feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel, happy to be corrected
#mental-health 2025-10-18
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Highlights from this day
- plus_sixteen — i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away 03:01
- underfill_uma — i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me 06:22
- underfill_uma — the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, ill dig out the number 08:21
- monoisotopic — the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it 08:29
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
that was me too
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
it does lift
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i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
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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
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down, thats just me
genuine question grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
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
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
Inter-lab diff for lot F-1330: 98.6% vs 96.8%. Within expected range.
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
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we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
that counts
thank you for saying it
thinking of you
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, ill dig out the number
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did anyone else grieve food a bit
im at month 23 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
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the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
[edited]were not clinicians
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
be kind to yourself
same at week 5