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[quote=Anonymous]OP coming back to update. This Saturday will mark 8 weeks since I started tirzepatide. I am so excited about what has happened. This morning I weighed in at 132 pounds; down 13 pounds from where I started. I look better and feel better, I'm fitting back into all my old jeans and pants. I have stayed on the 2.5 dose (lowest dose) the entire time. I had side effects for the first couple of weeks (mild nausea and tiredness) but now I don't have any. For the first time in more than a decade I'm excited for summer, wearing shorts, feeling good in my bathing suit.

It's been such a joy and relief to stop my terrible eating habits, which included a lot of binge eating junk food. My skin looks so amazing in part I think because I've been eating so well...lots of fruits and vegetables, eggs and chicken, and very little junk food. I've also been sleeping better, again, probably because my stomach isn't aching or heart racing from all the sugar binging. It's such a change and a comfort to no longer be at war with my cravings, to no longer deem each day to be a "good" day where I'm hungry and depriving myself or a "bad" day where I'm binging and feeling disgusting and lethargic. I feel so energetic and motivated that I've doubled the number of classes I take at my gym; going 6 days/week instead of 3. All my extra classes have been weight training, because I've read that a risk of these meds is losing muscle due to fast weight loss. I don't think I have lost muscle. I love what I see in the mirror now.

I am not sure where I'll go from here. I'd be okay with losing another 5 lbs but not more than that, and the appetite suppression on this dose is pretty strong. I went out to a restaurant with a client yesterday and she commented on how I hadn't finished my soup and asked if it wasn't good. Then when my salad came, I found myself hiding the uneaten salmon under some lettuce. Just couldn't finish it. So obviously, I can't stay on this dose forever or I'll lose too much weight. I am definitely worried about stopping cold turkey though. I'm hopeful that I can eat well and avoid returning to my bad habits, especially now that I feel so great in my body. I'm hoping that feeling will help motivate me to avoid overeating and binging junk food. But, after years of terrible habits, I don't really trust myself. It also sucks that I don't have any actual medical guidance, since I left the medspa (they weren't medical professionals anyway) and went with an online pharmacy. So I'm thinking that after this week, I'll start to dial down my dose by .5 each week, so 2, 1.5, 1, .5 and see how I do. [/quote]

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