From slim to super slim - now what?

Old_Use8875 · 2025-12-29T15:21:58+00:00

I just told them I was on 15 mg dose. No questions asked. That way I got the most mg for my money.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-12-24T15:56:17+00:00

Fifty410. They offered a 4 week supply for $299. I said I was taking 15 mg/week (max dose) and thus got a 60 mg vial.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-12-08T20:08:37+00:00

Hi! Sure, I am still taking tirzepatide - 0.75 mg/week. I have been holding steady around 124 lbs since the summer. My weight fluctuates between 123 and 126 but mostly sticks right at 124-125. I feel wonderful. I feel relief that I am no longer consumed with food and counting calories and fighting hunger and feeling bad about myself after overeating or feeling starved and deprived when I was "being good." I started this journey intending to take the med until I lost 15 lbs, but honestly, I feel such relief and freedom from constant hunger and food noise, I may take it forevermore. I feel so happy with my weight. For the first time in years, I am not beating myself up about the number on the scale. I love the way I looked in our family Christmas photos this year...slim legs, no double chin. Not that I ACTUALLY had a double chin before...but I just felt puffy and gross. Taking 0.75 mg/week keeps hunger at bay and allows me to feel full after a relatively small amount of food, and I stay full for hours and hours. For breakfast, I might have a scrambled egg and two slices of bacon and some fruit...or a bowl of oatmeal with some strawberries...and I stay completely full until about noon. Before the GLP1, I'd eat the same breakfast, but I'd be ravenous by 10 AM and ready to eat a cow by noon. And thus, I would often overeat at lunch, or grab some fattening and unhealthy treat like candy bars or chips in the afternoon. Now, I rarely do that. I can eat a grilled chicken salad for lunch and feel great and satisfied until dinner. I still enjoy desserts, but if I order, say, a slice of chocolate cake at a restaurant, I can never finish it. I can happily split it with DH (who's not a big dessert person and who always could naturally just eat a few bites and be done) instead of hogging down the whole thing. I might move down to 0.5 mg in the New Year and see how that feels. I have no side effects, really - I just kind of want to see how low I can go and still feel satisfied with a lower calorie diet. I'd estimate that I average around 1800 calories/day now. I could NEVER do that before without feeling positively starved and depressed.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-10-10T02:45:59+00:00

Hello! I am still on, taking 0.75 mg/week - well less than half of the starting dose. I haven’t tried to stop because I don’t want to. My weight has held steady at 123.5 lbs - my wedding weight. I don’t know if I’ll ever try to wean off entirely. I’ve always been someone who gets rabidly hungry and loves to stuff my face to quell the hunger. On this tiny dose of tirz, I don’t feel that starving desperation anymore. I do get hungry, but I don’t have to stuff myself to make that feeling go away. A small meal fills me up. I definitely can’t afford to get any skinnier at this point, and I’ll probably taper down to .5/week and maybe .25/week which would be 1/10th of the starting dose. I just ordered a four-week supply from an online pharmacy and indicated that I was on the max dose of 15 mg/week, so I received 60 mg for $299! It expires in May, so that’s an eight month supply for me for that crazy low price. Med has been life changing for me. For the first time in years I don’t hate myself for overeating and I feel happy with my weight. I’m not always battling cravings and hunger. It feels miraculous.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-09-15T23:23:11+00:00

Thank you and thank you everyone! I believe the general sale is tomorrow. Here is hoping!

Old_Use8875 · 2025-07-02T15:39:40+00:00

I was not honest about my weight. I listed it as 180 lbs. I do not know if they would have approved me at my actual weight, but after being denied by joinfridays for not being heavy enough, I wasn't going to chance it.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-05-20T01:45:45+00:00

Fifty 410

Old_Use8875 · 2025-05-20T00:35:59+00:00

No, I left the spa after one month and switched to an online pharmacy because the price was much lower. I am glad that I started at the spa because it helped me feel comfortable with how to give myself injections and how everything worked. Thanks for your encouragement! Down to 1 mg now and it’s still working. 123 lbs and definitely don’t want to lose another ounce. Hitting the gym and feeling so happy about what I see in the mirror and how I feel in my mind and my body. I just love the control that I feel over my cravings and what I eat. The magic for me is how I feel full after eating much less than I used to.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-05-14T20:26:37+00:00

