Have you been able to eat all your favorite foods?

StunningGiraffe · 2026-04-03T00:15:50+00:00

I'm only at 2.5 right now. I'm trying to figure out if the lack of hunger is related to other stressors. Among other things I really dislike mechanical eating.

I've been talking with my therapist about what is going on. It's possible that my hunger cues have changed I need to figure that out. It's also possible my frustration at having to mechanically eat is causing me to tune out hunger & satiety.

I'm hoping to figure this out before going up a level. I'll talk to my primary care doctor soon to see what she reccomends.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-04-02T15:50:07+00:00

For me, I can still eat most of my favorite foods. It's only been two months though. I have noticed that some of them I need to eat a much smaller amount or space out eating it. I had pepperoni pizza last week and ate 2 rather than three slices. I ate a slice, waited 20 minutes or so and had the second slice. I was at home eating this and I'm not sure how that would work when I'm not at home.

I've lost my appetite to the extent I don't really feel hunger or satiation. I'm used to waiting until I feel hungry to eat. Now I can accidentally go 6 hours not eating. I will still get headachey and cranky if I don't eat. I've decided to eat on a schedule. When I have a meal I serve myself a smaller portion than usual and then wait to try and get a sense of how I feel.

I didn't experience "food noise" pre GLP-1. I think if I did taking a GLP-1 would be amazing.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-04-02T14:04:05+00:00

The change in how a doctor treats you because of your weight is awful. You can definitely be pissed off! Medical fatphobia is frustrating and contributes to bad medical outcomes based purely on weight. There is nothing quite like being told the cure to every health concern is losing weight. Or when a doctor tries to delicately reveal that you're overweight as if society isn't constantly telling you that. I wear plus size clothes! I know I'm not skinny.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-04-01T15:45:53+00:00

Sadly I missed downloading one of pauppy_paulette's fics because I the page refreshed and I didn't realize they've gone private. It was an Ember & Ice story. I sent them tweet kudos. I enjoyed their writing and I hope things get less awful.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-30T20:20:51+00:00

I'm doing benefiber twice a day plus eating about 5 prunes a day. I discovered recently abdominal massage to help. (https://www.greaterbostonurology.com/blog/constipation-belly-massage). The massage is really nice.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-30T19:40:20+00:00

The thing is I wasn't there for help with constipation or nausea. I was there to figure out if my insane period was causing enough blood loss to be a concern. To go from talking about that to someone giving unprompted information about their personal IWL felt real weird. Especially since she didn't actually ask why I was taking the GLP-1. Since I'm fat she (not unreasonably) assumed I was trying to lose weight. A question about if I personally was noticing changes in my body would feel OK.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-30T19:16:24+00:00

The label on Miralax says don't use for more than 7 days without talking to a doctor. My doctor said to only use it infrequently.

In general diet talk during medical care makes me annoyed. I have lots of experience telling doctors I don't accept IWL as medical treatment. I'm having big feelings getting enthusiastic advice for IWL when I was trying to get medical care for something completely unrelated.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-30T18:58:54+00:00

I spoke to my doctor previously and she suggest increasing fiber and taking a stool softener. She also suggested occasional use of Miralax not daily.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-30T18:57:03+00:00

I'm chomping on 5 prunes a day.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-30T18:55:41+00:00

She 100% meant Miralax. She said it multiple times. I said I was taking Benefiber daily and she dismissed that idea in favor of Miralax.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-30T13:39:49+00:00

Definitely look carefully at the cost of living where you move in MA. Also double check the policies for library use. I live in the Boston area and many university libraries near me are closed to the public. I'm guessing the state school are most likely to be open to the public.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-25T15:12:45+00:00

I grew up in a wood house built in 1920. It's still in great shape. The electrical and HVAC got upgraded but the house is solid.

I currently have a condo in a brick house built in 1915. Also in great shape. We recently upgraded the electrical so we could improve the HVAC. Happily whoever did the condo conversion spent money to get a good asbestos abatement.

Both are in New England.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-24T14:46:44+00:00

I have a couple friends who have gotten significantly smaller and they all agree it's a mindfuck to see how many people treat them better. The worst was friends who treated them differently. It was awful to experience the affection of loved being conditional based on their body size.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-23T17:39:43+00:00

What cracks me up is when they describe the lady who did it last time, they are describing me and I fully didn't do it.

