1 year down, half a hundo gone! 🙌

i'm 5'2 and went from 185 to 166 then it got weird because the scale barely moved. but my shape changed—gut is melting and my arms are smaller. before this i could never lose the belly and my arms were too thick for anything cute. now i finally look proportional.

23 lbs before stopping and then finding a way back to it is a real story. 50 down in a year at your age is a trajectory that can keep going a long time. Almost onderland from 268 is going to be such a milestone.

10 pounds the first month on sema is solid - you had 20. Numbers don't lie. Keep it going.

380 to 240 over 4 years and still going for 150 is a genuinely long and hard road. The IF for a year first before Ozempic adds real context to what it took to get to 240. 50 lbs in a year for the OP is fast by comparison but both approaches got somewhere real. What's the Ozempic protocol looking like?

Same here! Only started this past Wednesday, so still got a long road ahead. Used to crush keto back in my thirties but perimenopause has thrown my body completely out of sync, so I finally gave in and started Sema. Only my husband knows for now. He tried it himself too, and several of his relatives, his brother plus both parents, are also running Ozempic, though for them it's diabetes-related. Mine's purely about weight and staving off ever becoming diabetic myself. I'll tell the rest of the family whenever I'm ready. Not there yet.

Oddest part for me honestly is an acquaintance on social media who went through bariatric surgery, then shared her transformation pics while taking swipes at GLP-1 users, saying stuff like 'I didn't need one of those shots.' Like, okay? If that counts as cheating, surgery's the same shortcut by that logic. GLP-1s still catch a lot of flak, so I'm keeping quiet about jumping on board myself.

I'm a woman, a bit younger though, but landed in the same spot. Good job, spouse, kids, homeowner, all the outward markers checked off, yet weight's always been my struggle, and only during an anorexic phase did thinness happen for me. Wasn't healthy or happy back then either, but somehow that felt sufficient at the time.

Eight months in now, down over 40 lbs, doing better on every front, body and mind alike.

Biggest piece of advice, find a therapist and dig into your relationship with food (plus whatever's underneath driving it). Really glad I put in that groundwork before starting sema and kept at it throughout.

Was anxious initially admitting I'm on it, but I've opened up more the past few months. Took real work realizing this isn't about laziness, my dopamine system genuinely doesn't function right (also neurodivergent) and burnout had become constant. Nobody blames someone with cancer for needing chemo, or a diabetic for needing insulin, so nobody should judge people whose bodies need a glp-1 to function properly either.