Considering a GLP1

September 17, 2024

Took my Mom to have her physical today. I THANK GOD she’s in relatively good health to be 81 years old. We have the same primary care doctor and while there, we had a conversation about weight because Mom had gained a bit. She said that I should consider trying one of the GLP1 drugs to see if it could help me get my weight down. I told her that if I had not lost weight by the time of my physical in December, I would consider it.

December 12, 2024

Went in for my physical and I had NOT lost any weight. In fact, I actually gained a few pounds. I’d praying about taking a GLP1 and getting myself prepared to accept that I may need medical help to see real progress in getting my weight down.

My said most people who have this much weight to lose usually need some type of help. Over the years she ‘encouraged’ me to consider a variety of weight loss methods from surgery to other drugs like Contrave. I always said no because I just felt I could self-discipline my way there which has not been doable for me thus far.

A cousin of mine who has the same primary care physician, and whose always been overweight even as a small child had weight loss surgery in 2023 and has lost over 100 lbs. She looks amazing and feels even better. Leading up to the surgery, she was put on a very strict diet and lost 70 lbs. on it. We asked her why she didn’t just keep doing what she was doing and not have the surgery. Her response was one grounded in reality. She said the diet was hard but she could handle it because she knew there was an end date to it.

The Back Story

I’ve felt fat almost all of my life but I’ve actually only been overweight since my college years. I’ve been 5’8″ since the 6th grade and I was always the tallest girl in my class until high school. Looking back now, I was very curvy but not fat although I felt it because I was around a bunch of tiny girls in high school. I felt fat before I actually was fat.

I gained weight in college while working multiple jobs, working on multiple side hustles to make extra money, and eating one meal a day a lot of the time. It was more economical that way.

Another thing about me is that I’ve always weighed a lot. I truly am big-boned! I would say I weighed around 200 lbs when I graduated from high school but I wore a size 14 dress. By the time I graduated from college, I was wearing a size 18/20 and my weight went up from there to my current size 24 clothes.

I can lose small amounts of weight but never the 40+ lbs that say I’m really on my way to getting to m y ideas size 16/18 that I want to be. I remember going to my doctor around 2008 and my weight hit 304 lbs. Going over 300 lbs was a hard stop for me at that time. I joined 24-Hour Fitness and started exercising, watching what I ate and got back down to under 300. I just didn’t keep it going.

Over the last 20 years, I’ve tried Weight Watchers & Jenny Craig & Keto but nothing has stuck enough to significantly reverse the weight gain. For the last 8 years or so my weight fluctuates between 320 – 341. My highest recorded weight was 351 a few years ago.

How Last Year Went

Read last year’s post about what I tried last year to tackle my weight – Blog Post

Last year 2024, I got a weight loss coach and got down to 315 lbs through eating a lower carb/high-protein diet. I learned a lot about HOW I got to be 341 lbs. and the biggest culprit is NOT eating all the wrong foods, it’s my out-of-balance lifestyle. As long as I took the time to plan what to eat ahead of time + went to the grocery store + cooked the food + packed food for workdays, 95% of the time I ate well. The 5% are those times when I have better food options prepared but I want to eat something else. If any of those tasks did not happen, I went back to eating what was convenient, comfortable, and mentally satisfying.

My plan is to document this journey on my blog and in video as well.

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