GPL-1 for a little bit of weight loss (10-15 pounds)

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Anonymous wrote:I'm three weeks in and have lost an average of 2 pounds a week. My side effects have been some acid reflux and some constipation. I haven't been hungry, so hitting fiber and water targets is harder. Overall, I feel great. The side effects are manageable, and I'm realizing how loud the food noise in my head has been since I was a pre-teen. I feel sad that I have wasted so much time thinking about food, feeling guilty for eating, focused on working off the bad choices, and just feeling awful about myself. I've been between a size 2 and size 10 in my adult body, and this has been constant.

Man, this resonated with me. Me too, girl, me too. Loud food noise since about age 13, berating myself for what I ate all the time, trying to starve myself, thinking about working off all the food through exercise all the time. I've always been slim, but it was a constant battle. And I, too, am sad about a lifetime spent thinking about food, feeling guilty for eating, focused on working off food and FEELING AWFUL ABOUT MYSELF. Ugh! I started Zepbound 12 weeks ago. I have lost 16 pounds and I feel and look fantastic, but even more wonderful is the fact that I'm not so obsessed with food, what am I going to eat, how much am I going to eat, how long can I delay the next time I eat, are there going to be temptations the next gathering I go to that I'm going to have to fight off or fall victim to, did I ruin my day by starting it with a donut and now I'll just binge all day.

I haven't done those exhausting, unhealthy things in 3 months and I feel peaceful and content.

I’m one of the posters who asked questions as to how Glp-1s work, and I’m still confused. Are you saying now that you are on it, you can eat the donut and not gain? How are you keeping your intake to a level that makes you lose weight, without tracking it? I am “only” less than 10 lbs over my goal weight, but it’s all crept on it past year and a half. I eat and exercise exactly the same as I always did, so I assume it’s a slowed metabolism from menopause/aging. I feel like I already eat a healthy, portion controlled diet.

I’m a different poster but I’ll eat half or even a full donut and be fully satisfied and walk away with no constant want to come back and have another little piece or whatever until they are gone. It didn’t take away the enjoyment of food but I have a few bites and I’m good. So while I may eat the donut, it makes it easy to stick to the serving size. Overall I just eat less.

Thanks, and makes sense. This is why I can’t tell if Glp-1s will work for me. I already can ignore the donut (not saying I never indulge, but I’m not someone who regularly eats sweets or fries or other junk, and if I did it would be, as you say, a few bites here or there). Unfortunately, I’m still 15 lbs over my goal weight.

If you take GLP-1s to lose 15lbs there’s a strong chance you will end up even more over your “goal weight.” Many people report their appetites come back intensified when the come off the meds. You may have bad side effects so you can’t stay on them - or do you really intend to be on such an expensive med your whole life?

I may in fact stay on forever. They've improved my life so much. I started out not technically overweight (BMI 22.8) and now at 20. But even more than fitting into skinny jeans again, it's just cleared my mind, removed my food obsession, and removed my constant hunger and cravings that really were a big, uncomfortable part of my life. I will never be overweight. It's terrible to say, but if it weren't for my kids, I might rather die than be overweight. I am super fat phobic. So I have tortured myself my entire teenage and adult life in the pursuit of being thin. I'm not naturally thin, but I have always been on the slim side, by fighting for it. I am so relieved that on these meds, I don't have to fight anymore.

Cost is no issue for me.

wtf. You need therapy.

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Anonymous wrote:The potential side effects of this are so dangerous. Stop playing around

I honestly hope for a very bad health outcome for the woman who takes them while thin to be thinner and says she’ll be on them for life since they’re so affordable for her. The one who would rather literally be dead than heavier. I hope she gets that choice.

That's not what I took away from what she wrote at all. My takeaway was that food has been a struggle all her life and now it's been placed the back burner so that she doesn't think about it. Why wouldn't you want to improve your own life?
You, OTOH have serious problems and are a nasty B.

DP- a nasty b is someone who admits to being fat phobic.

Agreed.

Meh.. new poster here. The poster didn’t say she hated fat people. She said she hated being overweight. That’s her right

“I will never be overweight. It's terrible to say, but if it weren't for my kids, I might rather die than be overweight. I am super fat phobic.”

I am sure she treats fat people with respect.

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Anonymous wrote:The potential side effects of this are so dangerous. Stop playing around

I honestly hope for a very bad health outcome for the woman who takes them while thin to be thinner and says she’ll be on them for life since they’re so affordable for her. The one who would rather literally be dead than heavier. I hope she gets that choice.

Well, that's pretty awful. I don't hope she will be dead.

