1 year down, half a hundo gone! 🙌

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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.
 
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.
 
Congrats!! Currently on tirz, weighing a switch to sema for cost reasons honestly, and my own loss has been slow and steady, though with plenty of stalls so 'steady' is generous lol. A full year in and 42 pounds down... pretty slow, ha! But I've got PMOS and quite a bit of inflammation that's actually eased up a good amount on glp1!
 
Hey, I'm 20 and on sema too. At 18 I was in a spot much like yours, prediabetes plus pcos, and had already lost some weight before ever touching a glp. These days I lean on it mainly for hunger control and the constant thinking about food. What could really help you is combining sema with better routines. The urge to overeat fades and I quit when full, something I always fought with. Habits such as working out 2-3 times weekly, eating clean and setting cutoff hours for meals can soften side effects. Try intermittent fasting alongside it, results show up. Planning to come off eventually? Then build those routines during treatment, so you may avoid the weight coming back.
 
Another PCOS Canadian here. I began around late June with the generic version. I made a nutrition plan (protein sources I like plus a rough meal plan) and a fitness plan: lifting twice a week, plus more walking, yoga and movement. I also skipped alcohol, scared of getting sick. A bit of queasiness followed the first injection, though sticking to my plan was effortless: nothing extra, no sweets, no binges. It's been wonderful, zero real side effects. Down roughly 10 pounds so far, holding at 0.25 until things plateau. The one catch is making myself eat healthy meals on schedule, because my hunger signals are muted and under-eating is easy, and I hope to protect my muscle. Keep me posted on how yours goes, good luck!
 
Metabolic trouble has followed me my whole adult life: gestational diabetes, insulin sensitivity, endometriosis, NAFL and PCOS, and I only qualified for MJ once I crossed the diabetic line this year. Within 3 months my NAFL was gone and my A1C fell below range. My body feels good now, inflammation dropped roughly 85%, and I exercise and enjoy it. This is about more than weight loss.
 
Adding a PCOS angle: cortisol can bite us. Ten weeks into 10mg, my scale stalled for a spell and even climbed a couple lbs. I stayed in a tracked deficit and raised exercise, yet I began waking at 4am every night and my period came late again after finally regulating, which signals high cortisol for me. A few days at maintenance calories and the scale moves again! Everyone preaches calories, and generally a deficit is needed, but for PCOS a long aggressive one can hormonally stress the body. So every few months I eat at maintenance for one or two weeks, which usually keeps things moving. At 10mg I skipped that because suppression and satiety were great, which I think backfired hormonally.
 
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