Still Not Thin Enough?

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Five weeks, still 0.5mg. Didn't jump 1mg yet. Total down seven. Food noise creeps early week versus started but so busy pushing aside. Sleep better than ever. Only dry mouth, maybe NYC streets salt causing. Bowel fine, healthier eating probably. Gym consistent, overall feel great.
 
Mine were holding up fine until the final chunk dropped. Went from DDD to C and honestly love the freedom now. Backless tops, sticky bras, everything feels good. Yours might surprise you too if you give it time.
 
70 lbs down and clothes fitting better is a real outcome - 'not thin enough for the meds' is the kind of framing that sets an impossible standard regardless of where someone starts. The meds are a tool calibrated to a health goal, not a social comparison benchmark.
 
The 'I still look like my old self' perception lag is one of the most consistent psychological patterns in weight loss - the brain's self-image updates much slower than the scale and the mirror. The old clothes reality check is one of the more effective ways to bypass the perception issue because the data is undeniable.
 
The return of social confidence as the physical change progresses is one of the more profound secondary effects - the withdrawal from situations where you felt conspicuous compounds over time and reinforces the isolation, so the reversal is not just a mood improvement but an actual re-expansion of social life. The mechanism matters less than the practical outcome; getting back into environments you'd avoided is its own compounding benefit.
 
130 lbs down and the saggy skin trade-off is the other side of major weight loss that doesn't get talked about as much as the transformation. Looking great dressed up while dealing with the appearance underneath is a real thing. 70 lbs for the OP and the friend's comment is tone-deaf in a way that only makes sense if you've never had to lose that much. Keep going.
 
first off, genuinely sorry for what you went through, glad mj helped pull you through it!

Honestly could go either way, but the whole thread does seem centered on the idea that being heavier is fine (including for those who'd be classified as obese, I think). Just seems like they're pushing back against GLP-1 use for weight loss specifically, even framed as curing obesity itself. And apparently, in their view, carrying that weight is a personal choice I could reverse without mj if I really tried.
 
Get what you mean about privilege. Still, knowing other people have it worse doesn't mean you shouldn't work on improving your own situation. Skipping your prescription doesn't magically hand it to someone who 'needs it more.'

At work I've overheard plenty of opinions on GLP-1s: 'I'd never put that stuff in my body!' 'My mom started injections and is basically cheating her way thin.' Heard all that noise and never breathed a word about what I'm doing. Someone caught on that I'd lost weight, so I mentioned adjusting diet and exercise, which is technically true too.

These injections made me hyper-conscious of everything going into my body and which macros I'm falling short on. Honestly one of the hardest adjustments. Eat garbage and I feel like garbage. Used to obsess constantly over what to eat next. Now eating requires a deliberate push on my part and I still land under my calorie target most days.

Good luck on your own path. Talking to a therapist could genuinely help, even just as someone to bounce things off of. I'm essentially a different person now compared to who I was before that very first injection. That much transformation in such a short window
 
Our stats and body shape line up pretty closely. Think it's genuinely tricky noticing change when there's no single body part that looks dramatically different, you're absolutely smaller than before, clothing sizes have shifted down, visceral fat's dropped off (arguably the most important part since it hits organ health directly!), and moving around almost certainly feels easier now. You're making real progress!
 
Same here honestly. Only shared with a handful of friends I trusted not to judge. Started around 185, now hovering near 160. When people ask what I did, I just tell them it's diet plus exercise. Suspect some of them are fishing for reassurance that using a glp is fine, but I'm not really interested in offering my take unless asked directly.
 
I'd already lost a good amount before Tirzepatide, and adding the GLP took off about 15 more lbs (55 down from the start). My goal is 180 lbs, someday! Anyone I meet now never saw the fat me from before, so I hardly get comments... When I joke, half serious and a bit body dysmorphia, I say I'm the fat guy here, what would I know?? and the whole room just stares at me....
 
I'm 5'3 and lost about 50 without glp during the past year, and a further 40 after starting Tirz early this year. Seventh grade was the last time I fit this size lol. My ribs aren't showing, so I don't feel too thin for my frame. Losing more isn't something I want at all though.
 
That's plenty to make people look twice. I'd already lost a chunk of weight before even starting the GLP side of things, so a lot of my friends and coworkers only ever knew me at this size. My mom though, constantly trying to feed me more. It's wild, she genuinely thinks I'm starving myself all day, and I'm 5'10 at 195 pounds.
 
went through both weight loss surgery and glp-1 meds, plus therapy and working with a nutritionist, basically a whole medical team behind me. managed to lose and keep off 260 pounds total, some days i could still eat like there's no tomorrow, but i don't, the surgery's restriction plus mounjaro's appetite control have slowed that urge down a lot, though it hasn't fully erased that old mental pattern of still feeling like the bigger version of myself. i barely eat much these days, but i still find myself watching cooking shows, food videos, that whole world. funny thing is, i genuinely don't have the desire to actually eat most of it, but food and recipes still take up real space in my head. just being honest here.
 
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