Inter-lab diff for lot H-2814: 98.6% vs 99.2%. Within expected range.
#mental-health 2026-06-21
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- tallinn_taper — right so how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back 08:50
- bac_water_bill — sorry to jump in we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so 10:17
- identity_shift — you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, ill dig out the number 12:43
- identity_shift — does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief 13:08
- thirty_min_wait — motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here 13:13
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine, still working it out
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
right so how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
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youre not a fraud
that counts
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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, thats one data point
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
*Medutest not the other one
were not clinicians
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
thats grief honestly
ok so is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
update on the earlier thing feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
sorry to jump in we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
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the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
[edited]has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it, not advice obviously
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
did anyone else grieve food a bit
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unrelated but flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
while im here i came back at month 24 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
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grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life, your mileage will differ
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
same at week 5
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, ill dig out the number
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does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
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unrelated but how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
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be kind to yourself
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
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while im here 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
update from 16 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
glad youre back
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the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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sorry to jump in nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
thinking of you
that was me too
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the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
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you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were, happy to be corrected
hold on if you can
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
thank you for saying it
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it does lift
youre not alone in that
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
please talk to somebody
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