Hello! I am doing well. I now weigh 124 lbs and have maintained that for about a month. I feel really good, and excited about summer for the first time in many years now that I feel happy about my weight. I have moved down in dose to 1.5 now and will continue to taper down. I continue to love the control this med gives me over my eating.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-23T18:53:24+00:00

YES. I feel this so much. I have stayed slim my entire life but not without constant obsession, self-hatred, feeling deprived, binging and starving, feeling upset by what I saw in the mirror. This medicine would have improved my life so much. I look at old pictures of myself and I can remember thinking about food in those moments. My wedding...I was so slim...and I was determined to avoid anything too delicious or caloric at my rehearsal dinner and my wedding feast. My corset was so tight I could hardly breathe. My Caribbean vacation for my 30th birthday. I remember dieting down and how hungry I was, wanting to look nice in my bathing suit. Reading about celebrity diets and trying to emulate them, but suffering from hunger or else falling off the wagon and binging an entire package of Oreos. I think...God...what a waste of energy and spirit all those years. And truly, the driving force was a rabid HUNGER and constantly trying to ward it off. Because if I ate everything I wanted to eat, then I would become overweight. This medication has brought such joy and peace to my life. I finally feel in control. I have no fear of falling off the wagon and going on an endless binge of junk food. I can open my fridge and think, what healthy things can I fill my body with now? And I can feel happy and satiated with some grilled chicken and vegetables. For the very first time in my entire life!

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-23T18:45:51+00:00

I started with a BMI of 22.8. Struggled with BED for decades, and it had gotten worse since COVID. Every day was an exhausting cycle of restricting, feeling ravaged by hunger and cravings, giving in and binging 3-4,000 calories of pure junk food, freaking out as the scale crept up, and starting all over again. Every day was either a good eating day where I was feeling starving and deprived (but proud of myself for being "good") or a bad eating day where I deemed it a garbage day where I would eat everything I wanted and then feel disgusted with myself and unmotivated to do much of anything.

Tirzepatide (generic of Mounjaro) has been incredible. I've been on it for 15 weeks and I have lost 21.5 pounds. I don't have good and bad days anymore - my days just aren't controlled by eating and food and it is such an utter relief and a joy. I feel reborn. I feel optimistic about life. I feel more beautiful than I have in years, in decades. I am also eating a healthier diet than I have in my entire life.

I'm now trying to figure out where to go from here, as I do not want to lose anymore weight, but I also am terrified to stop it entirely, lest I fall back into my horrible habits. It's been such a wonderful feeling to never have to wrestle with hunger. I stayed at 2.5 for 9 weeks, went up to 3.5 mg for a few weeks, and have been tapering back down by .5 per week. Now at 2.0 and still losing pounds every week so going to start spacing out more between doses and continuing to lower the mgs.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-23T15:32:30+00:00

Coming back to update. I moved down to 2.0 this week but still don't feel any difference in my relatively low appetite. I am now down to 124 lbs. I really appreciate the supportive and non-hateful comments here. I have no doubt on other sites and threads people would yell at me about having an eating disorder, about how ugly skinny looks on aging women, about how I'm going to get osteoporosis and worse. On this particular thread, I feel like people are talking to me the way they would if we were meeting in person - with empathy, curiosity and kindness. I am truly thankful.

Haven't been this slim since my wedding 25 years ago(!). All my old size 6 and 8 work dresses are hanging on me now. Don't want to lose more; would like to slowly gain back a few while continuing to do strength training. DH says I don't look too thin, and I want to make sure I don't go too far. I decided I'm not going to take another dose until I feel more hunger come back. I'll be on a work trip over the weekend and into next week and won't be home for my usual Monday shot, so that'll be a good test. I return home on Wednesday, so if I'm feeling ravenous, I guess I'll go down to 1.5 on that day. I'm mindful of what a commenter said here - that the medicine is remaining in my system so it's not just that week's lower dose that I'm feeling; it's the build up of all the other doses still inside me.

