My introduction

[Notafed]

Just to start out with the name, I like to stir chaos, not to mention so much talk in these threads about who is and isn't a scam or "compromised" and why not lead some people to wonder if a federal agent is joining in. Just to be clear though I am not trust me bro! 😉 Anyways I made an account 90 percent because I wanted to be able to see photos in full resolution. If I ever start to conversate I will most likely be asking questions I don't think I have much to add to the conversation I am pretty cookie cutter. This is going to be a lot, but I write this down less for you all and more to speak this out somewhere as I haven't told a soul the whole story. Feel free not to read I actually encourage you not to.

Now for that cookie cutter story I am a fairly young adult who has spent their whole life being overweight/ obese whatever you want to call it. I wouldn't even say struggle because rarely did I try to do anything about it I just accepted it was who I was/meant to be. Now everyonce in awhile I would go up a size and try something, with no results. The closest was Keto + Covid giving me enough time and absolutely no excuses and I lost about 40lbs, but then I hit a hard stall felt awfull, then about 2 weeks going nowhere my knee dislocated one day and I gained it all back.

I have always felt that you have to ready and willing and wanting change to have a shot at it in any category. While weight loss can be a stacked deck I believed and still do for any one to have a chance they have to be decided and firm in resolve. My resolve like many came and passed, but my moment the moment which as of now and for months has held was when I saw 360 on the scale. I had seen 350 just a short while ago and that was a major heartbreaker, but I was morbidly accepting of what I thought "I" was and while no one is healthy at that weight my life was in a routine. But when I saw 360 just a few months later I knew I was going to die if I kept it up.

I think in part my weight while always high would usually be consistent for long periods. I had a period of less workload at work and Costco hot Cheetos which got me to that point, but also I think I was snowballing. I could tell my sleep was unwell and I felt awful like actually awful. I am pretty sure I was dealing with sleep apnea and looking in the mirror I noticed my stomach was tettering on losing the fight against gravity and while I might have found a way to live with myself I didn't know how I could look myself in the mirror if my stomach dropped below my waistline. I don't know if I explained that well enough, but the mental image should be there. I worked just to feel awful once I got home and had to do almost nothing at home but sleep and eat to be ready for the next day.

So, with a trip planned for work I decided I would there with a hotel kitchen disconnected from food and a hotel gym less than a minute from my room I would keto again and workout. I saw South Parks end of obesity months ago but never really connected it to myself. I did know someone who had lost a lot with the shots, but just knew them we weren't acquaintances. I saw the Hollywood actors dropping weight too, but maybe in some part of the nihilism of southparks episode I didn't think to bother. Anyways I can't even remember what the turning point was. I think it was either a coworker who's distaste for the shots came out as him saying how much if a cheat/easy they are and I like easy or it was my mother who also deals with weight who claimed she was seriously considering the shots and who I encouraged and then she told me I didn't want to be the weight I am (she didn't know the amount only what one could see with their eyes) when I was her age as she felt she was falling apart.

Anyways I finally look into it and wanting easy find Sesame, and believed based on some Reddit posts and a not complete understanding of healthcare that if I could just get a prescription online my insurance would probably pay for it if I used the online pharmacy. Well the online doctor told me she worked with my health insurance before and it wasn't going to work she also wanted me to meet her in person as she was nearby and she would only write one prescription before she needed blood work done and I didn't want to find out if I had become diabetic and was against the idea of labs. It all fell apart and I wasted I think 100 dollars. But I gave it one last chance and looked for a provider who wouldn't want labs and let me just say this community is truly a rabbit hole/ iceberg that just keeps going further and further down. I remember back then it looked nearly impossible to find and everything a scam and nobody legit was going to let me get away with no labs.

But I found it with orderly meds and here is the first fork in the road, and probably the second greatest thing to happen to me in my life. The form was semaglutide vs tirzepatide and originally I had been trying to get ozempic I thought that one was "the one", but orderly has a chart which said you could expect to lose like 5 percent more body weight with tirzepatide and it was only a 100 more for the first three months. I am so glad it worked out I didn't know tirzepa

 

[Notafed]

I accidentally posted early, and well I wrote more in an edit but it timed out and I lost it. Cliff notes I needed to lose weight or I would lose my job as not a federal agent. I did lose weight with alot of hard work and exercise combined with the drug at my height losing about 5lbs a week for over 2 months straight. I am now under 300 and still losing. I moved from compounded to grey and will be healthy with a 6 pack and weaned off or dead before I am separated from this miracle drug

 

[ohemaaluxe]

Great intro! A lot of what you said really resonates. I’m really glad that you eventually found something that worked, and big congrats on the weight loss! I’m sure we’ll be seeing you with a six pack in no time.

Glad to know you’re not a fed…but also why am I now more suspicious lol 👀

 

[Notafed]

Great intro! A lot of what you said really resonates. I’m really glad that you eventually found something that worked, and big congrats on the weight loss! I’m sure we’ll be seeing you with a six pack in no time.

Glad to know you’re not a fed…but also why am I now more suspicious lol 👀

Appreciate it. It was lost in the original, but I don't really care how far I go I already feel better and am no longer in risk of my career falling apart. My 6 pack argument is mostly that I consider this a lifetime drug. It's possible I make it to the "height" of health, but even then most people regain if they stop. My plan is if I get somewhere I think is top tier I will try and find a maintence dose if I am able to get off I will, but I have no problems sticking with this for life. Point being I don't really need a 6 pack to be happy I already am and in nearly all parts thinks to glp meds. I also want to make clear my early weight loss I don't consider healthy considering how fast I was going, but I mentioned because I could never have sustained that rate without a physical or mental breakdown without the Tirezapatide and I was on the clock to get a good medical.

