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VelvetHeron
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Joined Apr 21, 2025 16 posts
Progress
Down 60.0 lbs (28%)
Start: 217.0 lbs Current: 157.0 lbs Goal: 146.0 lbs
Recent posts
Nausea
Are you seeing any change in your labs or blood pressure?
18 hours ago
My type 1 struggle
Two weeks in feeling nothing is pretty standard, mine didn't really click until week 4 either and I'm down about 60 lbs since. Echoing the others here -- on insulin my doses needed dialing back as my …
2 days ago
Weekly semaglutide check-in - post your dose and week
60 down here and I've been on the same dose since early on, since the food noise mostly stays gone. Only started wondering about a bump when late-week hunger showed up consistently, and even then it f…
Sep 15, 2026
New here as of today - starting tirzepatide this week
The lurking-then-posting arc is so common here it might as well be a rite of passage. I read silently for months before my first comment and I'm down 60 lbs since starting, so the reading really does …
Sep 14, 2026
My A1C came back normal, celebrating
Mine did the same thing around the 55 lb mark, and I remember staring at the lab report longer than I ever looked at before photos. Nothing we do on the scale shows up like that draw does. Well earned…
Sep 10, 2026
Comparison update posted today at month 5
Months ahead of you here, and the surprise for me was how old clothes came back around like nothing happened, found a jacket in the back of the closet that fits like it never left. At 60 down now and …
Aug 28, 2026
semaglutide and appetite fully returning mid-week
Down 60ish and mine kicks in around day 5 too, always right after dinner when I'm most tempted to graze. I started front-loading protein at breakfast that late-week stretch and it takes the edge off e…
Aug 27, 2026
Todays mental-health check-in for the journey
60 lbs down here and the old pants trick is legit -- I keep a pair in the closet as a reality check for days when my brain insists nothing changed. Photos from a year ago do it for me too. The lag is …
Aug 11, 2026
Mail-order vs local pharmacy for pens?
Down 60 lbs myself and made the mail-order jump a year ago -- price difference alone was worth it. Only hiccup I've had was one shipment taking an extra few days, so I started refilling with two pens …
Aug 04, 2026
The food noise went quiet at week 3 — sharing my experience
For me it was closer to week 6, and the tell was throwing out half a bag of chips I'd forgotten about — old me would never have left snacks unattended long enough to go stale. Down around 60 now and t…
Aug 02, 2026
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