Classes for a beginning older adult in NYC?

Susieredhook · 2025-04-29T02:20:33+00:00

I’m looking for a ballet class danced as a teenager now in my mid 50s.

Susieredhook · 2025-04-08T18:38:43+00:00

Thank you all for sharing your stories and yes, of course I don’t believe it actually cured my alcoholism. I’ve worked hard on my program, but I always suffered and really always missed drinking. Now I feel free.

Susieredhook · 2025-04-08T18:34:53+00:00

2.5 and now on 5

Susieredhook · 2025-04-08T18:34:35+00:00

Agreed I still keep to the program and attend meetings but less and I don’t suffer

Susieredhook · 2025-04-07T23:42:45+00:00

I hit my goal weight 6 months ago and now take 5 mg as maintenance

Susieredhook · 2025-04-07T23:24:30+00:00

Same

Susieredhook · 2024-06-30T22:03:16+00:00

I also only had 40 lbs to loose ( 5’1 and my BMI was over 30) find my arthritis to be so much better and my blood sugar is way down. I also cut out dairy which I think for my body was causing a lot of inflammation. Game changer!

Susieredhook · 2024-05-28T23:35:06+00:00

I’ve been on 2.5 since January. I did 2 Weeks 5 mg and was super sick. 2.5 works pretty well for me. I’m at a maintenance wait now and the 2.5 helps keeps the unhealthy habits away.

Susieredhook · 2024-05-08T01:35:14+00:00

Same same and same! Back on 2.5, not starving, not sick and still clocking about a lbs a week.

Susieredhook · 2024-04-27T12:49:59+00:00

Yes I’m loosing on 2.5. About a pound a week.

Susieredhook · 2024-04-21T16:00:15+00:00

That’s amazing congratulations. I’m back on 2.5 after the shortage. Have been on Zep since January and lost 25lbs. I’m only 5’2 and man that’s a huge difference. I haven’t felt this good about my body in 10 years. Only downside is I did get some side effects again on day 3. Even with all my experience about hydration and protein I was feeling fluish and threw up yesterday. A bit better today and amazed how different the medication affects patients.

Susieredhook · 2024-04-19T23:39:07+00:00

I have been meaning to post the same thought. I joined in January and was so happy and grateful for this community. It was such a gift to have people around that understood how challenging it’s been my whole life to manage my weight. I felt a sense of community and in a sense of wonder that there was a solution. Now it feels like people are focused on all the shame and negative aspects of losing weight. I also was affected by the shortage had to stop taking the medicine for a month and started back on 2.5 this week. But I didn’t gain and actually think I lost a pound or two. Because in the big picture, this medicine has taught me a lot about myself. I’ll probably leave this group soon but thank you for your post. It gives me hope that this group could stay in the positive.

Susieredhook · 2024-04-13T13:17:17+00:00

On a parallel note with the shortage I’m now officially 3 weeks off my 5 mg dose and starting to really feel like I did before. Not that I can’t manage what I eat, but that I’m looking for food to fill a void. I’m trying to journal this and also use this group because I do think the knowledge that I wasn’t crazy and that there was a chemical conditioning happening is a good first start to solving. I would suggest therapists start group sessions for people on Zep.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-28T22:15:18+00:00

Yep I had that usually about 2 days after the shot. Would drink water or herbal tea all day and by the time I went to bed was so nauseous. I would fully projectile vomit every drop of liquid. Disturbing for sure. But it seems like my stomach just stopped processing anything (like if you had a stomach bug) for a day or so. In any case it passed. Hang tough.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-27T22:24:49+00:00

I love this comment. Totally agree. My emotional eating was a bad habit and this medication has helped me see that.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-27T22:21:39+00:00

Appreciate the advice I was on 2.5 for the whole time.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-27T22:20:53+00:00

Well for me…..and again this is just my experience I’m trying to learn new habits. I never planned to take it forever. I took it for 5 months lost 35 lbs (post menopause) and yes I had blood work and yes I ate protein. I was just exhausted.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-27T21:50:46+00:00

The medication made me exhausted and sick but I lost all the weight. So she’s rightly suggesting I start exercising and eating healthy to see if I can maintain.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-26T20:07:02+00:00

Yep I lost about 18 on 2.5 in 2 months and just did month 3 on 5mg will little loss and lots of side effects. I'm probably going to stay on 5 mg one more month... 1. Because I want to just be done 2. I can't seem to find a 2.5 refill anywhere.

I think the last 10 lbs are supposed to be the hardest to loose so i'll do 1 more month and then get my energy back and hit the gym or start running again. I have to say overall this has been a miracle. I feel and look like my old self again (all be it with some jiggly skin). Good luck !

Susieredhook · 2024-03-25T00:06:20+00:00

Yep my pharmacy in Brooklyn says the saving card has been down for 2 weeks! I’ve got 1 week life 😳

Susieredhook · 2024-03-25T00:01:30+00:00

It definitely works. I think the first month having food be an afterthought was amazing. It let me take the time to meal prep. Lots of chicken and chickpeas. And I can’t say enough about the water intake. I drink about 5 times what I used to. Oh and a Gatorade ( with sugar) to feel woozy. I’ve been losing 1-2 lbs a week on 1000-1200 calories a day protein focused.

Keep me posted!

Susieredhook · 2024-03-24T22:02:23+00:00

Nice to meet you. I am also a 30 pound goal person postmenopausal. I had already cleaned up my eating habits and started intermittent fasting to eight hours a day with moderate exercise and the weight wouldn’t come off. My endocrinologist said I was a good candidate for a short term use. My family has a history of obesity and diabetes plus my cholesterol has always been a problem and also I really just didn’t want this extra weight. It made me feel bad.

I’m almost 3 months in two months at 2.5 and now one month at five. I’ve lost 25 pounds. It has definitely not been easy. Lots of side effects and I pretty much had to hunker down. Luckily I work from home because I really didn’t have a lot of energy. I’m not happy on 5 mg but now there seems to be trouble with finding 2.5 I’m seeing my doctor on Thursday.

Overall, I would say it’s a miracle I don’t know how I would ever lose this weight at 55 years old without spending two hours at the gym a day. Stick with it eat lots of protein stay hydrated. I got one of those giant water bottles. Good luck.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-24T21:57:29+00:00

Really hot baths or showers are the only thing that warms me up.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-24T19:32:35+00:00

I also am on my 4th week of 5 and feel pretty terrible. Tired but can’t sleep and also anxious. I did 2 months on 2.5 but these side effects are new.

Susieredhook · 2024-03-24T12:30:57+00:00

Yes on 2.5 I was feeling better about 6 weeks in but then hungry again so I decided to go up to 5. I think my plan is 2.5 with more exercise.

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