#mental-health 2026-03-07

same at week 5

youre not alone in that

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

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

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

ok so update from 9 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it

sorry to jump in somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day

the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely, happy to be corrected

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

i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it

the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment

did anyone else grieve food a bit

not the easy way

if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that

hold on if you can

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

the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them

it does lift

is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect

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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

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

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

that was me too

i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt

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

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

i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me

i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first

does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide

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

were not clinicians

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how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious

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

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

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

that counts

it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things, we shall see
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel