STARTING MY MOUNJARO JOURNEY | week 1 results, start weight, side effects & injecting my first dose

hi welcome back to my channel hope you're doing okay I don't think I've ever started a vlog off at 8:00 at night um that's just like not something that I ever do if I'm Vlogging it's usually a day in the life and I'm starting at the cocodor but I've just decided I want to document my mararo journey if you've clicked on this video then you know what it's about just a quick trigger warning this video is going to be all about weight loss I'm going to be touching on weight loss medication there'll be needles and

yeah I feel like it's one of those topics that's going to raise a lot of opinions and things like that but I just want to go on this journey see what it does for me at this moment in time I'm feeling a little bit like I'm on a hamster wheel and it's a constant cycle of 1 on 1 P off 1 p on 1 off Slimming World isn't really working for me although I'm not able to really follow it properly I'm just not sticking with it um my heart's not in Slimming World tried intermittent fasting

tried calorie counting um and kind of just not getting anywhere I have decided after a lot of research I am going to try mararo I've got four doses in here you get four weeks worth of doses in your prescription um I have gone through Med Express so I'm paying privately for my medication but I've filled in all the doc that you need to fill in I've provided ID a picture of myself and my gp's details as well whether my GP has been contacted or not I don't know but I'm not taking any medication that would

interact badly with mararo I'm just going to kind of see in real time how this works for me what the results are um how it makes me feel and just document it but yeah if it's something that you're interested in please carry on watching I I'm going to be like documenting my first week how I'm feeling on it side effects um which obviously I don't know what I'm going to experience yet but I know of some of the side effects and things through research so I'm kind of knowing what to expect which is why I

am going to take my first do at night um people say that if you are going to get side effects it's better to sort of like sleep it off rather than taking it for a thing in the morning so so my box arrived earlier today and I'd already seen an email where it said you got to keep your medication in the fridge so I shoved this in the fridge cuz I had a busy day but um you get a sharp spin which is good I was actually going to order one of these um but you

actually get one with your order from Med Express you get your four needles for your four weekly doses um and then you need to order your next prescription for your next four doses everyone starts on 2.5 milligram let's open up this package and see what's in inside and we're going to do the injection together wow all that packaging for that one pen so that's how it comes it is a pen you attach your needles on top I've watched video after video of people doing this so I'm hoping I'll be okay you can inject into the

back of your arm you can inject into your thigh or your stomach I'm choosing my stomach just because I feel like I don't want to stick anything to my leg um all the back of my arm but doing it in my stomach it's taking me back in my mind to fertility treatment before um I had my cancer treatment and it's like sending my head a bit wor of honest that's what your pen looks like when it comes I took the lid off the pen turn off the paper Tab and push the needle onto the pen

and twist until it's secure um so the needles in you need to pram your pen before each use to remove the uh from the cartridge to make sure that your pen is working properly you can do this by slowly turning the do knob until you hear two clicks so this is the do knob doesn't tell you which way to turn it though might be it that was two clips is it and the extended line is shown in the D window yeah which is like that I just turned it to clicks and it's not focusing but

there's like a longer line can you see a sh line a longer line the longer line is there the extended line then with the needle pointing upwards tap the cartridge holder gently to collect the air bubbles at the top release some medicine into the air by pushing the door snob in until it stops can I could really do without you scratching at the door right now you push up bit for 5 seconds there's literally like the tiniest little bead there if a drop doesn't appear check again if there's still no drop change the needle and

check the flow again do not use the pen if a drop of mangaro doesn't appear well there is a drop there one minute I can't concentrate cuz of the dog just double checked and I am doing it right the little bit of liquid at the top is there I'm going to inject here into my belly why am I so nervous it's just because it's the first time in it um and now it's at zero so you know it's primed properly when it's at zero apparently you can see the zero there so now I've got to

turn it so it ends up at one so and it says it should it'll feel like a lot like you're going for a [Music] while I'm not missed right we at one at one now apparently no one even feels this and then I hold it down so I've got to have the number turning towards me cuz it's got to say zero on it when all the dot is in so done do you know what I'm not hungry it's done I can put my belly away well that was scary um so you can see how much

of it gone so I know I've not injected too much and it's back at zero so that's the full first weekly do that goes back in the fridge now until this time next week when I will be on to let you know how much I've lost him off this week so let me tell you what I wear and what my height is as well I may as well be completely transparent I weigh 10 Stone 12 I know that doesn't sound like a lot um but I am only 4' 11 my healthy kind of weight is

