Not a drill: 5 pounds from minimum goal

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Scale said 126 lbs today. I stare at my thigh gap for way too long, because it seems fake. My clothing sizes seem fake. I have weird bones in weird places. I keep thinking about getting a full length mirror, then scolding myself "That is unlikely to build character, randompersonrandom. You can look at yourself in the ones in the gym if you want to see it so bad." Every conversation starts with "YOU ARE SO SKINNY". I still look fat to myself, but I KNOW it's in my head and don't concern myself with it.

My no-lower-than-this is 121, and I'm on track to get there in the next month. And then I'm like....done trying to get more off.

I'll celebrate with one of those big Costco blueberry muffins as a joke with a family that kinda adopted me down here. (I was 186 pounds a couple of years back, eating one of those and lamenting that I couldn't afford ozempic. One of the women in that family said, deadpan, "If you're obese and have an associated comorbidity, sometimes insurance will pay for it. (Pause.) Have another muffin.") But my regular losing-weight food is very good, and I go to the gym because it's pleasant to exercise when you're not overweight, which nobody told me, so that won't be hard to keep doing.

I have no experience whatsoever at "not needing to lose weight right now." I have always been either actively working to lose weight, or gaining weight while stressing over the fact that I need to get hold of myself.

This will be my first time where when I get on the scale, it will be with the hope that it says what it said yesterday, last week, last month. This will be the most surreal experience.
 
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randompersonrandom said:
Scale said 126 lbs today. I stare at my thigh gap for way too long, because it seems fake. My clothing sizes seem fake. I have weird bones in weird places. I keep thinking about getting a full length mirror, then scolding myself "That is unlikely to build character, randompersonrandom. You can look at yourself in the ones in the gym if you want to see it so bad." Every conversation starts with "YOU ARE SO SKINNY". I still look fat to myself, but I KNOW it's in my head and don't concern myself with it.

My no-lower-than-this is 121, and I'm on track to get there in the next month. And then I'm like....done trying to get more off.

I'll celebrate with one of those big Costco blueberry muffins as a joke with a family that kinda adopted me down here. (I was 186 pounds a couple of years back, eating one of those and lamenting that I couldn't afford ozempic. One of the women in that family said, deadpan, "If you're obese and have an associated comorbidity, sometimes insurance will pay for it. (Pause.) Have another muffin.") But my regular losing-weight food is very good, and I go to the gym because it's pleasant to exercise when you're not overweight, which nobody told me, so that won't be hard to keep doing.

I have no experience whatsoever at "not needing to lose weight right now." I have always been either actively working to lose weight, or gaining weight while stressing over the fact that I need to get hold of myself.

This will be my first time where when I get on the scale, it will be with the hope that it says what it said yesterday, last week, last month. This will be the most surreal experience.
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Woo hooo!! You'll be there in no time!! Congrats!! Enjoy this & keep reminding yourself you are slim & you are the weight it says on the scale!! 🙂
 
randompersonrandom said:
Scale said 126 lbs today. I stare at my thigh gap for way too long, because it seems fake. My clothing sizes seem fake. I have weird bones in weird places. I keep thinking about getting a full length mirror, then scolding myself "That is unlikely to build character, randompersonrandom. You can look at yourself in the ones in the gym if you want to see it so bad." Every conversation starts with "YOU ARE SO SKINNY". I still look fat to myself, but I KNOW it's in my head and don't concern myself with it.

My no-lower-than-this is 121, and I'm on track to get there in the next month. And then I'm like....done trying to get more off.

I'll celebrate with one of those big Costco blueberry muffins as a joke with a family that kinda adopted me down here. (I was 186 pounds a couple of years back, eating one of those and lamenting that I couldn't afford ozempic. One of the women in that family said, deadpan, "If you're obese and have an associated comorbidity, sometimes insurance will pay for it. (Pause.) Have another muffin.") But my regular losing-weight food is very good, and I go to the gym because it's pleasant to exercise when you're not overweight, which nobody told me, so that won't be hard to keep doing.

I have no experience whatsoever at "not needing to lose weight right now." I have always been either actively working to lose weight, or gaining weight while stressing over the fact that I need to get hold of myself.

