how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
#mental-health 2026-05-27
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Highlights from this day
- thirty_min_wait — i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass 18:13
- cold_chain_cmdr — grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life 18:49
- cold_chain_cmdr — mood dipped hard around week 7, did that lift for anyone 20:38
- rowan_reads — i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away 20:55
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
Digest for the week of 2026-03-02 has been published.
thank you for saying it
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
while im here somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
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the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
unrelated but the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
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the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely, your mileage will differ
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
update from 18 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
be kind to yourself
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does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
youre not alone in that
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it, ask me again in a month
hold on if you can
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
im at month 1 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
mood dipped hard around week 7, did that lift for anyone
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if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that, someone check my working
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
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has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
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does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
[edited]i came back at month 21 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
were not clinicians
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
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it