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To the "you'll just regain the weight when you stop" - um, yeah? When I stop taking my blood pressure meds, my blood pressure goes up. When I stop lifting weights, my strength diminishes. When I take my glasses off, my eyesight returns to crap. So, duh, I take my meds and lift weights and wear my glasses. I even take my…

I absolutely agree with the prior posters that only you and your doctor working together can determine what the best drug is for you. That said, another drug in the same class, bupropion (also known as Welbutrin), is not associated with weight gain. It may not be the right drug for you, and I am not suggesting that you ask…

I'm trundling along losing about 2lbs a week. Up to the 1.7 dose, and not used to it yet - got all shaky and low blood sugar around 3:15pm and then realized I had barely eaten all day :/ A little food perked me right back up, but I need to be a little more mindful and scheduled about eating, it seems, with hunger cues gone…

Two words: merino wool

Well, at the 1mg dose now, side effects have gone away, it was worth sticking with it. Down 17lbs since I started, which is not a huge amount, alas, but I'm trying to go for sustainable long term gradual loss - just to be different :) I've lost a lot of weight in the past by working at it really hard, and then other things…

I'm up to the .5 dosage of Wegovy at the moment. It seems to help some with appetite. Will be interesting to see if that effect increases as the dose increases. Managed to throw up part of my dinner tonight; this is the day of the week I take the shot, don't know if that's involved. I think the "delayed gastric emptying"…

Even without any attendees being HIV+, gay men of a certain age, this is their second plague. In my experience, they're not messing around, they're taking it seriously and getting vaccinated.

Is it possible that you are inadvertently eating a maintenance level of calories?

You're assuming there were equal numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated people around to get infected. Imagine an outbreak with 30 cases, 10 unvaccinated and 20 vaccinated. You might go HEY WAIT BEING VACCINATED MADE YOU TWICE AS LIKELY TO GET COVID. But if the population was almost entirely vaccinated people - say, 20…

6-8 weeks for the pain to go completely away (near the end of that it was just a little twingy from time to time, that's why it's a little vague how long). Didn't take anything for the pain. Had a big set of cardiology workups, imaging, stress tests, etc. Have still got a residual intermittent arrythmia, which I'm taking a…

I had pericarditis after dose #2 of Pfizer. That involved chest pain, which gradually went away. It was scary.

I was ravenous, seriously hungry after each dose of Pfizer, I have no idea why. Lots of salmon tacos consumed! The first dose made me feel a little ick and tired. The second dose gave me heart palpitations and pericarditis :(

I buy from Balance by BistroMD as mentioned above. I know which of their meals I like, and I find it helps me to have something healthy that I like in the freezer when things are hectic.

I just started with Ozempic. I asked my doctor for Wegovy (same medication, injected semaglutide) but she put "semaglutide" into the health center's computer and that ended up as a prescription for Ozempic because they haven't got Wegovy in their system yet. Since Ozempic is the same for the first three tiers of dosing,…

I worry about the relationship between puberty and tween/teen BMI being opaque to young people. My daughter at 11-12 was overweight on the kid BMI chart, but had had her period, was 5'7", 36C bra size, curvy hips, well muscled athletic build, 135lbs. Some of her 11-12yo peers were barely starting puberty and had no curves…

If you ever want to, I've found that exposure therapy can address needle phobia. My daughter had extreme needle phobia but required regular blood draws and injections for medical reasons. It reached the point that she could not access necessary health care. We worked with a specialist in phobias to do progressive exposure…

Well that graph flattens out at a depressing place, doesn't it. At least the projection does...

Fortnight is a perfectly ordinary word, and I was surprised there was someone who didn't know what it meant.

Shoes for elliptical because the treads hurt my feet otherwise. Shoes for weight bearing exercise in general because I need the support to prevent knee injuries and accommodate some foot problems.

Yeah, but the one you can stick with is the one that will continue to create a caloric deficit on an ongoing basis, leading to substantial and sustainable weight loss. She's found something that works for her and makes her happy. I for one applaud that. I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than follow some eating plans - they…

I find using Libra to get a trend line helps me a lot with that. It smooths out the zigzags and shows me that long term things are going well even if on the micro scale nothing is happening.

They're stupidly expensive, but I got a Precor like the one that's always been my favorite at the gym. It's definitely a garage thing - they're huge. But it's made such a difference for me, as I reliably enjoy it and it's right there all the time.

I've kept up with my "work out every day on the new elliptical" commitment. 20 days so far. Up from 20 minutes the first day to 55 minutes now, with some resistance and incline (not much!) This is comedically less than all y'all's mega workouts. But it's mine and I am proud of it.

Of course. You're entirely correct, it was typo on my part, and a bad one as it could be misleading. Sorry for the error.

Theoretically you have to consume 3500 calories in excess of what you burn in order to gain 10 pounds, regardless of timeframe. My guess is that the salt intake has you retaining more water, in addition to whatever fat you may have stored. Plus, ahem, residual food in your GI tract. What you should do is go back to the…

Misfit lets me manually add exercises but only for a small list of predefined activities at low/med/high intensity. Nothing matches the elliptical machine, and no way to put in the specific amount of calories burned in the not-tracked elliptical workout. I am fairly confident in the elliptical's estimate of my calories…

Thanks very much Haybales for telling me where to find the details. It confirms my suspicion: MFP is calculating that my Sedentary day + my manually entered workout is 3025 calories. Misfit is saying I burned 2923 calories. So MFP is adjusting and saying I should consume 102 fewer calories. But that 2923 doesn't include my…

I still think there's a problem where it's looking, not at my steps only from the Misfit, but also at the Misfit's opinion of my calories burned for the day. Which is low my the amount of the elliptical workout because it doesn't register on the Misfit. The reason I think this is, if I don't sync with the Misfit at all and…

Thanks, I may upgrade at some point! But since the Misfit does work fine for me as a step tracker, and I already own it, I'd love to see if I can find a way to use it more effectively. Getting an elliptical machine blew my health and fitness budget for the year and then some! At some point I am interested in getting a…

Four days ago I got an elliptical trainer machine. I've worked out every day since, 20min, 31min, 33min, 40min. At low levels of resistance. Y'all may find this singularly unimpressive, but I've been extremely sedentary during lockdown, gotten completely deconditioned, and started this workout plan at 299lbs. So it's a lot…