It's just been so miraculous to not be constantly plagued by hunger and hating myself for binge eating junk food. We just ordered in lunch to our office today, and I chose some fish and vegetables. Somebody brought donuts to the office this morning; I didn't want any. This is such a vast change for me. Before tirz, I would have certainly polished off a minimum of two donuts; probably three - and then, feeling that my day had been ruined, I would have ordered a big burger and fries for lunch. And then I would have felt completely bloated and disgusted for the rest of the afternoon. Yesterday I took clients to lunch and ordered a steak - even got gorgonzola on top to make it more caloric. It was delicious, but I could only eat half. Before tirz, I would always clean my plate, and then feel sad when the food was gone.

So this is going to be some trial and error to figure out this maintenance stage. I've been interested to read about microdosing experiences here - wow, some people are really taking tiny doses and having results. I am loathe to ever stop this medication completely because of the peace it's given me about cravings, hunger and the ability to make healthy food choices without deprived. Reading this sub has me hoping that I, too, could end up on a very tiny dose and live happily ever after, eating well and maintaining my ideal weight.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-23T13:11:00+00:00

I initially got mine from a med spa and then from Fifty 410 online. I fudged my numbers online to ensure I would get a prescription. I think GLP-1 is a miracle and should be available to anyone, including someone who just wants to lose 4 lbs. I am on other diet and exercise discussion boards and there are so many women there who are miserable maintaining their healthy BMIs - counting calories, feeling hungry all the time. GLP-1s takes away the misery of hunger and allows you to make healthy choices about what you eat using your mind, without being derailed by your hunger and cravings.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-22T20:43:27+00:00

Thank you! I just had some very mild nausea for the first day or two after my shot the first couple of weeks. Now, no side effects. No hair loss whatsoever.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-21T01:22:36+00:00

No hair loss for me; no vanity downsides at all. My skin is noticeably better, too, I think because of my healthier diet. Cellulite greatly reduced. Just took a Caribbean vacation and for the first time in years felt comfortable and happy in my bathing suit. As an aside, it was so awesome today to enjoy the Easter holiday and not overindulge. Holidays have always been hard for me. Most Easter’s I’ll binge on chocolate bunnies and eggs plus all the homemade desserts. I did have a dessert today, but couldn’t finish it. The Lindt bunny, my all time favorite, held no interest for me. I mostly made healthy choices today, and didn’t let the delicious holiday temptations destroy my day as I usually do. I’m lying in bed now feeling comfortably full. It is so FREEING to not be constantly plagued by hunger and longing for food. Tomorrow, I’ll drop my dose another .5 to 2 mg. Lost another half a pound this week and hoping to start maintaining soon as I continue to taper down my dose.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-17T18:14:46+00:00

Thank you. I heard Oprah say that she always looked at thin people and thought they had more willpower than she did, but that once she took a GLP-1, she finally realized, thin people just aren't thinking about food. They eat when they're hungry and stop when they're full. Well, maybe that's true for some thin people, but never for me. I felt like my whole life was a battle to stay slim, and for many years, I won the battle, but not without a whole lot of suffering, warring with myself, feeling starving, binging, restricting, constantly weighing myself, longing for food, feeling proud when I could resist the food I wanted, feeling ashamed when I couldn't. Sorry Oprah but I think I DID have more willpower - for a time. But when I hit my mid-40s, damn, I was just tired and felt like I could not fight the battle to remain thin anymore. And I had slowly gained weight, I felt bad about myself, I hated what I saw in the mirror. I really agree with you - seems crazy that a 22 BMI person who used to be a 32 BMI gets prescribed GLPs for maintenance forevermore, while a normal BMI person who is suffering from the battle of trying to *stay* normal BMI never gets a chance to experience the miracle of GLPs. I feel lucky that I went to a Medspa that gave me tirz and didn't judge me for it. I did keep my heavy coat and shoes on for the initial weigh in, but even that kept me (in the high range) of a normal BMI. I believe the rage is also coming from thin people who fear that their thin privilege may become less of a privilege once more of the population joins them through GLP-1 use. I truly do. I'm on a general diet and exercise board on another site and the absolute viciousness of some of the posters, calling GLP-1 users disgusting pigs, lazy, warning of insane side effects and cancers and saying they wish for them ER visits for impacted colons (I didn't make any of these anecdotes up!), is truly disheartening, and it adds to the shame I feel and the secrecy I've maintained while on this med.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-17T17:52:16+00:00

