Anyone else feel alone on their weight loss journey?

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as someone taking it mainly for diabetes stuff yeah that tracks. i'm not upset with anybody else doing their thing though. just wish i was seeing bigger drops like some folks are, barely moving the scale myself.
 
I've been dropping pretty hard too and yeah the dizziness is real. I'm thinking it might be more from being in such a hard calorie deficit for over a year than the tirz itself, but could be both honestly. I'm planning to hit my maintenance number pretty soon and bump my calories back up to maybe 2400 a day. Once I get there I'm gonna try slowly stepping down the dose and seeing if the dizziness clears up. If yours hasn't gotten worse it might be worth trying something similar just to figure out what's actually causing it.
 
Quick question - does your doc automatically increase the dose each month? I'm at 0.25 and just started. Haven't noticed anything yet. I heard at this dose nothing will happen for weight. Do I wait for her to raise it or do I need to ask?
 
You look absolutely stunning in both those photos. I mean it. The confidence alone is incredible and I'm really happy about all the effort you put in and how good you feel now.
 
Same here. I teach in a school where the AC runs constantly and it never bothered me before. Now I'm layering up even in summer. Down only 40 lbs and already dealing with this, so I can't imagine what others with bigger losses are going through.
 
Good job on your progress. Keeping it quiet helps too. I read somewhere that telling fewer people means less stress about judgment. Nice approach.
 
The invisible phase is one of the harder parts that gets less airtime than the transformation posts - you're doing the work, making the choices, tracking the progress, and still walking through the world in a body that doesn't yet reflect it. The internal shift usually comes before the external one, which means there's a gap where you know what's changed but the mirror and other people haven't caught up. Most people who've been through the full arc remember that gap clearly - it's where the motivation either roots or doesn't. The fact that you're sticking with it through that window is the harder thing, not the weight itself.
 
The decision to not disclose is a legitimate one - the research phase before telling anyone else is how a lot of people protect the space they need to get started. Keeping it private until the result is visible is a valid strategy, and the community here exists for exactly the period when you're not ready to talk about it in person.
 
16 lbs in the first month on sema is a strong opening - the physical change is just starting to register but the social isolation part of this journey is real and this community tends to be where most people find the parallel experience they're looking for. First month also tends to be when the relationship with food starts to shift in a way that makes the path feel more manageable.
 
The 'you don't need to lose weight' feedback when you're still above where you want to be is one of the most isolating experiences on this journey - it comes from people with no frame of reference for how your body actually feels versus how it looks from the outside. What matters is how you feel and what your health data says.
 
When did you kick things off? My routine's been breakfast/morning snack/lunch/afternoon snack/dinner, laid out my whole eating pattern in an earlier comment. Whenever I tried cutting back further, my progress completely stalled.
 
Two years running sema/tirz here. Only lost 50 pounds across that whole stretch. Walking three miles daily, watching my food. Some of us just respond slowly. Planning to stay on this indefinitely. Working hard to jumpstart the loss again right now. It's gradual, comes in waves, but there's no way I'm letting the weight creep back on. Hang tight, think of it as putting money into your own future.
 
Right there with you op honestly.

Have to work genuinely hard to lose anything. At my size, skip clean eating, staying under calories, exercising, drinking water, or sleeping enough, and the scale just won't budge. Watch other people make tiny tweaks like cutting soda and suddenly drop a huge amount in a month, so frustrating.

Think that's exactly why a lot of us need this medication. Everyone's body fights weight loss differently, and beyond literally slowing digestion, it also helps with staying consistent instead of caving to temptation or giving up entirely. That's honestly where the real value comes in. Hope you stick with it.

From someone a couple months in myself with a fairly modest amount lost so far.
 
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