it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
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#mental-health 2025-02-17
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- lean_mass_lex — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 17:29
- two_lifts_a_week — the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it 17:40
- back_from_away — slightly off topic but feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel, ask me again in a month 18:19
- bac_water_bill — i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass 18:56
- thursday_thea — 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 19:41
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
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thank you for saying it
were not clinicians
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards, from memory
that was me too
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
slightly off topic but feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel, ask me again in a month
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
not the easy way
same at week 5
thats grief honestly
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
right so does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
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update from 13 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
youre not a fraud
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
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i came back at month 1 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected, anyway
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
update on the earlier thing the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
glad youre back
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal, i could be wrong
please talk to somebody
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that, n of 1 obviously
it does lift