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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#mental-health 2026-04-03
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- pbs_pip — i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with 11:35
- pbs_pip — the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal 11:47
- pbs_pip — i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely… 11:49
- rezept_rolf — genuine question i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number 12:11
- pharmac_pen — we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so 13:06
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
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*Medutest not the other one
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it, take that with a pinch of salt
update on the earlier thing the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
coming back to this i came back at month 24 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
genuine question i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
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i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
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youre not a fraud
did anyone else grieve food a bit
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened
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does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
follow up i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down, we shall see