Yep I'm enjoying the gym a lot as well. The days I don't go I feel a bit bored.
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its right on the brink of 30 so they dont consider it "obese" technically and therefore rejected.
I should have said i was an inch shorter or a couple kg heavier and it would have been approved!
My BMI was like 30.1 and didn’t have issues getting approved. Try another pharmacy!
Nice one mate, sounds like amazing progress!
Worked out to be 29.7 which is just on the very limit.
Didn't you know you're 3cm shorter than you thought...
Just had a massive lunch, gained 3kg...
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Yeah, there's generally easy ways around those online pharmacies 
I've jumped up a little. Still under 100kg which is nice, but had a huge bbq last weekend and we ended up with loads of leftovers and "picky" things which i've grazed on constantly. Also had a week off work so went out and probably ate/drank more than normal.
Hoping that it acts as a nice little reset for my body and precede a new weight loss phase.
Annoyingly i've also got completely out of the habit of recording food/alcohol for the last 2 weeks and means my alcohol app is a bit rubbish now for trending, and i've lost my MFP streak!
I've jumped up a little. Still under 100kg which is nice, but had a huge bbq last weekend and we ended up with loads of leftovers and "picky" things which i've grazed on constantly. Also had a week off work so went out and probably ate/drank more than normal.
Hoping that it acts as a nice little reset for my body and precede a new weight loss phase.
Annoyingly i've also got completely out of the habit of recording food/alcohol for the last 2 weeks and means my alcohol app is a bit rubbish now for trending, and i've lost my MFP streak!
5mg dose of Mounjaro really hits differently compared to 2.5. I’m struggling to eat any meaningful portions, struggling to even hit 1000 calories per day despite trying. Don’t think I’ll go up a dose as long as it stays like this as there’s no point. Will still buy bigger pens though.
That's interesting, I must've started a similar time to you I guess (assuming just 4 weeks/one pen on 2.5), I used the 5th dose from my 2.5mg pen and managed to get 0.75ml, or 3.1mg out of it so used all of that and then with my 5mg pen I started it on Saturday but only did 40 clicks for 3.33mg. Basically deliberately going up more slowly...
I actually like where it's at now, I've still got an appetite/hunger and can eat a sensible sized portion but I've lost the 'food noise' and with it the cravings so had zero takeaways since I started mid-august. I even find I enjoy food so much more as I'm eating smaller amounts but of 'decent' home cooked food instead of vast quantities of greasy trash takeaways
Had some new trousers delivered today bought some 34 inch waist ones and there's just enough spare room that I've ordered the 32 just to see.
Don't think I've ever worn anything smaller than a 38 in my adult life. Still rocking a nearly 50 inch chest though so not lost too much good size.
Don't think I've ever worn anything smaller than a 38 in my adult life. Still rocking a nearly 50 inch chest though so not lost too much good size.
Glad you’re able to work through it. Sorry times are tough.
I’m loving homemade sauerkraut for this! Lactobacillus is amazing!
Had a few setbacks, since getting my good blood test back, it made my mind almost switch off from the good habits I had built when I got the pre diabetes scare.
For context. I aim to do 30m a day a session means a day I did it basically.
May: 31x 15.5h
Jun: 21x 10.5h
Aug: 17x 9.7h
Sep: 10x 5.2 (typing this as I'm doing it so aiming to push over to 6)
My eating hasn't really changed though so I'm still at what seems to be my perma 14st10.
Thing is, It gives me anxiety because I know I have to keep this up yet the anxiety doesn't work as a motivator really, but like in the past I think always no point me starting again till October so I can try and get a clean sheet. But I got on the bike today and I felt much better, because even though yes I've had a poor month. Every time I do it it's still adding to the time spent doing which is better than nothing .Yet even when I remember I always feel good after It doesn't help me get on it most the time.
I have to book another cholesterol test in Nov, if I can have a good October then hopefully it hasn't risen enough for them to tell me to take the statins again.
I am being proactive with it now. One of the reasons it puts me off is that I get a really numb bum if I go past 30m, so I'm now looking at padded cycling shorts (although the bike seems comfortable for sitting down when I stand up on it my posture feels really bad). That will give me one less excuse to go past the 30m minimum.
I cope with the boredom part fine when I take my ADHD meds, I use it to do some daily stuff on my Nintendo Switch, and if I don't get on my bike I don't do them so that can help me too.
When I don't take the meds it can be very hard to keep going, it's like you'll bring us constantly saying this is boring. I want to get off and you look at the clock thinking it's been like 10 minutes and it's been 2. Though I do find if I've actually made the effort to get into my shorts and get on the bike, I generally won't abandon a session.