But I'll have a twinge of schadenfreude when she is on here posting from the hospital ED, humiliated, as a nurse removes impacted $h!t from her rectum after the fleet they gave her didn't work.

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Anonymous wrote:The potential side effects of this are so dangerous. Stop playing around

I honestly hope for a very bad health outcome for the woman who takes them while thin to be thinner and says she’ll be on them for life since they’re so affordable for her. The one who would rather literally be dead than heavier. I hope she gets that choice.

That was me. Thanks for wishing death upon me. I always wonder what you ghouls are like in real life. You can't possibly be this horrible, can you? I guess the internet brings out the mean in people.

Oh, they can be this horrible.

And apparently, you actually can be this stupid and pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:Understand that the woman wishing death as an outcome response is rooted in envy. Gross overreactions typically are.

Lol. Everyone always says "She's just jealous" whenever someone gets called out. And it's almost never true.

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Anonymous wrote:Understand that the woman wishing death as an outcome response is rooted in envy. Gross overreactions typically are.

Lol. Everyone always says "She's just jealous" whenever someone gets called out. And it's almost never true.

I wonder what that poster thinks everyone is jealous of?

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Anonymous wrote:The potential side effects of this are so dangerous. Stop playing around

I honestly hope for a very bad health outcome for the woman who takes them while thin to be thinner and says she’ll be on them for life since they’re so affordable for her. The one who would rather literally be dead than heavier. I hope she gets that choice.

Well, that's pretty awful. I don't hope she will be dead.

But I'll have a twinge of schadenfreude when she is on here posting from the hospital ED, humiliated, as a nurse removes impacted $h!t from her rectum after the fleet they gave her didn't work.

Essentially, this.

Chancing your lifelong gut health for “10-15” is wild.

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Anonymous wrote:The potential side effects of this are so dangerous. Stop playing around

I honestly hope for a very bad health outcome for the woman who takes them while thin to be thinner and says she’ll be on them for life since they’re so affordable for her. The one who would rather literally be dead than heavier. I hope she gets that choice.

That's not what I took away from what she wrote at all. My takeaway was that food has been a struggle all her life and now it's been placed the back burner so that she doesn't think about it. Why wouldn't you want to improve your own life?
You, OTOH have serious problems and are a nasty B.

DP- a nasty b is someone who admits to being fat phobic.

Agreed.

Meh.. new poster here. The poster didn’t say she hated fat people. She said she hated being overweight. That’s her right

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If anything be mad at society. That poster has clearly struggled with their weight and maybe has some disorder around it (not trying to diagnosis her but seems like she fully admitted that).

[Anonymous]

OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases.

Thanks, OP. I had mild nausea the first few days but since then, no side effects. No constipation, nothing. I, too, have read about additional benefits of these meds, including reduced inflammation and depression relief. I do think these meds bring out a lot of feelings in women, maybe especially in those who take care of themselves and are slim. Because these meds are helping others achieve the same, and that in turn makes being slim, fit and healthy more common. Right now, being slim and healthy means you're in the minority of people, it gives you so many advantages in life. People treat you better and life in general is happier. If being slim becomes more of the norm instead of the exception, the special privileges that come with it might wane. I think that pisses skinny women off. Look how people who don't take and aren't considering taking GLP-1s come, without fail, into these threads to say the most awful things. Wishing death, wishing ER visits and impacted colons. And we're just here sharing information and experiences. As I said, this is the meanest board on DCUM. The topic of weight is a touchy one for many women, clearly.

I treat everyone with respect, fat and thin. When I said I'm fat phobic, I meant that I have always severely berated myself, felt disgusted at my reflection, really just felt embarrassed to be me when I weigh more than I want to. I acknowledge that this is disordered thinking. I have struggled with it for most of my life, and I think many women share this struggle. This med has been miraculous for me because it's allowed me to control my eating without effort, without an internal fight all the time. I no longer feel passionate about food and eating. I still enjoy it, but it's not my focus. I eat for nutrition on this med, instead of giving into cravings, binging, restricting. I really don't ever want to return to the way I was living before, which was in an exhausting cycle of binging, restricting, and general self-disgust for not being able to control myself. Everything in my life feels better after 3 months on a GLP-1. I'm at my ideal weight, my skin is radiant, I'm sleeping better, I'm in a happier mood, I'm more focused. It has been an all-around wonderful experience for me and I am grateful.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases.

