Not losing fast enough?

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Hang in there Kim1993! I know it's tough when the scale doesn't move. It doesn't always tell the whole story. Maybe take some progress pics too. Sometimes you can see changes even when the scale doesn't budge much.
 
Give your body time to adjust. PCOS can slow things down at first. Protein and managing stress made a huge difference for me, plus keeping carbs reasonable.
 
27 lbs a month at your starting weight is normal for the first 1-2 months, mostly water and glycogen. Real metric is lean muscle — need aggressive protein to keep it. After month 2-3 the loss slows to 1-2 lbs/week, that's the med working right.
 
Minimum works best until tolerance builds, then bump. Speed-titrate and you develop resistance faster which gets pricier long-term. Rapid dropping also feels amazing short-term but your skin can't keep up, worse later.
 
I check that progress graph whenever progress feels slow and I realize I'm actually moving forward day to day. The little ups and downs don't matter, I'm heading the right way.
 
Low and slow with titration driven by hunger returning rather than by a calendar is a more responsive approach than going up on schedule. 3 lbs in 2 months at the starter doses is in the lower range but 0.5mg is barely into the therapeutic window for most people. What does appetite feel like - is there any suppression at all or does it feel like nothing is happening?
 
20 lbs and a plateau at 0.5mg for T2D is where the dose conversation usually needs to happen. If the appetite is controlled but the scale has stopped moving, the deficit may need adjustment. If the appetite has also crept back, the dose is probably the lever. Which is closer to what's happening right now?
 
Typically people move from ozempic over to monjaro because it packs more punch. Would definitely bring your concerns straight back to your doctor and see what they say!
 
Barely lost anything on Ozempic if I were in your shoes, I'd give Mounjaro a shot instead.
While you're on whichever one, work on shifting your eating habits so they stick around as a routine even after you eventually come off it.
 
These medications don't shrink a person without limit. Each one comes with a real ceiling, and there's a genuine dose-response pattern behind that. Seems like you saw a strong early drop and then plateaued. Regaining on ozempic tracks with a couple things. For one, it generally underperforms mounjaro across the broader population. Tons of people do well on it, and a smaller slice actually do better on ozempic specifically, but that's the exception rather than the rule. Switching over usually means a milder response for most. Beyond that, a fresh randomized trial found that 40% of people who scaled back to 5mg mounjaro to hold steady (down from 10 or 15) regained half of what they'd shed. A big chunk of people genuinely need the full protocol that got them there just to keep it off. Scaling back the dose, or switching over to ozempic, lines up pretty naturally with regaining then.

Were it me, I'd head back to mounjaro right away.
 
Totally get where you're coming from.

My first month was a real rollercoaster with progress, and the second month showed less swing but a much slower pace overall.

Also track calories, though not every single day given life events, and it stings seeing a solid deficit produce barely any scale movement sometimes.

Also deal with a monthly cycle, which affects things like fluid retention and heightened hunger the week or two before my period, something this medication mostly helps with, though hormone shifts at certain points still push hunger up regardless.

My weekly numbers looked roughly like this:

Week one: dropped a bit over two kilos (averaged closer to just over one kilo depending how you calculate it)
Week two: barely more than half a kilo, averaging even less
Week three: didn't track daily, roughly a kilo and a half
Week four: over two kilos, averaging closer to one and a half
Week five: barely half a kilo, arguably no real change depending on averaging method
Week six: right around a kilo, averaged closer to half
Week seven: about half a kilo, averaged number similar

Now starting week eight, a few days from my next injection, current reading is looking encouraging so far.
 
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