This will be my first time where when I get on the scale, it will be with the hope that it says what it said yesterday, last week, last month. This will be the most surreal experience.
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Wow, that's amazing! Congratulations on losing a lot of weight. I'm also at nearly the same weight. I hit a new personal record on the scale at 125.6 today. I started at 148 lbs. If everyone says you are so skinny, then you actually are. A lot of the time during the weight loss journey, You think it is all just the same as in your appearance, you think it is all the same, but in reality, the scale is dropping and your clothes feel different. The reason why you think you look fat is because you are you and you look at yourself daily, but if you have been taking progress pictures during your weight loss journey, then you would know looking back at your old photos, like, "wow, I have made so much progress". And that's the motivation and the key to keep going, even though you still think you look fat, because the proof is in the pudding. Just look at those photos from a few years back or even just a couple months back. For me, I wouldn't say skinnier, but like leaner, as in more definition overall and conditioned, because I hit the gym daily lifting, so all the weight I lost was fat mass, and I actually built some muscle in the process. So maybe to get over that feeling in your head, what might help is taking weightlifting seriously. So couple that with the fat loss and some additional muscle mass gain, it can help with the body image issue.
 
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One of the women in that family said, deadpan, "If you're obese and have an associated comorbidity, sometimes insurance will pay for it. (Pause.) Have another muffin.")
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Got a really good chuckle from this. Thank you. My insurance wouldn’t cover me even though I was morbidly obese, had prediabetes, sleep apnea, and high cholesterol…. I did think about having a candy bar before my bloodwork to see if I could get a diabetes diagnosis. But then decided that diabetes wasn’t something to mess with.

Congratulations on your progress! I have all the same thoughts. As of this morning, I’m 8 lbs to “goal”, but I still see a very fat person in the mirror. I know it’s in my head, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Full length mirrors don’t help, I’ve got those. 🤔
 
Congratulations getting to a place where the numbers will be ever in your favor from now on. 😎

Time for a new and much more stylish wardrobe, no excuses anymore. 🙂

What is your plan for maintenance?
Per 'studies' it seems that GLP-1s after ~ 18 months or so have a tendency for very, very slow weight loss thereafter.
So maintaining a weight level means keeping at the same dosage?
Or are you planning to dial it down a bit?

I've spent time trying to find others who've lost weight here and on the Reddit channels, I've not seem many who've a plan/idea about what might work and what will not.

The ones that do have a plan tend toward the 'I will exercise a lot, and reduce my dosage slowly down to zero', that's it...at least on Reddit.
I don't think that will work out IMHO, GLP-1s are needed to correct a imbalance that has damaged metabolic pathways. Without this correction gaining the weight back will be inevitable.

Another problem is, what are hunger signals for a person on GLP-1?
As in, needed calories for keeping energy levels constant, before tapping into fat stores was easy while fat, now without those overwhelming stores of fat, it seems harder to keep the levels constant.

Have you a constant energy level for doing the things that you like to do?
Running out of energy in the middle of a nice walk is irritating...not being tired, not being muscle worn out, just not having energy to move, all wobbly.

It is NOT protein levels btw, it's another factor...keep eating protein, but to add muscle mass, what else is needed to up the 'I can do things now because I'm not hauling around 50 extra pounds' but have no energy problem?

I've been tossing ideas, trying to find solutions, for a while now...if you have any insight that would be great.

Again, congratulations on getting to your ideal weight.
I hope that you keep posting, reading your posts does make my day...very spicy. 🙂
 

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Congratulations getting to a place where the numbers will be ever in your favor from now on. 😎

Time for a new and much more stylish wardrobe, no excuses anymore. 🙂

What is your plan for maintenance?
Per 'studies' it seems that GLP-1s after ~ 18 months or so have a tendency for very, very slow weight loss thereafter.
So maintaining a weight level means keeping at the same dosage?
Or are you planning to dial it down a bit?
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My wardrobe has gone on the same journey as my body; I always bought stuff that fit me now, and at least one outfit that was just a LITTLE small on me. Mostly thredup and Poshmark, though I did buy a new yellow dress a week or two ago that was so beautiful and I ly twenty bucks. Worth it.

I'm of the belief that the dose that got you there is the dose that will keep you there, so it looks like 12.5 mg is likely my maintenance dose. Through this whole thing, I haven't counted calories except a quick add up in my head per meal when I knew the info, which was often, and I try to stick to "no sweets, no snacks, no second helpings unless I'm out with friends, and even then, try not to go nuts."

I don't expect that "not losing any more weight" will present even the slightest difficulty; I stalled from mid December to march because I wasn't trying very hard, and only started losing again when I started trying again. I expect that "eat right but don't try too hard" will be a reasonable maintenance.
 
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