Thanks, OP. I had mild nausea the first few days but since then, no side effects. No constipation, nothing. I, too, have read about additional benefits of these meds, including reduced inflammation and depression relief. I do think these meds bring out a lot of feelings in women, maybe especially in those who take care of themselves and are slim. Because these meds are helping others achieve the same, and that in turn makes being slim, fit and healthy more common. Right now, being slim and healthy means you're in the minority of people, it gives you so many advantages in life. People treat you better and life in general is happier. If being slim becomes more of the norm instead of the exception, the special privileges that come with it might wane. I think that pisses skinny women off. Look how people who don't take and aren't considering taking GLP-1s come, without fail, into these threads to say the most awful things. Wishing death, wishing ER visits and impacted colons. And we're just here sharing information and experiences. As I said, this is the meanest board on DCUM. The topic of weight is a touchy one for many women, clearly.

I treat everyone with respect, fat and thin. When I said I'm fat phobic, I meant that I have always severely berated myself, felt disgusted at my reflection, really just felt embarrassed to be me when I weigh more than I want to. I acknowledge that this is disordered thinking. I have struggled with it for most of my life, and I think many women share this struggle. This med has been miraculous for me because it's allowed me to control my eating without effort, without an internal fight all the time. I no longer feel passionate about food and eating. I still enjoy it, but it's not my focus. I eat for nutrition on this med, instead of giving into cravings, binging, restricting. I really don't ever want to return to the way I was living before, which was in an exhausting cycle of binging, restricting, and general self-disgust for not being able to control myself. Everything in my life feels better after 3 months on a GLP-1. I'm at my ideal weight, my skin is radiant, I'm sleeping better, I'm in a happier mood, I'm more focused. It has been an all-around wonderful experience for me and I am grateful.

is your idea weight underweight? And what will you do when the meds stop working and your appetite comes back but much stronger? And when you get osteoporosis due to muscle loss?

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Anonymous wrote:OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases.

Thanks, OP. I had mild nausea the first few days but since then, no side effects. No constipation, nothing. I, too, have read about additional benefits of these meds, including reduced inflammation and depression relief. I do think these meds bring out a lot of feelings in women, maybe especially in those who take care of themselves and are slim. Because these meds are helping others achieve the same, and that in turn makes being slim, fit and healthy more common. Right now, being slim and healthy means you're in the minority of people, it gives you so many advantages in life. People treat you better and life in general is happier. If being slim becomes more of the norm instead of the exception, the special privileges that come with it might wane. I think that pisses skinny women off. Look how people who don't take and aren't considering taking GLP-1s come, without fail, into these threads to say the most awful things. Wishing death, wishing ER visits and impacted colons. And we're just here sharing information and experiences. As I said, this is the meanest board on DCUM. The topic of weight is a touchy one for many women, clearly.

I treat everyone with respect, fat and thin. When I said I'm fat phobic, I meant that I have always severely berated myself, felt disgusted at my reflection, really just felt embarrassed to be me when I weigh more than I want to. I acknowledge that this is disordered thinking. I have struggled with it for most of my life, and I think many women share this struggle. This med has been miraculous for me because it's allowed me to control my eating without effort, without an internal fight all the time. I no longer feel passionate about food and eating. I still enjoy it, but it's not my focus. I eat for nutrition on this med, instead of giving into cravings, binging, restricting. I really don't ever want to return to the way I was living before, which was in an exhausting cycle of binging, restricting, and general self-disgust for not being able to control myself. Everything in my life feels better after 3 months on a GLP-1. I'm at my ideal weight, my skin is radiant, I'm sleeping better, I'm in a happier mood, I'm more focused. It has been an all-around wonderful experience for me and I am grateful.

is your idea weight underweight? And what will you do when the meds stop working and your appetite comes back but much stronger? And when you get osteoporosis due to muscle loss?

I'd say my ideal weight is 127 at 5'7 which is BMI of just under 20. Not underweight. I hope that if I taper down the dose and hunger returns, I'll feel motivated by how good I feel/look and that will help me maintain my healthier habits. Remember, I have never been overweight and at many times in my life I've been this slim without meds. I know what I need to do. I was just in a bad cycle of not being able to control my eating. I don't think I've lost muscle. When I started the meds, the spa counseled me about eating protein and strength training. I've upped my attendance at the gym from 3/week to 6 classes per week of strength because I didn't want to lose muscle.

That said, I am definitely scared to stop the meds. I love how I feel on them. I feel peaceful, relaxed, and in control. I'm afraid if I stop, I'll be back to feeling like I'm fighting a daily battle. And that's why I may take them forever.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases.

