Anyone else a slow loser?

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Four stone with four to go is real progress regardless of pace - and the face change at six months is the one that tends to catch people off guard first. Slow doesn't mean it isn't working; different baselines and titrations just produce different timelines. The ones who start slower often stay more consistent anyway.
 
Food noise down in week one and still able to eat what you enjoy just getting full faster is actually a really balanced early response. Not overweight going in means the loss goal is smaller but the medication can still do its job on the appetite side while you work toward the 5kg. How does the fullness feel - does it kick in during eating or before?
 
That line about healthy food not sounding good as the hunger litmus test is one of the most useful things to internalize. The slowing down piece that happens once you're applying it is real - eating when you actually need to versus when food noise is calling is a completely different pattern.
 
The standard titration schedule exists for a reason and the early weeks are genuinely not the ones to evaluate efficacy from - hunger suppression and the metabolic changes that drive loss take several weeks to establish at each dose level. Reaching a conclusion about whether the medication works at week 3 is not the same as reaching that conclusion at week 8-10. Most slow or non-responders at early doses see a different picture once they are at a higher and stabilized dose
 
The hunger vs noise distinction is genuinely hard to make when you're in it. The 'if healthy food sounds unappealing it might be noise' test is one people land on a lot here and it does seem to help calibrate it. What dose are you at and how long have you been at it?
 
Didn't see steady loss until hitting 10mg, and it's taken almost two years to drop 67 pounds, so I'm a slower loser too, though still trending down. Also type 2, and best of all my a1c is sitting at 5.3 now.
 
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