u/talknerdytome26

This is something I wasn’t expecting at all and I’m really curious if anyone else has experienced it.

For as long as I can remember, if I went a few hours without eating I’d start feeling absolutely awful - shaky, woozy, pounding heart, headache, and a really urgent feeling that I needed to eat now. Even after eating it could take a couple of hours to feel properly normal again.

I’ve been checked for diabetes multiple times and have worn a CGM for a couple of weeks on more than one occasion. Even when I felt like this, my glucose never really dropped below about 4 mmol/L, so it doesn’t seem to have been true hypoglycaemia. I’ve just always thought of them as “blood sugar crashes” because that’s exactly what they feel like.

It’s actually affected how I eat quite a lot because I’ve always been conscious of not letting myself go too long without food. Lower-carb diets have helped with it in the past, but I’ve never found them sustainable.

I’m now only on day 6 of Wegovy 0.25 mg, and the strangest thing is that this feeling has completely disappeared.

I’m still getting hungry, but it’s just hunger. I can notice it’s been five hours since I ate and think “oh, I’m hungry, I should probably eat soon” rather than my body going into full alarm mode.

What makes it even weirder is that I’m eating less overall because my appetite/food noise has already reduced, so if the old symptoms were simply because I needed to eat more often I’d have expected them to get worse, not disappear.

Obviously six days is far too early to know if this will last, but it’s such a noticeable change because I’ve had this for years.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar on semaglutide/another GLP-1? Especially anyone who used to get reactive-hypo-type symptoms despite having normal blood glucose when they checked?

This is maybe a slightly weird question, but I’m really curious about this side of weight loss.

For anyone who’s lost a substantial amount of weight on Wegovy and gone from being visibly overweight/obese to what society would basically see as an “acceptable” or fairly normal weight. Did you notice a difference in how people treated you?

Not so much the health/fitness/clothes side of it, but just what it feels like existing in the world.

I was relatively slim in my 20s and then gradually gained quite a lot of weight over the last 10 years. And I do feel like somewhere along the way people started treating me differently. Strangers seem less friendly, I get ignored more, people can be weirdly rude or dismissive, and I sometimes feel like I’m taken less seriously.

The problem is that I can’t really separate the weight gain from everything else that’s happened over that same period. I’m also 10 years older, society has changed, I’m at a different stage of life etc. So I genuinely don’t know how much of it is weight bias and how much is just… being a woman getting older / the world being a bit less friendly 😂

So I’m really interested in hearing from people who’ve gone the other way fairly recently. Did you suddenly notice strangers being nicer? More eye contact? People starting conversations with you? Better treatment in shops/restaurants/work situations? More attention from men/women? Did people seem to take you more seriously?

And if there was a big difference, how did that make you feel? I can imagine it being nice in one sense but also quite upsetting to realise that people are treating you better when you’re fundamentally exactly the same person.

I’ve only just started Wegovy so I’m getting massively ahead of myself here 😂 but this is one of the things I keep wondering about.

Would also really like to hear from anyone who lost a lot of weight and didn’t notice much difference, because I don’t want to assume every change in how people treat you is automatically down to weight.

I did my first injection last night and I feel absolutely no different today, still absolutely starving! I know I’m being impatient and I might just need a stronger dose, but I thought it would do something…I guess I was probably being a bit hopeful and overly optimistic. I’m grateful not to be floored by side effects, but it’s making me wonder if I even injected it right! I was never looking to lose lots of weight fast and didn’t want to have zero appetite, but hoped I might get a bit of a break from all the food noise etc.

Just looking for a bit of reassurance I guess. It was a big jump for me to give this a go and I’m having to pay privately while on a tight budget, starting to worry that I’m just going to spend a fortune for months on something that won’t work for me (which I always knew was a possibility).

Edited just to add that I’m on WeGovy - starting off on this one as it’s cheaper in the UK 😊

A bit of a long shot but I’m wondering if anybody has any spare eclipse glasses? I’ve got a toddler and a newborn so I’ve been living under a bit of a rock and didn’t even realise it was happening! I’d love to show my toddler but I’m not sure she’ll understand not to look at the sun.

Thanks! 🙏🏻

I’ve been approved to start Wegovy 0.25mg (I’m in the UK and it’s the cheapest option for me), but I’m having so many feelings about it. I wasn’t really sure who to talk to about it and then found this sub, and it seems like you guys might understand where I’m coming from.

