What Are You Most Excited About?

spanky2026 said:

I've been on Tirz for roughly 4 months at this point, and the scale is dropping close to 2 pounds each week. What I really want is for someone - anyone at all - to ask, "Hey, have you lost some weight?" Not a single person around me has mentioned a word about it. Sigh....
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They're going to. No doubt about it. Company enjoys misery. They'll show up in droves.

Bill
 
spanky2026 said:

I've been on Tirz for roughly 4 months at this point, and the scale is dropping close to 2 pounds each week. What I really want is for someone - anyone at all - to ask, "Hey, have you lost some weight?" Not a single person around me has mentioned a word about it. Sigh....
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I'd been wondering when folks might bring up my weight loss, so I had a while to mull it over before it actually happened. Spotting it isn't the same as saying something—they need to be both taken aback and at ease enough to bring it up.

For those who see you often, the shift is tougher to catch, since from where they stand it isn't abrupt. The first remark came from someone I only run into now and then; it was roughly another month before a person I see regularly said anything.

Yesterday I shaved off my beard. My daughter spotted it right away; her mother didn't notice the beard (it was around noon). Her husband, who sees me often, walked up last night and immediately brought up my weight loss for the first time once he saw my bare jaw line. He joked that I ought to hurry and swipe some food from my daughter's plate. My daughter has a (healthy) BMI of 14 with a 9th percentile weight. 😂
 
The thing I'm most eager about is finally reaching my target weight, and only then treating myself to a genuinely great new wardrobe. Since I've been dropping pounds, I've stopped by the goodwill a few times, because I'm not willing to spend much on additional clothing while my weight is still going down. Just 11lbs left!

Yesterday I did need to pick up a fresh outfit for my nephew's graduation, so I headed to TJs, and the shirt, skirt, and shoes together came in under $60. What really surprised me was that when I grabbed medium sizes of everything to try on, they were all far too large. I ended up needing smalls and x-small to try. Never in my entire life have I been able to wear anything XS! That was definitely a NSV 🎉🙌🏻
 
meeklady said:

I was 180 lbs at 5 ft 1 when I began. These days, on maintenance, my weight goes back and forth between 115-120. Sema is what I started with, and Reta is what I finished on and still use to maintain.

My BP is perfect. Every blood test came back good- cholesterol is lower, a1c is normal, liver values are normal. The only numbers that might be off: fasting glucose runs low, and my Creatinine sits in the 40's. My PCP only mentioned keeping sugar snacks nearby for low glucose symptoms, and said nothing regarding Creatinine. My guess is that low creatinine means muscle loss, which can be fixed.

My self-image has improved. I carry more confidence. Others treat me better (fatphobia is real!)

The downside- shelling out cash for a whole new wardrobe!!!
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I've got little apple juice bottles stashed all over — fridge, car, toolbox, you name it. They don't require cold storage, and just half of 1 brings my blood sugar right back up. If you're not using one yet, I can't recommend a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) enough. Watching how quickly my body reacted to different foods was eye-opening. Two weeks with that thing taught me more than all my years of finger sticks combined...
 
Can’t wait to run around and play with my daughter! And omg, shopping for clothes!!! It’s a whole different feeling when you know you’ll get there instead of just hoping you can white knuckle it.
 
Doing a pull up is the thing I'm most eager for. In all 52 years I've been alive, just one stretch ever allowed me to manage it — that was 20 years back, when I dropped 100lbs the previous time. I'm nearly back at that point now.
 
sheilarae74 said:

Doing a pull up is the thing I'm most eager for. In all 52 years I've been alive, just one stretch ever allowed me to manage it — that was 20 years back, when I dropped 100lbs the previous time. I'm nearly back at that point now.
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That brings back the memory of when I first managed to reach the top of the rope climb in gym class. The entire class was cheering. I was the heaviest student in the entire school. There were around 60 kids in the class. This was in 6th or 7th grade. Later, once I grew taller but my weight stayed the same, I became one of the quickest at climbing the high school ropes. I suppose hauling all that extra fat around left me stronger beneath the flab... The same goes for chin-ups...
 
