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28f, 165cm - It has been a journey! I started in August 2025 at 109.1kg. I actually hit my initial goal of 70kg exactly a year to the day I took my first dose (August 2026). When I did, I decided to go a bit further to give me a buffer room and while my loss since August has been slow (-3.3kg), it is still happening. Starting next week, I will be titrating down to 2.5mg, my ultimate goal is wean off. Even if it takes some months of figuring out my maintenance calories. I think I have decided that I am happy for my weight to go down to 62kg in the process, but nothing lower than that.

This has changed my life. I have completely overhauled my life, eat a nutrient dense, vegetarian diet, have become super active and an actual gym person...who runs. Just things that were absolutely unfathomable at nearly 110kg. I can hike for hours without getting out of breath, I have much less pain. I look good in clothes and can wear anything I want basically. Shopping has become so exciting instead of this nerve wracking thing. It has been a year of hard work, but for the first time in my life, I feel like i have established habits that I can and want to continue with!

Anyways, wish me luck!

Today is exactly one year since I took my first Mounjaro shot on 12 August 2025. I'll be taking my 53rd shot tonight and, somehow, this morning of all mornings, the scale read 69.85 kg, meaning I've reached the goal I set at the very beginning of this journey.

It feels very surreal, so I thought I'd share a bit about my experience and what I've learned over the past year. Hopefully it might be useful or encouraging to someone who is earlier in their journey or currently feeling like things aren't moving the way they want them to.

For context, I'm 28F and 165 cm. I started Mounjaro at 109.1 kg, although my highest weight was around 114 kg. Today I'm 69.85 kg.

When I started, I was experiencing intense, chronic back pain almost every night. I remember thinking that I was far too young to already feel so physically limited and that something really needed to change. I wanted to be healthy and active. I wanted to be able to do the things I saw other people around me doing, and I thought a lot about my future and wanting to be able to run around with my future kids one day.

It definitely wasn't my first attempt at losing weight. I'd lost weight before, but I had a terrible all-or-nothing mentality. I'd restrict, inevitably have a "bad" meal or day, decide I'd ruined everythin, and sometimes undo months of progress. I was always chasing fast results and arbitrary deadlines...e.g., I need to be X kg by X date. Looking back, there was nothing particularly sustainable about the way I approached it.

So when I started Mounjaro, I decided that if I was going to do this again, I needed to do it differently. I started tracking my calories from day one and have continued to do so most days, but I made myself some rules (which was basically that there are no real rules): no food is forbidden, carbs are not the enemy, protein is a priority, and my food has to actually taste good. I love food. I don't want a life where I can't eat my favourite things, go to restaurants or enjoy something simply because it's calorie dense.

Mounjaro gave me the space to actually learn how to do that. Instead of constantly fighting hunger and food noise, I could start figuring out: How do I make meals I genuinely love, eat enough to feel satisfied, and still maintain a reasonable deficit? And over time, that became much more natural.

Dose-wise, I did four weeks at 2.5 mg and then moved to 5 mg, as recommended by my provider. After four weeks on 5 mg, I realised I was still doing really well and didn't see a reason to increase further. I've stayed on 5 mg ever since. Does 5 mg feel the same now as it did at the beginning? Absolutely not. I can finish meals now. I get properly hungry. Some days it feels like the appetite suppression is barely there. But honestly, at this stage I'm okay with that. I'm much more active now and my body needs more fuel. I've actually enjoyed eating a little more while still losing, and I'm starting to learn what normal hunger feels like again.

Exercise has probably been the other biggest change.

About two months into losing weight, once I'd lost some of the initial weight, I decided it was time to start moving more. I specifically looked for a gym that felt approachable to me, somewhere women-friendly, class-based & full of people of different ages, sizes and fitness levels. I found exactly that.

I started very gently with yoga/Pilates and Zumba. Once my fitness improved, I eventually worked up the courage to try a strength class. Now I usually train around five times a week, with a mixture of strength and HIIT-based classes, plus yoga/Pilates. At some point, exercise stopped being about burning calories, which is probably one of my favourite changes from this entire year.

I love feeling strong. I love discovering what my body can do now. I love being able to move without feeling restricted by my body. Exercise makes me feel good mentally, and I've reached the point where I genuinely miss it when I can't go.

When I got below 80 kg, I bought myself an Apple Watch as a reward. After that I started adding a few morning walks after the gym each week. Now they're one of my favourite parts of my routine. I grab a coffee, put on a podcast and walk for 30-40 minutes. It's as much for my brain as it is for my body.

