r/zepbound_support

Here’s my story: I’m currently new to Zepbound. Using the Quickpen 2.5mg (10mg/2.4)dose for 2 months so far. Switched over from glp1.
I have an appointment in a few weeks to Increase my dosage.
Not to get ahead of myself, but It’s hard to cook for single servings (One person) I grew up in a very large family.
I also I don’t like leftovers.

I’ve tried the eating well website, some are too complicated and too many ingredients. I have a limited food budget which is also a problem.
So I’ve been struggling with meals. Dinner is a protein, carb and veggies. I need a simple meal plan due to stomach issues can’t find anything reasonable.
Breakfast: example: two scrambled eggs, or an omelette w/veg, Dave’s whole wheat seeded bread w/fruit jam, coffee

If I need a snack or craving sweets I go to Greek yogurt with fresh, frozen or canned no sugar added fruit with a splash of bobs red mill granola.

I doubt that’s enough protein but I don’t know how much is enough to eat other than the size of your palm (4 to 6 ounces)
Please advise if you have any suggestions or can share what you eat?

(Thank you for all the suggestions! I have the information I need now to help with meal planning. Post is closed)

I can’t believe how delicious these are!! Just bought 2 huge boxes at Costco. I put each one in the freezer for 10 minutes before drinking…. Woooooo Hoooooooo!!! And 20g protein in each cute bottle. Mixed Berry Vanilla is my fave 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼🎉🎊…. Better than any Greek yogurt and a lot easier to get down. Go Go Get These 😋

I am the most sit-on-my-ass-and-let-the-world-go-by person in the world. But since my 6 weeks on Zep I find that I'm less apt to procrastinate. Not deliberately. Just by simple inclination. And I throw things out rather than arguing with myself endlessly about whether I'll regret not having it later.

I'm also happier. I'm certainly more comfortable with less of the feeling that the fat in my body is squeezing me out. I'm calmer without my brain running through every delicious food possibility in the world at every blessed minute. Reasons enough to be happy. But something in me has just opened up to the possibility of happiness. I mean I don't think I was depressed as such but I was burdened and now I'm not. How about that?!

There's no clinical trial to say that it's Zepbound. But It sure feels different to me in the timeline since I started.

Eli Lily, can I nominate you for a Nobel Prize? What a change in my life! I hope it never stops.

I don't want to go all fan girl here but I've been using My Net Dairy for 2 weeks and it makes thing so simple.

It synchs with my Apple watch and picks up my walking efforts. It tracks my Zep shots and my weight. It gives me a clear picture of how many grams of protein and fiber I've consumed as well as my hydration and it let's me know how many calories I have left to stay in my proper deficit.

As for tracking foods, nothing could be simpler. It converts my description of what I've eaten or plan to eat and it reads barcodes (and there's only been one thing so far that's stumped it -- dried strawberries from China). Now here's the kicker: for lunch I had tandoori chicken, chana masala, veggie biryani and some raita. I took a photo of my plate and it decoded that and logged it into my daily intake.

I can't tell you how accurate it is. One day it called a lunch of sliced cold leftover steak deli roast beef but I don't think that's so off in the trade for the simplicity of taking a picture of my plate.

I'm not slavish to it. I eat what I want and if I go over on calories I do and if I'm a little under on protein for a day I get over it. I just makes me feel like a know what I'm doing and when I need to resort to a protein drink (I'm trying to do this with actual food).

There are probably lots of other trackers that do great stuff. I just find that the one I found keeps me informed and on track of my daily and ongoing progress toward healthy food in quantities that fuel my body for good health while I lose. And I'm hopeful that it will be an asset in helping me retain as much bone and muscle mass as I possibly can.

Do you use one? What is it and how does it help you stay on track? What do you like best about it?

tl/dr: Has anyone have success drinking Liquid Salad?

It's my 2nd day on Zepbound, absolutely no appetite but I'm eating at least half of what I'd usually eat. Extreme fatigue and exhaustion the morning after the first shot.

I've always hated veggies but used to eat salads a few times a week. Then I had my gallbladder removed and everything goes right through me, especially veggies.

I still hate veggies but want to keep things moving. Has anyone tried any of the Liquid Salads I'm seeing ads for? With success?

I'm struggling to eat foods I love, let alone veggies.

Thank you.

I have been on Zepbound for three years. I’ve been in maintenance for about a year. I’ve been lucky enough to get the Medicare Bridge for the first time ever and I am on 7.5 dosage. I started getting the qwikpen when I got the Medicare bridge coverage. I used the vial for 2 1/2 years. I wonder if anyone has noticed any difference in the medication coming from the vial versus the qwikpen. I am struggling with maintenance at the moment, eating more sugar than usual, and the change in eating seemed to shift when I started using the qwikpen. Maybe it’s just a coincidence and I would have had maintenance issues using the vial as well.

Has anyone used both and noticed a difference in the strength and/or efficacy of the drug going from one format to the other? I wonder if the drug had to be altered going to qwikpen format. I’ve no idea!

