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This is just some diced chicken, seasoned and melted cheese put on top. Simple yet filling and satiating. Delicious too. Just been trying to keep carbs low lately, and man does it feel incredible on both my mind and my body. I feel way less hungry between meals, don’t spike my blood sugar, and can listen to my body and stop eating when actually full - a concept i have never been able to do. What are some of your guys’ go to meals and snacks? Looking for more inspiration. Thank you to both this community and r/keto. submitted by /u/coopieg31 to r/lowcarb [link] [comments]

I am NOT Original OP, OOP is u/transformerdad posting in r/relationships ——————————————— [Original | June 29th, 2016] My [39 M] wife [30 F] of 6 years is upset I lost weight and wants me back to before Throwaway. Wife follows me on Reddit... I got married to my wife 6 years ago when she got pregnant. Ideally, we would have dated for longer than 9 months, but it is what it is, and we had our son soon after. Within the few years of our marriage, life was good. I got to learn a lot more about my wife and we got along really well, much more than when we were dating. Then my dad died of a heart attack when I was 35. My dad had just turned 59. This was a reality check, and I remember I cared so much because I had my son, and if I wanted my son to have me around when he was 35, I was at least going to have to live to 71 without keeling over from a similar health issue. I went and did a physical and blood work, found that I had high cholesterol and high blood pressure. I told the doctor my workout plan and diet, and set on my way. Following r/loseit was really helpful as well as r/keto. Within a year, I was down to my normal weight, and within two years I had a six pack, something I never had when I was younger. From that point, my doctor told me my health had exponentially improved, but I was thirsty for more. I wanted to look even more aesthetically pleasing, so I got a picture of the 300 cover photo and set about building my body for that Halloween. In that time, I think my wife and I must have grown apart. My wife used to always be fit when we dated, but after having our son, she must have been busy to go exercise. I invited her with me to workout (I saved up money and built a separate 2 car garage behind the house to build a home gym), but she would say she was tired or "happy the way she was". I would go for jogs with my son in the stroller, and whenever she joined us, she would insist we walk. I asked her to try jogging, and she would snap back asking if I don't find her attractive. Of course, I love my wife. I love her as the mother of my child, I love her as the daughter-in-law she is when helping my mother, and most of all I love her as my wife and how she is forever my companion. This became even more apparent with time. While I would be cooking chicken breast and broccoli for the week, she would say that I should start eating lasagna and fried chicken that I used to eat before. I told her that I didn't want to go back to being overweight/obese (my bmi used to be 32 and the doctor said that was classified as obese, now my bmi was 25, borderline overweight, but I am at 10% body fat) so I was careful with my food, and she got so upset. She asked if I thought she was fat, and I calmly told my wife to go ask the doctor because I thought she looked good, but I was biased. After her appointment the next week, she came back home crying. She said her doctor said she was overweight and should consider a diet plan and working out. I thought I would see changes in my wife's behavior, but nothing happened. Now, summer has come around, and my son is a bubbling ball of excitement and always wants to go to the pool. I take him to the community pool to play with other kids that live in our neighborhood, and my wife joins us sometimes. Last weekend, the neighborhood had a pool party, and everyone and their kids were there. My wife came, and my son and I were having fun, playing in the water and socializing with the people who came there. When we got home, after my son took a nap, my wife walked me into our bedroom, and started questioning me. She asked me if I was sleeping with X woman who was there, Y woman who was talking to me, or Z women whose kid I was helping dry off and talking too. I said I didn't know what she was talking about, and then she pulled out her phone to show me pictures she had taken from her seat. They were pictures of me smiling and talking to these women. I sat my wife down and told here I would never cheat. I have a son that she provided me, and a wife that I loved and cared so much about. She wouldn't accept that answer though. She said that I must be attracted to those women because they can look good wearing bikinis while she is heavier than them (her words, not mine). Then she changed the focus to me. She said I was getting all this attention because I was now fit compared to before, and it would cause me to waiver in my fidelity now that other women were attracted to me. My wife told me that she wants me back to my old self, when she didn't have to worry about other women and we could be comfortable together. She said she feels this undue pressure to become fit herself, and feels like its too stressful to maintain that lifestyle. Can someone please tell me what to do? I am not going to lie to my wife, but if I am being honest, I think she would be much more attractive if she tried to get back in shape. Even just trying. I don't know how I can tell her this without hurting her feelings or making her feel more insecure; can someone tell me how to approach that? tl;dr: Now that I have lost weight and look fit, other women are flirting with me and my wife is starting to get jealous. She thinks that I will cheat on her in the future, and she wants me to get back to my old self. Relevant & Top Comments Commenter 1: Your wife probably needs some therapy. This isn't about you, it's about her. She has low/no self esteem and is insecure. Why don't you offer to cook all the meals for 5 days, some good healthy food and if she enjoys it you can say "See, now that wasn't so bad." Once she starts getting good food to fuel her body, she may have more energy to feel like starting to work out with you. OOP: She goes to a therapist once a month... she doesn't talk about it with me, but I saw a bill one time, and connected the dots. I cook only healthy meals for dinner and breakfast, and offered to make lunch for her as well, but she said she likes to buy out. I know she also has a snacking habit where she will go through chips and cookies while working... I feel like I've tried all that I know so far. Commenter 2: That's fucking disgusting for her to ask that of you. Tell her that what she's doing is unreasonable and you've given her no reason to actually believe you're cheating. Being overweight is what it is, and you are so incredibly strong-willed and I, random internet stranger, am very proud of you for improving your lifestyle. Don't let your wife throw all of that away for you. OOP: Thank you kind internet stranger :) The only other person who has said they are proud of me is my mom and my son. I showed him a picture from before and he said "Wow daddy, you used to be so fat, but now you are like Superman!" At the same time, I understand where my wife is coming from. Back when we were dating, I was wondering what a beautiful girl like her was dating a guy like me. 6 years later, I guess the tables have turned. I think I just need to watch my interactions with other women and make sure my wife does not get the wrong idea. ——————————————— [Update | June 30th, 2016 | 1 Day Later] Update: My [39 M] wife [30 F] of 6 years is upset I lost weight and wants me back to before Thank you everyone for your posts and advice. I really appreciate it! I made a few realizations about myself and my relationship to my wife. I wasn't easing my wife into getting into a healthy lifestyle and had completely forgot that when I started out, I took it very slow. It took me 4 years to get to where I am now, and my wife was trying to keep up with my current lifestyle, which can definitely be overwhelming. I was trying to look for the perfect opportunity to talk about this with my wife, and to ease the mood a little, I went and bought her favorite bottle of wine and a bouquet. I went to talk to her in our bedroom after our son had gone to sleep, and she had these old photo albums. Apparently she had stopped by her parents place after work to help them with some summer cleaning, and she wanted to keep the photo album to go through their memories. I gave her the flowers and opened the wine and we looked through the pictures while we were cuddling. We were leafing through the pictures, and then I saw one of a strikingly handsome man in a football uniform holding a girl that looked exactly like my wife when she was 24 kissing him. My wife was so interested in the picture, and she started tearing up a bit. I asked her what was wrong, and she pulled out her phone and showed me a picture of her parents now. They're in their 60's, and still in love, but they have lost their shape that they had in their youth. Her dad had a really large beer gut, and her mom was overweight, but they were happy. She was saying that when we got married, she was hoping we would be like them. They never worried about losing faith in one another because their attractiveness faded as they grew older, but their love for one another continued to grow. She talked about her old boyfriend, who became so popular in college, and girls threw themselves at him, that he ended up straying; she was worried the same would happen to me because women in the neighborhood started to talk and say they wish their husbands worked on their bodies like I did. She was starting to feel really insecure. Then I took that opportunity. I gave her a kiss, and then told her that she loved me when I was fat, and women like them never noticed me. She still loves me, but those women just lust. Sure, my eyes might dart, it is physically natural, but I loved her so much, valued our relationship so much, and only needed her in my bed, I couldn't even imagine laying with another woman besides her. She started crying tears of joy, and I didn't stop there. I pushed on wards. I grabbed the picture of her parents from college, the picture she had of her parents now, and a picture of when we started dating on my phone. I told her what her parents did, lose track of their health but still grow old and love each other is one way to live life. They got the chance to see their grand kids, but I know the health problems her parents have. Then I brought up my dad, and how he wasn't able to spend much time with his grandson, and how I want to have the opportunity to see my future grandkids and maybe even great-grandkids. I said I wanted her to be by my side. I took a picture of us now, and had the picture of her parents, and said, "Why can't this be us when we're in our 40's, 50's, 60's, till we die?" I told her I loved her, but because I loved her so much, I wanted her to become healthy. She doesn't need to get to her pre-baby weight, or anything drastic. I told her my story of how I just wanted to get fit, but then that developed into a desire to look good, too. She admitted that she also wanted to get back her health, and at the same time she was hoping to stick to her new years resolution to lose 20 lbs. We talked, set up a plan, so she is cutting the snacks down to two cookies a day and logging everything she eats, and portion control. That was when she brought up her monthly appointment with her psychiatrist. Apparently she had been going to talk about how she could get over her overeating habits. I felt so bad. I had neglected my wife when I was trying to become healthy, when I could have included her in my journey and it would have been so much easier to do together. We set up an exercise schedule every day, and she was joking how we should have sex every day to make sure we got our cardio in. I took the in, and we had sex the rest of the night. I haven't been as intimate with my wife like I was last night since our honeymoon. I hope to keep the momentum going tonight since we both took vacation for the long weekend ;) I took the advice of being more intimate with my wife even outside the bedroom, and was kissing her and playing around with her while we were making breakfast today, when I hear a voice shout from upstairs "DADDY! YOU SAID WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TOUCH GIRLS LIKE THAT!" Ended up having the "When a man and a woman are married, and love each other so much, it is ok to do that, because that is what leads to a baby" conversation today. I can still see the shock in his eyes... but it had to happen so I can feel more comfortable kissing my wife and squeezing her butt in front of my son. I am so glad my wife does not have depression and that we were able to work together to put a plan to get back her health. She was showing me pictures of power couples, saying in a year or two she wants to take a picture like that together, so I am so glad she has that goal in mind. I also feel ashamed. When I was starting, it was to become healthy, but I liked the physical changes I saw in my body. Then for my model, I picked Leonidas from 300. But my wife, who has restarted on her fitness journey, printed out this picture of a husband and wife who are both fit. It just goes to show who loves who more, and I definitely need to work on that. Anyways, thank you so much for the support reddit. I really appreciate the help, and look forward to helping my wife with her journey, so that together we can live a long and wonderful life seeing our son grow older and his future kids. tl;dr: Got some wine, saw some pictures of healthy/fit couples, decided we can do it together. Starting a plan slow with moderate diet changes, 3x exercise a week, and lots more sex for cardio. Scarred my son for life because he knows that maybe girls don't have koodies because his role model is grabbing his mom's butt in front of him. Relevant & Top Comments Commenter 1: Well, dang, that's a happy ending, and it's good to see that you all worked this out to a conclusion where you both will be happy and secure in your relationship. Side note: one day, show your son the picture about romantic love where it says "I will buy you tacos and touch your butt." I have no doubt hilarity will ensue. Commenter 2: Haha, your poor son is going to think that touching butts is what leads to babies. I mean, I'm sure you probably actually explained it in an age appropriate way that made sense to him, but the way you said it in the post was.... amusing OOP: To put it short and sweet, I said "If you are married, and a husband and wife love each other very much, they can be blessed to have a baby." He thinks each time I say blessed it means that God happened. So I thought it sufficed for now. God happened. ——————————————— THIS IS A REPOST SUB—I AM NOT OOP. DO NOT COMMENT ON THEIR POSTS submitted by /u/Awwndrei to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

