drink water instead of eating. Drinking a ton of water and cutting out booze worked for me. I was always snacking before

Anonymous wrote:Stop eating so much. Realize what you are doing and just stop. Every time you are about to put unnecessary food in your mouth, think about it and make a choice. Gaining 30 lbs. is tens of thousands of excess calories.

I know this of course! And 80% of the time I do it. The issue is what I mentioned above. I get in this stress and anxiety zone and it's like all of a sudden I cannot make a choice, like there is no choice. When I was taking semaglutide, I NEVER felt that way. I could be utterly stressed and I didn't want any food.

I’ve been on Wegovy/Zepbound for 3 yrs. The nausea/tiredness eventually goes away. For me, it was around month 9.

Stop eating so much. Realize what you are doing and just stop. Every time you are about to put unnecessary food in your mouth, think about it and make a choice. Gaining 30 lbs. is tens of thousands of excess calories.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes! Find your macros online and calculate your TDEE and find your calorie deficit. Only way to that no matter what not one calorie more. Track your calories and weigh your food!! Work out daily. Triple your fiber intake to minimum 30-50 g. Don’t ever vary until you lose the weight!!! You can do it!
I needed to go on tirzepatide to lose the weight. I’m still on the starter dose and have had almost no side effects. I have also had to do everything I outlined above and stopped drinking, never overeat and track my food. It’s grueling but I am doing it for my health!!! I couldn’t stand being fat anymore.
Good luck OP!!!

What discourages me is on Ozempic the losing weight part was effortless, zero thoughts about food which was freeing, but what sucked was the debilitating (for me) side effects. For me to do all you listed will be HUGE efforts physically and mentally, and I have a busy, stressful life so focusing on diet is very hard for me. I am so upset with myself for letting myself go that way.

Op: choose your hard. You have three hards to choose from.

1. Easy weight loss but miserable side effects on Ozempic. I agree this is not the hard I would choose.

2. Live overweight, with terrible health and all the ramifications that come from it for years to come, and the misery and depression of being overweight and upset about it along with the poor health outcomes.

3. Expend mental energy on a diet plan that is sustainable and committing to more movement. Yes it’s mental energy but the second one is also a lot of mental energy in the opposite direction.

You will have to choose one but bear in mind, all three paths are hard. You’re simply choosing your hard when it comes to this kind of stuff.

This is a fantastic perspective. I’ve never framed it like this. Thank you.

I will add that only of those hards gets easier over time and that’s number 3. I’ve been doing number 3 for 20+ years. And only one of those hards will make you feel better which will translate to and improve other areas of your life.

I know this theoretically, the hard part for me is doing it every single day. This long weekend I ate really well. Restaurants are not an issue for me: I rarely go and prefer healthy options anyway. I cook healthy meals for my family (dh and dcs are athletes in great shape), but then I sneak eat food when stressed or I massively overeat when stressed. So it was great all weekend, and yesterday was a shit show at work. I worked until 11pm fixing a crisis and ate a ton of nuts. All the good eating I did earlier was undone by massive calories. It's like when stressed I become an eating monster with no brain.

Some people do better on Mounjaro/Zepbound (tirzepatide) vs Ozempic/Wegovy (semaglutide)

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Anonymous wrote:Yes! Find your macros online and calculate your TDEE and find your calorie deficit. Only way to that no matter what not one calorie more. Track your calories and weigh your food!! Work out daily. Triple your fiber intake to minimum 30-50 g. Don’t ever vary until you lose the weight!!! You can do it!
I needed to go on tirzepatide to lose the weight. I’m still on the starter dose and have had almost no side effects. I have also had to do everything I outlined above and stopped drinking, never overeat and track my food. It’s grueling but I am doing it for my health!!! I couldn’t stand being fat anymore.
Good luck OP!!!

What discourages me is on Ozempic the losing weight part was effortless, zero thoughts about food which was freeing, but what sucked was the debilitating (for me) side effects. For me to do all you listed will be HUGE efforts physically and mentally, and I have a busy, stressful life so focusing on diet is very hard for me. I am so upset with myself for letting myself go that way.

Op: choose your hard. You have three hards to choose from.

1. Easy weight loss but miserable side effects on Ozempic. I agree this is not the hard I would choose.

2. Live overweight, with terrible health and all the ramifications that come from it for years to come, and the misery and depression of being overweight and upset about it along with the poor health outcomes.

3. Expend mental energy on a diet plan that is sustainable and committing to more movement. Yes it’s mental energy but the second one is also a lot of mental energy in the opposite direction.

You will have to choose one but bear in mind, all three paths are hard. You’re simply choosing your hard when it comes to this kind of stuff.

This is a fantastic perspective. I’ve never framed it like this. Thank you.

I will add that only of those hards gets easier over time and that’s number 3. I’ve been doing number 3 for 20+ years. And only one of those hards will make you feel better which will translate to and improve other areas of your life.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes! Find your macros online and calculate your TDEE and find your calorie deficit. Only way to that no matter what not one calorie more. Track your calories and weigh your food!! Work out daily. Triple your fiber intake to minimum 30-50 g. Don’t ever vary until you lose the weight!!! You can do it!
I needed to go on tirzepatide to lose the weight. I’m still on the starter dose and have had almost no side effects. I have also had to do everything I outlined above and stopped drinking, never overeat and track my food. It’s grueling but I am doing it for my health!!! I couldn’t stand being fat anymore.
Good luck OP!!!

