Fifth Avenue Forum

Most definitely. ~41 lbs this year. Kind of also feels like I'm not even trying hard enough, but I know it's an achievement.

Do you ever experience any swelling? I would get a little swollen from time to time and just chalk it up to "I ate too much salt" but maybe this was the cause

I was getting it from meds I was on. Calcium channel blockers for high blood pressure so I had to wear those compression socks. Went back to the dreaded beta blocker and the swelling went away.

Over the last month and a half-ish my dosage if the CC blockers has gone from 2.5-5-10mg with little lowering of BP. I have definitely noticed an increase in swelling in my feet now. Asked to have my med regimen changed. What's bad about the beta blocker...?

Dowj another 12 lbs since it started, despite the swelling which has to be contributing to weight. At the lightest weight I can remember since 2009ish.

Went to the doc today. She said she's okay with my BP being a tad bit high since I'm losing weight and instead of changing up that med regimen she's putting me on ozempic to continue losing weight. Reevaluate in June. Feels like it's cheating but I'm hopeful it helps

Sounds like it just makes dieting a little easier. I haven't noticed anything yet. I'm still trying to stick to a 2500ish calorie diet.

After starting the 0.5mg/week dose, this is where it all went downhill, fast. The side effects came on hard, fast and strong. If I ate more than say half a sandwich at a meal, I would become so overwhelmingly bloated that I was burping constantly (like literally two big burps every 3 minutes for hours). On top of that, at this point it made my burps smell and taste so ungodly disgusting (think straight sulfur plus an outhouse at a nascar race in summer at the end of race weekend).

Additionally, there were three times in a two week period that I became so bloated that it made me vomit - a lot; and I'm not exaggerating that it was complete projectile vomiting, out of my mouth and nose. It was an absolutely ungodly horrible experience.

As if those side effects weren't bad enough, it also gave me horrible, uncontrollable diarrhea that met the clinical definition of "severe". There were a few days where I couldn't leave the toilet for more than 10-15 minutes at a time. There was one night I fell asleep on the toilet, because I was so tired from getting up to RUN to the toilet to poo.

Hard to projectile vomit if you've only eaten half a sandwich. My guess is that person was bingeing and is leaving that part out.

Yeah underestimating is easy to do. I do it a lot. The only time I was able to not do it is when I was weighing everything.

In any event good luck and keep doing what your doing.