Hey guys! I have TLE Epilepsy, I've done vegetarian keto for over a year just to see if it would help with my particular type of epilepsy. Anyhizzle, I've had a hardcore virus that I'm still recovering from (it's not covid, HIV, and I'm not pregnant so thank god), and if anyone here has a chronic disease like epilepsy, sometimes it takes an extra week or longer to get back to feeling well again. Okay, so ignoring that boring stuff, with extreme stomach acid in the past I typically need like some bread or something carb-ey to absorb the stomach acid, or I may begin to vomit, may throw up epilepsy meds, all that annoying shit. Can anyone recommend a "carb" esque keto snack that may help at least settle down stomach acid? All of my snacks are typically 100 calorie packs of nuts, green juices, stuff like that but I'm still sick and I don't want to start dry heaving / vomiting in public. Do you guys have any recs or can anyone relate to what I'm going through? With my type of epilepsy sometimes it affects my emotion, so sometimes I randomly cry because I'm sensitive sometimes. So any keto snack that would help soak up stomach acid, I would really love / appreciate your thoughts or anecdotal experiences you have that may be similar. Peace my dudes, I appreciate any feedback! submitted by /u/CursingAtlantaOvary to r/vegetarianketo [link] [comments]

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This will be long, as I kind of intend for this to be a document for myself to provide to people close to me who are considering taking this journey themselves. The TLDR is I did well, you don’t have to read this novel. =) The Journey In November of 2024, I was trying to make a change and started taking a walk every night. I had a type 2 diabetes diagnosis back in 2022 but hadn’t really done much about it other than a few dietary changes which fell by the wayside over time. The walks were intended to be a starting point in being more serious about it. Additionally, I had been having pains in my left foot whenever I stood up, but that pain would fade away to an ache quickly…within a minute usually. I thought walking might help me lose weight and reduce or eliminate the pain. Instead, the opposite happened. My pain levels went through the roof and suddenly when I stood up, I had to do the “ah…ah….ah” walk putting weight on it gingerly. My wife asked me if the pain in my foot was related to why diabetics sometimes get their left feet amputated and I freaked out. It was not diabetes related by the way. By coincidence I had a physical scheduled a few weeks later. One of my friends had started taking Wegovy the prior September and had lost 40 lbs., basically changing nothing except his portion sizes (enforced due to nausea). I figured, this was something I could manage, and I decided to ask my doc about it. I met with the doctor, asked about Ozempic, and explained my pain issues. She asked me what my goal weight was, and I honestly had not even considered it. My starting weight was 321, so I picked 225 because losing more than 100 lbs. seemed like a fantasy, and what was the point of that? I mean, even 225 was pushing the limits of reality in my mind. I explicitly remember also saying that, like, if I could do a Thanos snap and make it happen, I’d pick 175 but that I realized that was just not realistic. I had long ago internalized that I was a fat guy and honestly felt that could/would never change. The diets I had done in the past never stuck, and I always ended up back where I started, sometimes worse than where I started. My doc told me to limit my carbs, cut out soda, drink a lot of water and raise my activity levels and wrote me the script for Zepbound, which I hadn’t even heard of. I almost got mad because I asked for Ozempic, but some quick research taught me she may have done me a favor. It took a few weeks dealing with insurance rejections (my doc had done a PA for weight loss management, not diabetes treatment) but I eventually got the Mounjaro script filled and took my first shot on December 11, 2024. All the advice my doc gave was good but after that I was basically on my own. I decided when to titrate up and would message my Doc who sent in a new script. There was no check in, or blood work done, which seems like the norm for many people here. I had no idea what an endocrinologist was and had google it, lol. I eventually found reddit and came here to get my advice and I appreciate this community tremendously. I wish I had paid closer attention to the advice here in the beginning, I certainly did make some mistakes. I was one of those people that felt it right away, like within hours. My food noise was no longer present, and I found myself forgetting about what snacks were in the pantry/fridge. In the middle of a meal my brain would send a signal that I was….full? What was this? Prior to the shot my only indication that it was time to stop eating was when I felt stuffed. When I see people here saying “OMG, is this what normal people feel like?!” I can completely relate. I know how lucky I am to be so responsive. After starting, my plan was kind of to do what my friend did. See how the symptoms hit me and adjust my eating accordingly. For the first few weeks I basically lived as I did before, eating and cooking the same types of meals. It was possible because my symptoms were mild. I lost a bunch of water weight the first