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OP. Thanks for sharing. Are you still on the meds to maintain?

I just finished day 2 and am feeling elated and pretty certain this will work for me. Yesterday, I ate a normal dinner and I was intending to have something sweet later…sort of a last hurrah before starting my diet in earnest today. But I found myself, shockingly, not at all interested in binging (or even having a little bit of) junk food. I was also surprised that I was not at all hungry when I went to bed even though I ate dinner before 5 pm. This is huge for me.

I had some mild nausea this morning but it didn’t stop me from going to my spin class. I didn’t feel hungry at all. Forced myself to have eggs and grapefruit for lunch. Had an apple before dinner because the lady at the spa recommended it for fiber; said constipation is a common side effect. Went out to dinner and didn’t eat much - but felt satisfied. Probably ate 1,000 calories today. And not hungry. At all. The food noise is already gone.

I did feel a little weak and a dull headache today, and I’m thinking this is from not eating nearly as much as usual. But nothing I couldn’t easily tolerate.

They said they’ll up my dose next week (started with .25 I believe and they said next week will be .5) but if I continue to feel like I did today, I may ask them about keeping it the same. [/quote]

So you posted two days ago that you had no idea how to get it or where to start and now barely two days later you say you're on day two? Is this a troll post? [/quote]

Hi, it's not. I was in my office Friday morning feeling disgusted with myself for already not sticking to my New Year's resolution of eating better and losing weight, and I posted here, then got to googling the local medspa which has been heavily advertising semaglutides. Watched some of their compelling testimonial videos. Called them, they offered an appointment same-day, which I then changed to the next day. Had my consultation and had the shot before I left. Like I said, I was taken aback that there seemed to be no criteria I had to meet to qualify for the meds. I've entered my info into different virtual pharmacies online, Noom, etc. and it's always come back with "Sorry you don't qualify because your BMI is under xxx." Taken aback, but really, appreciative. I came there to get meds and they gave me meds, pretty much no questions asked (a few questions about allergies, if I exercise and explaining that exercise is important because you can lose muscle when you lose weight quickly, explaining the difference between the semaglutide and the tirzepatide, how much I wanted to lose, how dosing works).

Day 3 today. Woke up with the same very mild nausea that I've had since yesterday. I did feel like I needed to eat something, but not in the same way I normally do, where I debate with myself, how long can I wait before I eat, how little can I eat and still feel okay, should I just blow it today and get a sausage egg biscuit at McDonalds? That's my constant "food noise" that I'm always fighting (unsuccessfully). It's so miraculous feeling that I'm now just thinking, "What can I eat that will nourish me and hopefully take away the nausea?" I made myself a peanut butter banana smoothie and drank 3/4 of it. I enjoyed it, but not passionately like I usually love food.

I'm just very excited and happy right now. I have been thinking and reading about this for a year and kept thinking I don't want to resort to meds, I'm a smart, successful person I know I can do this on my own. I know what I have to do. I think my last straw was making a plan for what I was going to do on January 1 and failing miserably, giving in to cravings and my binge tendencies, and just deciding I want help. I am really glad I did it! Thanks to everyone who has chimed in with similar goals; I would love to keep hearing them, and I'll update here.

[b]I really hope this can reset my mind and that I won't revert back to my horrible eating when I go off these meds.[/b] I weighed myself this morning and was 142...so I think I'll be at my goal weight in under 2 months if I keep feeling the way I feel now.[/quote]

Virtually all of the research says you will -- and that you will regain the weight, and then some. You are playing with fire here. But that is what you get when you go to a spa for prescription medication. [/quote]

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