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

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