Mounjaro weight loss medication - Kylie - my weight loss journey - so far!

Hello, my name is Kylie and I am a busy Mum and night shift worker. I would like to tell you about my weight loss journey taking Mounjaro weight loss medication.

I started taking Mounjaro about 3 months ago and it has already changed my life, I have lost well over 10% of my body weight. For many years I tried every diet imaginable, juice plus, slimming world, weight watchers, low carb, no carb, calorie counting, fasting and even the Atkin's diet. When on these diets, I would notice very slow progress and it would make me feel deflated but I would persevere. 

When it came to weighing in I would lose 0.5lbs in a week. I would talk to others and hear of their huge success stories and wonder where I was going wrong. “What was wrong with me” “maybe I am just meant to be a big girl” . So I would follow the same plans as fellow dieters. Even to the point of following the same eating habits as them, recipes, times and portion sizes. They would always seem to achieve better weight loss than me. 

Dieting constantly really affected my mental health. I would notice that having one treat would automatically cancel out any weight loss achieved that week.  So… I gave up!! That was me done.

I told myself that I am who I am and I’m just going to convince myself that I am “happy”. 

I wasn’t, I was, in fact miserable. I started to become a recluse. Due to my bubbly, outgoing nature I was always the person that people wanted at events. But I just didn’t want to socialise anymore. I never wanted my picture taken and would make sure my family and friends wouldn’t add photos to any social media platform of theirs. I would even get comments “wow, you 3 are sisters, you look nothing like them”. Or comments with the nature of “bigger girls” “plus size” “big built” “big boned”. Why did I get the rubbish jeans? 

6 months ago I was sat printing off photos from my phone to create albums for my 2 children. 

Then 3 months ago I started filtering through the albums, I realised that I wasn’t really in them. What would my children think when they are older? Where was their mum? What did mum look like when we were younger? 

It was time to really change!

I made an appointment with the GP, only to find out that my BMI doesn’t warrant me getting NHS support in weight loss medication. My BMI was 39, to get weight loss medication through the NHS it must be 40+.

So…….

I took to the internet to do hard research on effective weight loss. That’s when I started seeing more and more about GLP-1 medication. 

I found Mounjaro, or did Mounjaro find me? 

Hardest decision of my life, both mentally and financially. “Best decision I ever made” 

Since taking Mounjaro, I have started to find myself again. It has been more so in the last 2 weeks where I have started seeing a change and others have been complementing me. 

“This feeling is amazing” 

I work as a senior health care assistant, nights only. I work up to 48hrs a week and would snack to keep awake during my waking shifts. I am fortunate to work for a private company who have chefs that prepare meals. So, I would tell myself - why not eat a roast at 11:30 at night? Would be rude not to, right? 

All the team would bring in snacks to keep us going whilst on shift. This is very common on night shift. I used to work at the local hospital and even on wards, staff bring in treats and meals to get through the night. When on my diets I would bring in healthy snacks but regardless, eating at these times with no sleep just aided in the poor weight loss outcome each week. 

Mounjaro as a night shift worker. 

So this is the new ME! I take very healthy snacks on shift with me such as fruit, cucumber, carrots, fat free dips. I ensure that I eat my main meal at a reasonable time at home before shift and just have healthy snacks incase I need them. Well 9/10 times I don’t even eat them anymore as the feeling or wanting or needing the snacks just isn’t there. 

I drink at least 2L of water daily, cut down on my caffeine intake and take daily electrolytes and multi vitamins.  I ensure I make protein a key factor in my meals and that I am portion controlling and consuming around 1200 calories a day. Although this is very hard as food suppression is always in full force. On certain days eating can be extremely difficult as I am post and pre night shifts. So I decided to start  to drink protein shakes to fill me up in the morning before sleeping, these give me essential proteins and calories, which is really important. I also now ensure I prepare meals fresh at home with fresh ingredients and meal prepping really does help. 

I use online videos to do at home exercise routines to help with toning, I imagine I will be someone who will have loose skin from weight loss, especially my tummy as I have had two caesarian sections. I have been exercising twice a week for 20 minute high intensity sessions. I am now planning on upping this to three times a week. 

My clothes are starting to feel looser and I am definitely a size down. I have a wedding in two weeks, I purchased a dress which is a UK size 20, I would normally buy a UK 22/24. I believe I could have ordered a size 18 in this dress. Fantastic!

“I finally feel like I’m in control” 

This is the new happier, healthier ME.

CSSA will keep you updated on Kylie's progress. What an achievement so far, well done Kylie.

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