My weight loss progress has been a little slower since mid May but I did have to but new golf shorts (34) because I could pull my 36’s off without unbuttoning them. So that was a good feeling and a small win!
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Slow progress is better than no progress.
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1 week progress update: I weighed in a total of 4 lbs down this morning - 329 and change on the scale.
This has been an exceptionally difficult time for my wife and I. Late Wednesday night (after my postings), my father in law was diagnosed with brain cancer. Over the last 7 days, I have spent 5 of those in the hospital for 12+ hours each of those 5 days. Tots and Pears are always appreciated, but no need to comment here. It’s the heavyweights thread, not the mental health thread. I am doing ok and have a strong support group in my life. I only bring this up for context of the miracle that this drug is.
On Monday I spent a literal 18 hours in the hospital and I lost weight. The amount of food temptation in the Neuro ICU is absurd. They are super strict on the number of people in the patient’s room, which means my wife and my MIL were consistently in the room, while I was in the waiting area on my own. The cafeteria at this hospital is actually really really good (had a gochujang spicy chicken sandwich yesterday! And they serve Stone Creek coffee which is a real god damn silver lining), and a lot of people are bringing food for the whole visitors waiting room. If I weren’t on this semaglutide I’d have been snacking, stress eating, being absent to my wife for runs to the cafeteria (my MIL, wife, and I are all on a semaglutide medication so we were all in the same boat of not wanting food constantly), and spending actual hundreds of dollars on vending machines.
I am heading back to work tomorrow after not going in to the office since last week wendesday. Being busy will have such a strong impact on me. Dropping weight while dealing with a high stress but extremely boring environment is absurd. If this is how skinny people feel all the time… holy shit. Good for them. I have no cravings. This morning was the first time I felt strong urges to boredom eat and I ended up having 2 donuts. Took my shot this afternoon after I got back from the hospital, and I haven’t felt hungry since.
If you’re on the fence, I recommend this stuff. It just keeps cravings in line. It gives your own willpower a fighting chance. I am rambling but I can’t express how insane it is that I was going 6+ hour stretches without food over the past week. Without the meds, I likely would have gained 4-8 lbs from the food and alcohol my body would have wanted to consume.
Enough rambling.
SW: 333.X
CW: 329.4
GW: 200
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Hit a few big milestones in the past week that I’m pretty proud of. One, eclipsed the 50 pounds lost threshold. And two, finally stepped on the scale this morning and my weight started with a 2 for the first time in probably 8 or 9 years. That kinda shows how bad I had let it get but I’m working on fixing it now. My PCP’s “ideal weight” is somewhere around 215 so I’ve got a long ways to go and honestly if I get to 250 in the next year I’d be thrilled.
The downsides* to this:
- I’ve got a lot of clothes I can no longer wear (which is slightly offset by the clothes I couldn’t wear for the past 5 years that I now can)
- My wedding ring doesn’t fit anymore
- While a little flattering for the time being, hearing “Wow! You’ve lost so much weight!” from people that I haven’t seen in months will get annoying at some point because it just reinforces how bad I looked before
*these aren’t really downsides
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Lifelong thicc boy here. Even when I was in the military, I was well over 200 pounds. I’m currently over 300 pounds and around 6’-1" tall.
I was prescribed Wegovy on June 24. Insurance authorized almost immediately. I call every pharmacy in town every morning but still haven’t been able to get the prescription filled.
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Good luck. My only advice would be to keep calling and also ask if they know when more might be getting in.
If your insurance authorized it, it might be worth going to one of the online outfits and seeing if you can get insurance authorization through there. Although, in my experience, insurance is more likely to authorize through a traditional PCP and pharmacy route rather than an internet company that is likely massively overcharging for doses compared to a traditional pharmacy.
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Already checked on the online route. My insurance will only cover anything online through their own pharmacy (CarelonRx). But this doesn’t include Mounjaro, Trulicity, Wegovy or Saxenda because of availability.
I have messaged my doctor that my insurance companies online pharmacy appears to be filling Ozempic prescriptions if that would be a suitable alternative. Waiting to hear back.
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Just wanted to share a proud moment in my weight loss journey. Hit my lowest weight in as long as I can remember. Started at 241lbs and currently down to 216. Even better had to buy some new 34 waist golf shorts because my old ones I could easily take off without unbuttoning them. Hasn’t been easy all the time but very excited this and wanted to share with someone other than my wife.
