u/DaffyInMI

I was on 5 for 13 weeks, and it was about 3 weeks too long. My doctor really wants me to stay on the lowest dose that is still effective, but I had the feeling that the food noise was coming back and I started feeling just like my old self again.

It turns out that I was right. Over the last 2 or 3 weeks, I have gained a handful of pounds, but mostly I have been snacking at night. When the meds were doing what they were supposed to do, I really didn't snack at all. I mean, I would have fruit and yogurt and meat sticks, but they were just to meet my protein or calorie goals.

But in the last 2 weeks, they have been snacks to meet my cravings.

I just took my first 7.5 injection today, and I really hope things settle down.

It's so hard to accept that this is going to work. Even though I've lost nearly 50 lbs in five months, having the food noise back is so disappointing and scary. I know in my mind that this can work, in the old parts of my brain, I feel like a failure.

I'm 57f, 5 ft 5, 260ish. On 5mg

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This last few weeks, my life has been really really stressful in many ways, and for the first time since I've been on zepbound (5 months), I craved wine and chocolate ... And didn't resist.

I didn't eat TONS of chocolate, just a few squares here and there, and went through a bottle of wine in a week.

Today the stress has gone down and I'm not craving, but I was surprised that it happened at all. Over the past months, I've had other stressors and I didn't eat my feelings.

Does this mean I need to titrate up? I'm still losing between .5 and 1.5 pounds a week. Just curious about other people's experiences

Sort of a NSV?

I just realized that I haven't had (almost) any pee accidents in the 3 months I've been on zepbound. I did sneeze REALLY hard a couple times and ...oops, but nothing like before.

I'm drinking a zillion times more water, so you'd think I'd be worse.

What's up with that?

I used to always be able to eat eggs. I was on the lowest dose for about 8 weeks, and I had eggs almost every day.

But now, I'm on the next dose up and twice now , once the first day of the new dose, and then today, 3 weeks later, I've had eggs and it was a disaster.

So! Much! Gas!

And diarrhea. And burping.

This time I was prepared with gas-x, anti diarrheal, and gatorlyte, so it's a bit better.

But I thought eggs were supposed to be gentle.

What foods have done you in when you didn't expect it?

I'm 5 ft 4, 271, down from 308 in February.

I was on about a 4-week plateau of going up and down the same 5 lb. and I found that I was fatigued a lot.

So I read that article that keeps popping up saying what to do if you're on a plateau. I know that technically that wasn't a plateau, but still, I figured, it couldn't hurt.

One of the things it's suggested is that if you are sticking to the low end of your calories, eat at the high end for a little bit.

I have been keeping to about 1,200 calories a day for this whole time, and sometimes struggling with that because of nausea and gas and other yuck.

For the last 5 or 6 days, I've been eating toward 1600 or 1700 calories a day.

And lo and behold, I dropped 5 lb this week.

And also? I feel a lot better.

I am really making myself eat earlier in the day, which at first made me start to panic once it got later because in my head, I was worrying that I wouldn't have enough calories left so I could have a bedtime snack.

The funny thing is that I hardly ever have a bedtime snack these days. I don't get the urge.

But anytime I have thought about eating something this week, I just went ahead and had something.

Tonight I had veggie straws dipped in a little cup of hummus.

Last night, I woke up at about 5:00 a.m. and my stomach was a bit upset. So I had some peanut butter and jelly on a piece of bread.

Amazingly, my stomach calmed down and I felt better, and I was able to drink all my water all day without feeling bloated.

It's weird to waver between the old habits of thinking I have to be super restrictive in order for it to work, and the actual truth that my body needs energy, and it's okay to eat.

One of my best friends is a family practice physician. She has always been against glp1 for weight loss, or anything other than diabetes.

I have been on zepbound for about 11 weeks (lost over 10% of my bodyweight). We normally go out for dinner at least once a month, but I skipped the last 2 because I wasn't sure how to eat at a restaurant while on the meds.

I've tried a few things and got it sorted, so I went out with her and her family Saturday.

I ate fine, just not that much of course.

She and one of her daughters started to talk about the "crazy high protein kick" that everybody is on these days.

Then they started in on glp1s.

I feel SO much better, and finally have some hope, but I'm upset. She's a doctor. She's supposed to help her patients.

I'm not going to ever tell her.

But I was just sitting there, enjoying the fact that I wasn't having to lean over my belly to eat my meal, and then ...bam.

Ugh