Meatlover255
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I’m so glad to find this forum! I’d forgotten how much I love forums: there is so much to read and learn!
Like most here, my weight has gone up and down over the years — mostly with stress. I’m a 44-year old, 5’9” guy who recently got up to 292 lbs — too close to my 306 lbs max in 2018. I got fat in junior high, but did intermittent fasting in high school and got to a really healthy 145 lbs in college; that’s the weight when I ran my best marathon. Then my weight shot up in grad school, then dropped at my first “real” job, then went up to its max around the time it went bankrupt and laid me off. Then I found a cool place to work and I got down to 241 lbs with intermittent fasting — mostly OMAD and ADF — over about 2 years. Sadly work is toxic again — my favorite coworkers keep quitting — and I’ve gained 50 lbs in 2 years.
Anyway, I’m finally putting my health before work! At my annual physical my PCP started me on compounded tirzepatide, and I cannot believe how different it feels compared with fasting. With fasting, I always got cold on my fasting days (alternate day fasting). Now I feel full with half what I have been eating and I don’t feel cold. I’m only in my second week on tirz, but it feels like there’s hope and I want to learn from all of you. There are so many people on here who have transformed themselves!
Luckily, I wrote a well-reviewed cookbook in the 2010s, so I know how to cook healthful food for myself (and my aging parents). I’m surprised that tirz is making it easier for me to choose meat and veg over pasta — I hope this continues! Though I haven’t noticed it stopping my cravings for sweets, but I’m having the willpower to just take a little or skip it.
Like most here, my weight has gone up and down over the years — mostly with stress. I’m a 44-year old, 5’9” guy who recently got up to 292 lbs — too close to my 306 lbs max in 2018. I got fat in junior high, but did intermittent fasting in high school and got to a really healthy 145 lbs in college; that’s the weight when I ran my best marathon. Then my weight shot up in grad school, then dropped at my first “real” job, then went up to its max around the time it went bankrupt and laid me off. Then I found a cool place to work and I got down to 241 lbs with intermittent fasting — mostly OMAD and ADF — over about 2 years. Sadly work is toxic again — my favorite coworkers keep quitting — and I’ve gained 50 lbs in 2 years.
Anyway, I’m finally putting my health before work! At my annual physical my PCP started me on compounded tirzepatide, and I cannot believe how different it feels compared with fasting. With fasting, I always got cold on my fasting days (alternate day fasting). Now I feel full with half what I have been eating and I don’t feel cold. I’m only in my second week on tirz, but it feels like there’s hope and I want to learn from all of you. There are so many people on here who have transformed themselves!
Luckily, I wrote a well-reviewed cookbook in the 2010s, so I know how to cook healthful food for myself (and my aging parents). I’m surprised that tirz is making it easier for me to choose meat and veg over pasta — I hope this continues! Though I haven’t noticed it stopping my cravings for sweets, but I’m having the willpower to just take a little or skip it.