around eight stone eight stone and a half so my aim overall is to see if I can lose about two and a half Stone on this the last time I was at Stone was at my wedding to get to that I did a lot of exercise but I was just like just um post cancer I don't feel like B pause had fully kicked in by then I am menopausal like I said I mentioned I've had cancer um and I also have lipedema and lymphadema it's worth me mentioning um those things because I've seen that people

have had um some relief of the symptoms of lipedema and lymphadema through taking mro whether that happens for me I really just don't know um but this is kind of me now I am going to take my measurements tomorrow um like I said I've wear myself I am 10 Stone 12 so let's see how much I lose in my first week I don't think it's going to be Lords right because I have been trying to lose weight for like 2 years and like I said it's always on off on off if I lose 2 pound

a week now consistently and it's not up and down and up and down that's the aim really if it's a bit more than that then great if it's not then like it's fine um I still think it's worth it because at least I'll be getting somewhere even though it will be a slower PA there other people that are taking this weight loss medication I'm literally doing this for me for my long-term health and I'm kind of just seeing how it goes I can hear the baby is awake so I am going to go now I

will check in soon so it is day seven and I we in this morning after doing my first full week on mjro I mentioned that I've ordered my first prescription of mjro from Med Express and if you do order your prescription through Med Express you'll get your own referral card I just found that with using someone's code it took my prescription cost down um quite a lot so you save like £40 yeah I'll pop that on screen and also I link to Med Express down below if you're thinking of using them so let's get on

to weight loss I have lost5 in my first week so I've gone from 10 on 12 down to 10 7 in one week um I am flabbergasted by that in all honest it I am not one of these people that when I've been to the weight loss groups and things like that that have lost a lot of weight in my first week um you know you see people at swimming wheel they'll drop half a stone in the first week and I know it's like mostly like water and stuff like that but I have never been

one of those people I've always been like a two pound loss in my first week kind of person to maybe three never ever five um it's literally just crazy to me that I've lost 5 pounds at on Slimming World would have taken me five six weeks to do extremely happy with that more than I expected way over my expectations and goals to be honest I am aiming for one to 2 p a week weight loss if I get one to2 pound on average a week um and I'm seeing consistently that the numbers on the scales

going down I am happy like just slow and steady is fine for me side effects so um let me go on my notes because I've been keeping like a bit of a daily log so I injected on that Wednesday night it's now the f Wednesday morning and I've we this morning so I'm due to do my second injection tonight and what I will say is when I woke up the morning after injecting I felt really really thirsty but not for my morning coffee I didn't want my morning coffee the only time I've ever felt like

I don't want coffee is when I was on chemotherapy 7 eight years ago that is the only time I've ever felt that like nauseous feeling when I wake up and I don't want my morning coffee so that yeah that's just one thing to knowe and one thing that made me go all that strange but I did feel like I needed to drink about a gallon of water when I woke up the morning after injecting and I've felt like that pretty much every day since um waking up Thursday and having to take a drink up to

bed with me at night not ideal for somebody that has bladder issues um because ever since going into menopause and having um radial therapy to my pelvic area or like around my cervix my blood got scarred and it means that my bladder gets irritated really quickly and I have to wake up frequently during the night anyway to empty my bladder um so I've found that this week that's been heightened obviously I'm drinking way more um due to The Thirst but also I was mindful of the fact that I want to be making sure I'm drinking

water um whilst on manaro cuz I know that you definitely should do that so yeah a bit of nausey and I didn't feel like my morning coffee the day after injecting extreme thirst I would say pretty much every day since taking it but nothing that bad just always got to have my water flask on me a little bit headachy here and there one of the things I saw is that people can feel a little bit fatigued it's been the opposite for me I felt like I've had more energy um and I've had a little bit

of a mood boost as well yeah I don't know I feel like my mood has improved if anything let's get on to lip adeema and this will not be something that everybody's interested in but lip Adema is quite a common condition in women so so where I suffer with lip Adema mainly is in like sort of around my knee area but mostly around my ankles and the bottom of my calves they are where I feel the most swelling from lymphedema but also heaviness from the lip edema um and pain so basically if somebody touches my

leg like that it hurts so if I'm pring myself that that's hurting me to do that and almost feels like I'm prodding at a bruise even though there's no bruise there um and that's just that's just the diseased fat that's there um but I have noticed a significant difference in the way that my legs feel at the end of this first week I feel like my legs don't feel as heavy or as painful when I wake up in the morning they don't look as swollen as they did before I started taking my gyro now the