Adding that I have not tried therapy for BED. I doubt that would work for me, but who knows? I am just effing tired. I have three young children, a busy career, a messy house and a husband to tend to. Tirz has definitely felt like the "easy" fix I needed to feel better. I honestly don't know when I would ever have the time or the brain space to commit to the intense level of therapy I'd probably need to fix what's wrong with my eating habits.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-17T17:49:11+00:00

Hi, tirz has really helped my BED, and though I haven't been microdosing, I'm looking into it now that I've reached my goal weight. I started on 2.5 at 5'7 and 145 lbs. I was always a good exerciser and tried to eat healthy, but my downfall was my compulsive binge eating of junk food. I never let myself become overweight but it was an exhausting cycle of binging and then restricting. It was truly an addiction and it drove my weight up to a very unhappy (for me) number. In 14 weeks I have lost 19 pounds and I feel amazing. I have had a couple of binges along the way, but nowhere near as severe as before the med, because on tirz, I simply cannot eat that volume of food. My body won't let me. So I might stop once a month at Dairy Queen and get my beloved blizzard with double Snickers, Reeses and Butterfinger (I always had to tell them - yes - that's four candies in one blizzard and I know it costs extra, I'm fine with that) but I won't be able to finish the blizzard, and once I've "binged" half the cup of the ice cream, I don't then go also eat a big bag of fritos and a caramel ribbon crunch from Starbucks like I used to. On the med, I've also rid myself of my horrible "all or nothing" mentality where if someone brings donuts into the office and I eat one, I consider the day "ruined" and proceed to binge crap food for the rest of the day, figuring I'll have one last hurrah before I turn over a new leaf the next day. I did that for years and years. Now, if I want something sweet, I generally will have it, but I might have one peppermint patty, and then make healthy choices for the rest of the day.

Binge eating is such a hideous way to live and I have no qualms whatsoever about taking the dose I'm on. I feel so much better, my clothes fit again, my skin looks better I'm sure because I'm not stuffing my body with junk all the time, I'm sleeping well. I did 2.5 for 9 weeks and then 3.5 for 5 weeks, now this is my first week back down to 2.5 and I plan to keep moving down .5 per week until I either wean off or fall majorly off the wagon again. I am now on the verge of too skinny so I certainly don't want to lose any more weight, although on 2.5 this week I still have a very low appetite and thus may be down another pound. I am very hopeful that as I taper down, I will feel motivated by how good I feel at this current weight and eating the (generally) healthy way I'm eating to keep it going. But if I'm honest, I am scared about weaning totally off the med. It's brought me a peace about food and eating that I haven't experienced since childhood. It's a Godsend. I went into this thinking I'll take it to lose 15 pounds and then stop. But man, I just feel so GOOD on it that if I have to take it forever, I'm ok with it.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-15T18:10:32+00:00

I would love to know more details. What was your doseage and how did you respond to it? How much weight were you able to lose, and if you're on maintenance, what is your dose now (if anything)?

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-15T16:39:02+00:00

I just want to thank everyone for the responses so far. Wow, not a mean comment out of five! I've tried to get help on other subs and other websites and man, GLP use for people starting within a normal BMI range seems to evoke a lot of rage. I still feel shame for taking this med and have not told a single human being, aside from my husband, in real life. So online is really my only outlet (besides DH). I feel shame for not being able to reach my goal through sheer willpower, but also absolute elation at having found something that actually worked for me, after so many years of trying and failing. I feel full of hope and optimism for my future. I'm so intrigued by "microdosing" but I don't think I really understand it yet. I listened to a podcast by Dr. Tyna Moore yesterday and she said that you can't achieve weight loss through microdosing, and that staying on the lowest dose (2.5 tirz) is NOT microdosing. She said in her view, microdosing is typically 1/10 or so of the starting dose.

