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If simply counting calories and running a deficit were enough on their own, without the medication quieting mental noise or extending fullness, people would've already solved this through sheer calorie tracking long ago. I don't count calories in a strict sense myself. I just eyeball a portion...

Comes down mostly to age, skin elasticity, and how fast the weight comes off. Some amount of loose skin is basically unavoidable.

Not blaming anyone, just genuinely asking. Pretty much everything I've read on weight loss in general touches on those same three points. Honestly just curious about it.

What a wonderful update, genuinely thrilled for this. No mention of side effects either, hoping this keeps delivering results!

An amino acid supplement helps calm that right down, available over the counter too. Works great for me, take a couple milligrams daily, also helps with leg cramps. Same ingredient found in a lot of energy drinks.

Same here. Tried every kind of anxiety treatment and medication over the years, nothing's ever made me feel quite like this. Hoping it does the same for you.

the hoarding instinct for a supply you trust is understandable but it does create the situation where you're holding a lot of something that could go bad. the potency difference between sources is real enough that people switching often have to recalibrate - the dose from one source doesn't...

Rybelsus not moving the scale and then injectable Mounjaro working is one of the clearest oral vs injectable comparisons you can make. For the OP waiting on insurance - the oral route during the gap is the version that usually disappoints. The hunger returning this hard during the gap is exactly...

The 'doesn't feel like it's working but it still is' observation is the mindset that gets people through the middle stretch. The subconscious behavior change piece - eating differently without actively trying - is the mechanism that's hard to attribute to the medication because it doesn't feel...

Obese most of a life, got to normal weight and back up several times, and now watching someone navigate that transition in real time - your experience gives context that a first-time loser genuinely can't have. The 'but I'm good' framing in the OP is actually the healthy version of how this...

31g 8mm is a solid standard spec - hits the right balance of flow rate and comfort for subcutaneous injection. Good to know Costco carries them directly rather than having to order specialty.

Split doses at 1.7mg every 4 days solving the end-of-week hunger and bringing side effects down is actually the two-for-one result that makes the split approach worth the extra injection. The OP's end-of-week hunger at 1.5mg weekly is exactly the half-life drop that more frequent dosing...

60 pounds at .25mg for 8 months before increasing is a genuinely remarkable result at that dose level. There is really no rush to push the dose if things are moving - you'll have more headroom when it actually plateaus. 47 down and still aiming for 145 is a great position to be in.

the above-150 HR threshold for feeling unwell is worth taking as a real signal rather than pushing through - the cardiovascular system adjusts to the medication's effects on heart rate over time but the ceiling for comfortable intensity can sit lower than before, especially in the early months...

The hunger signal at days 5-6 is real for some people and essentially absent for others depending on individual half-life and receptor sensitivity. Having never stretched past 5 days between doses makes direct comparison hard. The people who do report end-of-week hunger usually find it improves...

The early palpitation pattern on Reta that resolves over time is consistent with what others report - the cardiac adjustment to the glucagon receptor stimulation takes a few weeks at each dose level before stabilizing. On 7mg without ongoing issues is the expected trajectory.

If you are two weeks into Mounjaro or Zepbound and you haven't gone in four days, you are not broken. Tirzepatide constipation is the most common GI complaint our community posts about, and the pattern is predictable: weeks 2 through 6 hit hardest, most members adapt by weeks 8 to 12, and every...

You're early in the process. I workout at Orangetheory and love it. When I started sema, I had to lower my intensity, especially when the dose went up. But it gets better as you adjust!

I’m in kind of the same boat right now. Trying to decide whether to cut calories or exercise more. My diet hasn’t changed much and I still have less hunger even on my low dose of 1mg per week.

It totally zapped my energy too, so I switched to a different GLP-1 that has NAD+ in it. My energy is back, maybe even better than before.