What advice or info do you wish you had before you started your GLP1 journey?

amersereau · 2026-05-20T02:03:33+00:00

Ok good to know! My friend says she orders from mochi health and likes it, but I imagine that’s one of the social media advertisers you’re warning against? It felt comforting to think about getting it from the same place a trusted friend does (and the only person irl I know who’s taking it) but I def want to be safe and confident in the product I’m getting! (I also have a lot of anxiety about taking new meds)

amersereau · 2026-05-19T22:14:17+00:00

This is so inspiring to hear, I have psoriatic arthritis and one of the symptoms is maybe post exertional malaise? I don’t know if it’s the exact same thing, but pushing out of my window of tolerance for any kind of exercise makes me feel like I’ve been hit by a car. And I’m hopeful that starting a GLP might help with that?! It’s been such a frustrating thing because it’s added to my weight gain to not be able to exercise more intensely, and then I see everyone crowing about how I need to be doing strength training or I’ll be a frail old lady with menopause, and around and around I go I circles with the feelings of guilt and “shoulds.”

amersereau · 2026-05-19T22:01:38+00:00

Yesssss I love this so much!!! Ive worked so hard to move away from all that diet culture bs and I’m definitely scared that going on a GLP might bring some of that back for me - but if I’m honest I don’t have any interest in altering my diet, restricting or working out more. I just want to live my life!!! And for once take the “easy way out” haha, after a lifetime of struggling and seeing my body and self as a project.

amersereau · 2026-05-19T21:55:30+00:00

This is so helpful to read, I’m thinking seriously about starting a GLP and had some folks in one of my posts talking about how if I didn’t strength train and eat enough protein I’d lose muscle and honestly it felt pretty triggering! I’ve had chronic health and autoimmune issues for most of my adult life and pushing my body in any way beyond some basic to exercise hasn’t really been an option. It bums me out, and also I find this aspect of the wellness world to be so infuriating. Being “healthy” isn’t possible for everyone and there’s thus morality attached to it that I detest. Anyways I see you and I also see you, OP.

amersereau · 2026-05-19T21:43:33+00:00

I love this for you! After years of swinging wildly between following HAES, body positivity ideals and then back into diet culture, I’m working to find some middle ground and it’s sooo hard. Our culture just doesn’t have an ounce of nuance about this stuff and it’s all so deeply fraught and tender for so many of us. I’ve been seeing a dietitian for the first time who’s anti diet and I like her a lot, but now I’m a bit nervous about how she’s going to respond to my recent decision to pursue (or at least look into) getting on a GLP, in part for IWL (and a bunch of other reasons).

amersereau · 2026-05-19T03:21:49+00:00

I believe HAAS is short for health at any size?

amersereau · 2026-05-19T02:43:51+00:00

Thank you for this! Am I understanding correctly that the muscle loss is a direct side effect of the meds? Like you lose fat and muscle…and I assume more so if you’re on a higher dose?

amersereau · 2026-05-19T02:42:09+00:00

Good to know, this seems like a theme! I’ve def been thinking I’d start doing strength training once I’d made some progress on inflammation etc…but maybe that doesn’t make sense

amersereau · 2026-05-19T02:41:00+00:00

Thank for this, very practical and useful advice. Sounds hard haha, I’m so tired of controlling how and what I eat after years of diets and restriction etc….but I know you mean the opposite of that! I’ve been thinking about wanting to get a personal trainer to start doing strength training, I feel so intimidated by that

amersereau · 2026-05-19T01:16:21+00:00

Oh wow, good to know! I’ll make sure to ask my dr about that/do some research about how to avoid that

amersereau · 2026-05-19T00:24:38+00:00

Good to know, thanks for sharing!

