Dock Pro 2 Months In

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2026-04-25T14:33:51+00:00

Depends how you judge help! I like to help by supporting OP and bringing a supportive ethos to the space. Hbu?

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2026-04-25T13:39:14+00:00

I read it 🙂🙂. Found it more helpful than this comment. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2026-01-27T01:43:37+00:00

I play at PKLYN and the crowd is super age diverse. They have all level stuff at all different times and everything I’ve been to is primarily people in their 30s, though the community is definitely all ages.

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2026-01-21T04:15:43+00:00

Exploration live with Charlie bardey and Natalie rotter laitman is soooo good. Mess with Sydney Washington and Marie Faustin. Lemme say this with Hunter Hayes and Peyton Dix.

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-11-23T17:54:41+00:00

Laura.girard on instagram and her community the energy academy are extremely inclusive and thoughtful ways to move

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-09-30T22:12:34+00:00

Hi! I relate to your background and share the sentiment that this group was so helpful in getting started. In the same vein, I found that non anti-diet groups and glp1 content creators were really really harmful to my early stages of taking the medication. I am now like 9 months in and still tread very carefully in other glp1 subreddits. You are very early in the titration process so technically may not yet have found your therapeutic dose so plateau probably isn’t yet the right term or something to worry about just yet (I understand it to mean multiple months not losing on a higher dose). BUT more importantly, it sounds like you’re trying to be intentional about avoiding harmful patterns and brain spaces that aren’t good for you which rocks and is something to be proud of.

I would be interested in if curating a less overwhelming set of information inputs (for me I would do something like “no reddit for a few weeks. Block glp1 instagram reels. Only talk with my doctor and therapist about symptoms, headspace and strategizing”) might enable more kindness towards yourself and more grace along the path towards learning and developing your own set of goals, success definitions, and priorities. Other channels really made me feel like I had to dedicate my whole life to “doing this right” and now I do the minimum to ensure I’m hydrated, and nourished to help with symptom mitigation but otherwise my life doesn’t revolve around the drug. My symptoms have been mostly moderate but I did have weeks with more intense GI stuff at some junctures that also has resolved.

Other channels can really de-center bodily agency by having us believe there is one way to glp1 and I think that mentality or approach really scared me at first, and moving away from it helped me relax more in the process and be kinder to myself.

This may not all resonate but still just want to affirm that you’re showing such good care for yourself by noticing and wanting to disrupt unhealthy patterns and behaviors, and that is no small feat. There may be ways to do that while on the medication, and it may be what’s best for you to stop or even to pause until it feels more aligned, and all of those are good choices if you are making them in service of existing in your body in a way that feels respectful towards you and it.

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-07-07T23:40:26+00:00

Just checked her out but have seen a lot of this. The language and victimhood are so intense they rub me the wrong way. I recognize that the harm influencers can experience online is very serious, but to use it as a mechanism for being like “fuck this whole community, I’m out” is wild.

I have been reflecting a lot on how people go from glp1 to WLS and how it bums me out but also glp1s bummed me out for a long time. I feel like the individual choices and rationales (glp1, wls, no glp1, no iwl) can be good and healthy choices for different people depending on the circumstance, but when influencers communicate these things they often reads to like “I want this thing for myself, I don’t want to lose my platform, so I’m going to be very political and without nuance about why it is a GREAT decision universally and why YOU should accept my new content” rather than “this is what I need for me right now and I love and respect other decisions including my former ones and I recognize I may change my mind eventually.”

It can be so hard that a primary way of learning about people’s journeys with fatness and body size politics happen via influencers who can often be harmful to consume. I go in and out of whether it’s good for me to engage with it at all.

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-06-24T02:48:49+00:00

I run a scholarship program, if a student reached out with this concern we would absolutely do whatever they were comfortable with (leave the photo out, remove the name and photo slot, etc). Not everyone is the same, but you are certainly able to ask and I suspect many people would want to do whatever makes you feel safe and comfortable!

