My personal experience of taking weight loss injections
I’ve made it! I’ve hit my target!
I still fluctuate, but this is now going to be forever, so I have no intention of trying to stick at one single point on the scales for the rest of my life, but I do want to always stay in the 10 stone bracket
I’ve been on the jabs now for over two years. I’m now taking half a dose each week in an attempt to maintain.
Woohoo! Only 1 stone to go to target. It may take another 6 months, but I’m in no rush.
I also made my return to Park Run after a 10-year absence.
I did my first Park Run 10 years ago, almost to the day. It was a cold November day, long before Park Run became this phenomenon that attracts people of all abilities. 10 years ago, it was for runners.
I have shown my start weight as 17stone 8lb, but as I mention on the homepage, my heaviest weight was 19stone 10lb in 2020. I managed to lose 2 stone on my own, before starting the jab. So, while the dashboard shows all y detailed weight loss since the day I started the jabs, I have always had in my head my start weight at 19 stone 10lb. This means I have now lost a whopping 8 stone!
It started 7pm on Friday the 26th. My last food was Chicken Fajitas, chocolate, and 2 jam doughnuts!
My intention is to only have water and black tea with lemon until Sunday morning. I have booked a table for Sunday lunch at 1pm so if I last until then, it will actually be over 42 hours!
I will write what I experience, notice and feel as I go along and share it here.
My exciting news is that today I finally broke into a new stone bracket. I am officially 11 stone 13.6lbs. It has taken me exactly 6 months to lose this last stone, which sounds like a long time, but it is an average of half a pound a week, which I have to say I’m really pleased with. I still find myself slightly in shock that I am now 18 months into this journey and I’m still slowly, albeit very slowly, losing weight. I’ve said that if I didn’t lose any more weight and I stay this way for the rest of my life I’d be happy, but to see these small continual losses is very reassuring.
So, the honeymoon is over, and the price is going up. Originally it was estimated it would go up something like 170% thankfully since then, it has settled down and the reality is much lower, but still a considerable rise. I have seen the price I will pay through Asda go from £198 to £298 a rise of 50%
That sounds like a backhanded compliment but feels like an achievement to be ‘only’ overweight!
Today I tipped the scales at 12stone 1lb which creeps my BMI into 29.9
At my largest, 19 stone 10lb, my BMI was 48.9 which used to be called ‘morbidly obese’ until someone decided that sounded just plain rude. So now they call it ‘severely obese’.
This past month I have lost a grand total of 1.4lb
How amazing is that? 60 weeks on and I am still losing weight. Yes, it’s slow, but it’s still going. I can hardly remember the time before. I feel like a normal person now.
Normal? Yes, I feel normal. Or at least how I assume it feels to be ‘normal’.
No-one knows how it feels to be anyone else, we are all living in our own unique bubble of thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
Today marks exactly one year since I took my very first jab. I can honestly say that I have never felt happier in my whole life.
I mentioned before that I was working with a stylist.
I cannot recommend highly enough the power of learning how to dress for my new size and shape.
Here is the testimonial I wrote for her, and I thought I would share it with you here.