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chris_in_cal wrote: »
I'm sweat drenched every time I do my 1hr cardio session
I'm sure this will be a sore sight on maybe 3rd occasion
I also forfeited the possibility of taking daily pictures of myself, too much fuss.1 -
I am meeting my doctor today.
I think we are going to talk about the new weightloss drugs. I'll let you all know how it goes.0 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »I think we are going to talk about the new weightloss drugs. I'll let you all know how it goes.
This was only a preliminary. It will be three to five months to get an actual appointment.
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That's too bad on it just being a prelim. I'm still looking for a primary doc atm and everything is 6-9 months out right now.0
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I called myself out last night with a mini-goal challenge. I am going to lose 20 lbs. by New Year's Eve.0
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chris_in_cal wrote: »I called myself out last night with a mini-goal challenge. I am going to lose 20 lbs. by New Year's Eve.
Whilst I admire your accountabilty to yourself, that is less than 8 weeks, even with a high deficit that's about 16lbs. 20 might be a bit optimistic or putting yourself into the miserable league, especially during a season that revolves around socialising and eating. Perhaps consider a slightly slower rate of loss?0 -
For the most part you are right. In my experience, when I first mentally get myself on a healthy routine there is a larger loss of excess poo and water and other visera that drops off, then it settles into a more linear loss rate. I am being optimistic that will happen, but if it ends up just being 1 lbs per week. I won't despair if I've lost 16 lbs by NYE...it'll be a party.0
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chris_in_cal wrote: »For the most part you are right. In my experience, when I first mentally get myself on a healthy routine there is a larger loss of excess poo and water and other visera that drops off, then it settles into a more linear loss rate. I am being optimistic that will happen, but if it ends up just being 1 lbs per week. I won't despair if I've lost 16 lbs by NYE...it'll be a party.
As long as it won't be a disappointment I suppose! So many folk quit after not hitting their numbers rather than focusing on what they have actually achieved.0 -
Welp, my job is not to quit after not hitting my goal.
I'm going for a short run today. I logged my food yesterday. I think continuing to try and do the basics everyday will keep me close to beginning to make real progress.
I have an appointment in about two months to see a doctor and may be offered GLP-1. I'm not sure it will be available, but if it is I'm taking it.2 -
@chris_in_cal No one ever went wrong by focusing on the fundamentals
My dad was a sweetie and picked me up a pecan pie latte on his way home from work, so I had that with some black bean brownies to fight off the mid-afternoon snoozes. I think I'm going to move around a bit (probably just pace the hall, since it's snowing like the dickens outside) and then get back to work. I did good stuff in the sketchbook today, but I still have some editing sessions left to go on the novel before my day is done.0 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »I have an appointment in about two months to see a doctor and may be offered GLP-1. I'm not sure it will be available, but if it is I'm taking it.
The appointment is Friday. I am still pretty sure my healthcare agency does not prescribe any Semiglutide/GLP-1/Ozempic, etc. I'll ask.
I think they are limited to older drugs (that don't really work) and I doubt I would take those.1 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »chris_in_cal wrote: »I have an appointment in about two months to see a doctor and may be offered GLP-1. I'm not sure it will be available, but if it is I'm taking it.
The appointment is Friday. I am still pretty sure my healthcare agency does not prescribe any Semiglutide/GLP-1/Ozempic, etc. I'll ask.
I think they are limited to older drugs (that don't really work) and I doubt I would take those.
How did you get on?0 -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phentermine/topiramate
This older weightloss drug "Qsymia" is what was prescribed and it arrived in the post yesterday.
It took about eight months to get this appointment with a medical Doctor. She listened and was helpful. They have two options that they offer, and both come with zoom nutritionist and another zoom mental health.
Bariatric surgery
Drugs
They have a chart with five drugs: the two that seem to work well: Wegovey, and Zepbound. And three older ones that don't work very well.
The two that work are both currently unavailable and identified as secondary after these older ones are tried and failed.
