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Yesterday I finally got under 160, for the first time since I was probably a senior in high school, nearly 45 years ago. Seeing "159.6" on the scale was something my brain almost couldn't process. (60 F 5'6")

I've lost almost 30 lbs since January on compounded sema, averaging a pretty steady .84 lbs lost each week. Sometimes it'll slow a bit, but then I'll drop some extra weight and go right back to the .84 average--it also seemed to get back on track when I went up first to 1.0mg and now 1.4mg (if I have to go up more, I will.) I have fought through a fair amount of side effects, but these days I feel pretty good as long as I keep the constipation at bay. (I take Mag07 every night, a fiber bar every day, and my turmeric/fish oil/vitamin d/biotin/b complex supplement stack often seems to get things moving as well.)

But this is only the latest chapter in my weight loss. In 2007 I weighed 251 lbs, and was miserable physically and psychologically after multiple big losses and regains. The first picture was taken in 2009, and within a month I started buckling down and dropped to around 205, bouncing between there and 215 for the next 8 years. Then I went low carb and got down to around 175 in 2018, bouncing between there and 189 until last year.

After slogging through the holidays I decided that there was no way I was going to breach 162 (which I had gotten down to in college after the freshman 30+ got me up to 210) without help, and besides, I think I had proven that I could indeed do all of the "willpower! exercise! track calories! eat clean!" but that it wasn't going to get me to a healthy BMI (around 154 at 5'6"). I wasn't really sure that a GLP-1 would do anything, but I've tried every other weight-loss "solution" since I was first dropped off at Weight Watchers when I was 10, so might as well try this one! I felt the food noise disappear within 24 hours, and it was just stunning to me that I had lived with that for so long--I told my dad that I had basically been hungry my entire life.

I was a few lbs heavier in the second photo than I am now, but you get the idea. My "goal" is 145, so still a little ways to go, but we'll also just see where my body lands. I need to get better about resistance training more regularly, but I do okay with exercise. And I have zero intention of stopping the drug, though I hope to be able to titrate back down at some point for maintenance.

The most important thing--don't ever give up. If you have to tread water for a while, that is still better than where you started. (It took me well over 14,000 days to finally get to 162 again!)

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I've been using this Gen 3 in this house for four years, but late last year I got a new HVAC with a two-stage cooling system. When it got really hot here last week and I was out of the house for a number of hours (so it switched to Away and set the temp higher), I came back to find that it would try to fire off Stage 2 cooling in order to try to drop the temp by about five degrees, and after about a minute the little light at the top of the Gen 3 would flash briefly and then the AC would turn off and say "Off for five minutes" or whatever, then would repeat. If I just set the cool temp one degree down from the current temp, it cooled with no problem.

I don't have a C wire, and the thinking is starting to be that the Gen 3 battery is not getting charged enough to handle that switch to Stage 2 cooling.

I'm going to take it off tonight to charge it and see if that makes a difference, but as I'm seeing it, my options are:

Have a C Wire run, which may or may not be relatively simple, or

Move the G wire over to the C wire, since I never use the fan.

Anyone else have thoughts?

During the public preview, the AI coach worked great for me (on a premium plan with a Pixel Watch 4), at least in terms of sending morning briefs in the morning and daily wrap-ups in the evening. But once the switchover to Google Health happened, I'm now getting day-end messages at 10:30 am ("Seems like you took it really easy today!") I've asked it how to fix it, and it's given me some ideas, but none of them have worked.

I don't usually wear the watch to bed because it bugs me and because I have an Oura ring. Last night I decided to wear it to see if having actual Pixel Watch sleep data would work, but it didn't. When I yelled at the coach (yes, in all caps), it said that it was sorry but that it didn't have any sleep data to go on, even though all my sleep data hit the app 90 minutes before the "daily wrap-up" arrived.

Anyone have any ideas? I sent feedback to Google, and it's really not that big of a deal, but it's driving me nuts.

I am needing to titrate up from 0.8 mg sema during month 3 of a 6-month order (forgot to request it when I did the refill). They approved it, with a plan for 1.4 and then 2.15, which would start with the final two vials in my six-month order, scheduled to be filed in a month or so. I've now received an invoice for $267. I've sent a couple messages asking how they came to that number, but with no response yet, so I'm wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation and can explain?