#mental-health 2025-12-06

ok so the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it

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

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

it does lift

it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things

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

im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it

the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely

Reminder set. I will post here in 4 days.

does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide

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

be kind to yourself

how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this

is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this

the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it

how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious

coming back to this somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day

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

people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that

the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal

the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment

thats grief honestly

while im here flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while, i think

my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing

i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me, for what its worth

not the easy way

that counts

while im here my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened

slightly off topic but if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that

thinking of you

the quiet is strange isnt it

New independent result logged — SGN, lot E-2205, purity 99.2% (Medutest).

grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life

i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down, ask me again in a month
i came back at month 6 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected

the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight

Recon calculator: 30mg in 2ml = 8mg/ml.

i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it

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

i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting