#mental-health 2026-02-21

the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal

while im here does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide

genuine question i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting

i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well

mood dipped hard around week 27, did that lift for anyone

thinking of you

how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely

Verification log updated: GL Biochem — evidence added, status unchanged.

im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it

im at month 12 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing

quick one my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened

same at week 5

i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it

i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number

my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing

has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number

you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story

how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back

not the easy way

ok so the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it

please talk to somebody

how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way

youre not a fraud

how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this

flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while

is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this

nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody

i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with

the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal

for the archive hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there

coming back after 22 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here

the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards

it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things, take that with a pinch of salt

for the archive i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down

update from 7 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make 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

be kind to yourself

that was me too

i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away

the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it

thats grief honestly

did anyone else grieve food a bit

sorry to jump in i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me

comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it, happy to be corrected

were not clinicians

anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me

the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight