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Zepbound Diary: 4 Injections In Edition
It didn't seem like there was much appetite for a weekly post on me repeatedly saying "I'm not as hungry anymore" which is pretty understandable. All the same, I figured I'd post the occasional update in here instead, just for my own personal use really. All that said, I'm very pleased to report that I currently (as of about 3 minutes ago) weigh 266.0lbs on the dot. That's a loss of 12lbs in the last 3 weeks. I just used my last 2.5mg pen, and I should be upgrading to 5.0mg next week, which I'm very excited for. Today's injection site was my stomach, and it stung like a sonofabitch. Not excruciating, but definitely unpleasant. I rated it a 4/10 on the app I use, mentally setting the benchmark of 1 as "I can feel discomfort" and 10 as "I am incapacitated by the pain."
At the beginning I was very worried I'd be one of the small number of people for whom this drug had minimal or no effect, or I'd somehow just continue stuffing my face and literally out-eat the drug. Fortunately, this seems damn near impossible for me. I had four chicken strips for lunch today, and even though it was the last day of a cycle, on the lowest dose, I was completely full after eating them.
Not being fat suddenly seems like a realistically achievable goal for the first time in my adult life.
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