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.
I feel ready to plan for the future totally with the expectation of continuing to lose weight and to be happy with my size, to the extent that I’m willing to invest in items of clothing that I want to wear and not just think that I can get away with.
I asked a question on Asda Doctor online this week about the future, and how long they can continue to prescribe Mounjaro to me for as my BMI decreases.
I received a really full and comprehensive response for them, that was very helpful and positive.
They’ve confirmed that they will be happy to continue to prescribe to me until I am at a healthy weight, they suggested usually around a BMI of 23 to 24.
Right now, that still feels like a very long way off, but it’s reassuring to know that I can continue taking this medication until I get there.
I could potentially stay on this for years and years if I wanted to, they didn’t make any mention of a two-year cut-off, which I had read about earlier so that might be a question for them at another time.
But right now, I’m only six months in, so even just thinking that I’ll take the drug for another 18 months before I have to really think about a future where I don’t take the injections, is reassuring.
I am really confident that when that day comes, I’ll be able to make the right decisions. For me overeating with never about hunger. It was always about filling a different type of hole.
I was always eating for happiness or comfort or to cover up sadness or anxiety. When in reality my life is pretty damn near perfect and the only thing that I have not been happy about has been my weight. So, as I start to conquer this one outstanding area of my life, I feel hopeful that my experience of being happy with my body, will mean I will not want to jeopardise it for the quick fix of food.
I’m never going to be one of those people who ‘doesn’t eat sugar’ or only ‘eats clean’ all the time. I’m well aware of all the information around ultra processed food and the harm that it and sugar does to our bodies, but the reality is it tastes really nice. And I think as long as treats stay as a treat as opposed to being my staple diet, I am quite happy with that. An 80:20 rule suits me. 80% of the time I can eat healthy nutritious home-cooked food and then the 20% of the time is high days and holidays, cakes, biscuits, chocolate crisps, cake, whatever, then I’m confident that I can maintain that as a balance going forward.
Last Sunday I got to the afternoon before I realised, I’d forgotten about my jab. It felt like another milestone that 27 weeks in and that was the first Sunday that I didn’t wake up in the morning thinking oh it’s jab day, exciting! It’s now just become a normal part of life. I wouldn’t have forgotten to take it, but it wasn’t the highlight of my day, and to think of it as ‘jab day’.
I really do believe that the only way that this will work for the long term is by taking this time to reflect of how this is impacting my mindset and that’s why I’m really enjoying this process of writing this blog and sharing my journey with you all, because it’s making me reflect. It’s making me consider how far I’ve come, how I’m feeling now, and what I want the future to be. And I have to say, the future is looking pretty damn bright.