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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   1614 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 13, 2025

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In a mere 20 days from starting Ozempic, I've lost 35 kilos.

... Or the cheap Chinesium weighing scale I bought off Amazon is badly miscalibrated. I'm not sure how it's even possible to screw one of those up so badly.

Oh well, maybe I can donate it to the clinic and ask that it's reserved for the worst cases of anorexia. It'll cheer those girls right up, I tell you.

There's some guy out there who was losing like a pound a day bc his doc gave him some combination shot of several anti-obesity drugs and ended up going almost blind and with severe nerve damage and now is suing.

Really put the scale on a firm surface and make sure you're losing it at a fast pace, not something you want to risk. How do people even get that big, food is quite expensive and not needed in excess anyway.

I'm not sure it's even physiologically possible to lose a pound a day after the water weight. There's almost nothing you can do to speed things up that much

(Courtesy of @Corvos, it did turn out to need a harder floor)

Well, exercise could always speed it up although that'd probably be incredibly unpleasant I guess.

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