week, as many of us do, and then (unsurprisingly) stalled the next two weeks. In truth, my prior bad habits were overcoming the medicine, despite it’s efficacy. In those two weeks where I stalled out, we had a child visiting, a second’s child’s birthday, my wedding anniversary, and X-mas, so I am giving myself some grace, but I wasn’t “leaning in” so to speak. After Christmas came and went, I decided that I needed to take this seriously and began tracking my calorie intake and reducing my carbs. I realized that I had to make conscious choices about what I was eating to succeed. The month after I decided to “lean in” was wild. I basically didn’t understand dieting (my previous diets were things like Atkins) and nutrition. So, I started eating a lot less in general, without really paying attention to protein levels and whatnot. I took a daily multi-vitamin, a calcium supplement and a Magnesium/D3 supplement and figured my nutrition was taken care of. In the 30 days that followed there was a period where I lost 12.8 lbs in 7 days, 20 lbs in 14 days, and 29.6 lbs in 28 days. I cannot stress enough how unhealthy this was. I am so incredibly lucky that I didn’t have any kidney or gallstone issues during this time, but I was getting nothing but positive feedback from the people around me. I was just like, yeah! I’m working hard at it and this is how the medicine works, I guess. My first goal was to get to 279 lbs or 42 lbs. lost. I picked this because Costco sells pallets of kitty litter that weigh 42 lbs. and every time I picked one up and put it in my cart I wanted to feel how much weight I had lost. Honestly, hitting that first milestone is still probably my biggest emotional highpoint of the entire journey. It signaled to me that this was going to work if I kept putting in the effort. This milestone happened around 2 months into my journey. Around that same time, I realized that my Plantar Fasciitis pain had diminished to the point where I would almost not feel it at all. At best I felt nothing, at worst I had a dull ache that faded to nothing. The pain had probably been gone for weeks, it’s funny how easy it can be to miss the absence of something. This meant I could start doing my nightly walks again and I made sure that was something I tried to do every single night. I’m not perfect, but I’m very consistent with the walks even today and I feel that this was a great help to me. I don’t know that I burned a lot of calories with the walks, but they helped me to feel better about myself. And in many ways the walks were a barometer for how seriously I was taking the journey. If I was doing walks, I WAS leaning in. As I said above, my first goal weight was 225 lbs. which I got to about 5 months from my start date. Coincidentally, I reached that goal weight the EXACT day that I had scheduled a 6 month check in with my doctor. She COULD NOT believe how well I had done and told me that I was the most responsive patient she has ever had on this medication. That many times the patient follow up comes and there has been no, or minimal change in weight. Her reaction to my loss was really affirming because she had only seen the “before and after”. I work from home, so I don’t see work people face to face and my family had seen the weight come off day to day, so the difference never seemed quite as stark. I even heard the admitting nurse talk to my doctor before she came in saying “he has lost a LOT of weight”. We went over what I was doing and she just kept nodding and said she wished every patient she had would make the same changes. I think she was too quick to brush off the speed at which I was losing weight, but by this point I had realized it myself and had been making changes to address that. When I got my bloodwork back from that visit, I was taken off Metformin, my blood pressure medicine, and my statin. The only prescription medicine I take now is the Mounjaro. I reached my second goal weight of 195 lbs 36 weeks into the journey. I picked that as my second goal weight because it was both in One-derland AND equated to THREE pallets of Kitty Litter. Weight loss by this point had slowed, due to better understanding of TDEE, strength training and importance of nutrition and calories. My final goal weight has shifted around the last few months of the journey. I didn’t need to be a certain BMI for the sake of a number, but I read that your risk of many comorbidities is drastically lower if your BMI is under a 27, so that was really my final goal. Get below a 27, with some cushion built in. I’ve stopped focusing on a specific number to reach and am now working out how to maintain. That is a new skillset, and one that I have struggled with. It is quite a mental shift to go from a weight loss centered approach to a balanced maintenance approach. I don’t have tips there because I am still figuring it out. I did learn that loosening my calorie restrictions, while stopping my walks due to extremely frigid weather combined with a trip to the dispensary is not conducive to maintenance. I’ve gone from a 49.8 BMI (at my heaviest) to a 24.9 BMI. I’ve lost 49% of my starting weight in 12 months, and 