What discourages me is on Ozempic the losing weight part was effortless, zero thoughts about food which was freeing, but what sucked was the debilitating (for me) side effects. For me to do all you listed will be HUGE efforts physically and mentally, and I have a busy, stressful life so focusing on diet is very hard for me. I am so upset with myself for letting myself go that way.

Op: choose your hard. You have three hards to choose from.

1. Easy weight loss but miserable side effects on Ozempic. I agree this is not the hard I would choose.

2. Live overweight, with terrible health and all the ramifications that come from it for years to come, and the misery and depression of being overweight and upset about it along with the poor health outcomes.

3. Expend mental energy on a diet plan that is sustainable and committing to more movement. Yes it’s mental energy but the second one is also a lot of mental energy in the opposite direction.

You will have to choose one but bear in mind, all three paths are hard. You’re simply choosing your hard when it comes to this kind of stuff.

Anonymous wrote:Tried ozempic and it was not good for me (major fatigue, constant nausea even on low dose). I had lost 15lbs by the time I stopped. The past couple months have been extremely stressful for me personally and at work and I ate SO poorly. Got a special scale for black friday and the results are in: I am super fat, my metabolic age is five years over my bio age, high fat percentage. Has anyone been able to turn this sort of bad result around with no weight loss meds? I need to lose a good 30 lbs. It is so discouraging.

Yeah, the fatigue is horrible. By far the worst side effect for me, and I have had plenty. I stayed at 0.5 for almost 6 months due to side effects, and finally toward the end of that time the fatigue lifted. Now I've gone up in dose to 1, as I had stopped losing weight (I've lost almost 40 lbs and have about that much to go to reach a normal BMI), and the fatigue is back. It's so bad it's literally hard to do my job and I have almost no energy for anything else. But I have hope, knowing that the fatigue eventually lifted with the last dose.

Unfortunately, I am only hopeful with the Wegovy. My weight gain is medication related; I went on a medication in my mid 30s and over the course of several years gained close to 100 lbs. My BMI was 22 when I started that drug, and I still need to be on it and will be for life. I have lost almost all of it twice on WW. The minute I stopped counting points and restricting heavily the weight came right back. And WW was horrible, I spent years obsessed with points and food -- when I think about what I could have done with all of that time and energy focused on something other than not having that dollop of sour cream or whatever .... Ugh I don't know what to tell you; my metabolism is wrecked and I will need to be on Wegovy for life according to my doctor. So for now, bearing with the side effects is worth it to me. It is awful though.

Anonymous wrote:Can you link the special scale, OP?

It's this one: https://etekcity.com/collections/fitness-scales/products/smart-fitness-scale-esf551

It links to an app that does everything (tracks weight, all metrics, has calorie counter, fitness...)

I am the PP who went on tirzepatide and I have a Renpho scale that measures what OP mentioned!

OP, I can only say that I sympathize deeply with what you’re going through. For me, the essential thing has been making yourself a super healthy, low-calorie, breakfast, like an egg white omelette, pack up a few packages of low fat cottage cheeses, high protein and low sugar bars, like quest or barbells, buy yourself some premier protein or fair life high protein shakes, when you eat out, just have a plain salad, no dressing with lean protein, like chicken or fish, and then have the same thing for dinner. I know that this is hard. You have to find your hard now and for me it was continuing to be fat. I will say that nothing is worth a horrible side effects that you outlined!!

Can you link the special scale, OP?

Anonymous wrote:Yes! Find your macros online and calculate your TDEE and find your calorie deficit. Only way to that no matter what not one calorie more. Track your calories and weigh your food!! Work out daily. Triple your fiber intake to minimum 30-50 g. Don’t ever vary until you lose the weight!!! You can do it!
I needed to go on tirzepatide to lose the weight. I’m still on the starter dose and have had almost no side effects. I have also had to do everything I outlined above and stopped drinking, never overeat and track my food. It’s grueling but I am doing it for my health!!! I couldn’t stand being fat anymore.
Good luck OP!!!

What discourages me is on Ozempic the losing weight part was effortless, zero thoughts about food which was freeing, but what sucked was the debilitating (for me) side effects. For me to do all you listed will be HUGE efforts physically and mentally, and I have a busy, stressful life so focusing on diet is very hard for me. I am so upset with myself for letting myself go that way.

Yes! Find your macros online and calculate your TDEE and find your calorie deficit. Only way to that no matter what not one calorie more. Track your calories and weigh your food!! Work out daily. Triple your fiber intake to minimum 30-50 g. Don’t ever vary until you lose the weight!!! You can do it!
I needed to go on tirzepatide to lose the weight. I’m still on the starter dose and have had almost no side effects. I have also had to do everything I outlined above and stopped drinking, never overeat and track my food. It’s grueling but I am doing it for my health!!! I couldn’t stand being fat anymore.
Good luck OP!!!

Tried ozempic and it was not good for me (major fatigue, constant nausea even on low dose). I had lost 15lbs by the time I stopped. The past couple months have been extremely stressful for me personally and at work and I ate SO poorly. Got a special scale for black friday and the results are in: I am super fat, my metabolic age is five years over my bio age, high fat percentage. Has anyone been able to turn this sort of bad result around with no weight loss meds? I need to lose a good 30 lbs. It is so discouraging.