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the quiet is strange isnt it
#mental-health 2025-08-10
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- tokyo_taper — my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing 04:17
- apob_over_ldl — update from 25 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it 05:32
- stack_sceptic — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 08:05
- chain_of_custody — the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards 08:57
- amsterdam_aliquot — 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, ymmv 09:35
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
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we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
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i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
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update from 25 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
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were not clinicians
not the easy way
slightly off topic but you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, not advice obviously
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
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06:48chlorhex pinned a message to this channel
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
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im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
youre not alone in that
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
sharps_bin_sidi told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go…
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
im at month 20 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
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
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the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
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comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
i came back at month 22 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
while im here i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me, anyway
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
thats grief honestly
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, ymmv
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how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
thinking of you
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the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
ok so i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
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mood dipped hard around week 10, did that lift for anyone