difference is minimal to be honest it's nothing like groundbreaking but if I continue on Manjaro and with the weight loss and you know by up in my dose when I need to um I'm feeling benefits where lepida is concerned I am going to be so happy because there is no cure for lip Adema The only thing that you can do to help relieve lip Adema is get lipo suction it is quite a debilitating Condition it's manageable but some days it's really really hard living with lipedema and if you know what it's like then you'll understand

where I'm coming from with that but yeah as long as I'm losing weight slowly and consistently on this medication and I still feel good and it's helping with my lipidemia symptoms I am going to be absolutely over the moon and I'm 100% going to be continuing with it the biggest thing I've noticed about taking this medication is the appetite suppression and the complete eradication of food noise out of my life like to me it feels like this must be what a person who doesn't see food as a crutch must feel like day to day this

week I've been fueling my body I've not been excited by food I've not been comforted by food I've not craved anything but I have still been putting really healthy good nutritious food F into my body and um just focusing more on what my calories entail um rather than just eating everything inside which to be honest is something that I have always really struggled with um I've always been an emotional eater like I keep going back to the cancer stuff but for me when I had cancer you would have thought that I would have had no

appetite like I would have been too anxious to eat I am not somebody that doesn't eat when I get worried I am somebody who eats no matter what I'm feeling I could be happy sad grieving scarred whatever and I will have an appetite and a big appetite as well yeah just that feeling is just something that is completely new to me having no food noise um nothing in my head that is telling me what do you fancy what can you eat next kind of thing so yeah I've decided to do calorie counting um on my

fitness pal I'm used to using my fitness pal anyway but it's just a really easy tool to make sure that you are having enough calories if anything I am not somebody that's ever really taken notice of macros but because I know I need to prioritize protein and fiber whilst I'm on gyro that is what I've been doing I've been taking more notice of what my food contains um how many grams of protein am I getting in in a in a day last thing I want to be doing is losing muscle losing hair and all that

sort of stuff last thing I want to mention is like vitamins and supplements if you are doing research into manaro you'll be seeing people talking about the things that you need to take as extra because you might not be getting everything from your food because you're not eating as much um I'm somebody that eats generally quite a balanc diet anyway um I love fish I love chicken so protein wise I'm not too worried about um I'm not adding any extra protein into my diet I'm seeing loads of people using like protein powders and stuff I've

not done anything like that what I am taking is um calcium and vitamin D but I take that anyway that gets prescribed from my doctor because I'm high risk of developing osteoporosis in early life because I'm in menopause um and my bones aren't protected so I need that extra calcium and vitamin D in my diet everyone should be taking vitamin D anyway because because if you're from the UK we don't get enough sunlight anywhere um but I do need to start taking a multivitamin and as of today I have started taking fiber these they are

the wellard vegan High Fiber Gummies you get 90 um and it says high fiber goodness with vitamin B6 vitamin B12 Biotin and folic acid so I ordered these from Tik Tock shop it cost me about £18 with delivery so not cheap and I am a bit of a cynic when it comes to Tik toac shop are people saying these are amazing because they're amazing or are people saying these are amazing because they'll get money if they sell um didn't stop me buying them though um because I really don't want um like problems with my digestion

so I just thought adding some extra fiber and the fact that they contain biotin as well is good whether you need these particular ones or not I don't know I'll let you know how I get on with them um but if you just go on to Tik Tok and type in mangaro you'll see other people's mjo Journeys you'll probably see quite a few people linking these if you want to buy them so it says here recommended daily intake is three gummies daily but most people I think are only taking one to two a day I'm

going to take one a day cuz they're not cheap and like I said I'll let you know how I get on with these so yeah other than calcium vitamin D and these which contain biotin Vitamin B and fiber I'm not taking anything else but I am going to buy some multivitamins I'll probably just pick them up from home bargain or whatever next time I'm in a lot of people are taking magnesium as well I've seen hope you've enjoyed s of seeing how I've got on with my first week on Manjaro just a bit of a

side not I am in no way promoting people starting manaro and I am mindful of that when I am talking about this I don't want to come across like I'm saying everyone needs to start monjaro it's expensive it's you know something that I didn't really want to have to to to um but also it's my personal decision and it's something that I want to do for myself and I thought for anybody that wants to see it I'll document it if you are not interested in this type of stuff like I said you don't need to

watch it I've got loads of loads of other Vlogs um but for those who want to know about it I'm here to document it and just be honest and open cuz I am just an open book and and I share what I do as I do it and I'm quite comfortable with my own decisions so so if I do get any stick I actually don't mind um it is what it is I'm taking M because I want to people don't have to if they don't want to so yeah I hope you enjoyed this video Hit

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