im at month 22 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
#mental-health 2025-09-16
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- meal_prep_mick — anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me 19:22
- surpass_two — grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly… 19:24
- surpass_two — the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving… 19:57
- non_scale_win — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 20:22
thats grief honestly
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
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the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
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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hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
were not clinicians
not the easy way
[edited]i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
ok so im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
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does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
same at week 5
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
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please talk to somebody
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
youre not alone in that
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number, i have it written down somewhere
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened
that was me too
youre not a fraud
the quiet is strange isnt it
mood dipped hard around week 26, did that lift for anyone
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
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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
update on the earlier thing has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
glad youre back
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
[edited]feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel