Can you please normalize your commercials, specifically the annoyingly LOUD ones that blast over 20-30 decibals above normal broadcasting volume. When we are playing lite hits or music intended to allow us to sleep, it's counterintuitive! DIP SH!TS!!!!!
Maybe I'm showing my age, but do any of these dating app demands actually work?
For lack of a better word, they feel... bossy.
"Must have this."
"Must not have that."
"No pen pals."
"No games."
"No drama."
"No kids."
"No conservatives."
"No liberals."
"No fish pictures."
No. No. No. No.
I mean, do you go to a restaurant and place an order by only listing what you don't want?
And I understand not wanting a pen pal. At some point you have to meet in person. But how exactly are people supposed to learn about each other first?
A few carefully curated photos, an AI-polished profile, and three days of texting?
And God forbid someone lives 75 miles away from the person who claims they "love to travel."
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but a lot of us probably wouldn't exist if our great-grandparents hadn't spent months writing letters to each other.
Anyway, carry on. I'll be over here trying to figure out how people are supposed to get to know one another without talking to one another.
I contacted my primary provider and asked him to put me on a GLP-1. Honestly, I wasn’t primarily seeking weight loss. I was more interested in improving blood sugar/A1C, lowering cholesterol, reducing inflammation, and decreasing long-term cardiac risk. The weight loss would simply be an added bonus, especially since I’ve been pretty much stuck around 220 lbs for the past 16 years. I also have asthma, so losing some additional body fat would probably help my breathing overall too.
After the first month on 1.5mg, I didn’t notice much of anything — no major weight loss and really no side effects to speak of.
I started the 4mg tablets on 5/3/26. Since then, I’ve continued hovering around 215 lbs in the morning and usually 218–220 lbs by bedtime. At first, I maybe noticed a slight fullness while eating dinner, but I still had the same “snack noise” after dinner most nights.
For context, while I don’t routinely work out, I stay fairly active. My diet already prioritizes protein, isn’t especially high fat, and isn’t super carb heavy either.
Then on 5/9/26, something interesting happened. I was eating lunch and after about 4 bites my brain basically said, “Stop. You’re full.” So I did.
Since then, I’ve consistently noticed I get full faster. Most of the time the snack noise has quieted down too, although I still get occasional breakout periods where it comes back.
What’s interesting is that my weight finally does seem to be trending downward. I’m currently sitting around 211 lbs, which is the first meaningful movement I’ve seen after being stuck around 220 lbs for years.
The downside: this past week my gut has been absolutely gurgling nonstop and I’ve had pretty persistent liquid diarrhea, including waking me up at night.
Rather than immediately quitting the medication, I decided to first adjust some of my other meds/supplements to see if they were contributing. I stopped taking daily berberine, stopped drinking the psyllium fiber I was taking every other day, and swapped my usual morning berries for bananas.
I’m currently on day two of those changes and still having diarrhea. I’m planning to give it another 3–5 days before deciding whether I should either:
Curious if anyone else experienced delayed appetite suppression like this around the first week or two of the higher dose, and whether the GI symptoms eventually settled down.