u/Jolly_Twist2245

Hi all, figured I'd share a proper month one update because I couldn't find many honest ones when I was just starting out.

overall down 2.1lbs: Had a wedding, a birthday weekend and a work trip this month so not stressed about the number at all, water weight and life happened

side effects: Constipation is the one nobody warned me about. cCming from compounded sema the GI experience is noticeably different and honestly worse in this specific way. Currently experimenting with more fiber and magnesium glycinate at night, slowly getting better.

the good stuff: Coming into my last week on the starter dose I can genuinely feel the appetite suppression now. It's not dramatic but it's there hunger shows up, I eat, it quiets down. No urge to just eat to eat which is actually huge for me personally.

Inflammation is also down which i wasn't expecting this early. also on metformin for insulin which i think is helping the overall picture

stats: 5'4 | CW 174lbs | 32F | goal 148

Moving up to the next dose tomorrow and genuinely excited to see what month two looks like.

anyone else find the constipation worse than their previous GLP experience and what actually helped

On week 4 of using OTC cream and genuinely cannot tell if anything is happening. The pain is a bit less intense but that could just be me getting used to it mentally.

Asked my doctor and got a very unhelpful "these things take time." Cool, but how much time? and is the cream actually doing something or just numbing it? Has anyone had a fissure fully heal using cream? What kind and how long did it take?

For a long time I genuinely thought something was wrong with me.

I’d plan things out, tell myself this week I’ll do better, make lists, routines, goals… and then somehow ignore all of it. Not in a dramatic way. Just quietly I’d sit there knowing what I should be doing and still not do it.

I used to label that as laziness or lack of self-control. But the more I paid attention, the more I realized my brain was just constantly chasing tiny hits of comfort.

I wasn’t failing at big things. I was getting pulled away by small ones.
Checking my phone for a second.
Opening apps without thinking.
Scrolling while waiting.
Snacking when I wasn’t hungry.
Background noise just to avoid silence.

None of it felt like a problem in the moment. But by the time I actually tried to focus, my head already felt mentally drained.

What changed things wasn’t trying to be stricter with myself. It was noticing how overstimulated I was before I even started anything meaningful.

- I stopped starting my day with my phone.

- I made distractions slightly harder to reach instead of pretending I’d suddenly resist them.

- I started caring more about finishing small things than chasing motivation.

Nothing about this made me productive overnight. But it did make things feel quieter. And when things felt quieter, I could actually follow through more often.

I’m still figuring it out. I still slip. But I don’t beat myself up the way I used to.

If you’ve been stuck feeling like you’re “working on yourself” but not moving anywhere, it might not be effort you’re missing. It might just be that your attention is being pulled in too many directions before you even get a chance to start.

If anyone else had a similar realization or if something else finally made things click for you.

When I first moved into a leadership role, I assumed the difficult part would mostly be managing people. Tough conversations, responsibility, keeping everyone aligned, handling pressure from different sides.

That stuff is definitely part of it, but honestly what drains me more is how fragmented my attention feels all day now.

I’ll sit down to work on something important and within minutes I’m switching between Slack, emails, approvals, calls, random pings, quick checks on my phone, then trying to remember what I was even doing before the interruption.

By the end of the day it feels like I’ve been busy nonstop, but without spending real uninterrupted time thinking deeply about anything.

What surprised me is how much this carries into the rest of life too. Even after work, my brain still feels stuck in reaction mode. I catch myself checking things constantly even when there’s nothing urgent happening.

I used to think I needed to become better at multitasking, but lately I’m starting to feel the bigger issue is how normal constant interruptions have become in leadership roles.

I’ve been trying small things to create a bit more space before instantly reacting to every ping or notification, but honestly I’m still figuring it out.

How other people here deal with this because I can’t imagine I’m the only one feeling mentally scattered from it.

I used to spend a lot of time playing piano after work. I’m not amazing at it or anything, but I genuinely enjoyed sitting down and getting lost in it for a while.

