Down 8.6kg (104.6 to 96) in my first month on Foundayo 0.8mg
Hey everyone, I wanted to share what my first month on Foundayo has actually been like, because stepping on the scale this morning and seeing exactly 96.0 kg down from 104.6 kg was a massive milestone, but the mental shift behind that number is the real story. I took a quick photo of the scale in just to document it, but honestly, the physical and psychological adjustment over the last four weeks has been wild.
For context, I work a pretty high-stress job as a pediatric dentist. My days are a constant whirlwind of managing anxious kids, dealing with nitrous oxide sedation, and being on my feet for hours. Before this, I would come home physically and mentally drained, and my immediate coping mechanism was food. I was constantly defaulting to heavy fast food or massive restaurant buffets just because my brain was too tired to think. Foundayo essentially pulled the emergency brake on that entire lifestyle overnight.
The first two weeks were a massive shock to the system. The early side effects were no joke, mostly this intense, constant heavy fullness that felt like a rock in my stomach for hours, along with waves of nausea and a lot of fatigue as my body adjusted to the delayed digestion. Trying to manage that while keeping children calm in a dental chair was a massive balancing act.
But the biggest hurdle wasn't even the physical symptoms, it was the sudden psychological realization that my main coping mechanism for stress was completely gone.
The real utility I found this month was learning how to reinvent my relationship with food while running on a tight energy budget. When you drop your intake down to a strict 1000 to 1200 calories to maximize the weight loss, you quickly realize you can't just starve yourself or you will crash at work. You have to become incredibly tactical. I had to learn how to aggressively prioritize protein, aiming for a high daily baseline just to keep my strength and focus up for long clinic days.
The most unexpected part of the journey was navigating sensory boredom. When your biological hunger is muted by a GLP-1, your brain still craves the behavioral experience of eating. I found myself genuinely missing the physical crunch of food, to the point where I had to start modifying everything I ate just for the texture. I started introducing things like raw baby cucumbers and a controlled sprinkle of granola into my Greek yogurt and eggs just to trick my brain into feeling satisfied by the act of chewing.
I stopped looking at meals as a comfort and started treating them like a puzzle, like ordering a standard chicken and rice meal but leaving the majority of the rice behind to cut carbs and manually adding extra lean poultry to hit my protein goals.
If anyone is just starting out or trying to manage a demanding, high-stress career while on this medication, the biggest piece of advice I can give after month one is to prepare for the mental vacuum when emotional eating disappears. You have to actively build a new structure of high-protein, high-volume foods that support your daily energy before the fatigue hits you. It takes a lot of trial and error to figure out what fits your specific routine, but seeing the actual progress on the scale makes the entire adjustment worth it.
tldr: Lost 8.6kg (104.6 to 96) in my first month on Foundayo. Navigating the early side effects like nausea and extreme fullness while working a high-stress job as a pediatric dentist was a massive balancing act, but the hardest part was losing food as an emotional coping mechanism. Surviving the drop to a 1000-1200 calorie budget came down to obsessing over protein so I wouldn't crash at work, and finding creative ways to handle sensory boredom when eating stopped being a comfort.