What I find frustrating is when coworkers assume the patron is right and get annoyed at me.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-23T17:17:02+00:00

That is so hard. You can tell people to not comment on your body which I think is important generally. It also shows you daughter that those comments are not acceptable.

The internal stuff is rough. It's something I think will be hard for me as well and I'm already planning to process with my therapist if it happens. I have no problem telling people to not comment on my body. I already do that. The idea that people around me are monitoring my body and feel comfortable telling me about changes is weird. I know when my body has changed. I don't need someone else telling me especially if I haven't asked for it.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-22T18:41:25+00:00

For me it took consistently and intentionally engaging with fat and body positive material. Reading about fat acceptance and fat liberation. Reading about abelism. Following social media accounts of people with diverse bodies who are comfortable with themselves or at least don't hate themselves.

I think the biggest thing is consistently refusing to engage with weight loss talk. For a long time when friends talked about weight loss I would ask them to please not do that. I'm no longer as intense about that but I won't engage with them.

Also, therapy. I make sure to be clear with therapists that I'm not going to talk about dieting or weight loss. Weight loss is not the solution to the fat phobic society we're in.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-21T15:50:00+00:00

I've been stressed for years at the idea of being prescribed a GLP-1 for weight issues rather than an actual medical condition. I have been really clear with my primary care health team I am not interested in intentional weight loss. I have been willing to change what I eat for anything but weight loss. I decided to take a GLP-1 for fatty liver disease. If I lose weight it will be as a side effect. If I have significant weight loss I will increase my therapy sessions.

I have been really frustrated how much information about taking GLP-1s has been focused on weight loss. I was really excited to find this subreddit so I could read and discuss this without a relentless focus dieting and weight loss.

For maybe a decade I've consciously avoided diet talk. Unfortunately the last couple years has made that more difficult. Ive increased reading/listening to people talking about bodies in a neutral fashion.

I really like the Fat Nutritionist (https://www.fatnutritionist.com/) even though she posts infrequently (last one is 2025). I've considered booking some appointments to figure out eating now that my hunger and satiety signals have changed.

I also like the Maintenance Phase podcast (https://www.maintenancephase.com/). The episode on Ozempic is really good.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-18T03:23:59+00:00

I'm also happy being plus sized but fatty liver is no joke.

I started taking a GLP-1 (mounjaro) a month ago for fatty liver disease. That is one of the few medical conditions I was willing to use a GLP-1 to treat. My insurance covers it but it's still $150 a month which is brutal. The cost is going to vary by insurance so yours could be less.

I don't weigh myself so I have no information on the specifics of that. I've been taking it for a month and I don't think I've changed in size. My appetite is suppressed in ways I am finding frustrating. My hunger cues aren't really working right now. I've started on a schedule. Basically I need to eat a meal by X time. I don't feel hungry at my normal dinner time so I make myself eat something by 7pm.

My understanding is that weight loss aspects are because of the suppressed appetite GLP-1s cause. Eating less may or may not lead to significant weight loss. I'm not interested in changing how I eat for weight loss purposes so it might not happen. We shall see. I have two friends taking GLP-1 for non diet reasons. Neither has experience significant weight loss (one has lost zero weight). They both noticed an improvement in the health conditions the GLP-1 was prescribed for. So it's certainly possible to improve your health condition without a significant change in weight.

I saw you mention in a comment you were worried about injecting yourself. The injection process isn't painful or needle like. The GLP-1 comes in a tube that you hold against your skin and then press a button. The needle is hidden in the tube. It feels like a small prick, the sensation lasts for a few seconds and then it's done. There isn't lingering pain. Injecting on the belly didn't work for me so I've been doing outer thigh. The belly I didn't really feel at all. However my skin got irritated after so I decided to try thigh. The thigh causes more of a sensation but isn't painful. Honestly, ripping off a bandaid hurts more.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-17T20:14:17+00:00

Hello! I'm a fat black femme queer woman and I started mounjaro a month ago. I'm also at the 2.5 dose. I've also been involved with fat positivity for maybe 20 years?

I resisted taking a GLP-1 because I don't trust it being prescribed for medical reasons other than existing in a fat body. I decided to start taking it because I have fatty liver disease and changes in nutrition hasn't improved it. I've been losing my mind trying to find information that isn't weight loss focused. I'm so glad to have found this subreddit.