50% of my heaviest weight. I actually like to think of my weight loss percentage in terms of my *current* weight…so I’ve lost 96% of that. I weigh what I did in high school, even though that was never my actual goal. It’s like time traveling back to the 80’s in a way, but with a lot less hair. I brought out all the old clothes from my closet that never got thrown away. I tried on club shirts from the 00’s (why did I ever buy silk flame shirts ffs), and clothes I hadn’t worn in over 20 years. And almost all of it was too *big* for me. I had to buy a smaller belt, a much smaller belt. Honestly, the hardest thing about this is just letting go of the fact that XXL and XL are always too big for me now. That’s a weird thing to me. People here often say they have body dysmorphia about the journey, but that hasn’t been as much of an issue for me in the day to day. I avoided mirrors and pictures consistently beforehand but occasionally, I’ll catch sight of myself in a mirror by accident and will be startled. The only time it really hits me is when I see old pictures of myself, and I find myself feeling some kind of way. I do have anxieties around my weight loss though, as probably many of us do. I worry about losing health care coverage, as there is no way I could afford this medicine without it. I worry that some new much cheaper but less effective drug will be released that fixes my A1C, but does nothing to control my weight, and that’s what my insurance will insist I take. I refused to throw away all my old clothes because on some level I am just waiting for this all to somehow crash and burn. So, I guess on some level, I still feel like the real me is that big guy from a year ago. Maybe I do suffer from dysmorphia? I’ll have to unpack that. The physical side effects I had were generally mild throughout. Constipation and burps were probably the only consistent side effects from Day 1 through today. Constipation is easily managed, and burps don’t even register to me as a problem. Maybe that’s just a benefit of being a guy. I forget to even mention it as a side effect most of the time. The only time I had anything other than mild symptoms was when I titrated up to 5 mg, but that didn’t last long. I see this question come up a lot when people talk about their success, so I will just say upfront I have loose skin. If that was your question, move on. This question really irks me, not because I am dealing with it (I expected loose skin, and am fine with it), but because I feel like it’s too personal of a question to ask a person. And it is an actual person making these post guys. Would you ask this question in person to a stranger? Maybe it’s unfair of me, but I feel like that questions about loose skin kind of translates to “I know you’re looking and feeling great and all, and you’ve had some great success, but underneath it all, are you actually still gross?” Now I know that people asking this question are just dealing with their own insecurities and fears, but the way to deal with that is to make your own post asking these questions so people can engage if they *want* to. What I did right/recommendations/tips I’ll start by saying, I’m only an expert on my own body and journey. My tips aren’t meant to be universal Advocated for myself with my doctor. When I was diagnosed t2d in 2022 they didn’t mention anything about GLP-1’s to me and the medicine wasn’t even in a shortage at that time. It was never mentioned in my yearly follow up visits. If not for my friend on Wegovy I would never even have thought to ask about it. It still rankles me that the conversation had to be started on my end. They were like, you need to lose weight, here’s some metformin, cut carbs, good luck. Deciding to “lean in” and take it seriously. My friend on Wegovy was down 40 lbs when I started and has made minimal/zero lifestyle changes since. He is down an additional 10 lbs a year later, but I know he could have done a lot better if he made more effort. That’s his journey, and I don’t ever say anything to him about it, but I am glad I took stock and saw what was possible. I’m also incredibly grateful for him because his success is what inspired me to start in the first place. Tracking my calories was probably the MOST impactful thing I did for my journey. I really had no idea what my true calorie intake was. “Watching what I ate” didn’t translate to a calorie deficit. Eating nuts/granola and yogurt seemed healthy to me, but I was eating too much of it. I had no idea how calorie dense some foods were. In my previous life I wasn’t steeped in CICO dieting, so this wasn’t triggering for me as I know it is for some. For me, I could never have lost the weight I did without tracking what I was eating. Mentally shifting Mounjaro from “magic potion” into a tool to help me build better habits. Making changes in diet and activity were not a result of Mounjaro, they were changes I made. Mounjaro was a tool that helped those changes stick. On the same sort of track, I didn’t try to incorporate a ‘diet’ into my journey. I watch my nutrition and proteins, but I don’t have any forbidden foods, nor have I tried to do Keto