the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
#mental-health 2025-12-16
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Highlights from this day
- shame_and_meds — i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with 21:33
- shame_and_meds — the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then… 21:34
- lipase_lore — update on the earlier thing hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there 21:51
- lipase_lore — somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i… 22:13
- slow.taper — the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment 22:28
im at month 17 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
youre not a fraud
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it, from memory
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
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nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
i came back at month 6 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
please talk to somebody
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
update on the earlier thing hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
same at week 5
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
coming back to this it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
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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hold on if you can
update from 18 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life, i have it written down somewhere
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
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