December Weight loss and/or healthy living

I tried the free Noom trial a few years ago and hated it. Never signed up for the paid version. Tracking all of my food doesn't work with my ADHD, especially since so much of my food is homemade.

My goal for the month is to not gain weight! 🤣

I travel to Pensacola for work in a week and a half, and I usually gain a couple pounds on those trips. As soon as I get back home, I turn around and leave to go to Mayo with my mom, which means 4 days on the road and several days in Rochester. After that, it's Christmas.

So, my goal is simple, not gain weight. Any loss will be a bonus.

(LOL, as I type this, I am at the grocery store to pick up this month's Wegovy refill.)

I feel like I have been sick since Halloween. I had a bad cold and it took FOREVER to get over. I am still congested and blowing my nose every day, and just tired. Last night my throat started to feel bad again. Ive been walking with my friend - the fresh air helps a lot - but I am just not doing great with eating, I am just tired and don't care. COVID is negative.

I just had a partial
Mastectomy yesterday, so I have been off my semiglutide for 2 weeks. I have 6 more pounds to go to hit -50. I will start taking it again and hopefully drop those 6 pounds this month.

I took it in the morning after breakfast. That is what the Dr. told me, so I did it. I never tried it in the evening, tho I heard that is best if you have any side effects.

Make sure you’ll be home the whole day when you start it. My side effects were literally explosive. It was so bad when I first started it I want to say I lost 70 pounds in a few months. Not the way you want to do that. Some people get used to it over time, I never did. The time release version was better for me. I will say, if a medication can have GI side effects, I almost always get them. Good luck!

Wanted to give some hope to those the medication stopped working for, like me. It’s expected around the 1.5 year mark and I don’t know if y’all remember but the Ozempic stopped working much sooner than that for me. I wasn’t able to switch to Wegovy (I’m hoping since it works with 2 different hormones it will help), have to see an endocrinologist for that, so I’ve stayed on highest dose of Ozempic for my blood sugar. It has slowly started working a bit for me again. I do still think about food, but it’s not quite as frequent as it usually is. I’m also starting to get full faster and stay full longer again. As with the thinking aspect, it’s not nearly as good as it had gotten to, but it’s definitely better than without Ozempic. I suspect my body stopped over producing the other hunger hormone in response to the Ozempic, but need to verify that with a doctor. 

So my weight has slowly started dropping again. I miss the fast loss, but I’ll still take it! Otherwise I’m having some bad pain in my shoulder, so my activity levels have absolutely tanked, that’s a bit depressing. 

But I’m going to force a positive attitude on myself and set my goal for this month as a 5 lb loss, and up my daily steps by 33%. I do cycles of activity, and that goal I’ll set at 5 a day. All of that is reasonable with my shoulder issues as long as I get in early next week to the doctor. It made me miss Thanksgiving, I’m not giving it Christmas!

Wow, what a wonderful environment, especially for a health club!

I hope your pathology report is a good one!

I am fat and I eat cookies constantly. My only hope is to survive the holidays and then get started again in January. I went from 117-144 I am not kidding. Stress has done this to me. I will stop all the bad eating in January. I am not sure what I will do about exercise.

This morning I reached my “goal” on my weight loss program. This certainly isn’t my final goal but they encourage smaller goals along the way. This was my third and I have lost 38 pounds since July. I’m not sure if I want to set a new goal or just hope to maintain over the holiday. 

I'm down 2.6 pounds since December 1st. Finding out my job is ending has supressed my appetite more than Wegovy.

My insurance runs through the end of January. Debating if I want to find out if my insurance covers Zepbound (Mounjaro for weight loss only), and get it filled at least twice before the insurance ends. I have 3 Wegovy pens left in my current refill.

I hope you're recovering well ❤️

Thanks @zee, that sounds familiar just got mixed up. Either way my current doctor wasn’t comfortable making the switch and wanted me to see endocrinologist. But I just went to the family & friends candy making day and only tasted our candy because we had never made it before and took a bite of one other, wasn’t even tempted with the rest so that was nice!


That’s awesome you’ve reached your goals, congratulations!

Thank you! I was able to walk 2 miles this morning without issue so feeling better. The best news is that my pathology was all clear!!!

Thanks. It's been really upsetting and disappointing. I feel slightly better knowing that a bunch of my coworkers are upset about how this was handled, and a few have mentioned questioning their own continued employment with our organization.

I have talked to recruiters within our larger company (my team has 60 people in a company with 6,000+ global employees), but hiring has slowed down because of the end of the year. They may have corporate roles available in mid January, but it means I need to look outside of our company in earnest as well.

All in all, really appetite suppressing stuff.

I head to Pensacola for a work trip on Tuesday. I was given the opportunity to skip it if it would be "too hard," but I'm going. One, I used to live in Pensacola, and I'd love to see some friends on the company dime. Two, I'd love to say goodbye to a few colleagues in person. Three, I want the people who made the decision to eliminate my position (along with two others) to look me in the eye. I want them to be uncomfortable. I know they probably won't be, but I want to remind them of the human cost of their actions. I refuse to be afraid of hard things.

I am a little concerned about gaining some weight while on this trip, because one of my coworkers is in charge of the food, and she keeps us well fed. It doesn't help that there is some of my favorite candy on each table.

I am going to see if one of my colleagues will take an updated headshot for me. I've lost 60ish pounds (at least) since my last one was taken last September, and I'd like to post a new one on my LinkedIn before I make the "hey, I've been laid off and I need some help finding a new job" post. From what I've read, you gain the most traction with the initial post, so I'd like to reduce as much anti-fat bias that may be out there.

On an NSV note, the standard size bath towel now wraps around me. It may not have extra space, but it feels good. I think I mentioned on last month's thread that when I went to the doctor, they used the regular size blood pressure cuff and not the extended sized one. My blood pressure has also improved!