or OMAD or something similar. I wanted to have something sustainable for ME when I was done. Not a strategy that I found difficult that would eventually be tossed aside. Been there, done that. You should figure out what will work for YOU long term. Cutting out sodas and increased water intake – before I would drink 2-4 sodas a day, every day. I’ve told people that and they acted horrified, but it didn’t seem weird to me. Now I get hydration from water and coffee…mostly water. Soda’s taste so sweet it kind of sickens me now. Daily walks, 2 miles a day at a minimum. I try to get 10k+ steps every day but don’t beat myself up about it so long as I get my 2 mile walk in. Reduced Carbs in my meals – Low Carb not No Carb. You need carbs to be healthy, but now I eat half a small French fry instead of a full large fry. I took Day 1 pictures. I then took pictures every month in the same shirt. It feels good to see the progress I made. Get a smart scale and start a profile on Day 1. I know the metrics accuracy is questionable, but it will measure trends over time. It’s great to see that data over the long term. I understand daily weight tracking can be triggering for some people, so this advice isn’t meant to be universal. I had a smart scale but didn’t have a profile set up on my phone, so my earliest days are missing Body Fat percentages, BMI’s, etc….and it really bugs me now. On my Ap my journey starts at 308 lbs instead of 321. UGH Kitty Litter Metrics – This may seem stupid, and I talked about it already, but every week or two when I get that kitty litter it’s a consistent reminder of my success. I am not even sure I could lift and carry 3 (almost 4) pallets of kitty litter now, and I used to carry that around with me 24/7. Given how much joy it has given me, I really do recommend doing something similar in your life. Pick a goal that’s personal that can give you consistent affirmation. I think that there is so much advice about how to get the most out of tirzepatide out there that it can kind of be a little daunting. I do think the most important thing to do when you start is take the shot consistently, drink enough water and start at least tracking your calories. I’m not even saying change your diet day 1, just start tracking what you’re eating honestly. To me, this is the foundation of success. All the other stuff you can transition into your plan over time. As you see success, you’ll probably want to do more. I mean if you are rearing to do more, please do, by all means! I’m just saying, if you are feeling overwhelmed by ALL the things you’re reading to do on the journey, just start with taking the shot, drinking extra water, and tracking your diet. What I did wrong/what I’d do differently I kept my calorie count too low in the beginning, and I really didn’t know better. The weight came off super-fast and I was naively happy about the rate of loss thinking this was how the medicine was supposed to work. There was a point in the very beginning where I was losing a pound a day consistently for like 5 weeks in a row. TMI, but my urine looked like popcorn butter. I’m incredibly lucky that I didn’t have gall bladder or kidney issues. I was so foolish and the only feedback I was getting from people in my life was positive. Around 4 months in I started losing hair. Like, quite a bit of hair, and was I super concerned. That was part of what brought me to this sub-reddit as a regular reader, and not just an occasional browser. I realized I had done myself a disservice by not focusing on my nutrition and macros. The rate of hair loss slowed after a few months of consistently making sure I was getting enough protein. I did not change my TDEE to account for increase in activity. I kept myself classified as ‘Sedentary’ instead of ‘Lightly Active’ after starting my walks. This mistake went on for months before I realized I should have budgeted for more calories per day. I titrated up in the beginning because of minor stalls, not because the medicine wasn’t working. So long as you’re losing at least .5% of your weight, averaged over 4 weeks stay put. In the beginning, if I saw my weight stall out for 2 weeks I’d panic and want to move up. I learned to ride it out, and the weight started coming off again in 2-3 weeks’ time. If you haven’t lost in a month, and you’re not experiencing any negative side effects, move up then. I focused too much on lbs lost, not enough on health in the beginning. Weed and Mounjaro don’t mix…for me. If I smoke, I get the munchies. If I get the munchies, I will eat more than I should. I will eat more than my TDEE for sure. Almost every spike in my weight for the last year directly corresponds to me bringing home something from the dispensary. Now I rarely smoke, it’s just too disruptive for me. I’ve seen people say they don’t get munchies on Mounjaro, or if they do, they are satisfied with a moderate amount of healthy snacks. I’m jealous of those people, truly. I wish strength training had been part of my routine earlier, especially as some one over 50 years old. I didn’t start going to the gym until month 7 or 8, and I’m still making up lost ground on that