Thanks, OP. I had mild nausea the first few days but since then, no side effects. No constipation, nothing. I, too, have read about additional benefits of these meds, including reduced inflammation and depression relief. I do think these meds bring out a lot of feelings in women, maybe especially in those who take care of themselves and are slim. Because these meds are helping others achieve the same, and that in turn makes being slim, fit and healthy more common. Right now, being slim and healthy means you're in the minority of people, it gives you so many advantages in life. People treat you better and life in general is happier. If being slim becomes more of the norm instead of the exception, the special privileges that come with it might wane. I think that pisses skinny women off. Look how people who don't take and aren't considering taking GLP-1s come, without fail, into these threads to say the most awful things. Wishing death, wishing ER visits and impacted colons. And we're just here sharing information and experiences. As I said, this is the meanest board on DCUM. The topic of weight is a touchy one for many women, clearly.

I treat everyone with respect, fat and thin. When I said I'm fat phobic, I meant that I have always severely berated myself, felt disgusted at my reflection, really just felt embarrassed to be me when I weigh more than I want to. I acknowledge that this is disordered thinking. I have struggled with it for most of my life, and I think many women share this struggle. This med has been miraculous for me because it's allowed me to control my eating without effort, without an internal fight all the time. I no longer feel passionate about food and eating. I still enjoy it, but it's not my focus. I eat for nutrition on this med, instead of giving into cravings, binging, restricting. I really don't ever want to return to the way I was living before, which was in an exhausting cycle of binging, restricting, and general self-disgust for not being able to control myself. Everything in my life feels better after 3 months on a GLP-1. I'm at my ideal weight, my skin is radiant, I'm sleeping better, I'm in a happier mood, I'm more focused. It has been an all-around wonderful experience for me and I am grateful.

Those are a lot of words to dodge. Let me make my objection clear: I don’t wish or harm on anyone, but I am disgusted by thin women taking these drugs to be even thinner. For the sake of my daughters, I would like eating disorders to fall out of fashion again.

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Anyone use LifeVantage Glp1 with good results?
It is popping up in ads so I am skeptical

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Anonymous wrote:OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases.

Thanks, OP. I had mild nausea the first few days but since then, no side effects. No constipation, nothing. I, too, have read about additional benefits of these meds, including reduced inflammation and depression relief. I do think these meds bring out a lot of feelings in women, maybe especially in those who take care of themselves and are slim. Because these meds are helping others achieve the same, and that in turn makes being slim, fit and healthy more common. Right now, being slim and healthy means you're in the minority of people, it gives you so many advantages in life. People treat you better and life in general is happier. If being slim becomes more of the norm instead of the exception, the special privileges that come with it might wane. I think that pisses skinny women off. Look how people who don't take and aren't considering taking GLP-1s come, without fail, into these threads to say the most awful things. Wishing death, wishing ER visits and impacted colons. And we're just here sharing information and experiences. As I said, this is the meanest board on DCUM. The topic of weight is a touchy one for many women, clearly.

I treat everyone with respect, fat and thin. When I said I'm fat phobic, I meant that I have always severely berated myself, felt disgusted at my reflection, really just felt embarrassed to be me when I weigh more than I want to. I acknowledge that this is disordered thinking. I have struggled with it for most of my life, and I think many women share this struggle. This med has been miraculous for me because it's allowed me to control my eating without effort, without an internal fight all the time. I no longer feel passionate about food and eating. I still enjoy it, but it's not my focus. I eat for nutrition on this med, instead of giving into cravings, binging, restricting. I really don't ever want to return to the way I was living before, which was in an exhausting cycle of binging, restricting, and general self-disgust for not being able to control myself. Everything in my life feels better after 3 months on a GLP-1. I'm at my ideal weight, my skin is radiant, I'm sleeping better, I'm in a happier mood, I'm more focused. It has been an all-around wonderful experience for me and I am grateful.

is your idea weight underweight? And what will you do when the meds stop working and your appetite comes back but much stronger? And when you get osteoporosis due to muscle loss?

I'd say my ideal weight is 127 at 5'7 which is BMI of just under 20. Not underweight. I hope that if I taper down the dose and hunger returns, I'll feel motivated by how good I feel/look and that will help me maintain my healthier habits. Remember, I have never been overweight and at many times in my life I've been this slim without meds. I know what I need to do. I was just in a bad cycle of not being able to control my eating. I don't think I've lost muscle. When I started the meds, the spa counseled me about eating protein and strength training. I've upped my attendance at the gym from 3/week to 6 classes per week of strength because I didn't want to lose muscle.

That said, I am definitely scared to stop the meds. I love how I feel on them. I feel peaceful, relaxed, and in control. I'm afraid if I stop, I'll be back to feeling like I'm fighting a daily battle. And that's why I may take them forever.

A slim person taking GLPs to be at a BMI below 20. Absolutely disgusting. You feel shame for promoting disordered eating to the world.