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Starting Silencio by Clyo Mendoza tonight

Starting Silencio by Clyo Mendoza tonight

Her first book, Fury, came out a few years ago and I’ve read it a few times. It’s translated from the Spanish (Clyo is Mexican). It’s weird, dreamy, feverish, confusing. I send all my friends this review when I’m trying to convince them to read it because I feel my descriptions don’t do it justice. I’m so excited to start Silencio tonight! Have been on a nonfiction kick recently and I need to go back to my weird girl roots.

u/betterlately — 4 days ago

Food noise back on maintenance

Hi all! I've been on Zepbound for about 8 months and have lost about 22% of my body weight. My highest dose was 10 mg. About a month ago, I hit my goal weight and spoke to my doctor about entering maintenance. She lowered my dose to 7.5 mg and gave me a three-month refill, which I filled. Everything was great during the first month, but now that I'm entering week 5, I'm noticing that the food noise and urge to binge are coming back.

I finally managed to quiet the urge to binge that I'd struggled with my entire life, so it's really distressing to have these obsessive thoughts return. The most logical thing, I guess, would be to go back up to 10 mg, but I use insurance, and I already filled three months of the lower dose, so they probably wouldn't cover a refill of the 10 mg right now. I also worry that eventually 10 mg will stop working too, and the food noise will come back again.

What's the best course of action here? I'm still active, counting calories, and maintaining my weight, but I binged for the first time in about six months last night, and I'm concerned. Do I just have to white-knuckle it until I'm able to go back up to 10 mg in two months?

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u/betterlately — 8 days ago