feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel, n of 1 obviously
#mental-health 2026-03-01
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Highlights from this day
- identity_shift — the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both… 06:57
- no_appetite_nia — we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so 11:21
- no_appetite_nia — the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight 13:06
follow up update from 14 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
i came back at month 18 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected, your mileage will differ
follow up mood dipped hard around week 31, did that lift for anyone
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
same at week 5
please talk to somebody
were not clinicians
genuine question how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
that was me too
*that should say weekly
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
the quiet is strange isnt it
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
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
for the archive does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
it does lift
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
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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, happy to be corrected
identity_shiftsomebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the…
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
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thinking of you