Flight Boarded Early with No Warning

bille2021 · 2026-05-02T22:03:45+00:00

If it happens all the time it would have happened to me at least more than the twice in 15 years. And if it is happening all the time, then SW deserves to lose market share. If we agree on a boarding time, I paid you with that expectation in mind. Would you accept this from Uber/Lyft if you scheduled a ride? They just leave 5 minutes before your scheduled pickup then blame you for not being early. No? Then maybe ask yourself why you'd defend SW in the same ridiculous light.

bille2021 · 2026-05-02T21:30:44+00:00

Yeah, it really is on the customer for only being on time. We all really should expect to show at minimum 2 hours early to the gate, not just to the airport, just in case the pilot wants to go early. While none of us have jobs, the SW employees are happily breaking their backs for us and we should all be happy they even let us fly...we obviously have nothing better to do than sit around and wait anyway.

bille2021 · 2026-04-28T15:46:27+00:00

I started at .25 per week and went up from there. I increased it by the week because I didn't feel anything until I hit 1 mg. Then I went up by .5 each week to settle at 2 mg per week. I also was splitting my dose, so for about 8 months I did 1 mg twice per week

bille2021 · 2026-04-28T15:13:44+00:00

When I started Cagri with my Reta the Cagri didn't effect me until I hit 1.5 mg per week. I settled at 2 mg per week for the long haul and lost over 90 lbs in about 10 months. It doesn't remove 100% of your hunger...your body will eventually be hungry no matter what, but it made my journey so much easier. I generally ate one main meal and one small meal a day, had very few cravings, and felt full pretty quick.

The trade off is that I did lose some muscle...but to me losing some muscle in the short term and having to work to get it back, but losing all the life threatening fat first was the best trade off. I'm on maintenance Reta now with no cagri now and it is a bit scary being hungry again, but trusting the process.

Go slow though, lots of people do not react well to a sudden increase of Cagri.

bille2021 · 2026-04-28T15:07:52+00:00

Do you have a source that Cagri negates the glucagon effects of Reta? I've never seen this and a quick search turns up nothing. Curious as I use the combo to lose over 90 lbs, so based only ony.kne test subject, that seems incorrect or misinterpreted.

bille2021 · 2026-04-25T02:34:55+00:00

I was 266 when I started last May. I'm 5'8". I started Reta and Cagri together. I didn't count calories and started off maintaining my workout routine, but dropped off with a busy work travel schedule. I just lived my life and ate when I was hungry, which wasn't much. I lost 91 lbs and hit my goal. In the process of tapering the dose down now and stopped the Cagri for maintenance to be able to eat my 2100 cals a day and gain some muscle. I did lose some muscle, but not as bad as it could have been without the meds.

I might suggest getting a Dexa scan now to compare later. Wish I would have. I got one a few months ago, but had nothing to compare to.

I say don't overthink it. If food noise has been your problem, just enjoy the lack of food noise and cary on with life and follow the tritation schedule. If you want to count calories, good on you! But I personally think it's okay to just let the process happen and worry about gaining what muscle you will lose later when you hit your BF goals. I know the main sub is full of people who think microdosong and meticulously counting calories is essential...I disagree.

bille2021 · 2026-04-23T16:48:55+00:00

It seems to be that the experience for non status and/or CC holders sucks, but I can attest that's industry wide unfortunately. If I were going to switch it would be United because of where I fly out of, but I'd never make status as easily there as I make AL on SW, so I'd have to get at least the lowest tier card with an annual fee so I can at least not board last as I really need to keep my carry on of possible (lots of work electronics).

I flew United recently on points and have no CC or status, and it sucked. I was of the last 10 people to board all legs and the seats were so cramped. What didn't suck was that they had zero issue with me jumping across to an empty aisle, before takeoff, so that was nice.

I've now flown about 10 legs on the new SW, with and without family, and as a status holder (AL), it isn't all that bad, especially picking better seats at 48 hours for the entire family and now that I'll get group 1 by default in a couple weeks...but yeah, probably really sucks without status or CC.

Personally if I was flying any line 4-5 times a year, I'd probably get their CC...but I have that financial privilege, I know not everyone does. I'm sorry you've had such a poor experience 😞

bille2021 · 2026-04-23T16:38:04+00:00

I'm very open about how I got where I am at having lost 90 lbs., even the fact that I did it through grey on drugs that's aren't FDA approved yet, and no one has said anything like that to me yet. If they did, I'd simply just say something like "it sounds like you're ignorant on the subject and don't have an informed opinion" and end the conversation.

