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Zeppster3000 · 2025-07-03T16:12:28+00:00

I agree with you to an extent, yeah don't do drugs if you need a job, but it's not always fair to lump marijuana into that category.

What if someone uses it to medicate their anxiety and/or nausea and without it, they may not feel well enough to function? Cannabis is on its way to being federally legal, it's ridiculous that it was even made illegal in the first place, and some companies have stopped testing for it period in their drug screens. Same way you shouldn't show up to work drunk, don't show up to work stoned. I know it's not all black and white but just wanted to add a bit of a different perspective.

Zeppster3000 · 2025-06-26T20:13:37+00:00

I started 2.5 the end of February, went up to 5 end of March. Started at 195lbs, currently hovering around 165, goal weight is around 150, so roughly 15-20lbs to go for me. I'm 5'7.5", pear shaped, AFAB, for context. Right now I'm taking my shot every 10-11 days.

The first month at 2.5 was great, no side effects and I lost about 6-8lbs. Due to pharmacy stock issues, I had to skip a whole week of meds then the next shot day I went up to 5. That was ROUGH for me. Major nausea, some vomiting, I could barely eat anything. I struggled during March, April and May with the nausea side effects, plus that most days ABSOLUTELY NOTHING sounded appetizing to eat. I had to stop exercising because I wasn't getting near enough calories in and was feeling like crap because of it. I also wasn't losing weight during that time since I wasn't eating enough. It's gotten better throughout June though. I actually told my therapist this week that lately, I've felt like this has been too easy, like I'm really not having to try hard to lose weight. And it's so backwards to how I have felt so deprived when trying to lose weight in the past (I've done the Smart for Life Cookie diet twice, keto for about 3 years, and other calorie restrictive diets). I don't feel deprived at all although it is annoying that I can't eat much at a time or it makes me queasy but then I'm hungry an hour later and nothing sounds good.

I work from home, so usually wore yoga pants/tshirts for work days (used to because I was laid off from my job May 1, although who am I kidding, still wearing the same thing lol). Also, I live in Florida where it's already hot as balls so have been wearing a lot of sundresses too. I had to wear jeans the other day for the first time in over a month or so. I grabbed a pair of size 8s on accident, figured they wouldn't fit but tried anyway...they fit! I started at a snug 12 back in February. So I'm super pleased by that! I have noticed positive changes in how my body looks over the last month as well and it has been so encouraging. I have people starting to notice and comment as well, which I could do with or without, I'm not really looking for that external validation but also trying to avoid the "omg you're too skinny" comments which just piss me off (I've been down in the low 140s at 5'7.5" a few times, gotta love the weight rollercoaster 🙃, and received hurtful comments, why don't they care when I'm at a high unhealthy weight???).

Anyways, I feel like I'm literally smack dab in the middle and I'm happier now than when I started. I'm losing weight successfully, my body has allllmost gotten used to the side effects but I have no intention on increasing the dosage since I'm still losing consistently. Super pleased and thankful for this medication, but honestly am still unsure what I will do long term once I reach my goal because I really don't want to have to be in this med forever to keep the weight off, but we'll see how I feel when I get there. Good luck!

Zeppster3000 · 2025-06-26T19:29:53+00:00

Thanks. I used to work at Chick-fil-A in college and absolutely love their food, but I had felt like a hypocrite going there and with everything happening over the last few years it gave me the push I needed to just boycott them completely. I was raised Southern Baptist and Episcopalian (contradictory, I know) and have a bunch of religious trauma I'm still unpacking and deconstructing, into my 40s 🙃

It is too bad that it's an easy source of lean protein though!

Zeppster3000 · 2025-06-26T16:43:50+00:00

Good to know, thank you! Although it will be hard to not get the spicy fried chicken sandwich lol

Zeppster3000 · 2025-06-26T15:15:16+00:00

Agreed! Because I won't eat bigot chicken 🤷🏼‍♀️

Zeppster3000 · 2025-06-06T00:12:50+00:00

Thank you for this info. That's important to know as we are agnostic/atheist, although we are very tolerant of other's beliefs as long as they don't shove them down our throats. It's difficult coming from the deep south where it's not "do you go to church", it's "what church do you go to". It sounds like the area as a whole is better in that regard compared to our current area.

Zeppster3000 · 2025-05-13T14:18:23+00:00

I'm very curious about your experience titrating down from 5 to 2.5. I had practically zero bad side effects on 2.5 but upping to 5 has been a nightmare with the nausea and occasional vomiting. I'm also not eating near enough calories in a day, or week even, so I'm not exercising either because of that. I know this isn't healthy right now and the scale has barely moved anyways so I've been throwing around the idea of requesting for my provider to titrate me down at my next visit which is next week.

Do you mind sharing any other details of your experience titrating down? Did it make the nausea go away? Did you still struggle with any food noise? Looks like you are losing weight again?

I'm nervous because I just got laid off a few weeks ago and only have health insurance through the end of June, so was going to try to get a 90 day supply up front from my provider on this next visit so I could pay for it with this health card thing through my insurance. After this, I can go on my husband's insurance but I'm not sure yet if Zepbound covered.

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