Down 145lb! OMG!

[Husky612]

Stalled too and wasn't eating much but still not losing. Gym and exercise helped a ton. Also added a peptide for evenings on workout days and that really flipped things. Quality of life went way up with both changes.

 

[Ready]

that mental shift really is wild. food just stops being your security blanket, and then you're like wait, what do i do with all this headspace now? ended up hiking for hours instead of snacking lol

 

[workingongreens15]

The 'calories in/calories out' crowd treats metabolism as if it's static and appetite as if it's purely volitional - both assumptions are wrong for most people with metabolic disease. The medication does real biological work that no calorie-counting protocol can replicate.

 

[rustyplugging]

Year and a half, 60 lbs, and then the restart from scratch after 2 months abroad is good evidence that the medication is driving the response rather than habit alone. Coming back at a lower dose and rebuilding from there makes sense. The food diary piece that OP mentions is the habit layer that makes the restart cleaner.

 

[wasabi_wk6]

The 'I always ate healthy food, just too much of it' story is the clearest argument for metabolic dysregulation as the root cause - when the food quality was never the problem and you still couldn't control quantity, the problem was always the appetite signal, not the choices.

 

[hummus-runner]

bad side effects at 0.25 that never cleared is the non-responder on the tolerance side - which is different from non-responder on the weight loss side. the rapid 10 lbs back after stopping makes the search for something tolerable more urgent. did you ever try a different mechanism after that?