My choices are Meds as I am not going to have surgery, or just discontinue this and go on by myself (and you all)
With "Meds" it would be taking this Qsymia and having success, or taking it and having it fail. If it failed I would then be eligible for Wegovey/Zepbound and a working assumption is that it might become available to the doctor to prescribe.
In talking about Qysemia I joked "it's like crack" and straight faced she said well it is in the same family.
The old speed method to lose weight. With the anxiety, insomnia, and cardiovascular issues carefully monitored.0 -
Hello,
I'm new to this group. I'm married with young adult children in my late 40's. I have been on MFP since 2014 and was maintaining until 2017 when I gained almost 3 stone and at my heaviest weight 190 lbs. I've always exercised but wasn't taking the calorie counting serious until January last year (2023) and something seemed to click in my head. I started last January at 184lbs and have very slowly got to 148.8lbs last Wednesday. Wednesday is my Weigh In Day but I weigh myself and track calories every day good or bad. I would like to reach 140lbs. But realistically will be happy to maintain between 140 and 148 depending what is going on in life. I have always found in the past maintaining is just as hard as losing because the bad snacking habits and portion sizes tend to creep back without noticing and next thing I have 6lbs back on.
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chris_in_cal wrote: »https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phentermine/topiramate
This older weightloss drug "Qsymia" is what was prescribed and it arrived in the post yesterday.
It took about eight months to get this appointment with a medical Doctor. She listened and was helpful. They have two options that they offer, and both come with zoom nutritionist and another zoom mental health.
Bariatric surgery
Drugs
They have a chart with five drugs: the two that seem to work well: Wegovey, and Zepbound. And three older ones that don't work very well.
The two that work are both currently unavailable and identified as secondary after these older ones are tried and failed.
My choices are Meds as I am not going to have surgery, or just discontinue this and go on by myself (and you all)
With "Meds" it would be taking this Qsymia and having success, or taking it and having it fail. If it failed I would then be eligible for Wegovey/Zepbound and a working assumption is that it might become available to the doctor to prescribe.
In talking about Qysemia I joked "it's like crack" and straight faced she said well it is in the same family.
The old speed method to lose weight. With the anxiety, insomnia, and cardiovascular issues carefully monitored.
I have a consultation with a Weight Loss Management doc on Friday, possibility of being prescribed something but will see what they offer, because if it's Alli /Xenical they can shove that.0 -
A problem with shoving Alli is it slips right back out.tinkerbellang83 wrote: »if it's Alli /Xenical they can shove that.
I find this a fraught decision. I don't think Qsymia is available in the EU. I care for you and your well-being, I hope your doctor is a good allies.0 -
🤣 Exactly and although I don't eat a super fatty diet, healthy fats do satisfy me better so I don't think it would be suitable for me. I really do need an appetite killer rather than a fat binder.chris_in_cal wrote: »
A problem with shoving Alli is it slips right back out.tinkerbellang83 wrote: »if it's Alli /Xenical they can shove that.
I hope your doctor is a good allies.chris_in_cal wrote: »
I find this a fraught decision. I don't think Qsymia is available in the EU. I care for you and your well-being, I hope your doctor is a good allies.
I assume Qsymia is a brand name for some sort of Phentermine based drug. Ionamin is the only one available in Ireland due to an EU-wide ban some years back.
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Does anyone here think that carefully logging all of your food here in MFP is good, but struggle to actually do it? Forgetting, and dismissing it, and stopping before building up a good routine?
Sometimes I think pessimistically, that it is a practice that is too unnatural, or too fussy, too obsessive, too 'many things.'
When I have carefully logged all of my food I was much more able to control and monitor what I ate, and I lost weight. Nearly all of the people that I interact with on MFP who are maintainers write something along these line of having a logging practice.
Looking at the pros vs. cons. The pros are a straight line towards a healthier weight, and the cons are all the stories I tell myself about what it means to be a person who carefully logs all of their food.
Am I missing something? Anyone else contemplating why they do or don't carefully log food?0
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