I started Zepbound a week ago. I took it at around 6pm and at 6 am I woke up basically swallowing my throw up and it kept me up the rest of the night. I have the biggest fear of throw up so I was freaking out. I took Zofran, the next day and the rest of the week I was fine. Today was shot day and I took it at around 8pm didn’t eat a good 6 hours before bed and here I am writing this at 6am with bad acid reflux to the point where I wake up about to throw up. I took tums and famotidine; nothing helped then I woke up almost throwing up so I took Zofran. No nausea btw just that heart burn/acid reflux before it turned into the throw up taste it was like water kept coming up in my throat. Any tips pls cuz I really wanna continue but I can’t not sleep and be freaking out that I’m gonna throw up once a week. Any recommendations please 🙏

Don't get me wrong. I won't miss any of the fat. But 6 weeks in if you asked me the biggest benefit I'd say it's to own my own brain and be able to think about what *I* want to instead of the constant food obsession.

Also, I can enjoy food but I don't care about what I eat at the same time. I just had a spectacularly boring lunch of plain leftover roasted turkey breast, leftover Brussels sprouts and a pear. What could have been more bland? Didn't matter. It provided protein and fiber and that's what actually mattered to me. Besides, the pear was delicious.

What does Zepbound do for me? It allows me to relax. Hip, hip HOORAY!

First dose tonight, hopeful but nervous after my experience with Wegovy

I just took my first 2.5 mg dose of Zepbound, and I’m feeling hopeful but nervous. I tried Wegovy in the past, but I didn’t lose much weight and felt sick all the time. Looking back, I also wasn’t making the best food choices. After stopping it, I developed bad acid reflux and felt like my stomach wasn’t the same. I’m not sure whether that was related to Wegovy, the weight gain, or something else.

I’m now taking stronger medication for my reflux and want to give this another try with Zepbound, while being more mindful of what and how much I eat.
My biggest fear is feeling sick again. I just want to feel like myself, quiet the food noise, and lose the weight I’ve gained over the past three years.
Has anyone had a difficult experience with Wegovy but tolerated Zepbound better? I’d love to hear your experiences and what helped you when starting.

I was on Wegovy for 14 months and lost 65 pounds.

Then I lost my insurance and was off it for 3 months.

Three days ago I took my first shot of Zepbound 2.5. The doctor said I should start at the lowest dose.

Three mornings since I’ve taken it, I am very hungry only in the morning. Hunger pains, weakness, etc. Even after I drink a protein shake and eat some greek yogurt I have hunger pains.

But, around 11-12, suddenly they go away.

I’m wondering if this is normal with Zepbound or perhaps my body recognizes the medicine and the dose amount is causing this.

I don’t know if this is Zep related or not or if it’s just pure coincidence. I think the only way to find out if it’s pure coincidence as if I stopped taking the Zep for a period of time and let it completely clear out of my system and see how I feel, but I knew I’m just gonna gain the weight back if I do that.

I went through kind of a break up earlier this year, and it has left me feeling lower than I ever felt in my entire life. The breakup, if you can even call it that, it was never actually officially a relationship, which is kind of one of the reasons that I had to walk away, was the very last day of January. I started taking Zepbound I believe in March. Before that, I was on Wegovy for about a year and I never had any sort of depression on that. I mean the occasional luteal phase crying and things like that but… I mean that’s pretty normal for me.

The timeline here is a bit odd because I feel like I went straight from crying over a breakup to then taking Zepbound to then just feel incredibly incredibly depressed. But I don’t know if that depression is just like left over from the breakup or if it’s being caused or exacerbated by taking this drug. I just don’t know what to do. I feel like the only other time that I’ve ever been this emotional and cried this consistently has been many years ago when I took birth control and it completely wrecked havoc on my entire system, and I was the most emotional that I’ve ever been in my life and I literally could not stop crying. I figured out pretty quickly that it was because of the birth control. I’ve never taken it since and I’ve been fine since. Again, I will get bouts of depression sometimes but never this long lasting.

My doctor is useless for advice. She says it’s not related and take antidepressants. But I don’t want to be a antidepressants. I’ve always been very afraid of those.

Has anybody else experienced this on Zepbound? Or have you taken one of the other GLP1s and noticed any sort of difference? I have way more symptoms in general on Zepbound than I ever had on Wegovy. And no, unfortunately I cannot switch back to the Wegovy because my insurance doesn’t cover it. My insurance does, however cover the Zepbound because I do have diagnosed sleep apnea. But they will not pay for any weight loss medication just for weight loss purposes.

Just wondering if anyone else has similar experiences here. And what you did about it. I’m on 5.0 mg. I’ve never gone up because my side effects are still pretty noticeable even on this dose.

My insurance has begun once again covering Zepbound. For some context, I was on Zepbound last year until CVS Caremark stopped covering it and I had to switch over to Wegovy and now I'm back. I was on Wegovy HD (7.2mg) and now my PCP sent in a prescription for Zepbound 10mg.

I had read that it's best to start back at 2.5mg and titrate up. When I lost coverage for Zepbound last summer I was taking 10mg. Should I be concerned?

I'm afraid that if I start at 10mg I am going to have some severe side effects, compared to 2.5 or 5mg.

Has anyone recently done this? If so, any problems?