*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

Back down to what I was 2 weeks ago on the 6th. (Apple Health app says 74.07kg)

Sooooo close! I guess I would break 73kg had i taken off my underwear and glasses lol

The trend is slowing down, I am still doing the same daily 1hr treadmill cardio routine, I did step up the angle last night to 13.5 degrees from 12.5 last night but I have also doing a little more resistance training. I used to do perhaps 20-30mins on when i started but now I do about an hour.



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Bit of an update from me. I started taking MJ in May 2025, weighing 270.2lb (6'2), and last year, I shared an opinion that didn’t land particularly well, I said that congratulating someone for weight loss while on MJ/Wegovy/Ozempic didn’t feel right to me, as I believed the medication was dictating life choices, and that there was very little the consumer could be accountable for. I know that upset a few people, including someone who was really proud of their wife’s progress after losing weight on MJ.

At the time, I’d lost a significant amount of weight using MJ myself, but I didn’t feel comfortable taking credit for it. I did say, that it’s worth celebrating people who come off the medication and are able to maintain, or even continue to lose weight whilst in sole control of their choices.

I can say I’ve reached that point. I stopped injecting 15mg MJ January. I had a two-week break while I was in NYC and, understandably, gained a few pounds back. After the trip, I did two more weeks of MJ (15mg), then switched to Wegovy (2.5mg) for four weeks until the end of February.

Since early March, I haven't been on the drug and focused on making better choices, I'm way fitter than I have ever been, exercise is a lot easier being lighter! and I’ve actually continued to lose weight. I'm now 205lb. My goal is still to lose a few pounds, my wife doesn't want me to lose anymore but 196lb (14 stone) feels right to me.

I'm not looking for congrats/well done, its just you don't hear many stories off people coming off the drug, and this always worried me, so for anyone worried about coming off it, just know it can be done.
 
My issue isn't the drug, my issue with the drug is what happens when you come off of it.

(There is also the issue of knowing a little bit of nutrition so you get enough of nutrients while on it so you are not malnourished. You can lose weight without your teeth and fingernails falling off.)

I think because these drugs can be bought without a prescription, a lot of people look at it as a miracle shortcut and thinking about the part after. You can lose the weight in 6 months and then what? It's the long term that matters more, the batter is losing it, the war is keeping it off.

I have spent the past 6 months slowly learning about nutrition, exercise, human biology, insulin and cortisol releases etc. All that information too a while to get through my head even though i"ve techncially read it/watched it. But ti implement it took a while. It's hard to make a "switch" in my head for everything all at once. I imagine it is the same with the drug. So what I said a few weeks ago about one should start putting up guardrails while on the drug in order to stay on track when you come off of it still holds.

I do the same but my drug is the exercise part, in a way I am putting up the guardrails, much tighter ones, as I need to lose weight as well as staying on it after. (I can loosen it a little later, like dropping to 3 days a week instead of 7 days at the gym)

I know someone irl is on the drug, started like a month or so ago, I am scared how she is getting on, I hope she had read all the literature and eat well, even though she is eating less. She is already a picky eater anyway so eating less of junk isn't really that healthy over eating lots of junk.
 
Andybtsn said:
I know that upset a few people, including someone who was really proud of their wife’s progress after losing weight on MJ.
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I'd be interested to know what specifically they were proud of. (Was it someone on this forum?) That's a genuine question, as I've not used it, I don't know if it has its own difficulties and challenges, etc.

(I mean, I could have a leg amputated and lose maybe 15kg... but why would I then be proud of that? :cry: Surely it's not the losing weight you're proud of, it's how you did it? Or is that just how I think because of how I did it?)

I'm not judging anyone who uses the drugs, it's still better than not losing weight, obviously. Genuinely interested to hear people's thoughts.
 
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At the time, I’d lost a significant amount of weight using MJ myself, but I didn’t feel comfortable taking credit for it.
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I suppose it depends how you look at it.

My view is - the board is being tilted away from people unfairly due to how hyper-palatable, poisonous and unhealthy food has become, so staying a healthy weight is becoming increasingly difficult. I see these drugs as levelling the playing field a little, in a food environment that's become totally obscene and ridiculous.

So in my view, it's less about taking credit - and just doing what you can to stay healthy when the game is heavily rigged (petrol stations and pharmacies now fast-food joints in disguise).

I lost 30KG on MJ - I don't really think about whether I took credit or not, I look at the fact I'm now an 'S' T-shirt size and 32" waist - as that's what matters to me.
 
I think a lot of it is down to poor food education. There are people who have no idea where a chicken nugget is made. I remember the first week at uni and I was eating a chicken leg using a knife and fork in the kitchen in halls, a roommate was also there watching me eat and he said “you know your chicken”. I was only going at the joint to split it in two…he was impressed by that.

I know plenty of people who have no idea how to eat a sweet potato.

