unrelated but i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
#mental-health 2025-05-10
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Highlights from this day
- back_from_away — for the archive the food noise going quiet is the thing people are least prepared for. i sat in the kitchen at 8pm not knowing what i was for 19:58
- identity_shift — anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me 21:13
- tail_factor — i came back at month 21 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us… 21:27
- a1c_lag — i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting 21:31
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it, i have it written down somewhere
update from 15 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
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flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
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the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
be kind to yourself
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
slightly off topic but somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
if you are struggling in a way this channel cannot hold, please talk to a professional. we are not a crisis service and we know it
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comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
for the archive the food noise going quiet is the thing people are least prepared for. i sat in the kitchen at 8pm not knowing what i was for
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did anyone else grieve food a bit
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
youre not a fraud
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
that counts
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
thats grief honestly
sorry to jump in the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely, i could be wrong
youre not alone in that
im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
were not clinicians
right so hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there, anyway
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
thank you for saying it
i came back at month 21 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
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the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
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it does lift
same at week 5
please talk to somebody
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
im at month 7 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide