Skinny Jab Story

It’s been a week so far in an all-inclusive resort with no access to scales! And I am having a gloriously relaxing time.

Firstly, some practical information.

Airport security searched my hand luggage at Birmingham airport! Panic!

This week was the time of the month and my birthday. At the start of the week my weight had gone up a couple of pounds. I rationalise it, but it doesn’t make me happy. Then suddenly I get back on the scales and 1.4lb has gone.

It’s been a very busy week as I get nearer to my holiday. It feels like I have crammed a month worth of stuff into the last fortnight before I go. The good news is it means I am not really thinking about food, calories, or dieting. I have only lost 0.4lb this week. But, as I have said before, I have never had an experience of losing weight every week, week by week, for over 4 months so I am not disappointed.

I wasn’t even going to write a blog this week because it felt like there was nothing to say.

Then yesterday afternoon I don’t even know what happened.

This has been my first week on 7.5mg and it’s been fine. I’ve hit my 3 stone loss and I’m feeling great. I’ve also just watched the ITV ‘Tonight’ program ‘The Skinny Jab: Who’s getting it’ and they make it sound like I’m doing something dodgy.

It’s time to move up, this weekend I will take my first 7.5 mg shot.

Yes, my weight loss has slowed, but for me it’s more about noticing that the food noise creeps back in earlier and earlier in the week and the symptoms have all gone away.

…within 36 hours of returning, my weight was the same as when I went away!!

A whole week without access to scales and being surrounded by temptation.

So happy. So proud. So hopeful, about what this means for the future.

Last Saturday I had my first experience of noticing the moment that the food noise switched off. I think that previously I have not noticed it either because I have had the jab late in the evening, or the food suppression was still strong when I took the next dose, or I have often taken it on a Sunday morning and then gone out for a big lunch and by teatime I wasn’t hungry. But last week was different.

Someone commented on one of the Facebook groups I’m in, that most of the posts are people on 2.5mg and 5mg, and there doesn’t seem to be many people commenting that have been on this for longer. I think it’s because, once the initial excitement has gone off, and the process of injecting becomes something you do without thinking about, and the weight loss becomes slow but steady, you enter the ‘business as usual zone’. And do not feel the need to comment and respond to every post.

I think I am there.

It’s been another effortless week. No symptoms, good appetite suppression, and another 1.6lbs off.

And I’m back into my size 16s!  I had a whole rail of jeans and trousers from a previous weight loss period, years ago. I tried them on and they all fit. It feels so good.

I have, however, noticed the start of the sag. My upper arms and my thighs are a bit crepey.  I went to wear a sleeveless dress, and did not feel comfortable, so chose one with sleeves, and found myself googling upper arm surgery.