My personal experience of taking weight loss injections
Yay I’m 13 stone 13lb.
It’s a big moment when you break into a new stone bracket, I don’t know why it is, but it is.
I really feel like I’m looking to the future now.
I have even connected with an image stylist who is going to do my colours and my style profile and help me really understand what clothes work for me and what don’t.
Today marks 6 months since I began my skinny jab story, 26 weeks ago I excitedly took that very first injection and today I am 3.5 stones lighter (49.2 lbs to be precise) and have lost 20% of my body weight.
I’m all packed up and ready to be picked up to go to the airport. My suitcase is just as heavy as it was when I came, let’s hope I’m not!
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.