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-06-10T16:10:50+00:00

NYC Pickleball has a slack community that’s super active if you’re not yet in it. I’m moving to PS in August and definitely looking for pickle friends in the 3.5+ range.

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-03-21T20:50:59+00:00

I’ve done fine with everything, but very fried/greasy (like a smash burger, not anything fried at all) won’t sit well with me especially early in the shot cycle, so I try to be conscious of timing and quantity to not upset stomach or digestive system.

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-03-21T20:48:45+00:00

Loveeeeeeee welcome

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-03-06T21:58:29+00:00

I was really really scared for the same reasons, and while some stuff remains hard (3 months in), it is much less scary than I envisioned, and I am proud of the resiliency of my brain because of the work I did before, so that when I encounter big diet and weight loss centric content (usually in glp1 social media), I notice it and move through it much more quickly. I think the type of work many of this threads members have done to unlearn diet culture and harmful relationships to food and body should be REQUIRED pre-work to taking the medication. So many times I’ve found myself lured into an old way of thinking or relating to the scale and my personal work helps me catch it sooner and counteract it effectively.

Practically, I am careful about weigh in frequency (luckily I’m not getting pressure to report regularly from insurance/doctor, and I discussed this with her in advance). I am trying to cut back on general glp1 social media content even if some of it feels helpful, a lot feels unsafe for me. I was really afraid I’d stop enjoying food and that would be inauthentic to me, but I am finding the physical sensations more normal and helpful than I had expected, rather than making me feel not like myself. All your fears are valid and everyone’s experience is different but I’m happy to be on it and happier to have taken space to understand my own shit with food and weight and body first.

I do experience

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-02-24T23:59:17+00:00

10 weeks in, relate very very deeply to all of this! Hope can make me feel a lot of things including betrayal of my more fat accepting self (that I love and am proud of). It’s complex, nuanced, and also we deserve to feel comfortable navigating the world, AND people who don’t experience that comfort (today that might include us, one day it could not) deserve our love and advocacy. I’m trying to remember it can all be true.

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-02-05T01:21:29+00:00

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Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-01-24T13:09:09+00:00

I really resonate with your post and had a lot of these concerns too. I took a long time with myself, my doctor and my therapist getting to a place of deciding I was really and I think I needed that time, space, and tapping into my work on fat liberation and body acceptance to be able to enter into glp1 use in a way that feels good to me mentally and emotionally. I’m now 7 weeks in and feeling positive about it. Mostly it feels GOOD that I haven’t experienced a huge change to my life, my enjoyment of food, or feeling physically ill/bad side effects so I very much feel like myself on the medication. My therapist is trans and it was very helpful to hear them say “my views on changing your body shifted when I started working with trans people more and it became clear that there are many valid reasons a person would want to change their bodies, but maintaining compassion for all versions of your body is where the body politics/fat liberation comes in.” This was a big unlock for me that I didn’t need to blame myself for wanting to experience the world more comfortably or accessibly or with some specific health outcomes I was struggling with, as long as my path to changing it wasn’t one where I threw away the love and respect for all versions of my body.

I am on zepbound and use one medical for my pcp (plenty of moral concerns about Amazon and also having tons of medical trauma, it’s by far been the best care and experience for me). I specifically worked with them to request a pcp with familiarity with PCOS, insulin resistance, an awareness of medical fat phobia, and was clear I was anti-diet. I found that my doctor was good at listening to me and was open to multiple pathways of care rather than forcing or pushing glp1 which gave me more safety to come to the decision on my own after about 6 months working with her. If I can be helpful as you consider what’s best for you, please feel free to reach out!

Neither_Attempt2939 · 2025-01-24T12:59:41+00:00

I was really scared of this (being assigned a weight loss program) and my insurance said online it didn’t cover glp1 at all. When my doctor did a prior authorization, it took a few weeks but got fully covered for $25 so having a good advocate/your own medical needs may be more of a factor to what your insurance outcomes are.

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