It’s here! My prescription arrived on Saturday 11 May while I was away at the NLP International Conference, so I had to wait until I got home at 9.45pm on Sunday to have my first injection.
Until then, I had continued to eat like I was about to be starved, having croissants, cookies, pasta, and garlic bread, and that was just Sunday!
I woke up Monday morning feeling excited. I got on the scales to record my new start weight. Yep, I’d put on at least 4lb in the last week or so.
It’s ok. It’s the start.
I had my first cup of tea and made my usual breakfast smoothie, which sometimes I have before I go to work and sometimes, I take to work with me and have at about 10am. I also made my usual ‘take to the office’ lunch of yoghurt, raspberries, blueberries, sugar free maple syrup and crushed seed mix.
I got to work and had my 2nd cup of tea and didn’t feel hungry yet. I eventually had my breakfast smoothie at about 11.30am and brought my lunch home with me!
I had a meeting planned for the evening, so dinner had to be early, 5.45pm. I had a small pizza express margarita pizza (I am consciously choosing to eat the same foods to start with but noticing hunger and fullness) well I ate half the pizza with half an avocado, and I was full. I would usually have eaten the whole thing with no bother.
I do strongly acknowledge the placebo effect. And know that in placebo studies, injections are more effective than capsules and capsules are more effective than tablets. I can’t really believe that the Mounjaro can have had this much effect already, and I am sure that some of this is down to extreme desire to not want to eat. But either way I’m happy because either way it will work.
I have just woken up on day 2 and I feel empty, not hungry, but empty. It’s the feeling I recognise when I have occasionally gone beyond feeling hungry and just feel, empty. I am not going to weigh myself every day. I have made this decision because I want to use this opportunity to change several unhelpful weight related behaviours, and the daily decision to weigh or not weigh has to go.
I realised that this decision is my trigger for ‘choosing’, while still in bed, whether today is going to be a ‘good’ ‘on my diet’ day, or a ‘what the heck, nothing ever changes so I might as well eat what I want’ day. This has to stop.
And for the first time I am feeling determined that rather than losing a couple of stone, I want to lose about 7 stone, so the daily half a pound here and there does not matter.
I am still in bed, so the challenge to not stand on the scale is still ahead of me. I will weigh in on Sunday morning which will be day 7.
Not noticing any symptoms yet. So far all is good.
I’m on the road.
Day 1 – Weight 17 stone 8lbs (my height is 5ft 4 inches – which is a BMI of 42.2)