Holding the weight I lost!

[not-today-scale]

Holding steady through the holidays definitely counts! That's one of the hardest times to maintain, so nice work.

 

[wobblycocoa25]

You lost 20 years off your face along with the weight. Beautiful hair and eyes now!

 

[GastricEmpty]

down 70 lbs and i hate to admit this but i'm being judgmental now towards people my old size. there's this gut-level revulsion i didn't have before. spent years learning to love my body and now i've got this switch flipped. i don't want to be like this but it's happening.

 

[Blair]

The physical comparison hits differently. Stacking the actual weight you lost makes it real in a way scale numbers don't. The moment of lifting it tends to land harder than any photo.

 

[HawkLog174]

Lifting the amount you've lost permanently gives the change a physical reference point the scale and mirror both miss.

 

[BugTracker]

Stagnating on 2.4mg for a year is worth investigating with the prescriber - the usual options at that point are a 4-week pause to reset receptor sensitivity or switching to tirz or Reta, which use a different mechanism. The 5 lbs in a year suggests the therapeutic effect is present but maxed. The 'lifting the weight you lost' framing is underrated as a way to experience the change concretely - sometimes the numbers stop telling the story and the physical reality has to.

 

[FiberLean]

The mental image of a dog on weekly injections tracking macros is hard to shake.

 

[Mike_1977]

Are you actually strength training with weights? Never did it myself, lost about half my body weight and regret it since I ended up looking flabby with basically no shape left behind. Please lift if you're not already. Otherwise you'll wish you had.

 

[MyBetter]

Same here!

Though I suspect that's more of a short-term rebound effect.

Gained at least 10 kilos myself after stopping...

 

[chill_mango]

Really love this idea, and it'll save me a storage cost too. Wish I could say with full confidence I'll never put this weight back on, but I try to stay realistic about things. Not regaining it is absolutely the goal though, and I hope that holds true for every one of us on this journey.
Thanks again for putting the suggestion out there.

 

[pickle-zepfan16]

Yes! Ice cream nightly, extra bowls of cereal as a snack, and my weight stays fairly steady, thankfully. I'm also jacked and lift 4 times a week. Never imagined having a problem like this.

 

[grumpy_settling56]

I love picturing what I used to carry around. Picture lifting six turkeys at the checkout and lugging them around daily. AWESOME progress!

 

[tealcocoa2844]

That's exactly how I picture my weight loss: a pair of 40lb concrete sacks, the constant burden I used to carry. Congratulations!

 

[granola_cooler7754]

It's crazy how heavy that lost weight feels! I'm down 50# and when I pick up the 45s I can't believe how heavy they are. Carrying them just from point A to B has me huffing. Yet I hauled that around everywhere last October!

 

[antsyrye]

Feels like I've hit the point of enough, honestly. Haven't been pushing all that hard these past several weeks, yet the number keeps creeping down anyway, slowly. Dropped my maintenance dose twice now just to see if things finally level out. Still playing racquet sports five days a week and lifting on the off days, one day fully for rest. Wouldn't mind packing on more muscle, but it's wild to finally actually see muscle at all, shoulders, traps, back, now that it isn't buried under fat anymore. Totally agree the world gets physically harder in weird little ways once you're smaller, my car seat's suddenly uncomfortable, even my amazing bed doesn't feel as good, and sitting on anything firm and backless is a whole new misery.