And that probably sums up one of the biggest things I've learned from this year: the habits that lasted were the ones that made my life better, not the ones that punished me for being overweight...which honestly is such a revelation.

Obviously, it also hasn't been a perfectly linear 39 kg decline, even if my graph makes it look that way (for context, it was my personal prefarence to only log my newest lowest weight and ignore fluctuations...this really helped my mind).

I've had weeks where I lost more than 1 kg and weeks where I lost virtually nothing. I've watched the scale suddenly jump 1-2 kg despite knowing I hadn't eaten enough to gain that amount of fat. I've travelled through Europe for weeks without tracking, had weekends away, eaten restaurant meals, drunk alcohol, been sick, missed the gym, had hormonal fluctuations and constipation, and had plenty of moments where I convinced myself I'd finally hit the plateau that would last forever. And then, eventually, the scale would move again. Learning not to turn one high weigh-in, one big meal or one imperfect week into a reason to abandon everything has probably been just as important as the medication itself.

I still have things I'm figuring out. I'm currently interested in shifting more of my training toward building muscle rather than doing so much strength with HIIT. I'm also starting to think much more about maintenance than weight loss. I may lose another 2-3 kg before intentionally maintaining, partly because I'd like some room for my normal weight fluctuations rather than treating 70.0 kg as a hard ceiling. But I'm not in the rush I once would have been. I feel really good in my body now, and that's something I don't take for granted.

My current plan is to eventually reduce from 5 mg to 2.5 mg and spend some time there while I learn what my maintenance calories and appetite look like. Depending on how that goes, I may eventually decide to trial coming off Mounjaro altogether. I'm not putting a deadline on that either.

If you're currently in one of those weeks where the scale isn't moving, you're questioning whether the medication is still working, or you're looking at somebody else's progress and wondering why yours doesn't look the same, keep looking at the bigger picture. There were so many points during this year where I thought I "should" have been further along than I was.

I'm incredibly grateful for what this medication has given me, but I'm equally grateful for everything I've been able to learn while taking it....and honestly...I am really proud! I know not everyones experience is the same, but if you do have any questions, I am more than happy to share.

Now I'm excited to find out what the next year looks like when the goal isn't really about getting smaller anymore, it's about getting stronger, eating well, maintaining what I've built, and enjoying living in this body. Cheers :)

I have edited this post as someone mentioned it appears to be AI.

I just wanted to share this for anyone who has a significant amount of weight to lose and feels like they'll never get there.

I (28F, 165 cm) was 109 kg in August 2025 when I started Mounjaro, and this morning I weighed 74.5 kg. I'm now officially less than 5 kg away from my goal. Once I get there, I may decide to lose another 2-3 kg, but I'll see how I feel.

My life is so different now. I move freely, going to the gym and being active have become a huge part of my life, and Mounjaro has given me the opportunity to learn how to eat the foods I love in a way that feels sustainable for the rest of my life (I do track my calories every day).

Yes, I had to put in a lot of work by changing my lifestyle completely. After about 10 years of obesity and 100s of attempts to loose weight, this medication has finally given me the capacity to successfully change my habits. From being completely inactive and sedentary I now exercise (Hyrox based workouts, strength training and yoga) about 5-6 times a week and focus on walking a lot. I have been in a calorie deficit most of this time and was logging everything on yazio. But something that was important to me was too not restrict or cut out food groups as in the past this usually led to binge and restricition cycles. Instead within my calorie deficit I focused on having tasty, filling and protein led meals. I know I need to enjoy the food I eat, otherwise this is not sustainable.

I think something that has helped me mentally on this journey is to not only have the end goal in mind. But I set myself milestones along the way at the very start of my journey. So instead of working towards getting to 70kg, I was usually focusing on getting to that next milestone (i.e., get below 100kg, 90kg, reach an overweight BMI etc).

And no, it was not always easy. There were weeks where I lost 0kg and weeks where I felt like the effect of the medication had completely worn off. But I always went back to the basics, making sure I was drinking enough water, moving my body and counting my calories. Each time that helped me get over a hump.

I remember that at the beginning, the idea of getting anywhere near 70 kg felt completely unrealistic. I genuinely didn't believe it would happen. But with patience and consistency, 10 months later, I'm almost there.

Yes, I still have 5 kg to go, but now I know I'll get there.

If you're at the start of your journey and the number you need to lose feels overwhelming or impossible, I promise it's not. You absolutely can do it. Focus on the next milestone rather than the final number, celebrate every victory along the way, and be proud of how far you've come. Before you know it, you'll look back and realise you've achieved something that once felt impossible.