when do you order your next pen?
hi everyone 🩷
i never really ate a Lot in my life, but i rarely ate very healthily, and while i was never thin i was on the heavy side of healthy bmi for a lot of my life - until i turned maybe 32. i'm now 35 and not only did losing weight become a lot harder, my appetite increased and i found myself putting on weight quite a lot.
obesity does run in my family and i think that in my mid thirties it finally got me in its grips.
so on the bank holiday i got curious and came here and saw people's journeys - i don't recall usernames but one lady in particular inspired me to just bite the bullet, and that wednesday i did my first shot. she did me such a favour, i'm so grateful to her.
i think that it's working well. our scales needs a new battery so i haven't weighed myself since the first week but today i'm wearing pants i couldn't get up over my arse a few months ago 😂 and at the weekend when i was wearing dungarees my kickers fell as far down as they could. so i think the water weight is going. appetite suppression is going well and i'm focusing on finding foods that are both nourishing and enjoyable to make permanent changes to what i eat and how i eat.
life without food noise is so different. my mood tends to be better, i think i'm sleeping better, somehow my motivation to do things instead of procrastinating has improved. i used to wear makeup every day of my life until a couple of years ago and even my motivation to do that has returned this week, which makes my happy because i love the ritual of putting it on.
i don't earn a HUGE amount at my job, so i was afraid of money feeling tougher... but! i had given up drinking about a month before i got on mj - i used to drink at weekends but kind of lost all interest in it at random. so between the snack money and takeaway money and money spent on drink, i think that it's more of a transition of funds than a new money sink. i know when i go up in doses it's going to cost more, but i'm still framing it as "well i spent roughly 80 or more on these things a week anyway" so really it only works out to whatever the difference is, in my head.
yesterday i took my third dose and looking at the pen i suspect there is probably an extra dose, but my question is when should i be ordering the next pen - before i take my next dose or after? i obviously don't want to end up going off schedule!
thank you for reading and for being such a great community 🩷 i haven't posted before or commented very much, but i've been reading here since i started and somehow that has made me feel very supported 🥰