Also, the snacks in the west are all junk. The good snacks are expensive as frack. I want dried squid, I want dried seafood, these are widely accessible and also reasonably priced in Asia. It’s basically protein snack. High in salt of course as that’s the main preservative but it also means you don’t eat a ton of it. It’s chewy so it takes time to eat and slows you down vs a bag of haribo.
 
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Personally, if we were to list all the reasons why a large proportion of the nation is overweight, I would have this quite far down the list.
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The point is lack of food education, and sweet potato is just one that came into my head. The other aspect that tied to it is cooking skills. When you can't cook then it is super easy to fall into the trap of getting premade stuff and then you run the gauntlet of processed food or expensive food, or both combined. I know a lot of other factors come into it, like I got obesed because I just didn't care and ate too much crap too often and didn't exercise. No portion control and just loved eating without consideration for any of it.

Anyway...new low today! It finally starts with 73 !

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Raymond Lin said:
The point is lack of food education, and sweet potato is just one that came into my head. The other aspect that tied to it is cooking skills. When you can't cook then it is super easy to fall into the trap of getting premade stuff and then you run the gauntlet of processed food or expensive food, or both combined.
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To me it seems a little obscene that you need to be 'educated' to eat healthily, to prevent obesity - obscene in that this is the state of the food environment we're now in - that it requires education to successfully perform one of nature's basic tasks for living.

I stopped by the petrol station in Dartford last night and I couldn't see out of the window to see my pump number, because the glass was 'bricked up' 6ft high with chocolate and crisps - and we're blaming education? :D

When you can't see out of the window of the damn shop, because they've filled it in with chocolate - it feels like an environmental problem to me.
 
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Felon said:
To me it seems a little obscene that you need to be 'educated' to eat healthily, to prevent obesity - obscene in that this is the state of the food environment we're now in.

I stopped by the petrol station in Dartford last night and I couldn't see out of the window to see my pump number, because the glass was 'bricked up' 6ft high with chocolate and crisps - and we're blaming education? :D

When you can't see out of the window of the damn shop, because they've filled it in with chocolate - it feels like an environmental problem to me.
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Of course cooporate greed and food industry has a hand in it. When the low-fat trend swept in a couple of decades ago, in order to fill the void of the fat (where the flavour is), they replaced it with sugar basically. Everything can be "low fat" but is full of sugar, which is just as bad, if not worse.

The fact that eating "whole food" is a thing is weird, it should just be food, as in normal food and then junk food.

p.s. I got really good at just blanking out all that stuff at the petrol station these days. I don't even look at them.
 
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Andybtsn said:
Bit of an update from me. I started taking MJ in May 2025, weighing 270.2lb (6'2), and last year, I shared an opinion that didn’t land particularly well, I said that congratulating someone for weight loss while on MJ/Wegovy/Ozempic didn’t feel right to me, as I believed the medication was dictating life choices, and that there was very little the consumer could be accountable for. I know that upset a few people, including someone who was really proud of their wife’s progress after losing weight on MJ.

At the time, I’d lost a significant amount of weight using MJ myself, but I didn’t feel comfortable taking credit for it. I did say, that it’s worth celebrating people who come off the medication and are able to maintain, or even continue to lose weight whilst in sole control of their choices.

I can say I’ve reached that point. I stopped injecting 15mg MJ January. I had a two-week break while I was in NYC and, understandably, gained a few pounds back. After the trip, I did two more weeks of MJ (15mg), then switched to Wegovy (2.5mg) for four weeks until the end of February.

Since early March, I haven't been on the drug and focused on making better choices, I'm way fitter than I have ever been, exercise is a lot easier being lighter! and I’ve actually continued to lose weight. I'm now 205lb. My goal is still to lose a few pounds, my wife doesn't want me to lose anymore but 196lb (14 stone) feels right to me.

I'm not looking for congrats/well done, its just you don't hear many stories off people coming off the drug, and this always worried me, so for anyone worried about coming off it, just know it can be done.
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I'm 6ft 2" too. Down to 14st 1 as well and my Mrs isn't happy. She loved me being 14 and a half to 15 stone, but is saying 14.1 is too skinny and I look ill!

I was aiming for 14 bang on, but not too sure now :(
 
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ivrytwr3 said:
I'm 6ft 2" too. Down to 14st 1 as well and my Mrs isn't happy. And loved me being 14 and a half to 15 stone, but is saying 14 1 is too skinny and I look ill.

I was aiming for 14 bang on, but not too sure how.
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It's funny how the same weight can hang on people isn't it. I'm 5'11", am now about 13st 7lbs, and I know that if I get down to 13, I'd look 'ill'. It still wouldn't get anywhere near my 'ideal' BMI though...
 
Felon said:
obscene in that this is the state of the food environment we're now in - that it requires education to successfully perform one of nature's basic tasks for living.
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Tbf, I don't think we are saying that. It might be a possible factor. There are many different routes to take. Whilst I listened to a few podcasts to pick up a few basic tips, I wouldn't say I educated myself much about food. I don't cook, I buy ready meals or drink meal replacements and it worked/works just fine for me.
 
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