how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
#mental-health 2026-01-08
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Highlights from this day
- alt_ast_ali — quick one i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it 15:01
- early_satiety — i came back at month 22 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best… 18:09
- early_satiety — ok so did anyone else grieve food a bit 18:10
- tokyo_taper — slightly off topic but anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me 19:05
quick one i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
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how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
thats grief honestly
thank you for saying it
the quiet is strange isnt it
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
glad youre back
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
youre not alone in that
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the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
youre not a fraud
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
please talk to somebody
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were, i could be wrong
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
i came back at month 22 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
ok so did anyone else grieve food a bit
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right so is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
coming back to this has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
for the archive it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
[edited]the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
mood dipped hard around week 34, did that lift for anyone
same at week 5
slightly off topic but anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
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not the easy way
be kind to yourself
that was me too