Retatrutide is a game changer, even at 2mg a week it curbs food intake so much. As someone who was eating 5-6 meals a day and now gone down to 3 and sometimes 2.5 one some days, it's been a noticable reaction. Down 8kg in 1 month and that's not even eating all that healthy.
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I just noticed something....I don't need to add sugar to my coffee anymore with this chocolate protein powder in place. I am basically swapping the calories from the sugar with protein. So on paper, there is no increase in calories in take, just replacing carbs with protein, and I eat enough carbs already...I have my coffee with a croisant most days lol
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I’m going to have to try this protein coffee! Market it and get rich quick! I switched from latte/cappuccino to americano some time ago to help the figure. A proper cappuccino feels like such a treat now!
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The protein powder makes it slightly thicker too, and if you make it in a shaker (with the milk), I would expect it would be even more foamy lol
I just mix it with a spoon. Honestly....I can't see a downside? Swapping regular caster sugar with protein surely has to be better.
I STILL make it with water with my coffee btw, I basically make an Americano, but the protein powder turns the texture to more like a latte/cappuccino. I am a coffee snob so I know it is not the same but it is also not "thin" like an Americano either.
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Banging the drum of the benefits of weight loss here which may help give that motivation to others, last year at my annual health review my total cholesterol-to-HDL ratio was 8.05 (red, high, bad)
Yesterday, 2.99, BAM!
Yesterday, 2.99, BAM!
Well **** me, 19st 8 in Jan 25. Started jabs at 18st 11 in Jul 25, just broke into the 16st today.
So 1stone 12 pounds in 7 weeks or 3.4lbs per week.
Still a long way to go, but I finally got into my 38" jeans today, that i have not worn for years (i won't wear them just yet, as they have given me a middle aged man muffin top, but at least i can button them!)
So 1stone 12 pounds in 7 weeks or 3.4lbs per week.
Still a long way to go, but I finally got into my 38" jeans today, that i have not worn for years (i won't wear them just yet, as they have given me a middle aged man muffin top, but at least i can button them!)
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Seeing as the monj/wegovy thread got 86'd.
I'm 6'1" and started at 141.5kg/22st4lbs, 3.5 months towards the end of May and I'm now at 115kg/18st2lbs.
Still on 5mg and getting great suppression, hitting around 900-1000 cals per day (still can't force any more in unless eating pizza or something equally fast and dirty), plenty of energy and golfing at the weekend and no side effects so not worrying overly. What I am eating is healthy and backed up with supplements.
My usual t-shirts are rather loose now and I'm starting to dig into the back of the wardrobe to get slightly older smaller t-shirts, need to order smaller hoodies and jeans as I'm off to the states in 2 weeks and if I take my belt off at security the breeks are coming down, no one needs to see that so need replaced asap.
At this rate early December should see me off it completely at around 15st where I think I'd be much happier.
I'm 6'1" and started at 141.5kg/22st4lbs, 3.5 months towards the end of May and I'm now at 115kg/18st2lbs.
Still on 5mg and getting great suppression, hitting around 900-1000 cals per day (still can't force any more in unless eating pizza or something equally fast and dirty), plenty of energy and golfing at the weekend and no side effects so not worrying overly. What I am eating is healthy and backed up with supplements.
My usual t-shirts are rather loose now and I'm starting to dig into the back of the wardrobe to get slightly older smaller t-shirts, need to order smaller hoodies and jeans as I'm off to the states in 2 weeks and if I take my belt off at security the breeks are coming down, no one needs to see that so need replaced asap.
At this rate early December should see me off it completely at around 15st where I think I'd be much happier.
what? what happened?
For everyone taking weight loss jabs, do you have a plan for how you're going to come off them?
I stopped calorie counting properly for a bit earlier this year and my weight slowly crept up again - I can imagine it being quite a struggle to stop them if someone's restricting by more than a thousand calories a day.
I stopped calorie counting properly for a bit earlier this year and my weight slowly crept up again - I can imagine it being quite a struggle to stop them if someone's restricting by more than a thousand calories a day.
Descended into medical talk, so got nuked.
Got pulled for venturing into medical chat I believe.
I'm using the Samsung health app on my S24U, come December I should be able to come off it, maybe use the final pen to titrate back down from 5mg but long term I will probably continue calorie counting as it's so simple to do and it'll show me if my weekly average begins to creep past my TDEE.
My activity is beginning to pick up as the weight comes off too. I learned from last time I gymratted it for a year, lost 3.5 stone, my knees were shagged and took quite a while to recover. This time round, I'm losing the weight and likely muscle first but can work at building a little back on knowing I'm not stressing my joints so badly.
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Hmm, please don't do that to this thread then!
I did wonder why we'd been invaded by those using the injection.I have nothing against it. Whatever it takes, I guess? The end result is still healthier people.
I suppose I do view those losing weight through the injection a little differently from those doing it the old-fashioned (harder?) way. Is that fair of me, do we think?
Still a stigma around the jabs, i was very hesitant at first. Someone commented a while ago that they think another colleague is using the jabs and said it's "cheating". So when i was asked just today how i am losing weight, am i on the jabs, i told them it was none of their business and it was inappropriate to ask that about someone's medical stuff, don't do it again.
They huffed and walked off.
For me, as i say, hesitant at first, but with nearly 2m UK people on the jabs, this will become the norm same as plastic/vanity surgeries. Also, the NHS prescribe it.
They huffed and walked off.
For me, as i say, hesitant at first, but with nearly 2m UK people on the jabs, this will become the norm same as plastic/vanity surgeries. Also, the NHS prescribe it.
At a population level the weight loss jabs have to be a huge win if we end up with a healthier working adult population that are better able to take care of themselves as they get older.
My wife's part of an NHS weight loss group (involving CBT and nutrition education) and they're currently offering bariatric surgery for successful patients - they're looking to offer one of the jabs for future cohorts.
My wife's part of an NHS weight loss group (involving CBT and nutrition education) and they're currently offering bariatric surgery for successful patients - they're looking to offer one of the jabs for future cohorts.
It will definitely be the norm. I expect in a few years it will be very rare to find an obese rich person.
Hmm, please don't do that to this thread then!
I have nothing against it. Whatever it takes, I guess? The end result is still healthier people.
I suppose I do view those losing weight through the injection a little differently from those doing it the old-fashioned (harder?) way. Is that fair of me, do we think?
Using a 'fat jab' of some description is viewed as cheating by many..
I lost 2 stone and 4 inches off of my waist back in 2014 the last time I decided I was fat and needed to lose weight over about 7 months, this time I've lost about 3 stone in a year, I've been told I look like a leukaemia victim or that I'm on Ozempic, personally I dont give a crap, I'm not doing it for anyone other than myself, and I know where I am going wrong, portiion size and work is what does me...
I've seen many people in this thread lose in a couple of months what its taken me a year to lose, and all the power to them, at the end of the day, whatever works for you, works, and, I should imagine whatever the long term effects are of using Ozempic, Monjaro or that new Rosapeptide thing or whatever its called, will be better than the health implications of being properly over weight...
Doing it 'the hard way' or, what I used to say, "eat less, move more" isn't as simple as it sounds, self-control also isn't that simple, one part of your brain arguing with another part of your brain usually won't end well, so self-control isn't always the anwser...