Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

  So additional info from yeaterday’s post… Above is a photo from this morning and the last post had a photo at the bottom of me at my maximum weight!  My food plan: Mostly CorePower Chocolate Shakes (mixed with Fairlife chocolate shakes and CorePower Vanilla and Strawberry Banana shakes) One meal per day at home on work days … mostly Sloppy Joe’s made with ground turkey and keto buns with either side salad or fruit cups (no sugar added mandarin oranges or pineapple) and a 1/4 pint of ice cream (Hagan-Daz or Breyers).  Mix it up with chicken Tikka Masala or Ground Turkey tacos on keto friendly soft tortillas.   Those are with side salad or the fruit and possibly also the ice cream at the end. One weekends when I am being social I allow myself two regular meals without paying too much attention  to what I am eating (whatever is served) or something appealing at a restaurant … I do tend towards poultry and fish or vegetarian and avoid any heavy servings of red meat because I don’t  seem

  Hello!   So today I weighed in at 237.6 which is awesome!      Here is a summary of my weight loss journey for the past 5 1/2 years … it shows my attempts before Mounjaro and although some success with gargantuan efforts it was completely unsustainable for me and very yo-yo like … my maximum recorded weight is in the middle of the chart so a couple of years in I weighed more than my first day!   The last downslope is the past year on tirzepatide / mounjaro / abound … Crazy!!   And now with sustained manageable  total daily healthy eating this past year  I have hit body  weights that I never honestly believed I would ever see again!  And I now believe I can lose even more … crazy but in a good way.   A complete mental reset. Here is the same graph but by BMI: The BMI of 53.4 and 52.2 were in the extremely obese (morbidly obese) category. My present BMI of 33.1 is still considered obese. I need to hit a BMI of 29 to no longer be considered obese .. a BMI of 29 would categorize me as OV

  Merry Christmas!! I am so excited!!  Today I hit the weight scale at 239.8... I know I barely broke 240 .:: but I did!!  That is a BMI of 33 for me… crazy! Drum roll please … that is a 118.2 pound weight loss since starting tirzepatide in January 2023. .. a 30.6% weight loss.  ( I am down 37.8% from my maximum weight … 143 pounds down total.).  I have dated many women who weighed less than 143 pounds!

  How do you like my reading glasses?   I made a trip to Denver to see my daughter … the photo is at Breckenridge. So I am stagnant at 246 now for about 5 weeks.   I feel good and have started working out more to see if that will help with some further weight loss!   Obviously my body has reached a point where calories in and out are balanced so I need to increase the calorie burn and decrease my intake some more.  I got my Zepbound coupon and now just waiting for the zepbound to actually become available at the pharmacy so I can use the coupon!  My insurance does not cover it which is too bad but the coupon will cut my monthly expense in half so that is exciting!  If the coupon works out I may go ahead and stay on the medication through the end of 2024.   I would love to lose more weight before trying to come off the medicine.