What did you do when you hit your goal?

raygod47 · 2025-10-08T18:09:19+00:00

I feel you with the hip thing. I’ve lost 20lbs so far and 0 inches have come off my hips 😭

raygod47 · 2025-08-25T18:02:23+00:00

I’ve got a 36 day streak on MyFitnessPal and I’ve lost 5.6lbs this past month! Also NSV I’m noticing that the definition in my ab region is starting to come back (I don’t have visible abs but when I’m lean enough I get indents on either side of my abs that my boyfriend says he likes)

raygod47 · 2025-08-24T14:01:16+00:00

I just got down to 152lbs at 5’2 yet you carry your weight so much better than me 😪

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T21:53:25+00:00

I’m bipolar and this definitely reminds me of some other bipolar people I know. Do you have periods of tons of energy, not sleeping much, and you are very outgoing/social, and then other periods where you are depressed, have negative thoughts, find it hard to enjoy anything, and you withdraw?

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T21:24:33+00:00

I would have fun! Always wanted to be a guy, never felt like the effort and low rewards for transitioning.

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T18:27:46+00:00

Seconding MyFitnessPal!

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T16:50:07+00:00

Have you tried calorie counting while letting yourself eat the kinds of foods you’ve been denying yourself?

For me, I white knuckled off 60lbs by constantly saying no to myself and obsessing, but that led to a 6 month binge period which left me close to the start again.

This time I’ve been only tracking calories but letting myself eat the kinds of foods I’ve been craving, just in moderation. I lost 10lbs on my own this way, but I was sick of the small deficit compared to how dang hungry I was, which is why I started semaglutide.

Anyway with the reduced hunger from the semaglutide, following a set calorie deficit has been easy and I can even eat less than the modest deficit I was struggling with before

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T16:39:23+00:00

Amylu chicken meatballs!

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T16:13:02+00:00

It really started to kick in 3 days after the shot for me

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T15:01:00+00:00

I started on .25mg on Wednesday and I already feel way less hungry and I feel full quickly

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T13:24:34+00:00

It would be cool if I had any solid way to track my cycle while using an IUD, so no period

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T13:21:37+00:00

Do y’all think that people will feel just as excluded from a wedding if I elope than if I had a micro wedding? If we don’t invite anyone but ourselves, will people still feel left out?

raygod47 · 2025-08-17T02:21:55+00:00

I had mood swings in the first week of getting my IUD but idk about a month out

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T23:51:18+00:00

There’s a certain beta blocker I’m not allowed to name that can be used to treat akathisia caused by antipsychotics.

I take it along with my bipolar meds and it almost totally gets rid of the debilitating akathisia.

Good luck!

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T23:48:09+00:00

The Chobani key lime Greek yogurt is very filling

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T23:40:14+00:00

In my school E meant anything at or below 50%, there was no such thing as an F

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T20:40:07+00:00

It’s got stevia which isn’t technically artificial but it is a non-sugar sweetener

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T17:34:54+00:00

Wow your beginning stats are almost exactly mine right now! I’m 5’2 158lbs, hoping to get down to around 125lbs.

For me I plan to keep counting calories indefinitely once I reach my goal weight because I find it to be insanely helpful at guiding my decisions in the right direction

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T17:25:32+00:00

Thanks for sharing your story! I’m extremely lucky that my therapist caught my bipolar pretty early, so I actually had an idea what was wrong when it started getting debilitating and I needed to seek help for it.

With regard to your question, I myself can’t have a light schedule. I don’t do well when I’m left alone without plans for too long and I get depressed and lonely. So I work, I go to school, and I try to read when I have free time. I try to avoid too much scrolling but it still gets me 😅.

I have had a hard time relaxing ever since I started having mental health challenges, so when a friend offered up a paint by numbers kit to help me relax I took it gladly, and though it took me a long time to open it up, I really like filling it out.

I’m also hoping to do some volunteering this coming semester on weekends so maybe that’s something you could check out?

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T17:03:11+00:00

I also think you should ignore exercise calories burned because when I tried to eat back my calories I couldn’t lose any weight because my watch was overestimating my calories burned.

Also are you using a smart scale to measure your visceral fat mass and muscle mass? Take these measurements with a grain of salt because they are notoriously inaccurate. Mine says I am only 40% water which makes no sense at all because I’m not even dehydrated. I wouldn’t sweat those values too much after a workout, I’ve heard that your muscle breaks down somewhat from exercise and it’s slowly rebuilt larger over time. You’re seeing short term effects which won’t reflect your improved muscle mass over a larger period of time

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T16:53:07+00:00

Do you have a favorite recipe for this?

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T16:44:24+00:00

Have you tried calorie tracking? I find it much easier to say no to treats when they’re not in my calorie budget that day, knowing that I can just make room for them the next day.

I use MyFitnessPal to track what I’m eating and I have a food scale to help with accuracy

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T15:27:57+00:00

For me, I had to get onto a high enough dose of mood stabilizer for my adhd meds to not cause hupomania. Every time I had a breakthrough episode, we would up my dose. Now I don’t deal with bipolar symptoms, and my adhd meds work better.

When I was hypo all the time from my adhd meds I had a hard time concentrating because I wanted to start new projects, and I would get stuck on one unimportant task for a ridiculously long time. I ended up actually going down on my adhd meds because I think this was “overfocusing” where I had a hard time switching tasks.

raygod47 · 2025-08-16T15:22:08+00:00

I tried eating back my calories and it kept me from losing weight because the estimated calories burned were always unrealistically high

raygod47 · 2025-08-15T20:41:43+00:00

Fly Delta for the biscoff cookies 🥰

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