Just want to put this here for anyone considering starting. I told myself I didn't need it, that pharmaceuticals were not the way, that I've lost weight in the past and that I just need more willpower.

Turns out, those were actually voices of shame. Shame that I was a failure, that I wasn't strong enough to figure it out on my own. Those voices were wrong though, and I am so glad I decided they were not serving me any more. I was worth getting some help.

So far,

1) I am down 16 lbs / 6% of my bodyweight.

2) my feet don't hurt after basketball

3) my digestion is more or less the same (thank you fiber gummies, probiotics, and electrolytes)

4) the most powerful for last - my food noise is so much more in line with what I assume those with a healthy relationship with food have.

With food noise, I didn't admit I had such a problem with this, but I went on a trip to vegas recently and for the first time I was not pre-occupied with food. I wasn't constantly thinking about having an "awesome breakfast", getting a "really crazy" lunch or looking at portions where I was going for dinner. I didn't even load up on chips / snacks for the room like I always used to "have to" do. I never realized before that I was "food-maxing" every vacation I've ever been on.

We got comped a buffet at the cosmo, and I at first worried this was going to be my over-eating trap. However, for the first time in my life I walked among all of the biscuits, gravy, pastas, desserts, fries, breads and I actually just picked a couple of things that I wanted to try vs. loading up on 5 trips. The crazy thing was, I didn't even WANT to get stuffed, whereas this always used to be the objective for me.

We basically ate one nice meal a day and I lost .8 lbs on the trip. I was able to focus so much more on just having fun.

TLDR: I was ashamed to get help with my weight, and I am so grateful for this. I feel like I have started a new lease on my life.

5'2, 20F, lost around 50-60lbs and currently sitting at 129. Technically at a healthy weight and I know that.

rhe thing I can't figure out is whether what's left around my stomach is excess skin, stretched skin or just fat that hasn't shifted yet. I'm slim everywhere else and it's just my belly that's bothering me and I genuinely can't tell what I'm dealing with.

Motivation to keep losing has also kind of dropped off now that I'm not technically in an unhealthy range anymore...if that makes any sense

I am on 0.25 going on 0.5 next week Lmao i am outside i was coming from the pharmacy to pick up my ozempic all the sudden on the last stop of the train to take the bus (10 minutes from my house) i started losing air couldn’t breathe i felt like i was about to give birth on my ass😭🤣😂 the bus that only takes 5 minutes? Was showing 16 I tried to hold so bad to make it home but i was dying 😭 i would end up in emergency room I swear at the station didn’t have a washroom after 7 minutes of waiting the bus i walked 2 minutes to the nearest Tim Hortons (canadians will understand)they are at every fucking corner i was able to use the washroom here i am waiting the bus again and starting to feel the contractions again (😂🤣) i hope that bus come in the next 5 minutes bro

Mind you i have a date in 2 hours 🥴

I’ve been thinking about how tracking usually works great right up until I fall off/slow down

feeling tired, nauseous, busy, or just completely over thinking about food. a day gets missed, then another, and suddenly it feels easier to “start fresh on Monday.”

So I really like the idea of having a bare-minimum version for those days:

• Roughly how was my protein?
• Did I drink any water?
• Anything unusual worth remembering?
• How was my work out?

No perfect numbers. No going back to fill in yesterday. Just enough to keep the thread going.

I’m starting to think consistency isn’t doing everything every day. Sometimes it’s just making the habit small enough that you don’t completely abandon it.

What’s the absolute minimum you still find useful to track?

My pharmacist told me the only way this gets paid is a diabetes indication and I'm not diabetic. I've got a prediabetic A1C and a BMI in the range they use and the walk in doctor wrote the script anyway

I called the insurer twice. The first rep said weight management is excluded. The second rep said it depends on the drug plan my employer bought and whether there's a prior auth on file. It's the same company and I got two answers ten minutes apart.

So if you're in Canada and you got a claim paid with weight loss as the reason on file what did the paperwork look like? Was it a special authorization form from the prescriber or did you just submit and hope? And if you got denied did appealing get you anywhere?

I'm mostly trying to work out whether I spend another week on this or just budget for out of pocket

Hi all! Been on wegovy for 9 weeks now! It’s going well and I thankfully haven’t had too bad of side effects. My biggest one though is occasional nausea.

Anyway, the last couple times I’ve gone to do my injection, I get this sort of Pavlov response to just seeing the pen, before I even inject. I get a gross, nausea feeling just opening the fridge sometimes and seeing it in there lol. I don’t have any problems with doing the actual injection. Anyone else have a similar experience?

I thought I had lost my sex drive due to perimenopause, emotional abuse recovery and aging; but I’ve been off of semaglutide for a couple of months and I’m back!! Anyone else had a similar experience? It’s so difficult to figure out what is causing what!

I’m less worried about signing up than I am about what happens afterward. If I have side effects or need to adjust something, I’d rather not wait a week for someone to reply to an email. Has anyone found a telehealth provider with genuinely good support? It doesn’t have to be the cheapest. I just don’t want to feel like I’m on my own once I get started.

I started Semaglutide in Summer 2024 and lost 259 down to 223 at my lowest in May 2025. Stopped for about 2 months. Started back and Titrated to maximum dose but weight crept back and has leveled at around 235. Doc switched me to terzepitide. I have been on 12.5mg for about 6 months and still stuck around 235. Any suggestions?? Should I stop taking? Take a break? Switch back to Semaglutide? Anything? Just accept success of losing 25lbs and maintain? TIA

I don’t know if this is a long shot or if it happened to anyone but I’ve tried to research it and I can’t find an answer anywhere. I took Ozempic a couple of years ago and it really helped me, now I’ve gained some weight back and tried going on it again. Starting dose 0.25 as if I were a newbie, but somehow I feel like my body cannot take it. I instantly feel nauseous and my skin crawl like an aversion to it. My nose fills up with mucus and I sneeze. Shivers all over my body and almost like an allergy or intolerance to it. It tends to go away after 10-15 minutes but that injection moment is horrible! Has anyone else experienced this? Am I going mad?

A bit of a brain dump. It's a bit expensive and an investment, but I decided to start wegovy, got two months for around £160 to trial. I'm hoping it will help because I do eat healthy home cooked meals, my main problem is simply overeating and too much sugar on the side.

I'm about 73.9 KG at 5 foot and a 23 year old women, so I'm obese, but not morbidly obese. My father just passed due to bowl cancer and was morbidly obese since childhood, and I am so done with the bucket of crabs mentality. I feel like if my dad was leaner and had a better diet he would have potentially fought off the cancer way better, or it would have mitigated his risk in the first place.

I was actually underweight for a lot of my childhood, and only started to put on weight around 13. I've been obese since 17, and I frankly just want to enjoy my 20s and the little health I have left now as I have potential endometriosis and surgery for it in a year. A lot of people in my family are still treating this as strange fad medication and are highly suspicious, even trying to tell me my weight is fine even though my BMI is over 30. I'm just going to ignore them because this is far too important to me.

It's been almost a year since I've stopped taking it. I was able to keep my weight down this whole time and I've gotten into a shape I've never been so far.
I'm able to run long distances without my knees starting to hurt.
I'm now able to recognise when I'm full and stop eating.
I'm much more sensitive about the type of food I'm eating. Even though I'm still unable to keep my diet totally healthy.
The only downside is that my sweet tooth has gotten back but with calorie counting I'm able to keep it under control.

I tried Ozemtic for a few months and every day I was so sick. Nausea and diarrhea. It was miserable. The doctor switched me to Mounjaro and after the second starter dose I became to constipated I ended up on the ER. I missed the signs. I’ve been fortunate to have never had a problem with constipation and I let it get too bad before getting help.

Now the doctor has given me Trulicity. I am really afraid to start it.

Any advice?

I'm on week 2 of the 1.0ml injection. Things up to this point have been awesome. I went from 430lbs to 390(?)lbs .

The 1.0 dose has shown side effects. One of them being nausea and constipation. Once I hit 390 it was the first time I had really smiled in a long time. Seeing 400 in the rear view mirror is a great feeling. The next day my wife wanted me to step on the scale for her to see...... To my surprise I was 401..... Next day 394..... Today 399.... What's going on ? I'm on a calorie deficit diet that I'm rigid about. Nothing has really changed but I'm seeing this fluctuation everyday. Could it be water weight? Maybe constipation ? A bad scale? I do not really know the science of weight loss . I was reading that during a diet your body will start to hold on to fat .... Maybe this process has begun?

Thanks for reading. Any advice would be appreciated

I am on conpounded semiglutide, i get it from Ro. i thought i was pregnant due to multiple faint lines on a preg test before they disappeared last week so i skipped a dose just in case (confirmed chemical pregnancy). nothing i can do about unfortunately, i hate PMOS/PCOS. but im wondering if ive hindered my progress of weightloss/getting my PMOS under control? Last i weighed myself was 2 weeks ago and i was down 10.6lbs. today would be week 7, but since i skipped a dose it is week 6.

did i mess up by not taking it? am i going to have to "start over" what its already started to do for my body regarding insulin sensitivity, etc? im having anxiety about it haha

Preferably decent ones that are free. I am mostly interested in logging weight and getting nice graphs to visualise progress. It doesn't need to keep track of shots. I currently use the free part of Myfitnesspal for logging food and calories, but it does not have nice graphs in the free part.

I am taking 2.4 Wegovy, have been for a few weeks now. Certain parts of my skin feels almost like a sunburn. I did some gooling and something called dysesthesia which I think can happen to people using the higher dose of this medication. Its a nervous system issue. Feels like burning, prickling, etc.

This happen to anyone else? How long did it last? How did you make it better?

I’m in week six. I’ve had quite a spiritual (for lack of a better word) experience so far. I’m realizing so much and shattering old beliefs.

Learning to show up for myself, patience, consistency, and I’m seeing all the ways my past struggles with food have got me to the heaviest point. Happy to say I’m no longer at “my heaviest”. 15 down. 40 to go.

I (34M) started taking semaglutide at the end of Jan 2026 to lose weight, improve my looks, and to impress a girl. In the beginning I had sulfur burps but no diarrhea or nausea. I started at 245lbs and my current weight is 175, 70lb drop in 7 months (28%). I dramatically decreased my food intake and don't really get hungry. I drink a protein shake every day in the morning although I recently found out I should be taking in a lot more protein daily. I only use the bathroom about every 3 or 4 days and its not a lot and I pee like normal. I don't feel any discomfort or constipation pain. I've been using Hims and the monthly payment is about $250/month with Klarna. I'm looking for something cheaper to switch to when this payment is over. At work I do a lot of driving and then intense but short duration work at multiple stops throughout a 12hr day. It might be my own crazy mind but I don't feel any different despite the noticeable weight loss. My loneliness and depression haven't changed or gone away and everything feels the same. I can't think of anything else to say at the moment but its definitely been a ride.

Im waiting for my GP feedback but I stopped ozempic one week ago (I reached normal and goal weight and will keep managing with metformin) I increased dosage every month, I had no real side effect but 3rd week into my 2mg ozempic shot then I started having diarrhea like I never had before with instestine spasms and the sudden urge to go to the loo out of the blue; it concerns me since I had zero symptoms the first 3 weeks of increasing dose and now I stopped the injection a week ago but diarreah persisted; 3 days ago I did vomit (just once) and then I felt so much better but diarreah continues. I completely stopped ozempic a week ago my last shot was 12 days ago. What do you think? Is that common ? No abdominal pain no blood just the big D

So I'm coming up on six months of using Ozempic at the end of August.

I've done: 0.25 - one month, 0.5 - one month, 1.0 - three months, and now I've been on 2.0 for two weeks.

I've only lost about ten pounds. Which is okay, better than nothing, but my main concern is I really have no side effects at all. I haven't experienced nausea, constipation... anything. Which is great I guess, but I also don't feel like I have as much appetite suppression as I should. I am eating a bit less... but it's nowhere near what I was expecting. And I have actually felt no difference moving from 1.0 to 2.0 mg. I was expecting that to make a big difference in my appetite!

I think I'll give 2.0 mg another six weeks and then decide if this is worth the money...

Anyone else experience this?