youre not alone in that
#mental-health 2026-03-22
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Highlights from this day
- willow_waits — the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it 18:55
- evidence_or_not — i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number, i could be wrong 18:58
- tokyo_taper — somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day 19:28
- tokyo_taper — quick one the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight 19:43
- belfast_bac — i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with 20:19
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
not the easy way
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
thinking of you
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
update from 26 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
same at week 5
[edited]quick one my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number, i could be wrong
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
youre not a fraud
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
quick one the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
glad youre back
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
*Medutest not the other one