did anyone else grieve food a bit
[edited]#mental-health 2025-09-22
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- warsaw_vial — update from 16 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it 21:45
- warsaw_vial — the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely, we shall see somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not… 21:53
- cold_pack_carla — the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight 22:15
- bac_water_bill — i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it 22:31
- step_one_sian — flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while, still working it out 23:00
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
not the easy way
update from 16 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
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i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
hold on if you can
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thinking of you
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely, we shall see
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
coming back to this im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
youre not a fraud
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
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how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
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i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
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flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while, still working it out
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comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
were not clinicians