zep changed my life
this is gonna be a long one so bear with me lol. i’m 26years old, and I was diagnosed with BED when i was 18 years old. little backstory, i grew up in a pretty toxic household as a child (alcoholic father, had to grow up to fast you get the gist) and little me learned how to deal with my big emotions by comfort eating! yay! so back to my diagnosis. the year before i had actually lost weight naturally by eating healthy and working out, but i think what caused my ED is i would have “cheat days” once a week and i would STUFF MYSELF because i thought i could only have the food that day. anyways as you could imagine this catapulted me into the worst years of my life struggling with an ed that took my best years away from me. i spent my early twenties locked in my room depressed, gorging on food, literally praying to any god that would help me stop. eating.! i tried everything under the sun to help me, here’s a few fun ones:
carnivore diet
cico (i love her now but we didn’t like her back then ha)
keto
hypnotism
ed therapy
soap on food i didn’t wanna stuff myself on
breath work (wim hoff)
not eating (that didn’t work and wasn’t healthy obvi)
omad
emdr therapy
hiding my credit cards
surfing the urge
intuitive eating (lol)
contrave (worked until it didn’t)
i basically tried these things and variations of these things from 2018-2026, gaining and losing the same weight over and over, trapped in a prison of my own doing, while the others in my life watch with confusion and fear lol. i woke up everyday for 2,922 days (approximately the time passed with my ED) and thought THIS is the day i change, this is the day im strong enough to resist. and guess what? i failed nearly every single day. there was no amount of reasoning with myself, i was and AM a food addict. or a binge eater, or whatever is wrong in my head (could it be because of my adhd?? or my trauma? who knows) When I heard of GLP1s I didn’t think too much of it, i was still delusional enough to think i could change on my own. but i heard of this creator i follow on tiktok (sophie silva i think?) and she opened up about her bed struggles, and how she tried monjaro. i did some research and was really scared, like super scared. but i finally decided that the life i was living was too depressing and too sad and i didn’t wanna live like this forever. so i decided on zepbound. My zepbound journey had been the most ideal one i think. I’m a superresponder, I stated zep in december 2025, and lost 34lbs in 5 months. and i’ve only ever been on 2.5mg. i’ve never wanted to go up, and it’s been working amazingly for me with minimal side effects (nausea in the beginning, but nothing crazy, and elevated heart rate) I’m currently going into a maintenance phase as i’m at my goal weight (130lbs) i’m taking the shot every 10 days now, and hope to stretch that more and eventually maybe go off but we’ll see. i’m starting to weight lift now as i wasn’t prioritizing that in the beginning. i’m so happy, my life has totally changed. the only annoying and frustrating thing is my family and societies view on these drugs. it’s sad to think if i was honest with people about the help i got from zep they would think it was an easy way out for me, when it’s far from that. zep released me from a prison and helped me to gain autonomy back to my life and my decisions. thank god for zep that’s all i have to say :)