As a child it was a running joke in my family that I had an endless appetite. I genuinely seemed to burn it all off so it was fine, and I didn’t mind the jokes at all. Then around 10/11 I hit puberty and suddenly weight just seemed to stick to me.

I got bullied a lot at school because of my weight and that led to restricting and disordered eating. I managed to stay a “healthy” weight through calorie restriction until my early 20s, when I eventually decided I was done with being hungry and miserable all the time.

I gained quite a lot of weight, then a couple of years later crash dieted and lost it all again. Since then I’ve basically gone up and down depending on whether or not I can be completely obsessed with everything I’m eating and tolerate being starving hungry a lot of the time.

I also had my naturally slim mum and sister to compare myself to and could see how easy it seemed for them to turn food down, leave things, not think about it etc. That has just never really been my experience.

Eventually I found the anti-diet/body positivity movement and honestly it was a massive relief. I worked really hard on accepting that I lived in a larger body and that was okay, because it meant I could actually enjoy my life without constantly dieting, restricting and engaging in disordered eating. I’d say I got to genuine body acceptance, even if I never quite got to feeling “positive” about my body.

Fast forward a few years and I’ve now had two babies in three years and spent basically all of that time pregnant, breastfeeding, pregnant again, then breastfeeding again.
I’ve now finished breastfeeding and I’m left dealing with obesity, feeling hungry constantly (not because I’m intentionally restricting), and recently some dodgy liver results which, as a nurse myself, I suspect could turn out to be fatty liver.

I’d also previously got to a place where I genuinely enjoyed running. Now I feel so far away from being able to exercise comfortably without injuring myself and it makes me really sad. Before, I knew I was in a larger body, but I felt healthy and happy in it so it felt manageable. Now it sometimes hurts to get off the sofa to chase my toddler, which feels quite different.

When these medications first became popular I was really against them, if I’m honest. I thought they were just another diet drug that would eventually turn out to be unsafe and get banned after desperate people had been harmed by them.

But over the last couple of years I’ve watched a few close friends use them successfully and it’s made me reconsider things.

Now I’ve actually been approved for Wegovy and part of me is really hopeful about it, especially at the idea that maybe being hungry and thinking about food doesn’t have to be this difficult forever.

But there’s still another part of me that feels like I’m betraying everything I learned from the body positivity movement.

I want to be healthy for my kids. I want to be able to run around with them and feel physically comfortable in my body. I also want to reduce my future health risks.

But I really want my daughter to grow up knowing that it’s okay to be any size. I don’t want her to see me eating tiny amounts, obsessing over weight or dropping huge amounts of weight really quickly and somehow absorb the message that being smaller is better.

I’m not even sure exactly what I’m asking really. I think I’d just love to hear from anyone who came to GLP-1s from an anti-diet/body acceptance background and had similar feelings.

I’m looking for a bit of advice and reassurance before starting Wegovy.

I’m 37F, 172cm and 95kg (209lbs). I’ve had two babies in the past three years, and over the last decade I’ve gained around 44lbs. I’m now officially in the obese BMI category and starting to have some minor health issues, including borderline blood pressure and slightly abnormal liver results. Nothing is seriously wrong at the moment, but I’m conscious that these things could get worse.

Food noise has been a constant in my life since I was about 10 or 11. I’ve always seemed to have a much bigger appetite than most people, and maintaining a healthy weight has felt like a constant battle.

There have been periods when I’ve had a normal BMI, but getting there involved being hungry and miserable, exercising excessively and obsessing over every bite I ate. Whenever I relax and try to eat according to hunger and fullness, I seem to gain a significant amount of weight.

Now that I’m running around after two small children, I simply don’t have the time or energy to exercise as much as I used to or track every mouthful. Being constantly hungry also doesn’t make me a particularly patient or enjoyable person to be around!

I don’t want to crash diet or lose weight as quickly as possible. I’d like to lose weight steadily, improve my health and model a more balanced relationship with food for my children. I’d also love to get back into running eventually.

Does this sound like the kind of situation where Wegovy could genuinely help? Has it allowed any of you to eat more normally without feeling as though you’re constantly dieting?

I’ll be paying privately in the UK, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to afford the highest doses. I may need to stay on a lower dose until the children are older and I can increase my hours at work. I’d therefore be particularly interested to hear from anyone who has had worthwhile, sustained results on the lower doses.

Did it reduce your food noise? Were you able to lose steadily rather than rapidly? And did anyone find that a lower dose continued working for them long term?