feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
#mental-health 2025-11-10
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Highlights from this day
- cagri_curious — my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing 11:14
- coa_or_cope — i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me 12:02
- coa_or_cope — for the archive the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight 12:49
- comment_fatigue — the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards 15:02
- coa_or_cope — you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story 15:06
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
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for the archive 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
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that, not advice obviously
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
youre not a fraud
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
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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the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
ok so did anyone else grieve food a bit
for the archive the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day, for what its worth
coming back to this is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
thats grief honestly
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
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the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
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does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
*Medutest not the other one
it does lift, still working it out
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody, for what its worth
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
the quiet is strange isnt it
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
that counts
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