u/ShiftyMcHax

I've been in maintenance for about 3 months now, and on MJ for a little over 18 months. Overall my family has been supportive, but of course there had been some concerns due to the side effects I experienced and they also wanted me to stay at a bit of a heavier weight. Despite that, it's been like 99% positive.

Since I've gotten to maintenance however, my wife in particular has been pushing for me to jump off. This has only been exacerbated by one of her siblings losing a bunch of weight on MJ and having plans of getting off soon as she reaches her goal weight. They don't understand why I would want to stay on, despite me highlighting my concerns of gaining the weight back.

The reasons behind my wife wanting me to get off them aren't without good reason of course. I had pretty bad side effects during titration and even now I get randomly hit by them once in a while and when I'm feeling unwell I of course can't help around the house as much as when I'm well and that puts a burden on her.

Then there's of course the cost of the meds. I'm the sole breadwinner, working 2 jobs and while we're fine and not struggling, this is a lot of money I'm spending that we could put into savings. She hasn't voiced this explicitly, but I know it's gotta be on her mind. I know I struggle with feeling selfish spending our money on myself like this.

Combine that with the more pseudoscientific reasons she doesn't like me being on them (e.g. tiktok horror stories) and there's a constant pressure over this.

Again, overall she and the rest of my family and friends are supportive and the reasons for me jumping off aren't completely unjustified but it still feels a bit tiring with the slow grinding down over this. Not even really sure what I wanted to say or do, more of a vent I guess.

I've been in maintenance for about 3 months now, and on MJ for a little over 18 months. Overall my family has been supportive, but of course there had been some concerns due to the side effects I experienced and they also wanted me to stay at a bit of a heavier weight. Despite that, it's been like 99% positive.

Since I've gotten to maintenance however, my wife in particular has been pushing for me to jump off. This has only been exacerbated by one of her siblings losing a bunch of weight on MJ and having plans of getting off soon as she reaches her goal weight. They don't understand why I would want to stay on, despite me highlighting my concerns of gaining the weight back.

The reasons behind my wife wanting me to get off them aren't without good reason of course. I had pretty bad side effects during titration and even now I get randomly hit by them once in a while and when I'm feeling unwell I of course can't help around the house as much as when I'm well and that puts a burden on her.

Then there's of course the cost of the meds. I'm the sole breadwinner, working 2 jobs and while we're fine and not struggling, this is a lot of money I'm spending that we could put into savings. She hasn't voiced this explicitly, but I know it's gotta be on her mind. I know I struggle with feeling selfish spending our money on myself like this.

Combine that with the more pseudoscientific reasons she doesn't like me being on them (e.g. tiktok horror stories) and there's a constant pressure over this.

Again, overall she and the rest of my family and friends are supportive and the reasons for me jumping off aren't completely unjustified but it still feels a bit tiring with the slow grinding down over this. Not even really sure what I wanted to say or do, more of a vent I guess.

I'm a daily weigher. In fact, I'm probably bordering on some unhealthy behaviours as I often weigh myself multiple times a day (once in the morning and again in the evening at the very least). I know this is a problem and I've been trying to ease up a bit, but just haven't been able to do it.

Yesterday I simply forgot to do it. I didn't even realize until the evening and it's honestly out of character for me. I've weighed myself daily all this time, even through hospital stays, travel across the state and so on. To simply forget to do it is wild. As a slightly neurotic person, I don't forget about these sorts of things usually (I don't think I've ever left my phone or keys at home by accident for example).

Yet, it was freeing. Today I didn't feel the need to do it and I feel like this burden has been lifted off me. I still plan on checking it regularly to ensure I'm within range in maintenance, but at least I'm now mentally freed through the least interesting of ways.

I came across this earlier today. It's an interesting time capsule. Wild to think compounding was a thing here once upon a time. Empathize with the shortages as I came into it just as they were dying out (though I got bitten a little bit by it the first couple months).

Long story short, the benefits one gets from weight loss don't seem to be completely realized until many years after maintaining the loss (5-10 years) due to this 'memory'.

It also makes me think that if there's anything to the set point theory, it likely means that if your body was going to 'forget' how big it used to be, you'd need to maintain your weight for a very long period of time. Also considering the fact that you'd have extra fat cells that you did before the weight gain which themselves want you to get big again, I don't think it'd be truly possible to go back completely to 'normal'.