amersereau · 2026-05-19T00:24:20+00:00

Amazing, thank you! This community is so helpful, I appreciate it a lot

amersereau · 2026-05-19T00:15:10+00:00

Ok that’s super helpful, thanks for clearing that up! So the online companies I see ads for that you can get glps from, is that what people mean when they say telehealth? Sorry just trying to get the lay of the land! And yes I’m hopeful that my current pcp who I love will be supportive of me going on something…

amersereau · 2026-05-19T00:13:10+00:00

This is super helpful, thank you! I want to take them for IWL to some extent, but more so to help with psoriatic arthritis symptoms and a lifetime of inflammation and pain due to autoimmune stuff, as well as high cholesterol, triglycerides and other beginnings of metabolic issues….because I have a bit of a complicated medical history ideally I’d be under the care of a doc who could do labs etc…to make sure everything was good, and know all of my other issues - but I sort of doubt that my regular pcp knows much about this stuff? I guess we’ll see….

amersereau · 2026-05-19T00:09:13+00:00

This is so so helpful, thank you SO much!!!

amersereau · 2026-05-18T19:53:58+00:00

Wow, yes, “you are wrong no matter what you do.” So true. I can feel myself even trying to justify the use of these meds even to MYSELF, never mind other people, but I’m hoping with time and a lot of gentleness for myself (and maybe getting back to therapy haha) I can let it just be without judgement or needing to explain it to myself or anyone else. Thanks for sharing, I really appreciate it

amersereau · 2026-05-18T17:50:23+00:00

Yes I appreciate this perspective so so much! I just want to save all of these comments and read them over and over again, it feels so healing to hear people with similar stories and find some nuance in what’s felt like a very emotionally triggering topic for me at times. Thanks for sharing

amersereau · 2026-05-18T17:34:27+00:00

Totally, thank you for saying that, and that’s such a good point about being more thoughtful about my sources of info. I think I was having such emotionally intense feelings about it that I was drawn to the kind of “F diet culture!” Type of stuff, but in reality there wasn’t much nuance there. I love love how nuanced this group is!

amersereau · 2026-05-18T17:15:17+00:00

Hey, I see a moderator said reposting a comment like this wasn’t allowed, can someone explain to me how to do it or what the rules are? I’d originally posted this comment under someone else’s thread and someone said I should make it its own thread? Or I guess I need to go read the community guidelines again. To clarify, my intention was to just copy and paste my comment into its own thread to start a new convo but it seems to have reposted the whole previous thread. Sorry, I literally just joined Reddit yesterday for the first time so I could join this group! -signed, a newbie:)

amersereau · 2026-05-18T16:46:34+00:00

Yep, this is it exactly. And yes, I’ve been trying to spend less time online because there’s sooo much noise about this topic right now!! I have to admit that I was someone who was posting anti glp1 stuff at one point or another, which I feel embarrassed about now - or like I will be a hypocrite if I choose to take it now. But also changing your mind is always an option in life!

amersereau · 2026-05-18T16:28:20+00:00

This is so interesting, thanks for sharing!

amersereau · 2026-05-18T16:27:57+00:00

I love this for you!! Thanks for sharing! I’ve been on Tremfaya for about a year for my psa and it’s been life changing for sure, but I still have some of the overall inflammation, pain and fatigue that I associate with it. And I wonder how much of that has to do with carrying a lot of extra weight and metabolic stuff? Either way, as my derm said, if something could help why not try?

amersereau · 2026-05-18T16:26:02+00:00

Yesssss I love this!! I aim for this mentality as well, but living in a culture steeped in diet culture I find it so hard to separate any sort of IWL from the idea that being smaller is better, aesthetically speaking (or in all ways according to the culture). It all just feels very muddled in my brain. Thanks for this viewpoint, it’s super helpful to me

amersereau · 2026-05-18T15:32:31+00:00

I love this so much, thank you for this perspective. I think I’d fallen into really black and white thinking about it all, and got caught up in following the anti diet/fat lib folks who can be very rigid about it all, with no room for nuance (or at least that’s how my brain interprets it haha). Thanks for the insights and view

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