As for suspicion don't mind me. And remember the government is always on your side! 🕵️

-Notafed

P.S. This part playing is the best idea I had all day

 

[sundayscaries18]

Ope, read the whole thing. There's nothing like being told not to do something to make me wanna do something.

 

[MsGizmo]

him saying how much if a cheat/easy they are and I like easy or it was my mother who also deals with weight who claimed she was seriously considering the shots and who I encouraged and then she told me I didn't want to be the weight I am (she didn't know the amount only what one could see with their eyes) when I was her age as she felt she was falling apart.

Let me just say something as a woman currently weighing over 300 but was thin before having children. It was easy for me to be thin back then. I didn't have to diet. I didn't have to exercise. I did what I wanted and ate what I wanted. I drank a 2 liter of pepsi everyday. I was a size 6 no matter what.

I got pregnant and that changed. My hormones changed. After giving birth I lost about 20 pounds of the baby weight and that was it. I couldn't lose more. I dieted. I exercised. I stopped drinking soda. But everything I tried just made me hungrier. I gave up and accepted that I was just heavier. I was a size 14. Ok. That was just my life. 5 years later I got pregnant again. It was a repeat of the first time. After all was said and done I was a size 18. A few years later I quit smoking and I crept up to a size 24. I got a vertical sleeve surgery and dropped back to a size 20 .. nearly got back to being a size 18 .. and then the weight loss stopped. I accepted that. I wasn't happy, but accepted it. And then menopause happened and I blew up to a size 26. 334 pounds was the last time I let myself be weighed. I had to do something.

After all that long windedness .. my point is .. why can't it be easy? Plenty of thin people don't have to struggle to be thin. Why is there this demand that we must suffer?

 

[Notafed]

Let me just say something as a woman currently weighing over 300 but was thin before having children. It was easy for me to be thin back then. I didn't have to diet. I didn't have to exercise. I did what I wanted and ate what I wanted. I drank a 2 liter of pepsi everyday. I was a size 6 no matter what.

I got pregnant and that changed. My hormones changed. After giving birth I lost about 20 pounds of the baby weight and that was it. I couldn't lose more. I dieted. I exercised. I stopped drinking soda. But everything I tried just made me hungrier. I gave up and accepted that I was just heavier. I was a size 14. Ok. That was just my life. 5 years later I got pregnant again. It was a repeat of the first time. After all was said and done I was a size 18. A few years later I quit smoking and I crept up to a size 24. I got a vertical sleeve surgery and dropped back to a size 20 .. nearly got back to being a size 18 .. and then the weight loss stopped. I accepted that. I wasn't happy, but accepted it. And then menopause happened and I blew up to a size 26. 334 pounds was the last time I let myself be weighed. I had to do something.

After all that long windedness .. my point is .. why can't it be easy? Plenty of thin people don't have to struggle to be thin. Why is there this demand that we must suffer?

when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Plenty of skinny people appreciate the benefits and also may have fat friends who they can't and nearly don't want to see as coming to there "level". If someone fat wants to come to there level they should have to suffer if they don't and it's just a simple shot that can make the difference than suddenly there no longer special and they have to face the reality that those other people were dealing with a medical condition and weren't just people without self control who can be freely looked down upon. I feel a very small small population of formerly fat people who lost weight through surgery and starvation and who keep it off to this day all while fighting hormonal imbalances/ insulin resistance by leading depressing and strict food/exercise lives for the privilege of being "normal" might be a little jealous as well & fixed in that there way is the only right way, but that's very much overshawdowed still by those who have always been skinny and don't entirely like seeing the way the wind is shifting.

Also this medicine is for many "easy" or at least easier than without it, but when I was losing 5lbs a week that was only possible because I had so much I needed to lose, I am/was young/ and I was exercising for two hours a day before work plus working out in the heat all day at work. The medicine just kept me from having a blowout. All's to say it's just a very special piece of the puzzle there is still work going on behind the scenes for nearly all of us it's just this time things are actually paying off.

As for my mother again lost in the failed edit, but she went to health clinic against my pleading to use a telehealth got Semaglutide instead of Tirzepatide and had side effects so bad she quit. She won't listen to me about telehealth and trying Tirzepatide (it's better and different) and while I feel bad for her alot I also am forever thankful that I went with Tirz as I know if I hadn't and gotten Sema I while not guaranteed different age and all sharing half her DNA would have likely had the same side effects and gaven up as well. I can't badger her anymore and yet sometimes I still do. I always wonder if she had went to the clinic before they ran out of Tirz (thx FDA & corporate America) if she could have had results and been then willing to move to telehealth maybe even to grey with me.

I'll end and also say I say corporate America because it's not just LIly it's Novo as well and maybe it's because I am not a compromised government agent, but I don't want to blame either company. I know how the world is and feels but when I see Eli Lily and Novo I see the scientists who cared and fought to get us to this point not the shareholders and board who now fight to keep this medicine expensive and exclusive. These are miracles and the companys should be allowed to profit it's just gone to far. Capitalism is great the best system IMHO it just needs restraining from time to time.