i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
#mental-health 2026-06-27
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Highlights from this day
- retention_time — grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody 09:44
- rotterdam_recon — i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about… 13:06
- retention_time — mood dipped hard around week 20, did that lift for anyone 14:19
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
thinking of you
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
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did anyone else grieve food a bit
im at month 16 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
vat_on_importi see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i…
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
it does lift
not the easy way
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the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
hold on if you can
thats grief honestly
that was me too
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
follow up feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
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i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
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follow up does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
glad youre back
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
right so how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
mood dipped hard around week 20, did that lift for anyone
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im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it