Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

So, The 5mg dose gives me about 6 days of hunger suppression … it started yesterday and today I am hungry!!   Good news is that tomorrow is the next shot …phew!   I definitely need to move up to the next dose… to try and get full week suppression. Drudging through the drywall … another section of wall up … I admire the work crews who can do that quickly!  It is slow going for me on my own … but I just need to keep moving forward …

  So!  I am at 327.6 this morning (after a nice BM) and that is a 30 lb weight loss since I started … admittedly most of that was the first week making dietary modifications but I have been losing 1-2 pounds per week since then.  So when I started I read to avoid red meat and I was not sure why that was … well now i know!    A friend of mine made some great BBQ and brought it into work and I had some and it was delicious … until my body tried digesting it!   Two days of uncomfortable gross tasting and horrible smelling  bloating and burping and no I don’t want to experience that again! I am still at the 5mg dose and hope to increase next month … I have an appointment to see my primary care physician tomorrow and we will see what the game plan on dose progression will be. Other than the BBQ incident it has been very tolerable.  My only issue is some intermittent bloating and burping but on a much milder scale than the BBQ thing.  My BMs have been reasonable on one probiotic and one dulc

I went up this week to the 5mg doses and so far no significant side effects.   Taking the 2 Dulcolax pills and one probiotic pill per day has made me regular again for which I am thankful.   I am hoping as my body adjusts to the medicine I will be able to take less of the dulcolax on a daily basis.  No nausea at all these 5 weeks which had been my greatest fear about the drug (based on the YouTube and TikTok videos I watched). I weighed in this morning and I was 332 pounds which is a 26 pound total loss since starting which is awesome!  My pants are definitely feeling looser in the belt. I have been feeling energetic during the day but I am also getting plenty of sleep at night. I have been mostly eating keto friendly foods with some occasional carbs.   The biggest advantage to this journey so far is that I don’t have to be ketotic at all nor worry about hidden carbs or craving where I “blow” my diet for the 3 days or so it takes to get back into ketosis.  This present situation (other

So the 4th shot went without a hitch.   The only side effect I am dealing with is constipation.   I am taking 1 probiotic pill and 2 dulcolax pills per day for that.   I am excited about going to the 5mg dose starting next week.  I am trying to get some walking in (more than my usual).  I have been prioritizing getting good sleep and drinking a lot of fluids.   The insomnia from a week ago seems better.  I do get up about once per night to urinate which is not my usual but I think that is from drinking all the fluids. I weighed in at 337.6 lb today which is 2.8 lbs down from last week which is a total of 19 pounds since I started (although most of that was in the first week). I do feel like I have more energy overall and I am motivated to work on things around the house.   Whether that is from the weight loss or a direct side effect of the injections I do not know, but I like it. The photo above reminds me that being a bigger person usually means that the first thing people notice and

So the third shot yesterday Mounjaro 2.5mg went well.  No significant side effects other than a little decreased sleeping at night.   I have been taking a probiotic and a dulcolax tablet once per day with no issue constipation wise.   Only negative is that my weigh in today was 340.4 lb …. So weight loss almost frozen this week …  only a 1.2 pound weight loss.   I imagine the weight loss will wax and wane.   Looking at the long game that kind of weekly loss could  still be about 50 pounds in a year so that would be a win. I have been doing a 7 min workout three times per week … I will be gradually increasing this.   I am still coming in att 1500-2000 Calories per day.  Until the next check in.

  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