My main hope is reaching a physical condition that I believe will clear up my brain fog, boost my energy, reshape my willpower and sense of agency, and lift my mood. That matters to me because it would let me apply my mind to a number of pursuits I have mapped out for my life. I want to return to the path of becoming a professional athlete, launch a fitness-related business, purchase farms, write books, and then make some changes in my personal life. In short, I want to throw myself into unrestrained conquest.
 
spanky2026 said:

I've been on Tirz for roughly 4 months at this point, and the scale is dropping close to 2 pounds each week. What I really want is for someone - anyone at all - to ask, "Hey, have you lost some weight?" Not a single person around me has mentioned a word about it. Sigh....
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My guess is that silence has taken over because people can't tell anymore whether speaking up is PC or not. These days, life sure is a confusing mess...
 
I’ve already hit what I’d call my ‘ideal weight and size’ a few times, and since I’m only 10kg away, that isn’t the thing I’m chasing.

What I want most, what I dream about, is energy I can actually sustain, a mind that feels clear, and the capacity to show up consistently every day. Maybe even being able to stop some of the medications I’ve been on long term for insomnia and anxiety. I’m only 33, yet it feels like my body and mind have been broken for years (I was in a serious accident 3 years ago). From my late teens onward, I’ve been misdiagnosed, over diagnosed, mis medicated, over medicated. There was a time I treated doctors and everything they suggested as biblical fact. The harm from that has been enormous, and if peptides can reverse even half of it, that would be the most incredible thing ever.
 
Smiter said:

My main hope is reaching a physical condition that I believe will clear up my brain fog, boost my energy, reshape my willpower and sense of agency, and lift my mood. That matters to me because it would let me apply my mind to a number of pursuits I have mapped out for my life. I want to return to the path of becoming a professional athlete, launch a fitness-related business, purchase farms, write books, and then make some changes in my personal life. In short, I want to throw myself into unrestrained conquest.
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Losing 70+kg has made a lot of those possible — world domination, I’m not so sure — but my energy, brain fog, constant fatigue, and overall capacity to get things done have all improved.
 
JourneyToPerfection said:

I’ve already hit what I’d call my ‘ideal weight and size’ a few times, and since I’m only 10kg away, that isn’t the thing I’m chasing.

What I want most, what I dream about, is energy I can actually sustain, a mind that feels clear, and the capacity to show up consistently every day. Maybe even being able to stop some of the medications I’ve been on long term for insomnia and anxiety. I’m only 33, yet it feels like my body and mind have been broken for years (I was in a serious accident 3 years ago). From my late teens onward, I’ve been misdiagnosed, over diagnosed, mis medicated, over medicated. There was a time I treated doctors and everything they suggested as biblical fact. The harm from that has been enormous, and if peptides can reverse even half of it, that would be the most incredible thing ever.
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Which is exactly the reason I can't stand any appeal to authority... It ranks among the most flawed logical fallacies.
 
lessthanhalf said:

Smiter said:

My main hope is reaching a physical condition that I believe will clear up my brain fog, boost my energy, reshape my willpower and sense of agency, and lift my mood. That matters to me because it would let me apply my mind to a number of pursuits I have mapped out for my life. I want to return to the path of becoming a professional athlete, launch a fitness-related business, purchase farms, write books, and then make some changes in my personal life. In short, I want to throw myself into unrestrained conquest.
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Losing 70+kg has made a lot of those possible — world domination, I’m not so sure — but my energy, brain fog, constant fatigue, and overall capacity to get things done have all improved.
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Now it's a strawman fallacy. 😈 Still, you did switch up the category, so credit where it's due.😉 Taking over the world sounds exhausting. I aim much lower than that. This is purely personal for me. Collectivist games aren't my thing. Sure, I get what you mean. The brain fog and fatigue part, I'm less convinced about. Obviously, shedding those cursed fat cells should help, but in my view low Test is the main culprit there. I'm more optimistic about having better energy and being generally more nimble. Honestly, obesity isn't my greatest obstacle. Time is. The way I see it, obesity is what steals my time, so my aim is to eliminate the obesity while not burning through too much time, if that tracks. To me, winning against obesity at too high a cost is basically the same as losing.

What once seemed wise and practical has now turned urgent and unavoidable, considering the world stands at the edge of an enormous shift.
 
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