Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

  Hello All!   So today I hit 261.2 pounds for a 96.8 pound weight loss on Mounjaro! … 27% loss.    In talking to people about Mounjaro I find it hard to explain why this is such a great medication.  I have changed my diet and I am eating much healthier but without the Mounjaro my results would not have been any near as dramatic.   And the changes I have done would have completely overwhelming with my body fighting me all the way …. starving … craving … tempted … eating chatter all day and all night.   The medicine takes care of that part of the problem.  It allows us to make the changes we needed to make.   The medicine has been wonderful and nothing short of a miracle! Speaking of wonderful … the photo above is of Pirate’s Day on Smith Mountain Lake Virginia which has truly been an outstanding adventure to participate in every year!!

  I took 10 mg dose today.   On a weight loss plateau presently but I had company all last week so I am just glad I did not put on weight! Update: 4 days later D 182 … at 265.4 pounds for 92.8 pound weight loss (25.9%) since starting mounjaro!   And if you look at loss from my max weight including pre-mounjaro weight loss I have lost 118.6 pounds (30.7%).   I am completely amazed! The photo above reminds me of what it felt like when I was heavier... Nothing seemed built to accommodate me and I was always self conscious that I just did not fit in... Literally!

  Hello!   I am doing one more dose at 15mg this week and then going to 10mg for 2 weeks and then a 15mg and then 2 weeks of 10mg … good plan … after that will depend on what is available to get!  Update of anesthesia with GLP-1s … the American Society of Anesthesiologists came out with a task force recommendation which is what doctors will be following for now on GLP-1 patients … they say to hold the dose for one week before elective surgery and to consider using ultrasound of the stomach on the day of surgery to see if there is any food in the stomach.   If in doubt they are to treat the patient as being a full stomach.  I think that only waiting a week means a lot of people will have something still in their stomach following regular eating guidelines before surgery so we as patients are still at increased risk.   The issue they were compromising on was that if a diabetic’s sugars were under control on a GLP-1 then holding it longer than a week would mean poor sugar control at the t

  Wow!  Day 160 … I have been thrilled with my progress. My BPs are the best they have been in years … not sure if I will be able to decrease any meds but I certainly will not need to increase any doses!   That is exciting as my high blood pressure was worsening prior to starting the Mounjaro. I was only able to get the 10mg Mounjaro for this coming month but that is okay … I seem to do okay on it (although I do a touch better hunger wise on the higher doses). The unsolicited compliments continue to come in which is wonderful.  A lot of people asking me questions about the drug and my results.   Interestingly they all focus on nausea and hearing that people could not tolerate the medicine but as I have said I have not had any of those kind of issues.  One area of real concern, however, is that the delayed gastric emptying particularly with certain foods has an unintended consequence that everyone taking the medication needs to be aware of!  If you go under anesthesia for a procedure no

  So I went with my last dose of 10mg Mounjaro this morning … going back to 15mg with the next dose.  So supply issues are bad … my local pharmacies can’t seem to get it and my farther away stand by pharmacy may be having problems getting it too.    I have 3 injections left so not a crisis at this point.   Hopefully they will turn up before it becomes a crisis. On a good note, my weigh in today was 274.8 lbs for an 83.2 pound weight loss on Mounjaro since Jan 18th!  All kinds of people congratulating me on the “looking good”! The image is a long exposure on my boat driving on a lake around 11pm … very peaceful even if a bit cool out.

  So this week I did a 10mg dose after last dose’s 15mg  … I waited until Day 11 to take this dose as part of my efforts to stretch out the doses to save some money.  I am at a plateau again which I guess is how things will be from now on. So this entry is dedicated to all of us on mounjaro (or wegovy) for weight loss who are judged by those around us for being on a medication.     The unsolicited commentary that we could all do this without the medication if only we would  “do the work” and show “mental fortitude” and “make some better choices” … well my first choice in improving my health is cutting those people out of my life.   They do not say these things because they are trying to help us or be supportive … they say it because they judge us as being less than they are … that they feel that they are superior to us … they are essentially the Karens of our world looking for things to pass judgement on but like all Karens they do not know what they are talking about.  They are oblivi

  So the plateau finally broke!!  Today I am at 281.6 pounds which is 76.4 pounds less than the day I started Mounjaro (21.3% weight loss!) … which is so crazy exciting!!  I added the total day number Day #160 to my title since my mounjaro weeks are not all 7 days.    I finally did get a box of 15mg Mounjaro after I could not find any 10mg nor 12.5mg boxes available anywhere in my area.  I had two shots of the 10mg dose left but because of the plateau I have been having this past month I decided to alternate between the two doses for these 4 weeks …. I am kind of curious to see how that goes. So in the photo above from this past weekend my clothes are looking loose and a bit oversized which is exciting because these are all smaller clothes than what I was wearing when I started in January! I think I mentioned in a previous post that I have lowered my goal weight since my original goal weight which seemed so unlikely to ever reach is actually approaching and the impossible now seems ver

  WAIT!!!   I think I see some Mounjaro over THERE!!! So complete supply chain FAIL for this month’s refill!   No Mounjaro 10mg (nor 7.5 mg nor 12.5mg!) available for at least 100+ mile radius with no expected availability time frame … Crazy!!! I found one pharmacy who says they have access to the 15mg dose so I contacted my doctor and he wrote a prescription for that dose … he did it quickly but I hope the dose is still available when the pharmacy processes the prescription! I still have two more doses of 10 mg in my present box of mounjaro in the frig but I am getting my refill boxes started early enough to account for the supply chain issues which have not been smooth locally. My weight on the scale has been basically in plateau mode for three weeks but my waist line is still getting thinner … maybe the working out is building muscle?  I ordered a new smaller belt again … I was not excited to have to physically add new holes to this newer belt too!  My original belt that I added 4 h

Nothing special to report weight loss wise … Holding the course as I am on another plateau … but I feel good so there is that.   I have also started working out in earnest which is good.   And as an added bonus I get unsolicited compliments on my losing weight which has been nice.   So with regards to the working out.   I have committed to working out three times per week and I have opted for a gym machine centered workout.    So my dilemma was that I used to workout a lot when I was young but that has been a really really long time ago.   Ego will only get me hurt.   I have to suck it up and do the work to get back into a regular work out shape.   I am 58 and have been mostly sedentary for that last few years with my bad knees and being very very overweight … the last thing I need is to it hurt myself in anyway which would set me way way back. Here is my progressive “work into it slowly” workout.  Day 1:      Elliptical at lowest setting for 1 minute                    Machine workout

  So Weight Update!    Today I hit the scales at 290.2 for a total loss since starting Mounjaro of 67.8 pounds (18.9% loss) …. and from my all time max weight in 2021 of 383 that is 92.8 pounds down which is 24% total body weight loss …with 25 pound weight loss being  pre-Mounjaro.  It is scary how heavy I got in 2019 and then again in 2021 and all my yo-yo dieting since then … Mounjaro really has made the huge difference in successful weight loss!