GLP-1s feel like a super power

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah because it's artificially taking away your appetite, lol. It's nothing to do with your own self control or anything, just a drug that allows you to have some will power for once.

Yes. That is the point. It is a miracle drug for a lot of people. That is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

^ or depression or anxiety.

I’ve lost 85lbs in one year on zepbound. Not only has it given me willpower and the desire to make good choices but it has built confidence that I’ve never had but really needed. And that confidence isn’t from now being a thin person but from finally experiencing success from my efforts which I never did trying so many diets and exercise plans over the last 20 years of my adult life. I’m 139 and 5’5”. I haven’t lost any muscle because I have also been able to exercise and move my body like I couldn’t before. I wish there wasn’t such a stigma and meanness about these drugs from the people who can’t comprehend what people who need these drugs have faced. They haven’t a clue and likely never will understand. They just need to accept it as our truth.

Congrats to you, OP! I’m so happy for you and me!!

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, I am chewing on dry chicken breast and oatmeal 🫨

I know. Menopause is the worst. I was naturally thin, never overate and now I just eat even less.

I’m 48, and have a diabetic a1c. It’s highly genetic for me, but I do need to drop some lbs. I’m 5’4, currently 145, but down about 5 lbs from earlier this year. I also hate limiting my food. Just hate it. I grew up equating food with love. I have a very healthy body image. Too healthy, lol. I think the scale or my too tight clothes are lying. So, I can’t eat like a bird because that is against my nature and will make me resent the world. I’m already a vegetarian but of course carbs are my weakness!

I’m trying to work more on the exercise part of the equation, playing tennis, walking and elliptical with some weight lifting but nothing methodical. I’m already on metformin, but I think my dr will push me to consider ozempic or one of the others.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get why people care or seem to look down on the use of these drugs. It makes people healthier and the side effects seem to be minimal so who cares? Why would you want to be negative about that?

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I don’t get it rather other than jealousy I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a third baby at 43 and I just can’t get back. I was always thin and deprived myself easily before and after this I just can’t. I’m hoping to stay on 2.5 of triz - I have 20 pounds to lose. I lost 3 the first 2 weeks but I’m not really noticing much. I’m hoping to increase to just 3. So happy for you OP!!!! This is what I need. I just need a kick start to get back and then I can maintain. For those of you raining on someone else’s happiness - why? It’s not some moral superiority thing. My body has literally wildly changed due to hormones and late pregnancy. I’m pretty sure you’d be fat too. Why do you insist that I be stuck there so you can feel better? People are so weird.

OP. I empathize with everything you said. I had my third and last baby at 41. I had always been a slim person, but not without a lot of effort and constantly feeling deprived. Staying thin, from my teenage years on, had been an all-consuming obsession. After baby #3, who came right around COVID lockdowns, I just felt exhausted and like I couldn't fight anymore. I was 15 lbs heavier than I'd ever been and none of my clothes fit. I felt so bad about myself, so disgusted that I couldn't stick to a calorie deficit to, as you say, "get back." The hunger was overpowering, and with three young kids and a full time career and a house and husband, man...I lacked the strength to fight it. This med, as I said, feels like a super power. I am eating the way I had wanted to eat - the way I had been able to eat in my 20s and 30s - only this time, for the first time ever, I feel no deprivation. Even at my slimmest, I remember feeling hungry and deprived and constantly negotiating with my inner self about draining things like "Can I wait until noon to eat today?" "Can I resist the bread basket at dinner?" "How many calories have I eaten today and how many more can I eat?" Ugh. I truly mourn for my younger self and how much time and energy I wasted on self hatred and on trying to control my eating. I started on 2.5 tirz and briefly went up to 3.5 after stalling out for a couple of weeks. Then I began tapering back by .5 per week. This is my first week on 1 mg and I still feel very strong appetite control. Think I'll taper down by .25 per week now and see how I feel. I began this journey with the mindset that I will use this med to get back to my goal weight and then stop, but honestly, I'm not sure I will ever wean off completely. I am too happy about how good I feel. I really appreciate the supportive comments on this thread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah because it's artificially taking away your appetite, lol. It's nothing to do with your own self control or anything, just a drug that allows you to have some will power for once.

This is why we can’t have nice things…

Pathetic people who spend their free time trying to be cruel to strangers on the internet.

Get some help, pp. What a miserable way to live.

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what dose is everyone on of Tirz?

I'm on 10, and still haven't really felt it....

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Anonymous wrote:Awesome news. I also love food. I’m starting Zep tomorrow and I’m really excited.

Thanks for the supportive comment. That's what I'm on (tirzepatide compounded, which is the generic of Zep). I've always looked at people who've been able to eat the way I'm eating on this drug and think they had absolute supreme willpower, and wonder how the heck they could do it so consistently.

Now I am that person. It really does feel like magic.

I am excited for you and wish you the best!

I’m so confused — I thought that compounded tirzepatide could no longer be sold.

[Anonymous]

Don’t listen to meanies here. Someone is on dcum this morning hellbent on bringing everyone down.

Probably one of the marriage problem people who are in it to fight today.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a RX? If not, where did you get it, and are you concerned about not being able to get it in the future?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why people care or seem to look down on the use of these drugs. It makes people healthier and the side effects seem to be minimal so who cares? Why would you want to be negative about that?

It's jealousy. People who lose weight on this drug convince themselves that people who are slimmer are simply able to be that way with little effort or with some sort of natural will power. Meanwhile, for most of us, it is a big effort to keep weight off, especially when you are over 50. It's kind of annoying when people are rhapsodising about how easy it is when it is hard work for many of us. I am not obese and do not qualify for these drugs and so I have to try to maintain control over food and exercise. Meanwhile, I have friends who were not obese in the first place but managed to get a prescription and talk about how easy it is and that they feel like they are 'cheating' since they have not changed the sort of food they eat and do no exercise. I absolutely get that this is not the case for everyone. But maybe you understand that it can get grating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah because it's artificially taking away your appetite, lol. It's nothing to do with your own self control or anything, just a drug that allows you to have some will power for once.

I would like to see you fight cancer without chemo. You know, all that toxins your own body does not generate.

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That’s nice dear. I’m so glad you can afford that

[Anonymous]

fellow GLP user who is now down the 20 pounds I have desperately wanted to loose for a very long time -- woohoo

Question for the thread ---

I have dropped about 2 pants sizes, and all of my old jeans are no longer wearable. Did you hang on to your bigger clothes knowing you will likely jump back up a few pounds? How long until I can donate?!?!