Cheers!
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I’ve been calling around town every day or two since June 24th. Walgreens finally filled the prescription this morning. Picking it up at lunch.
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MacroFactor update, for those that were interested. I’m on week 8 of consistent food logging and trying to hit 190g protein per day.
First, I’m still in love with the app. I actually went ahead and switched from a monthly ($11) subscription to a six-month ($50) as a form of long-term commitment. One of the features that I’m enjoying now is an in-app progress pic gallery. That way semi-naked pics aren’t left in the iPhone’s camera roll.
Personally, I’m proud of myself for taking a more measured (read: smarter) approach than at any point previously in my life. Mostly this has meant eating at a reasonable but not overly ambitious calorie deficit, and not overdoing it with workouts. I tore my hamstring in June and took an adequate amount of time off from lower body to recover. I’ve become really interested in outdoor sandbag training, which is paying dividends, but last week tweaked something in my lower back. So I took a full 5 days off to make sure I didn’t turn a tweak into a bigger issue.
Interestingly, all this has not really resulted in much weight loss. My clothes fit way differently. I can visually see big differences. And today I got my first “whoa you’ve lost a lot of weight” comment at work. That was very satisfying. There have been more than a few points where I’ve talked myself off the proverbial ledge when the scale wasn’t moving.
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How often were you weighing in? When I get on the weight loss train I try to do it once a week tops. Wife usually weighs every day and there are just soooo many fluctuations when you do that.
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My thoughts on this have shifted back and forth. I’m currently doing multiple times per week. I think it’s all pretty dependent on your own mentality. My honest assessment is that in the past, when my dedication began to wane I would talk myself out of weigh-ins because I didn’t want to see the reality of what I was eating. I now try to remind myself that the scale weight is only one of many important data points but that I need to record it without attaching too much emotion to it.
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that’s a lot of protein. How many calories are you trying to get?
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I’ll post a screenshot below. I selected a coached program with MacroFactor with a high protein goal. That basically means the program makes suggestions every 5-7 days and you can accept or discard them. I think I’m maintaining weight but achieving fat loss and muscle gain over the past month that almost balances out weight-wise. As a result I have considered that it may throw the calculations off a bit.
It started me in May around 2200 cals and has slowly dropped down a bit every week or so. Overall, yes, that’s a lot of protein and is challenging to achieve without some creative food choices (see my daily sardines/tuna).
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i’m trying to get at least 160 right now on just under 1800 a day. 190 would mean a whooooooooole lot of grilled chicken for yours truly.
Yeah 190 at under 1800 calories would be tough. I aim for 220 but I have 2700-3000 calories to get that done.
The protein target that I have heard over and over again is a gram of protein per pound of target body weight. The idea is that consuming large amounts of protein can be muscle sparing during weight loss, and you will probably fall short of whatever your goal is anyway
Personal Update- Started the year at 282, got down to about 237 by April or so. I had finally dipped below 25% body fat on the electric impedance scale at the gym, too.
I think I am hovering around 245-255 right now and have not been tracking for a while. I will step on the scale on Wednesday to see how I am doing, but that’s based on how my clothes fit.
I’ve found that alcohol has been the biggest sticking point for me. I enjoy having a few cocktails probably 3 times a week. This ends up being the equivalent of something like 8-12 “units of alcohol” per weekend day.
This past weekend I only had two beers on my neighbors porch while our kids swam in their blow up pool, so that was a good start. I am trying to limit my drinking to not more than 2 “units” per day, and hopefully fewer than three times total. We will see how that goes, it always sounds easiest at the beginning of the week.
For training, my lifting numbers have all stayed the same or improved a little. I have been getting after it 4 to 6 times a week in the gym, playing volleyball and walking the golf course most of the time. I think I need to switch my focus from lifting heavy to mobility work in the near future, because I keep tweaking things in the gym.
Overall I am a little disappointed in myself for falling off for so long, but I knew it would happen and I am just planning on pushing through
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It’s so hard to lose weight and still drink
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Been a few months but I’m now down 70 pounds this year. Lowest weight in at least 10 years.
But also bittersweet that I’m no longer a member of the 3XLAmigos.
I’ll be posting some Rhoback items on TSR tomorrow to clean out the closet
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