Over time, my phone just naturally became part of the environment around me all the time. And now even a small vibration breaks my attention. I immediately get curious about what notification came, and most of the time it’s something completely unimportant. But once I check it, the whole loop starts. Social media, random scrolling, wasting time without meaning to.

Lately I’ve been noticing how much this has affected the way I spend time playing the piano.

The difficult part is I can’t completely keep my phone away either because I still need to be reachable at home sometimes, especially in case my mother calls me for medicines or something important.

So I’m trying to figure out how people create healthier boundaries with their phones without fully disconnecting from them.

Would genuinely love suggestions from people here who’ve dealt with something similar.

I used to call myself lazy all the time.

Every week I’d make these big plans. Wake up earlier, Fix my sleep, Work out, Eat better. Finally staying on top of things. I’d feel motivated for like two days, maybe three, and then by midweek everything would slide.

And then I’d stay up late watching productivity videos like that was somehow progress. I bought planners, downloaded habit apps, made long lists that looked impressive but felt heavy the second real life showed up. If work got busy or I was tired the whole thing collapsed and I’d go back to scrolling and telling myself I just don’t have discipline.

What I didn’t notice was how random my days actually were.

I’d wake up and just react to whatever felt loudest. Phone notifications, emails, random thoughts. I didn’t really decide what mattered first. I just bounced around. By evening I’d feel drained without being able to point to anything solid I finished.

That’s when it started clicking for me. Maybe I wasn’t lazy. Maybe I just didn’t have any structure to lean on.

So I stopped trying to overhaul my whole life and started small. Like actually small. Writing down three things for the day. Not ten Three. And picking when I’d do them instead of hoping I’d find time.

Some days it works smoothly. Some days I still drift and end up distracted. But at least now I can see what’s happening instead of assuming something’s wrong with me.

It’s kind of strange how quickly we label ourselves lazy when half the time we’re just trying to operate without any system at all.

Edit (update) : Thankyou for all the replies and advices. A few things really stuck with me, especially the idea just do one small win early in the day.  I also tried planning my day the way someone suggested just blocking small alerts on Google Calendar. I downloaded Jolt screen time out of curiosity - thought it’d be one of those “meh” productivity apps. Next thing I know, I’m staring at my stats like… 59 HOURS on SCREEN THIS WEEK?? I swear I felt physically ill. It literally Locks your screen when you start scrolling, and that PAUSE message hits harder than any motivational quote ever did. Lowkey changed the way I use my phone.

42F. Got the VP title in January, jumped 2 levels because of a reorg, now I'm in rooms with the C-suite weekly and I can feel the dress code mismatch every time I walk in. I'm not underdressed exactly, I'm just still dressed for the role I had two years ago. Blazers from J.Crew that fit fine, blouses that worked great for Slack videos, nothing that reads as 'this woman runs a function.'

The CEO's chief of staff has this way of putting outfits together that looks effortless but expensive and I've been trying to reverse-engineer it for 4 months. I don't want to look like her, I want to look like a senior version of me, but I don't actually know what THAT looks like.

I can't afford to do a 5K overhaul, and I don't trust personal stylists because the one I tried 5 years ago made me look like a different person.

How did you build out an executive-level wardrobe without losing your own taste in the process? What does 'looking the part' even look like when you don't want a costume...

Hey everyone, wanted to post a week one update while everything is still fresh

Background: was on Zepbound for about 8 months, stopped for six weeks, maintained pretty well during that time and now starting Foundayo as my next chapter.

Supplements: vitamin D, magnesium, omega 3, probiotic, fiber same routine I've had for a while.

Side effects: days 1-3 had some mild nausea mostly in the evenings, nothing serious, by day 5 it was basically gone.

Activity: Gym 4 days a week, mix of cardio and weights trying to be consistent regardless of how the medication feels day to day and for my diet: keeping the same as before, staying on a reasonable deficit.

Overall, week 1 feels like exactly what it is - the very beginning the number on the scale moved which is encouraging but I’m not reading too much into anything this early.