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[quote=Anonymous]OP coming back to update. It's been just over 3 months on tirzepatide. I stayed on the starting dose, 2.5 mg, for the first 9 weeks, and then for the next five doses, I took 3.5 because my weight loss stalled a little bit and I was feeling hungrier. I am down 17 pounds total and now weigh 128.5. First time being in the 120s in about a decade. I feel wonderful.

I had thought that I would take this medication to get to my goal weight and then stop. But honestly, I am dreading stopping because I have so enjoyed the peace that I feel not thinking about food all the time, not battling cravings, not powering through painful hunger, not arranging my whole life around food and eating. It is so freeing and I haven't experienced this ever, at least not since childhood. Actually I used to think back to early childhood, like age 7 or 8, and remember when food was just food. When I would eat what my mom gave me, enjoy a treat from time to time, and go about my day. Once I hit my pre-teen, body conscious years, that was over. It was counting calories, restricting, binging, feeling ashamed, rinse and repeat. It was exhausting and sad.

Now 30 years later, thanks to this medication, I feel like I've returned to my healthy, childhood way of eating which is - eat what I feel like eating until I am full and then stop. Enjoy other things, like playing with my children, exploring a new place, even cleaning my house...enjoying something worthwhile MORE than enjoying food. I still enjoy food. I still look forward to good meals and to eating. But it's not the center of my world.

I do not know what my plan is from here. Probably taper down by .5 per week and see how I feel.[/quote]

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