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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m on a compound for what many would consider vanity weight, but I’ve gained 25 pounds in the past 4 years and gone through menopause and nothing reasonable was moving the scale.

I never went up from the initial dose and by week 5-6 I felt awful. Constant low grade nausea, lethargy, constipation, and was struggling to be around food/cook for my family. I was never interested in dropping weight too quickly so all I could think about was how to get enough protein and nutrients in when I had no appetite. After talking to the clinic I decided reduce the dose and spread it out. So I take .15-.18ml every 7-14 days and feel so much better. I want to have an appetite and make good food choices, not lose weight because I feel sick, because I could quickly see how that was unsustainable. It’s been 12 weeks and I’ve probably lost 12 lbs. [/quote]

Thank you for sharing! Are you on a tirzepatide compound or the semaglutide?

I just heated up my microwave meal at work and could only finish half of it. So weird. Normally those tiny, 350 calorie things don't even fill me up. I do not feel awful, but I definitely see how this level of eating is not sustainable, especially when I want to lose a relatively small amount of weight. I do worry though that by reducing the dose (and eventually, stopping) my cravings for bad foods will come back. On your lower dose, have you found it easy to still make healthy food choices?[/quote]

Semaglutide. My symptoms weren’t bad right away (except the constipation, that was pretty immediate), the other stuff was a slow build. I wasn’t a horrible eater before, so now that I feel better (when I felt my worst I was eating white carbs like a sick person) I’m eating similarly, just a smaller quantity. But another change is that I was a regular drinker and now I have no interest in alcohol. Even on NYE when I tried to drink with friends I really had no taste for it. This change was unexpected and I think will be relatively easy to maintain as it was more of a lifestyle habit that is now broken. [/quote]

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