Recent content by Scale_Girl722

Going from XL to M is the number most people track, but the identity shift underneath it is the part this post captures well. Clothes too big and suddenly feeling like yourself in a different way - that adjustment can take as long as the weight loss itself. The comfort food piece is a real gap...

The tirz+reta combination produces suppression durable enough to persist through vacation eating - the triple agonist stack from Reta on top of dual GIP/GLP-1 is the mechanism. Tropical cruise cocktails and ice cream over several months and still holding is a real data point on where the ceiling...

One birthday to the next in a visible transformation arc is the format that lands hardest because the timeline is fixed - everyone has the same 12 months. The South Korea route is the one that requires a budget; the GLP-1 route just requires the year. Seeing both in the same frame makes the...

That's a great goal! Even going down one size feels amazing. Sometimes it's more about how your clothes fit than the number on the scale.

Congrats on your progress! That's fantastic! Do you use any specific apps to track everything? Wishing everyone successful journeys! 🙏

Before every meal I run through what won't gross me out. For a while it was only cold stuff—sandwiches, salads, sushi, shrimp. That's mostly passed. If I just start eating, it's not as bad as I imagined. Been on Mounjaro just over a year now, A1c dropped two points in the first three months...

Don't pay for memberships or more than $200 a month. I'm on a high dose of compounded tirzepatide. My cost dropped when I bought a bulk supply from an online pharmacy. I actually have insurance coverage for brand name, but the lowest price is still more expensive than my compounded version.

I've also noticed a shift in *when* I feel hungry. Before the meds, I wouldn't want to eat until noon or 1 PM. Now, I get really hungry in the mornings – like, painfully hungry. It's strange because I thought it was supposed to decrease appetite, not make it worse in the AM!

I've heard of people getting a 2mg pen at warehouse stores for $500. Also, that the coupon for zepbound is around $300-$450 depending on dosage. I don't usually have side effects with meds, so I'd just switch to the cheapest one. I just switched from 2mg of semaglutide to 7.5 of tirzepatide last...

Strangely fast for me too, BusyCookie. I experienced the food noise quieting down within days of my initial injection of the medication. It wasn't *totally* gone but the constant thinking about food felt like regular hunger instead of a 24/7 obsession. I've read that these meds impact appetite...

If you're paying out of pocket, here's a good source for alternative medications that includes price estimates:

It took a couple of weeks for me to really notice it. I'm about 3 months in now, and I still think about food a good bit, but it's nowhere near as consuming as it was before starting on the medication.

Has anyone had issues with stretch marks after losing weight? I'm worried about that.

I swear I'm getting a double chin. Part of me is grossed out, the other part is thrilled the scale is finally moving!

Denmark's economy is supposedly booming because of these drugs. Anyone else see that? I wonder if that's sustainable, especially with other companies coming out with competing meds.