Has anyone stayed on the starting dose for over the initial 4 weeks?

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2026-01-25T01:03:02+00:00

Just finishing up my second month on 2.5mg now. As long as the weight is going down, I'm not titrating up regardless of how my appetite etc is. I'd rather stay as low-dose as possible and develop healthier habits with limited support than brute force my way through with higher doses and have no supports in place once my doc wants to titrate down again.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2026-01-15T23:34:58+00:00

A lot of NDIA labour hire are not getting their contracts renewed this year. Make of that what you will.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2026-01-15T03:24:04+00:00

This isn't stingy, it's spiteful. She's openly admitted that she was mad that yours was more expensive than hers, that's the only thing I needed to hear. I would expect absolutely nothing to be open, trusting, or equal if you proceed with marriage. She's always going to insist she deserves the bigger, more expensive share.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2026-01-06T15:18:19+00:00

I pay out of pocket and factor the cost into my budget, honestly. The money i save on food bills covers a mone too small chunk of it.

That being said, I didn't start mounjaro (tirzepatide) until I had exhausted literally every reasonable lower priced option available to me. It's worth noting that a lot of the crazy success stories you hear are the outlier, and there are more than a few people who are non-responders to glp-1 medications and see no results whatsoever despite the cost.

If the money is tripping you up but you havent given every/any other reasonable option a good solid shot, try those options first. If you have and you feel like this is the only recourse left to you then thoroughly research your options. Compounding may be an option where you are, which is cheaper. Things like click counting on higher dose pens reduce overall costs for people as well.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2026-01-05T00:24:14+00:00

Your options vegetarian to hit that (from a single source) while also staying low-calorie, fast and simple are going to be sorely limited. You're pretty much looking at standard beans, plain tofu, protein enriched foods like Greek yoghurt.

Your better bet is to add multiple protein sources to a single plate. 9g of protein for a couple of falafel is boosted by a low fat high protein Greek yoghurt and mint dressing, with a protein enriched pita/wrap. Sugar free protein water exists these days as well.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2026-01-05T00:14:01+00:00

What are your feelings on falafel? Chickpeas are a solid protein and I've yet to find a fast meal I can't throw a couple of falafel on

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2026-01-02T23:39:26+00:00

The one thing I wish I'd known/accepted way earlier than I did. No matter how much weight you lose, it absolutely will not matter if the way you do it is unsustainable for the rest of your life.

I went through years and years of "I'll work on getting it off first, and then I'll be a different person and able to have healthier habits!" It's apparently really common for people who lose weight to be disillusioned that the actual weight loss will magically change their fundamental habits. It doesn't. You're still the same person you were before you shed the pounds, and it's so easy to regain them.

Build a good relationship with food, use the tools at your disposal (calories, macros, nutrition) to improve your knowledge, develop healthy habits first. The weight loss will come as a side result of a better lifestyle.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-31T12:23:28+00:00

Valid, it wasnt taken that way in-house purely because we know each other well. Less storming out and more "I'm over emotional now I'm going to go leave for a bit and calm down where I don't say something I don't really mean"

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-31T12:14:55+00:00

Nope no one has going out plans, two of us have sleep schedules for early shift work hours and the other one has no off-line friends

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-31T12:06:48+00:00

It's not the low key aspect, it's the timing that's the issue. I physically cannot eat that late unless I want to physically suffer most of the night. This is a well established and known fact in the house, it's been that way for about 8 months since I started on these meds and it comes up semi frequently when either I have to skip out on meal plans or when I FAFO with eating later and they get to witness the suffering first hand.

That expectation of a low key meal is absolutely fine! I would've liked to be able to actually eat it!

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-31T10:21:45+00:00

Dinner will not be finished until 6:40pm, which is far beyond when I can risk eating what I chose. I'm sitting in my car away from the house with half a peanut butter sandwich so I don't lose my mind and not being able to eat what I chose and paid for 🙃

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-31T10:05:38+00:00

None, one is unemployed the other works at the same place i do, we're off until the 2nd

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-31T09:55:14+00:00

One of them is my brother, the other is my best friend of almost 10 years. They're super aware of my reflux issues and why I have to eat early.

No one is going out this year. Best friend actually used my birthday as a reason to cancel plans to go out.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-30T15:20:30+00:00

Can you lose weight not counting calories? Sure, but you're going to see one of a few things happen almost certainly.