front. I didn’t take starting measurements. I am not sure how much my waist is reduced because I wfh since Covid and outgrew all my work pants. I think I was around a 48/50 inch waist before, but I wish I knew for sure. I wish I knew how much thinner my arms and legs are. NSV’s that have meant the most to me My wife says hugs are so much better now. When I hug her, I can get in close. Like, not a long arm hug with my belly in the way, where we touch foreheads. A real hug, cheek to cheek where it feels like we are really next to each other and connected. Originally, I was going to say I can wear my wedding ring again, but I’ve lost so much weight that now it is too loose for me to wear without worrying it will fall off unnoticed. But, it was a treasured NSV for me for about 4 months. I’m looking to get this issue resolved at the jeweler now. As I started seeing results my moods lightened, and I have been able to feel good about myself. My wife says she “has me back”, because I am just in a better place now and it’s affected the way I interact with the people in my life. My whole life I tamped down my feelings about my weight and just engaged in an avoidance strategy emotionally when it came to dealing with it. I can honestly say that I never even clocked my depression around the topic, because I had just resigned myself to being a fat guy. If I couldn’t change it, why get worked up about it? I do feel like myself again. I have restored confidence. I wish more people could have access to this medicine, because I have seen firsthand the myriads of ancillary benefits that can come from it. My need for a CPap has been reduced, maybe eliminated. My friends husband died from OSA in his sleep a decade ago, and it freaked me out so much I immediately got diagnosed and got the CPap. But I had to forgo wearing it after some dental surgery in July and it certainly *seems* like the issue is resolved. I am waiting on a sleep study to confirm, because I am so scared of what could happen to me due to OSA. This is a weird one, that I did not expect. I have always played video games. Since 2014 I’ve played Destiny/Destiny 2 consistently. And by consistently, I mean I have over 8k hours of playtime in this franchise alone. I usually play 1-3 hours a night after my wife goes to bed. Since starting Mounjaro my desire to play this game just basically evaporated. I have no desire to play, nor do I miss playing. Clearly Mounjaro has changed how my brain processes dopamine in some way. My wife is thrilled, and I am happy about that too. Wrapping this all up, I want to say, it was hard to post this. Partly because it’s difficult to put yourself out there, but also because I know that my results are not typical, and my heart breaks when I see people asking why it isn’t working for them. I feel strangely guilty about how well I have responded on this medication, which has truly been amazing for me. But I also have been inspired by posts like this one and wanted to contribute. Thank you to the 12 people or so that will have read this entire novel. As I said above, I wanted a post that had my whole experience in one place. If anyone I am close to wants to know what it was all like I can send them here. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. In case anyone cares, my doses were: 2.5 4 weeks 5.0 10 weeks 7.5 16 weeks 10.0 from week 31 through to present (23 shots so far) submitted by /u/IFeartheWiggles to r/Mounjaro [link] [comments]

Height - 6 feet Starting weight - 60kgs Current weight - 83kgs Calories - 2500 ( cheat meals on every weekends) Protein intake - 130 - 160 grams Traning split - started with bro split (chest, back, shoulders, arms, legs, core and cardio on separate days) Now, I’ve moved to Push Pull Legs What made me change- People called me lanky, dandi(stick) etc, never liked it. Always wanted to get stronger. People ignored me and my presence wanted to work on that and change that. Got dumped for being too thin. Supplements - just multivitamins & whey isolates (On gold standard) Diet: When I started working out, I didn’t know much about diets etc, All I knew was that I had to load on some protein to gain muscle. I had 20-22 eggs a day (not recommended at all, don’t know how my kidneys could take it) followed by some roasted chicken and 2hour workouts. I never believed in supplements, specially whey protein. Then i started reading more about it, gained knowledge about diets and supplements. Now, I am just conscious about what I eat, I eat protein in all my meals throughout the day and avoid eating sugar(or sugary snacks/drinks) + you just can’t win an argument about food in a Punjabi household. Future plan: Though came a long way I am not satisfied yet as I want have abs now.(had them, back when I was stick thin) Need cut on calories and carbs. Need to limit my cheat meals to once a month. Should I change split from PPL to something else ? How should I start tracking my macros any good app that you guys would recommend for indian diets? Which diet would you suggest? PS. Idk what I’m trying to show in the first video 😂 submitted by /u/Rish2695 to r/Fitness_India [link] [comments]