#mental-health 2025-06-15

ok so you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, not advice obviously

did anyone else grieve food a bit

has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went

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im at month 21 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing

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

i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away

were not clinicians

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

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

how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely

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

nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it, someone check my working

mood dipped hard around week 28, did that lift for anyone

motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here

comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it

hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there

feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel

did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it

be kind to yourself

is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this

the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
i came back at month 3 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected

somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine, anyway

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

i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with

how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way

how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back

does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief

i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it

update on the earlier thing the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment, i could be wrong

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