that was me too
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#mental-health 2025-12-08
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Highlights from this day
- step_one_sian — how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way 18:59
- panel_before_after — the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment 19:38
- panel_before_after — unrelated but comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it 19:51
- identity_shift — ok so how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this 21:05
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
update on the earlier thing flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
glad youre back
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
that counts
mood dipped hard around week 11, did that lift for anyone
hold on if you can
the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
same at week 5
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
did anyone else grieve food a bit
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
sorry to jump in you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
thinking of you
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
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right so somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
unrelated but comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
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motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
youre not a fraud
were not clinicians
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
slightly off topic but is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
please talk to somebody
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
ok so how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
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im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect