Week 71 update

Today I weigh 9 stone 1 3/4 lb, which is a weekly loss of 3/4 lb. This takes me to a total loss of 74 1/4 lb.

Not sure when it will actually feel real, I see the numbers on the scales, I post them here each week, but when undressed I don’t look or feel how I thought I would at this weight. Maybe it’s because of my age, the last time I weighed this weight would have been circa 30 years ago. I’m now starting to doubt whether reaching my initial target of BMI 22.5 is enough or not. I look at myself and it feels like I have a lot more than 11 3/4 lb left to lose. But having said that, I am now in my 17th month on MJ and I’m so ready for the weight loss stage to be over with. It’s not been easy, my losses have been slow since month 7, my calorie allowance is low and it would be so nice to reach maintenance and be able to eat more and I would like to try eating intuitively in maintenance, rather than weighing everything. But I also have this niggle swirling round in my head that if I eat 500 calories a day more than I do now, I will put on weight, because it’s not like the weight is falling off me. Happy Scale tells me I have only lost 8 lb over the last 90 days and that’s on 12.5. My plans for maintenance are based on the pens I have got/tight finances and so once I reach goal I intend to use 1 pen for 10mg for 5 weeks, then another pen for 7.5mg for 7 weeks, and then I will drop to 5mg where I will have to stay, as anything higher just won’t be viable. I will then have to review things when I run out of pens, maybe by then there will be a more viable alternative for maintenance.

So to anyone who understands this all more than I do, given I have PCOS and given my slow pace of loss on 12.5, and my need to reduce to 5 for maintenance, do I stand any chance of eating my maintenance TDEE and not putting on weight? How accurate are the TDEE calculators??

In other news, I’m now the proud owner of a 15mg dated April 2027. I’d really like a June or July 2027 one whilst there are still pens out there with 5th doses, hopefully it won’t be too long until the dates move forward. If anyone happens to get one, please let me know 🙏