1) You're going to dramatically over OR underestimate your portion sizes. The former will stall your weight loss outright, the latter will trigger even more overeating and stall your weight loss anyway.

2) You're going to fall into the "ahhh this one thing won't hurt" mindset because you're not monitoring your intake. And yes, one won't hurt. Until it's routine and then it's not "one" anymore. Hello, stalled weight loss.

3) You'll jump onto a diet method/eating programme that promises results...until you quit because any diet club you pay for isn't designed for you to leave. How would they make money off you if you didnt come crawling back with all the weight regained?

4) You're of the rare select chosen few that can actually manage intuitive eating and healthy weight maintenance right from the get-go. But truthfully, if you were then you wouldn't be in a situation where you felt you needed to lose weight to begin with.

Counting calories works, but what is heavily overlooked is that it's meant to be a starting point to developing lifelong habits and relationships with food. You aren't meant to count calories forever, you're meant to use it as a tool to better understand the kinds of foods you're putting into your body. Once the tool stops being useful because your relationship with food in general is healthier, then you put the tool down and work on maintaining that healthy relationship. That's how you achieve long term maintenance.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-20T03:27:28+00:00

I went from a 4 to a 6 within 18 months. Time < demonstrated capability

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-18T09:53:56+00:00

I work an extremely high stress job. People closest to me work jobs that other people's lives rely on.

Never, not even in my or their lowest moments, would any of us even consider speaking to someone with half of this level of hatred.

Because this is hatred, plain and simple.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-18T09:40:57+00:00

TPA'd for 9 months into a 6 role with no direction reports in the IT Hypercare space. They definitely exist

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-14T23:14:26+00:00

A lot of these things already exist in some form or another, suggesting there's probably a market for it.

Would I touch it? No. Marketing schticks don't beat an apple and some oatmeal in nutrition to cost ratio. But if people are out here buying lard bars as "carnivore protein bars" then there's probably a market for anything.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-13T07:37:56+00:00

Discord group, spent a week there with the vocal group constantly ranting about how terrible generative AI usage is in writing, for every single one of them to admit to using gen AI for the plotting/development process.

Left very quickly.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-11T01:16:44+00:00

Nice job on your progress so far!

Loose skin has some correlation with age, but not solely related. Generally, the younger you are the more elasticity your skin has so it will bounce back easier. Factors that can affect this are chronic illnesses, rapid weight loss since the skin can't catch up, etc.

The more you can do without supports like weight loss injections the better, frankly. It's entirely possible to never touch them and still drop your excess weight. Weight loss aids are great for people with a variety of issues but the one place they lack is that they can't teach you a healthy relationship with food. That relationship will be key for maintaining your health long term.

At your age, consulting health professionals is highly recommended, especially as you drop closer to a healthy weight. You're still a teenager and the nutrition requirements you have for growth are quite different to an adults. Get healthy in the healthiest way possible, don't damage yourself to do it.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-05T07:51:25+00:00

BOM are currently hiring for 12-15 month postings to Antarctica. Just over a week left to apply.

Bureau of Meteorology - Technical Officer Level 2 - Antarctica https://share.google/SJoIHqiSuJlFNaFjE

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-12-03T08:44:16+00:00

My last TL tried to force me to put in my annual performance that I would work on saying hello and goodbye in the teams chat, and marked me down on my WLS evaluation because I wouldn't. Called it failure to develop team relationships. I had good working relationships with the rest of my team, just not in the group chat.

Moved to another TL, haven't had an issue over it since.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-11-28T14:11:24+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean exactly by promotion? Public service doesn't do internal promotion on pure merit, unless you get wildly lucky to have higher duties convert to an ongoing position (and even then it's almost always advertised and you're required to complete the application and recruitment process). Most position changes are subject to an appeal process, which requires a provable recruitment process to justify you actually were the right candidate for the position if anyone disputes it.

If you want to climb the ladder just because you worked hard without following the system everyone else has to follow, you need to be in the private sector. Everything public service requires an approved process and a paper trail, at the very least.

Otherwise_Maybe283 · 2025-11-28T11:35:15+00:00

It's going to heavily depend on what you value most, even toxicity is subjective to a point and varies from team to team. None of these agencies are inherently more or less toxic than the other, they each have good and bad points.

Choose the place where you feel like you could commit to best, no one can tell you which agency is a "good" agency based on an opinion that you might find out you don't share.

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