the quiet is strange isnt it
#mental-health 2026-01-03
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Highlights from this day
- batch_variance — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things, i could be wrong i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that… 14:30
- fake_tracking — nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody 14:46
- lipase_lore — does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide 18:58
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened, ask me again in a month
update on the earlier thing if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
ok so the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
[edited]my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things, i could be wrong
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
i came back at month 14 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
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has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
relabel_watchi came back at month 14 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
update on the earlier thing the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down, n of 1 obviously
for the archive is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
fake_trackingfor the archive is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
thank you for saying it
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ok so flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
be kind to yourself
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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, take that with a pinch of salt
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
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
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
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
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, ymmv
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it, n of 1 obviously
that counts
thats grief honestly
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
while im here you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
thinking of you
hold on if you can, we shall see
not the easy way
youre not alone in that
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
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grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
slightly off topic but did anyone else grieve food a bit
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
motivation_gonewhile im here you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as…
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight, i think