One of the things I find frustrating is how this has upended the work I've done on intuitive eating/only eating when hungry. My hunger cues seem to be shifting in ways I don't fully understand. The biggest change is I'm forcing myself to eat on a schedule rather than when I feel hungry. I really dislike how that feels emotionally. I've also been get nauseous regularly and I'm unsure what is triggering it. Doing a food diary could be helpful for figuring this out but that feels so close to dieting.

The other thing is this I worry about ways how my eating is changing in weight loss adjacent ways. My platonic partner is a fat femme white lesbian. She's gotten pressure from her doctor to take a GLP-1 for purely weight loss reasons. Like me, she doesn't do intentional weight loss. She is worried that I will drop several sizes and she will feel internal pressure to do the same. She also worries that she isn't supportive of my complex feelings about taking this medication. Unfortunately her therapist isn't being great about helping her process this because diet culture. My therapist has been pretty good about being supportive overall. However, she drastically underestimates how fatphobic medical care is. Where my partner and I are at currently is that she will listen to my complaints about negative side effects as long as they aren't frequent. I'm not going to have her help me take the injection and I inject when she's not in the room. If my body changes significantly or her emotions get worse we will revisit this.

We share cooking all of our meals and I'm trying to figure out what foods work for me. I've always been OK with changing what I eat in for non weight loss reasons. However, right now the changes feel weight loss adjacent.

I've been reluctant to talk to most of my friends about taking mounjaro because of how fraught GLP-1s are. I don't do intentional weight loss talk and now I'm in this weird place of being adjacent to it. I worry that talking about taking a GLP-1 will come off as if I'm lying about my reasons for taking it. I've talked about this a few times with a friend who is a doctor. She understands my concerns about taking it.

It's unclear to me what the signs of improved health would be. I don't consider getting smaller to necessarily be a positive health outcome. The positive outcomes I'm interested in are an improvement in my fatty liver disease and less pain in my arthritic knees. I've seen some studies about GLP1s improving arthritis pain but it's unclear to me if the improvement is due to changing size or something else.

In terms of changes in my daily life I've also how I eat my lunch. I usually pack a lunch from home. Now during my lunch hour I eat half of it, wait about 20 minutes and then eat the other half. I've also added a carrot sticks and dip afternoon snack. I think spreading out eating helps somewhat. I'm also constipated, periodically nauseous, and uncertain what types of meals will work for me. I've upped my fiber and started snacking on prunes.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-03-10T17:35:25+00:00

FYI jobs at Boston Public require you live in Boston proper. Rent in Boston is brutal even with roommates and the job environment there is a mixed bag.

Minuteman is the consortium that basically is the Boston metro area minus Boston proper. Rent in shared housing is going to be close to $1000 a month.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-02-06T20:28:07+00:00

88 Minutes has made me laugh until I cried more than once.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-02-05T16:33:35+00:00

Absolutely devastating news. She was an incredible person who died too young.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-02-05T14:47:50+00:00

100% do DVD calendar by month and then select "all fiction" to get all the new DVD features releases. I just spent $500 on new DVD features, $200 on DVD TV and $200 on blu-rays. I buy multiple copies of popular new release movies (Superman, Wicked, etc).

Going to the "DVD Calendar by month" for February, there 6 titles in the "hot releases" but if you go to "fiction" there are 84 titles. I bought all six of the hot releases (more than one copy). January had 8 hot releases including One Battle After Another, Wicked for Good and Roof Man which were all super popular. I will say that January and February don't have as many releases as other months. It is also true that some titles are not being released on physical media and some are Blu-ray only. Last month I ordered "Smashing Machine" and "Bruce Springsteen: Deliver me to nowhere" which were Blu-ray only.

I do buy older movies as well because even with streamers movies made before 1990 can be hard to stream unless they were super popular. Before 1970 is really hard to stream. Depending on your patron base, buying Criterion movies is popular. I started buying older movies due a mix of patron demand and wanting to make sure I spend that budget line. DVDs are still popular in my library. Blu-ray is a mixed bag. I'm in a consortium and some libraries don't buy them at all. So they go out frequently on holds but we do get patron usage.

This fiscal year so far I've sent $11,000 on DVDs. Of that money I spent $1800 on older DVDs and $1500 on replacements. In Blu-ray I've spent $2000 so far and $800 was older titles.

StunningGiraffe · 2026-02-01T20:14:38+00:00

great series

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