if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
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#mental-health 2026-05-12
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Highlights from this day
- non_scale_win — did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it 22:02
- food_noise_off — i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting 22:38
- escalation_anxiety — flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while 22:40
- escalation_anxiety — did anyone else grieve food a bit 22:59
- comment_fatigue — coming back after 9 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here 23:00
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
it does lift
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not the easy way
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
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youre not a fraud
ok so i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
thinking of you
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
ok so the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
ok so is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
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hold on if you can
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
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update on the earlier thing the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
did anyone else grieve food a bit
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coming back after 9 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
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how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
update on the earlier thing nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
[edited]i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
update from 9 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
mood dipped hard around week 25, did that lift for anyone