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#mental-health 2026-03-18
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Highlights from this day
- motivation_gone — the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal 22:21
- tb500_tobias — my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing 23:45
- tb500_tobias — i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it, i could be wrong 23:49
- tb500_tobias — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 23:58
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
update from 21 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
the quiet is strange isnt it
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
slightly off topic but does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
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i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
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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that was me too
coming back after 14 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
did anyone else grieve food a bit
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
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comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
i came back at month 13 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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glad youre back
be kind to yourself
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
im at month 25 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
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how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
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not the easy way
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i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
youre not alone in that
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
slightly off topic but i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
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i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
mood dipped hard around week 15, did that lift for anyone
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
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Reminder for tb500_tobias: dose day is today. Set 9 days ago.
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it, i could be wrong
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it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
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