it does lift
#mental-health 2026-03-16
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Highlights from this day
- hydrate_hana — hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took… 16:05
- hydrate_hana — i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt 16:09
- lean_mass_lex — the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it… 17:10
- dana_titrates — the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight 18:27
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
unrelated but i came back at month 25 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
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is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
same at week 5
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
[edited]the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
*that should say weekly
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