After losing 95lbs (6st 11lbs) on Mounjaro (Tirzepatide), I’ve finally reached my goal weight. But what happens when you go away on holiday, your normal eating routine disappears, and you’re trying to maintain your weight rather than lose more?
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This week, I’m back from a seven-day motorhome holiday around the UK, and it’s time to face the scales! Have I gained weight, lost weight or managed to maintain my goal weight?
You voted in my YouTube Community poll, and today I’m revealing the result!
We’re also having our usual relaxed Sunday chat, including a Mounjaro (Tirzepatide) Q&A, an update on my weight-loss maintenance journey, and this week’s pet peeve! 😂
After spending so long trying to lose weight, I’m discovering that maintenance brings a completely different set of challenges. Can you enjoy holidays, eat normally and still keep the weight off?
I’m sharing my real experiences, the good and the bad, without pretending I’ve got everything figured out.
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00:00 What’s coming up today
01:08 The holiday weight update
04:11 Q&A Giving up the medication
06:32 Q&A Proud of achievements
08:09 Q&A Weight range after goal
10:11 Q&A Moving up the doses after goal
13:52 Q&A How would you react to your partner taking the Meds
16:34 Pet peeve of the week
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☕ Morning everyone! Hope you’re enjoying today’s Coffee Morning!
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I’m just back from two weeks in japan having eaten like a horse because we were constantly walking. I gained one and a half kilos. Got back on Sunday, two days later I’m back to my original weight. I keep taking the Reta.
Hi Neil. As ever you have not confirmed your current weight! What is it?
Thanks for my Pet Peeve this week ! And thanks for announcing my surname correctly – it’s Cornish
Thanks for the answer! Yes, as someone on a stubborn 'plateau' at the moment, perhaps I need to be stricter with myself.
Your Holiday sounds dreamy & well worth a small temporary gain! NJ USA
Thanks for answering my question. I thought your answer was spot on. Glad you had a great week off. Also glad you didn’t post any videos as I’ll bet the break did you a world of good. Glad to see you back though. Have a great week 👍
I never had a goal weight I just wanted to get in to a range Now I am slightly under where I wanted to be weight wise I have set myself a range to stay in I do exercise 3 to 4 times a week I changed many of my old bad habits around food
Good morning (just checked,it 11.53 as I start to type.
Another great video, I'd like to second the comments made by one of your contributors today, about having you on here regularly and the help it gives. I'm sure there are plenty of others watching who don't comment but really appreciate your content.
You're absolutely right to not worry about the 3lb, who doesn't put on a little bit on holiday? But as you say, getting back into the routine is priority and you'll benable to manage. I do think maintenance is more difficult than any of us thought, but we'll all get through together.
Finally, I feel like a fraud and it's time to confess, for the Sunday coffee mornings, I always have a cuppa tea!!!! If I need to be removed from the group then I'll fully understand 😂😂😂
Good morning. I thought everyone put on weight on holiday – plenty of good food & drink and lazing about – but my problem in the past was to treat every day as a holiday 😎I know that you'll get back to where you want to be pretty quickly🤞 It sounds to me that my (our?) targets should have a bit of extra slack to allow for enjoying holidays with a clear conscience. I'm just over halfway though my 9 stones weight loss target so some considerable way to go yet, with 28 injections so far but I've dropped back to 2.5mg per week. I know from personal experience that 3 pounds doesn't sound much, but then another couple of pounds the following week, then not weighing for a month and by the end of another month a stone has magically appeared. The difference for me now is daily monitoring and the willpower to get back on track. I confess to being a little disappointed when I found out that Mounjaro wasn't a miracle weight-loss drug but rather an appetite suppressant making behaviour change easier. However, it certainly has worked like a miracle in the way it has enabled huge weight loss, but it's very clear to me now that it's a personal choice whether I overeat or drink too much beer and it's up to me to correct any slips. Now that winter is here and the opportunities for exercise are reduced and high calorie foods are everywhere I'm expecting a difficult few months ahead, but the key difference is that I now know that it's achievable. Keep up the good work 👍Cheers
My question for you is ‘what triggered you into action?’ Probably the most important stage of the journey!
Good morning and another enjoyable coffee morning! Some good stuff today 😀! Interesting to share the plateau challenges as I’m currently going through one, but it’s easier to be patient having already lost 2.5 stone. But really good to know it’s normal – thank you!
In regard to having someone give you a nudge at the start, I had some ‘tough love’, (well it wasn’t so much the ‘love’ bit, as it was from my ‘ex’ on behalf of our 15 year old daughter!). Last New Year’s day, after a hefty Xmas, already at my highest ever weight before (by far), my ex quietly took me aside and said I needed to do something as I really didn’t look good and reminded her of her very overweight father 😮. Five days later I took my first Mounjaro injection and never looked back. Last Friday, my ex’s new husband pointed out my weight loss, the need for new clothes to fit properly and then we all started a very positive conversation for the next hour with them wanting to know all about my journey and whether they should start! I think the point is that when we live with being very heavy, we are subconsciously unhappy, maybe be even desperate, make excuses etc, etc. But when the message comes from someone else, it hits home and in my case switched on a message in my brain for action. As I said, 5 days later I was on Mounjaro having not really thought about it before. That ‘message’ changed my life, and it was from my ‘ex’. Who would have thought? 😂😂 Happy Sunday 🙏
How do you know when to up in dose please?
I have lost 57lb in 7 and a half Months, I have just plateaued for 3 weeks, just stuck to my diet and endured it, finally lost 2 lb in the last week, your body will fight weight loss (mine does) just win through attrition and stick with it!
You're doing great. My advice ….see where you are in a years time that's the real kicker…. the weight creeps back on.. but you've got all the tools and I'm sure you'll be fine