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Hi everyone, I'm working on forming a group at Casa Colombo (it's not finalized, in the works) for those of us who speak Italian or are learning Italian and want an IRL group to practice in.

We'll also be sharing learning resources and discussing culture and identity. It's low-key, casual, and aimed at building community. If you want details, just leave a note below or DM me and I'll get you the sign-up info when it's ready :) No need to share your email or anything! Grazie.

I am currently on 4mg and JUST started a bottle (my 2nd month of 4mg). However, my Ro app asked me to do a check-in. I said I'd like to do another month of 4mg. What if I get it and it starts not working? Do they send a higher dose if I want it? Do I get a refund? Do I keep the old bottle? Thanks!

I am currently on 4mg and JUST started a bottle (my 2nd month of 4mg). However, my Ro app asked me to do a check-in. I said I'd like to do another month of 4mg. What if I get it and it starts not working? Do they send a higher dose if I want it? Do I get a refund? Do I keep the old bottle? Thanks!

I had a serious spinal injury + Epstein-Barr virus, and in the past two years, gained quite a bit of weight (it hurt my joints and my blood pressure increased). So, I started Wegovy April 9. I wanted to share a 3-month look at the experience. Maybe it'll help someone.

As of today, I'm down about 18 pounds.

I stayed on 1.5mg for two months, then I moved to 4mg. I will stay on 4mg for another month.

What I noticed:

• I can't believe how much food noise has led my entire life.
• 1.5 mg worked quickly but wouldn't stay on it longer than 2 months.
• It took 2 weeks for 4mg to really kick in.
• Zero side effects at all, physically. No nausea or anything.
• Normal BMs.
• Good sleep, maybe better sleep?
• The weight loss for me occurred all over and not in one spot. So gradual that I was surprised I lost almost 20 pounds.
• I do have fatigue pretty intensely but this has always been an issue for me. I think the caloric drop worsens it.
• I walk about 5000-8000k steps a day most days but some days I am lazy and do nothing. I swim 3-5 days a week for about 45 minutes. I do light (like 5 pound) weight lifting at home. Nothing crazy, honestly.
• I find myself eating more on some days (ahem, my period week) and sometimes eating less. I would say most food noise is gone but there are days when it still cuts through. I probably could do with more protein, but I eat pretty healthy.
• My desire for alcohol is WAYYYYY lower. Wow!
• I get dizzy when I stand and bend down quickly. This is weird.
• I understand that I was eating like, 10x the amount I eat now...and looking back, I know I was really reaching for food to emotionally support me. I can subsist on so much less!
• There is a general sense of 'meh'-ness. It's not depression or profound, but I do feel that weird neutrality people mention. Keeping an eye on it.
• Blood pressure went down and is amazing now.
• I still get sweet food cravings at night.
• I sometimes have less desire for coffee, which sucks because I love coffee.

You all? Any tips/insights/etc? I welcome it.

Hi there! I hope this is ok to post? I'm sharing information about a FREE literary reading in Brooklyn on June 24 -- we're just a bunch of Lynch-loving writers and editors coming together to read works inspired by Lynch's works or themes he encounters in his work.

This is totally free—no drink minimum or anything, although the drinks here are great—just a chance to hang with other Lynch lovers and hear some literary works (both nonfic and poetry) by established, awesome writers. We'll be playing Badalamenti all night.

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edited to add: Thank you all for being so empathetic!! I am going to continue to offer what I can. And thanks to those who said they'd bring food/water. He's usually on a bench near the fountain, with a small dog inside a bag right with him.

I am always afraid to ask something in this group because inevitably I get told I am an idiot or wrong....lol, but whatever.

Lately, there's been a guy who sleeps on the bench in Van Vorst Park. He keeps his dog in a little black bag on the bench with him. I feel terrible for them both. I left some dog food there the other day but always don't want to be That Person who also brings a water bowl and food all the time. I admit to feeling a little shy about asking again and again if he needs anything.

Every single day I take a walk through the park and on many days, I see him. I don't see anyone else interacting with him, and it worries me that the dog is just sitting on the bench there every day. It doesn't look like he has any food or water

Has anyone else seen him? He's newish in the park, I think. I worry about the dog in the heat. Has anyone else tried to offer him anything? How best to help people and their animals in this situation? just spitballing

...because it still hurts! Link in comments below.

I'm having a hard time understanding the monthly increases. So I know the first dose is just to get you started, and everything else beyond 4 is therapeutic. But what is the point of increasing each month? Is it because the prior dose stops working?

Like if you're already struggling to eat 1000 calories per day on, say, 9 mg, why would you increase? Would you not just struggle to eat more food? You still need to eat food in order to survive.

So I'm wondering what the purpose of increasing is. Is it just to reduce hunger even more?

I'm on 1.5. I don't weigh myself so I have no idea what I've lost, but I know my clothes fit better. THANK you!!

I think I need some moral support.

I was diagnosed later 2024 with grade 2 antero spondy. A whole mess in there, collapsed discs, exploded discs, arthritis, pars breaks, slippage, the works. I did PT for a long time and also hydrotherapy has been a god--send. I haven't had actual pain in AGES. Like, it gets tender but is fine. I am not perfect but I am not suffering. Yesterday I carried a tote on one side with my laptop and shoes, AND NOW BAM. I can barely walk. All the muscles/low back feels horrible, like it's pulled to one side. Can anyone speak to this experience? WTF? I'm so sad. And scared. Have you had a dumb thing flare you after a good long time?

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I am a sorely lapsed Catholic. I went to Catholic school for a bit as a child, and I was raised around Catholic ritual & belief. I would not say that I am anywhere near close to being a Catholic today. However, there are things about Catholicism that still feel comforting.

The problem is there is a barrier for me. I cannot understand how a God would demand Ultimate devotion, how he could be vengeful or jealous. How be could demand worship. I watched a whole speech about the Eucharist being a literal transubstantiation of the blood the flesh. It got me thinking about symbology versus the literal, how God wanted to be so worshiped as to be consumed. It feels tyrannical.

In my heart, it doesn't feel correct or good or safe or kind to have God demand ultimate devotion. For many years, I studied paganism, and it makes more sense to me. That religion is one arm through which the divine is translated. (Or mistranslated thru the human lens).

Rather, the divine to me is something greater than all of us, something we cannot know or transcribe or describe. It's all around us. It doesn't require devotion or obsession or ultimate worship. We are not being told we are being tested. We are not going to be punished to everlasting Fire.

So, I'm wondering how priests talk to people who don't understand how God could be vengeful or jealous or demanding of worship. My father says that he created everything, therefore he is "entitled" to be vengeful and jealous, and he is "entitled" to punish us. That doesn't speak to me. But I would like to know a priest's perspective. How do people work with this idea? How do we reconcile this? I don't mean to be offensive. I genuinely want to know

Do you smell that? Our windows were open and it was awful! like glue or chemicals. Near Van Vorst.