I'm at an event for a week from the first and I'm already annoyed it will ruin my record because I have too much anxiety to use the hotel gym. I could go for walks I guess (Cotswolds so nice views) but because I won't be dripping with sweat I know I'll lose motivation as it won't feel like proper exercise, though it's still an entry on my app though. Maybe I just try and use the gym and see how I feel, worst case I can just go walk instead.
Sorry for the ramble, It's just quite annoying that 90% of this seems to be psychological and I have all the reasons to do it and yet it's a struggle to do so.
Edit. I also wonder, if the consistency is more important or the time spent doing. Like do I benefit more from 5x 30m sessions. Or doing an hour session *3. I'm sure like with all this stuff there's a million variables so I'm not really going to bother googling it.
@esK` it can be rough for a few weeks when you start some of those, But remember, don't lose hope just if you don't get on with one because there are quite a variety of different types, even in the same category say like SSRI.
For context. I aim to do 30m a day a session means a day I did it basically.
May: 31x 15.5h
Jun: 21x 10.5h
Aug: 17x 9.7h
Sep: 10x 5.2 (typing this as I'm doing it so aiming to push over to 6)
My eating hasn't really changed though so I'm still at what seems to be my perma 14st10.
Thing is, It gives me anxiety because I know I have to keep this up yet the anxiety doesn't work as a motivator really, but like in the past I think always no point me starting again till October so I can try and get a clean sheet. But I got on the bike today and I felt much better, because even though yes I've had a poor month. Every time I do it it's still adding to the time spent doing which is better than nothing .Yet even when I remember I always feel good after It doesn't help me get on it most the time.
I have to book another cholesterol test in Nov, if I can have a good October then hopefully it hasn't risen enough for them to tell me to take the statins again.
I am being proactive with it now. One of the reasons it puts me off is that I get a really numb bum if I go past 30m, so I'm now looking at padded cycling shorts (although the bike seems comfortable for sitting down when I stand up on it my posture feels really bad). That will give me one less excuse to go past the 30m minimum.
I cope with the boredom part fine when I take my ADHD meds, I use it to do some daily stuff on my Nintendo Switch, and if I don't get on my bike I don't do them so that can help me too.
When I don't take the meds it can be very hard to keep going, it's like you'll bring us constantly saying this is boring. I want to get off and you look at the clock thinking it's been like 10 minutes and it's been 2. Though I do find if I've actually made the effort to get into my shorts and get on the bike, I generally won't abandon a session.
I'm at an event for a week from the first and I'm already annoyed it will ruin my record because I have too much anxiety to use the hotel gym. I could go for walks I guess (Cotswolds so nice views) but because I won't be dripping with sweat I know I'll lose motivation as it won't feel like proper exercise, though it's still an entry on my app though. Maybe I just try and use the gym and see how I feel, worst case I can just go walk instead.
Sorry for the ramble, It's just quite annoying that 90% of this seems to be psychological and I have all the reasons to do it and yet it's a struggle to do so.
Edit. I also wonder, if the consistency is more important or the time spent doing. Like do I benefit more from 5x 30m sessions. Or doing an hour session *3. I'm sure like with all this stuff there's a million variables so I'm not really going to bother googling it.
@esK` it can be rough for a few weeks when you start some of those, But remember, don't lose hope just if you don't get on with one because there are quite a variety of different types, even in the same category say like SSRI.
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Now exactly 8st (112lbs/50.8kg) down as of this morning since Jan 2023. I'm away 2 nights a week for work from August to Feb as im training people and since the hotel im staying at has a gym (Which work is paying for) im spending an hour a day in the gym doing mainly cardio and a little weights to get rid of the moobs. First time ive been in a gym in 20 years and i think i've got over my gym anxiety that i had. Only way is up!
Edit: Want to add i've gained some muscle too as my nipples have reorientated as the fats lost and the muscles gained
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Now exactly 8st (112lbs/50.8kg) down as of this morning since Jan 2023. I'm away 2 nights a week for work from August to Feb as im training people and since the hotel im staying at has a gym (Which work is paying for) im spending an hour a day in the gym doing mainly cardio and a little weights to get rid of the moobs. First time ive been in a gym in 20 years and i think i've got over my gym anxiety that i had. Only way is up!
Edit: Want to add i've gained some muscle too as my nipples have reorientated as the fats lost and the muscles gained
That’s such an impressive weight loss. Well done!