Down 50lb! Weight loss update

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higher doses flipped my mood hard. was partly the food quality and not moving enough to keep muscle though. also realized i was eating feelings, you know? on this stuff you can't do that so you sit with it. not ready for meds or therapy but journaling and diet and movement helped tons.
 
2.4 on a salty week is still 2.4. The scale overcorrects after sodium - what matters is the trend. Down 50 is a real result regardless.
 
110 lbs gone, HTN meds stopped, cholesterol meds stopped, 15 inches from the waist - that's the whole picture of what this can do. 50 lbs in the OP and still young means the runway ahead is long and the improvements compound. Keep going.
 
Same story. Roughly 22 pounds gone since early April. Responded stronger initially, then things plateaued. Second week now on 7.5mg, hoping to see movement. My reaction to food's shifted too, can handle bigger portions than before but usually still hold back. Need to ramp exercise more but chronic pain makes that the tougher battle. Hang tight, everyone. Keep logging what you eat.
 
Same here, my progress has been gradual too. Currently at 7.5mg, twelve weeks in. Dealing with sciatica so my exercise options are pretty limited before it flares. Picked up walking recently though, would love for the pounds to come off a bit quicker. Down about 9-10 kilos so far. Still have another 20-30 to go.
 
It's honestly wild because my whole mindset around habits has shifted completely, and that's really what's keeping the weight off long term. Meanwhile I don't feel much actual hunger anymore because of the gut motility trouble, and eating now comes with pain, so I naturally eat less just trying to avoid that discomfort.

Turns out I never realized I was someone who eats by volume until dealing with all this, so a big piece of holding the loss was feeling full from generous portions of healthy food. These days I can only manage about four tiny meals a day, and that's just not satisfying on a mental level.

All pretty strange to navigate.

Staying hopeful though! Keep reminding myself that two months back I couldn't eat a single bite without severe pain, and today I got through two whole meals completely pain free with the help of an acid reducer, so that counts as real progress.
 
Right there with you on that one. Spent years trying everything, cutting things out, moving more, and then finally got on this medication and I've already lost 50 pounds. Still feel heavy in my own head sometimes though, and the food chatter still sneaks back once in a while despite the higher dose, but overall I feel worlds better than I did months back.
 
Inside the first week, back pain that had haunted me for ten years, through every weight I've been, from getting on and off horses, just disappeared. Same with foot pain that had become nearly constant from logging 8-10 miles daily on foot. Five months in as of this week and neither has come back. Even setting aside the 48 lbs I've dropped, I'd keep taking this indefinitely just for how much it's calmed the inflammation and pain.
 
I am 73 and dropped 27 lbs since last November. Side effects are minimal, and lots of minor complaints faded. My knees love the lighter load. Two miles of walking is fine now, where before I barely made two blocks.
 
Adding to what you said about pain: I started at 370 lbs and the pain eased within 1-2 weeks, definitely the medication and less inflammation. Even if that were the only benefit (and it wasn't) I'd happily keep taking it for life for just that! I love that mornings no longer start with a struggle to leave the bed.
 
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