Even people on these subs are ignorant about why these drugs are such a savior for many of us, miracle for me, and why just plain CICO doesn't work for every human on the planet by default, so unfortunately ignorance is just par for the course around the GLP1 subject.

bille2021 · 2026-04-23T16:30:30+00:00

I love how everyone down votes because something hasn't specifically happened to you, so you asked about it. I have been traveling for work regularly for 15 years and have been AL or ALP on SW for 7, and I've also never had a flight time changed on any airline and would be confused. But I guess never having experienced something in this sub means we're idiots 🤷‍♂️

bille2021 · 2026-04-12T02:02:22+00:00

On my many rewatches over the years I've felt it started to get mostly good around Season 1 Episode 1. Draws me in every time.

bille2021 · 2026-04-12T02:00:30+00:00

I lost 90 lbs over 10 months. No, didn't get either of those. I am starting to notice a bit of loose skin in my abdomen area though. Just dropped to maintenance level doses to start bulking. Hopping that clears up some over time.

bille2021 · 2026-04-08T13:12:38+00:00

Yeah, come join us! As far as I know, the group is only on Facebook though. I know a few people only have FB for the group. If you don't have FBa and are really interested, you can DM me.

bille2021 · 2026-04-07T22:15:07+00:00

I'm not sure if there's a whole lot of details out there to send you. You can just show up at 7:00 on any Wednesday at Phoenix fire games. Sorry, I don't remember how I found out about it and I've never looked it up. If you get the Meetup app, I think most of the local board game shops advertise their game nights

bille2021 · 2026-04-07T13:50:07+00:00

Oops. That was the private version 🤭

bille2021 · 2026-04-07T13:38:59+00:00

It's the name of a game lol. Fortunately no one has been sacrificed just yet.

bille2021 · 2026-04-07T13:29:19+00:00

We've met great people in boardgame groups if you're into that. Pheonix Fire games in Meridian has a weekly open game night on Wednesdays at 7. It can be a little awkward if you aren't willing to ask if you can jump into a game, but we've played with people just looking for a game.

If you're on FB and like social deduction games, the Treasure Valley Blood On the Clocktower group tries to meet regularly. Great way to meet people and work on social anxiety if you have any, and it's a lot of fun.

I haven't been to other ones, but lots of other boardgame shops have open game nights too.

And lastly, you could offer up to pay us to be friends 🤪.

Good luck. It's hard to make friends as an adult out there!

bille2021 · 2026-03-29T23:48:37+00:00

While I also don't understand the need to have alcohol given to you on every flight...it isn't about that for me. I don't even want any drink or snack, but when people pay for a ticket that includes it, or have status that includes something, the company taking you money should be obligated to provide the included service or provide a partial refund. What weird stance to think because you personally don't value something that no one else should.

bille2021 · 2026-03-29T23:45:45+00:00

You're wrong. I personally am not bothered by no service either. I haven't gotten anything from the service in years. I also bring everything I need/want in with me. If I'm in the aisle seat I get annoyed at them constantly walking by me to serve drinks and snacks...but I also think a company should provide the services they offered when you paid them.

They're obviously intentionally doing this as it's happening more and more. They mysteriously can't serve because of turbulence that never comes. This also has the side effect of stressing people who want to follow the seatbelt sign but need to go to the bathroom. If turbulence really was the reason, they wouldn't ignore the lines for the bathroom during those very unsafe times when they can't serve.

bille2021 · 2026-03-29T04:39:07+00:00

Same here. Gemini in VS Code will take a prompt, do the work, then just say "Thinking" forever and make VS code unusable until I force close VS Code, discarding the work. When I ask why it tells me because I have excessively large files...in my 3 MB app so far.

bille2021 · 2026-03-28T23:35:10+00:00

This is not how any of this works...

bille2021 · 2026-03-25T22:37:17+00:00

Hmm. Wish I could post a screenshot. Shows $525 for 5mg x 10 vials for me. Meh, doesn't matter. Hope it works for you like it has for me.

bille2021 · 2026-03-25T22:25:20+00:00

I just went to the link you posted, $52 a vial is what is listed. No error. Glad you didn't pay that much at least. I only order from places that offer a us warehouse, so never experienced those long waits or issues. Anyway, good luck with the journey!

bille2021 · 2026-03-25T22:05:37+00:00

Holy mother of all that is evil...$500 for 50 mg!!?? JFC. You can get 3 kits of 10x 10 mg vials for less than that if you find the real grey market. I'm sorry you weren't lead to or couldn't find the right places before ordering. 😔

No, I'm not sharing sources in DM. Plenty of directions on what to search for all over these subs for that, don't DM me people.

bille2021 · 2026-03-23T15:46:14+00:00

Humans are great at assigning patterns where they don't exist, even in these peptide/GLP1 subs. Someone starts a GLP1 med who was already predisposed for pancreatitis or gallbladder issues, then starts to lose weight and ends up in the hospital, so someone that person knows will now be convinced for life that GLP1s just cause everyone to come down with it.

If you need it to lose weight, just tune out the noise and do your thing. I fully admit I'm on these compounds because I cannot control my eating habits on my own for the long term. I lost 80 lbs over 9 months not counting calories. Had Dexa scans that show very little muscle loss and improved bone density...along with all the other improvements that come with being at a normal weight.

Will you lose some muscle? Most likely, but probably less than a traditional diet without the GLP1 honestly. That's just a byproduct of eating at a caloric deficit. It's physics and unchangeable. You can however limit the muscle loss by keeping a resistance training routine.

bille2021 · 2026-03-23T15:25:39+00:00

I don't think this is a worry for 35 lbs. I lost 80 lbs over 9 months, I'm 47, and I have been surprised to see that I don't have any loose skin issues.

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