Chia pudding saved me. Since someone mentioned it I'm regular every day. Mix chia seeds with milk and protein powder, let it sit in the fridge overnight, top with berries. Tastes like dessert but works great.
The autophagy and cellular feeding mechanism is distinct from the appetite suppression pathway - they run in parallel but the cellular benefit continues even when the hunger signal adapts.
Hunger returning around day 4-6 is typical at starting doses - the suppression settles in more consistently once the dose builds up over the first month.
First injection dizziness and nausea lasting a few seconds and then fading is the standard response that doesn't predict how things will go long-term. The OP's day 5 hunger coming back is early - the medication needs more time to accumulate. Day 5 is still well before steady state on weekly dosing. What dose did you start at?
Feeling it within hours on day 1 and then waking up burping a heavy meal from the night before is the gastric emptying slowing down earlier than expected. The OP's hunger returning on day 5 is interesting - for most people the acute appetite effects are strongest right after the injection and moderate over the cycle. Is day 5 coinciding with a heavier meal or something else that might be timing-related?
Three days in with mild nausea and head spinning that you think is psychosomatic is the most common first week experience. The OP at day 5 feeling the monster coming back is right in the first-week adjustment window. The nervousness about starting tends to amplify the physical sensations - how has it felt by now compared to that first couple of days?
Same here, that first shot was brutal, migraine, nausea, body aches, the whole package, but it did improve. Just did my fourth round at 5mg today and everything's been smooth.
Did the exact same thing before a trip to the coast recently. Skipped my dose, ate reasonably clean but still enjoyed a few dinners out. Nothing dramatic happened, just noticed hunger creeping up by day five.