mood are very good.   My knees are doing so much better!   Other than the cost this has been a very positive journey so far!!   I am feeling very positive about continuing it…

So I am at 318 lb … for a 40 pound total loss. I am on the 10mg dose since the 7.5mg dose was not available … and I really like this.   I have had no significant side effects (other than the manageable constipation I take dulcolax and probiotics for) and I have no hunger at all … I can eat when I decide to eat but I have been living mostly on the Core Power shakes with occasional whipped cream as a treat.   Yesterday I had an egg and cheese bagel for breakfast, a whole grain sandwich thin ham and cheese sandwich, and I had some chicken noodle soup last night for dinner … I normally would only have soup with grilled cheese sandwiches because I would be too hungry after soup alone but no need for anything other then the soup at the present time!  Not feeling any hunger and the food goes in easily when I do decide to eat.   I like this feeling. … if this feeling persists for the whole week I may decide to stay at this dose for awhile.   

Coming to the end of the second month, Today's weigh in at 322.6 for about a 35 pound total weight loss ... pretty impressive to me!   It has not really been painful at all.   This is my last week at the 5mg dose.  I was going to go to 7.5mg next week but the 7.5mg dose is not available at all ... so after discussing it with my doctor we are going to go to the 10mg dose which is available.   I am curious to see how the jump goes ... I am hoping that I will have week long appetite suppression ... the appetite suppression has been the part of the treatment that I have enjoyed the most.   I can eat when I sit down to eat but I never feel like finishing my meal which is unusual when compared to the norm for my life.   As I think I said before ... this must be what a lot of thinner people feel like all time. I did discuss the appetite / satiety thing with a clinically diagnosed anorexic and interestingly her description to me was that she never feels hungry and when eating finds it diff

So my weigh-in today was 323.6lb … whoop whoop … that is a 34 pound weight loss in 7 weeks … I am very happy with that!   BMs are regular - still taking one dulcolax and one probiotic per day.   No nausea.   Bloating / Belching more manageable on Gas-X and I just started Papaya enzyme with chlorophylll … I will share if that helps too or not. I really like the 5mg dose … my hunger suppression is far superior to the 2.5mg dose.  On day 6 this week with no strong hunger feelings.  I can eat when I decide to but no cravings really this week.   Funny that I feel full soon after starting my meal and I decide I don’t want to eat half the stuff I think about making for a meal.   I keep saying to myself “this is what skinny people feel like all the time”!… Crazy!  But I like it. People who feel like this all the time have no right to ever say anything about fat people just not having any willpower blah blah blah! A whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium … a beautiful regal creature so much bigger