GLP-1s: A Mental AND Physical Shift?

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Realizing weight affects both your head and your heart is huge. I'm glad you're getting support from folks who actually understand instead of people telling you to just stop eating.
 
That 80lb loss is seriously impressive and inspiring to see. My doc said that big drops like this hit you mentally as much as physically. Both changes matter equally for long-term success.
 
At my goal weight now. Thinking 1mg twice weekly without food noise is the sweet spot. Got TRT going so protein and lifting is the focus.
 
wegovy isn't that bad price-wise tbh. costco runs about $420 even at top dose, and you can stack their savings card for another $100+ off the starter pens. ozempic is literally the same ingredient—ask your doc to prescribe semaglutide and let the pharmacy pick the cheapest option for your insurance.
 
Wait, you're that age?? Genuinely impressive, whatever you're doing clearly works. Even with your face blurred out it's obvious how young you look these days. For me this is strictly a diabetes thing, not weight loss, ironically it's actually caused some weight gain on my end, but I'm sticking with it because the diabetes benefits have been really promising so far. You look absolutely fantastic though.
 
I'm 63, and staying on a GLP medication in some form to manage my obesity for the remainder of my life honestly doesn't faze me. Most folks my age are on something permanent anyway. Plenty of sixty-somethings deal with far worse.

You're twenty and dealing with this same disease. Bad food habits, laziness, or being sedentary don't just add up to 320 pounds on their own. It's a medical condition, not something you chose. An unlucky hand you were dealt. Nobody labeled it a disease sooner because doctors had nothing real to offer before now. Being twenty, how do you feel about the possibility of managing obesity with medication for another six or seven decades? I try picturing what I'd have done at your age and honestly draw a blank. My own struggles didn't really surface until my thirties. Curious to hear where your head's at.
 
I get it. The psychological adjustment is real. I started therapy before beginning, and it matters even more now as the GLP1 brain changes arrive along with not being a fat person anymore. Maybe a sixty-year-old woman isn't what you had in mind, but I'm impressed. Big journey.
 
Same here, I was in good shape when younger. Even then, eating when hungry and stopping when not, my body was slow to say it was full, so calories piled up unless I exercised heavily, and I still walked around hungry all day to hold my weight down. Later, running 20+ miles seriously a week and heavy lifting became impossible with osteoarthritis in both knees & my right hip, plus an inguinal hernia fixed with mesh. Now it's only elliptical work and light weights. My weight climbed until my A1c reached 6.5 in May & my doctor prescribed Mounjaro. Started May 26th, & for the FIRST time ever my body tells me earlier in a meal that I'm full. Weight is dropping, I still eat what I like, just less, slightly fewer carbs, riding the appetite reduction.
 
Went through the same thing. In my thirties I gained weight but shed it easily by exercising more and eating better. Through my forties and fifties it got harder, though low carb plus moving more did the job, sometimes for years. Now in my 60s I've accepted diets don't work because the weight comes back. Why diet at all if it all returns? I brought it up with my PCP. Six hours after shot one it was clear to me that a GLP was my answer for taking the weight off and holding it off for good. 5 months on, nearing goal, I know I won't regain it. Staying on some kind of GLP forever is the plan.
 
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