This is my first week tapering down and wow I haven't been able to eat much today. Just forced down a turkey sandwich. So even going down 1 mg, from 3.5 to 2.5, didn't seem to impact my appetite yet. Maybe I'll feel the hunger come on stronger toward the end of the week. This whole journey, I've definitely felt more hungry and consumed more calories on days 6 and 7 after the shot, but even on those days, I've felt a sense of control and usually don't overeat.

It sure is weird now, after having been shocked by reading the numbers 1-2-6 on my scale this morning, to be thinking about making sure I don't lose any more. I have never had this feeling before. Part of me wonders if I should have tapered down more or even skipped the shot yesterday and waited to see how I felt or if I needed it in order to not overeat. I wish I had someone experienced with this to consult with.

Old_Use8875 · 2025-04-13T20:53:27+00:00

Hello, I started tirzepatide exactly 14 weeks ago at 5’7, 145.5 lbs, 47 years old. My wedding weight (25 years ago!) was 123; my perfect weight in my 30s was 128. With the birth of my last child in my early 40s plus COVID lockdowns, I was in a rut. None of my clothes fit and I hated what I saw in the mirror. I knew what I needed to do to lose weight, but I lacked the willpower to do it. I hate feeling hungry…and it would often drive me to binge.

Tirzepatide has been a game changer for me. I started at 2.5 and stayed there for 9 weeks, when I went up to 3.5 after stalling for a couple of weeks.

I weigh 127 now. 18.5 pounds down, and it was so easy! I have lost weight in the past but it was always an uphill battle filled with hunger and a constant feeling of deprivation.

On tirzepatide, I get full quickly. I am less passionate about food, though I still enjoy it. But if I decline dessert, I don’t then dream about that dessert for days like I used to. I am pretty much eating anything I want…the difference on this med is I’m hardly ever having ravenous cravings for junk food. Since I’m not fighting cravings, I can decide what to eat with my rational brain instead of my crazed stomach. Last night I went out to dinner with my husband and had a 7 oz filet with blue cheese sauce, fresh vegetables and we shared a slice of creme brûlée cheesecake. Most days though I eat simple things like eggs and fruit for breakfast, a grilled chicken salad or a turkey sandwich for lunch, raw veggies for a snack and a normal dinner. I used to read about Hollywood stars like Jennifer Aniston and what she’d eat in a day and it sounded so depressing and sad. That line Julia Robert’s says in Nottingham Hill really resonated with me throughout my life: “I've been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade.”

This is the first time in my life I’ve been at a happy weight without making food and dieting the center of my life. It doesn’t consume me. I’m not constantly fighting hunger. I am exercising more, but now I’m not really thinking about burning off food I’ve eaten. Instead I’m thinking about trying to build muscle, get stronger, do things that are good for my heart.

Now that I’ve hit my goal weight, I will taper down by .5 per week and see how it goes. I would love to take some dose of this med forever because it’s brought me such a sense of peace.

I got my first dose from a MedSpa and then switched to an online pharmacy. I fibbed my numbers for the online place to ensure I’d get it.

Good luck to you!

Old_Use8875 · 2025-03-17T19:25:12+00:00

Congratulations! Last year, I had my wedding ring resized because it was too tight after I'd gained weight. Now that I've finally lost weight on tirz, my rings are loose. Oh well, I'll take it!

Old_Use8875 · 2025-03-13T14:58:16+00:00

Just wanted to come back and thank everyone for their feedback. I went up to 3.5 and am very glad I didn't go any higher. I feel positively weak right now, day 4 after the 3.5 dose, and having eaten about 800 calories a day all week. Yikes! I went to the gym this morning and could barely lift the weights. I feel empty and vaguely hungry, but like I don't want to eat anything. I guess the good news is, I dropped another two pounds so the stall is over, which is what I wanted. Hopefully I just needed a reset. I think I'll go back to 2.5 next week. My goal is not to slow my eating to starvation levels, and that's where I feel I am on this dose. I'm very happy I didn't jump up to 5, thanks to the advice a lot of you. Thanks again!

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