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Sw: 236 CW:230 GW: 190

I am moving from 9mg up to 25mg in about a week. I have only done once month of each dose as i have found very little effects until 9mg. Which only lost 4-5 pounds as previous two months i lose about 2 pounds. This has mostly been with me calorie counting to ensure I'm in a deficit and I'm still experiencing a lot of food noise.

Has anyone else seen success on 25mg after not much on 9mg and before?

I am diagnosed with PMOS (PCOS) and thinking its causing me to hold onto weight more and having bigger issues on losing weight.

I am also curious how others are increasing their vitamin and protein intake when they are losing weight to ensure its done healthily.

Thanks! And positive advice would help so much.

Hello all!

Sw 236 /CW 234 / GW 190

I wanted to share a bit of my experience and see if anyone else has advice.

Background:

I started this journey to help reduce food noise and get my PCOS under control so I don't have to be on birth control the rest of my life. I have always had a hard time losing weight unless i completely change my life. And even when i do this. I still end up losing only 10-20 pounds. I finally found something that worked for me and it was a high fat diet with low carbs. I was closing in on 210 but due to this diet I ended up with gallstones and needed an emergency surgery to remove it. Now, i spent time trying to rebalance my diet and ended up gaining 20 pounds the last year or so.

I started the pill because I couldn't imagine injecting myself weekly. The pill HAS stopped so much food noise and i notice a difference in my cravings. I usually am able to ignore them or eat less then i use to. I still struggle with over eating on 1.5mg and 4mg. I am really hopeful when i increase to 9mg and 25mg i am able to really lose weight. I also have started doing strength training along with cardio about twice a week. I have been tracking my calories in an app as well and know I'm eating more than i should. I am for sure getting discouraged after 2 months of adjusting my life and paying for this medication to need to spend even more a month to hopefully see results. I will say my symptoms have been really mild. And mostly are in line with my symptoms of not having a gallbladder. I am more nauseous i think since starting but also allergies get to me too .

I am feeling stronger since I've been working out . I recently got measurements of myself and want to compare them today to see if i loss inches instead of pounds.

Has anyone else seen a dramatic increase in weight loss when moving up to 9mg and 25mg? Am i doing anything wrong? Any advice that has helped?

Thank you!