Digest for the week of 2025-03-21 has been published.
#mental-health 2025-11-27
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Highlights from this day
- assay_low_al — somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine 20:27
- kev_measures — genuine question coming back after 11 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here 20:36
- kev_measures — the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it 21:09
- kev_measures — the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not… 22:01
- juno_joins — the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it 22:40
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened, thats one data point
i came back at month 26 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it, for what its worth
[edited]you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
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i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
be kind to yourself
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it, ask me again in a month
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
not the easy way
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
hold on if you can
mood dipped hard around week 12, did that lift for anyone
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
Digest for the week of 2025-06-05 has been published.
thinking of you
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 get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
the quiet is strange isnt it
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
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the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
genuine question coming back after 11 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
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my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
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
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
that was me too
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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hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
[edited]it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
youre not a fraud
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
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i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me, ask me again in a month
it does lift
right so somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day, thats just me
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
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