🧠Adjusting your brain to your new/changing body 🧠

[Thistley]

Ok so I looked around on the forum before posting this and there didn’t seem to be a discussion about this.

This is not a weight loss forum but….

There are posts about the numbers. But curious about experiences of change those who have lost study level weight % ‘s so far, on any of their pep GLP1 combos/ sema/ tirz/ Reta have had.

How have you honestly found the mental adjustment? I find I am struggling to understand the space this body takes up, 76lbs less of it.

The lack of food noise is the main reason I’ll stick with these. Honestly it’s only now I have started to realise how disordered I actually was/am. That makes me very sad because I thought I was fine before. Now I know why other methods didn’t work. I didn’t know there was something broken until I started Tirz and realised what it feels like to be normal. I didn’t realise food noise wasn’t normal until it was switched off. You don’t know what you don’t know.

I keep trying to wear my old clothes somehow and have to keep being told they don’t fit anymore. I see progress yeah ( I took photos and measurements) but I also just see how far I have still got to go. Parked my [still big] ass by the halfway sign and am only looking forward .

Stall mentality maybe?

Those of you who have reached maintain level now your views and experiences would be really most welcome. Do you feel you are treated differently now than before?


And finally… did you really understand what lose skin actually means to you… what that actually looks like. Because I knew… in my brain 🧠 and I we understood…. But seeing it on me was different than I expected.


And I know this stuff just isn’t talked about enough. So wanted to make a little space in the universe for folks to think and share. 🌻

 

[Peotidethrowaway]

I was 275-280 when I started not quite a year ago. Yesterday I was 212 or 214 I can’t remember. To be out of the over weight category I’d have to be 190 or 195 iirc. I think my goal is probably 200. I’ve been 195 after two years of calorie counting and it would be pretty hard for me to get back to that weight. Anyway I still wear some of the same clothes but I also wear a lot of stuff I’ve had for years and bought when I was lighter. I have progress photos but I don’t look at them, I should I guess because when I look in the mirror I don’t feel like I look any different. I’m old so I’m surprised I don’t have a lot of extra skin but I don’t feel like I do. I have lost a ton of muscle though. I think I’m ok with it. I’ll make that trade anyway

 

[Sun_Seeker]

I could've written your post. 70 lbs down as of this morning, and I'm definitely still wearing a lot of my old clothes. Although over the last couple of weeks, I've been purging, selling, donating and giving away lots of them in an effort to make sure my whole self gets it that we are not going back to where we were. I pulled out storage bins of things that were "too small" that either now fit or are also too big! But in my mind, and in so many actions, I'm still as big as the day I started.
It's when I'm at the gym, or doing things like CAMPING (omg, last weekend, and on an 8" air mattress I could get up off of now) that I feel different. This morning a package arrived with a sweater that was four sizes smaller than when I started. I put that sucker on, and it FIT. I just started to weep.
Tirzepatide has provided a true miracle for me. Its fixed so many hormones and things that were broken, that now work. And yes, given me a glimpse into what it's like to live without constant food noise and how to eat like a "normal" person.
Yes; people treat me differently. Especially strangers. I seem to be allowed to take up room and I'm treated with more respect and courtesy at this smaller size. The loose skin - well, I'm working on it. I'm in my late 50s, so idk how much I can do about it but we'll see and I feel like I've still got a long way to go to be at goal.