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Week 2-3 update
Evening all,
I wrote a big update post and it didn't post for some reason! So here's what I remember from it!
I took my third 0.25mg (titration dose) of ozempic/Wegovy on Friday night.
I have lost 1.9kg week one and another 0.7kg week two, so I'm super thrilled to be responding this early.
I have very little food noise. My appetite is reduced/low depending on the timing of the week. It has been so easy to make the changes to healthier options, that's where I've never found it easy before. This is such an amazing crutch in that area! I'm hoping that that stays with me as the doses go up....have heard lots of people say they got less of those effects on higher doses than the lower ones, which seems not ideal to say the least!
My diet focus is on protein content instead of calorie goal/deficit. I'm aiming between for 140g protein per day....but I'm happy once I'm over 100g on a bad (v low appetite day) day. I'm finding that that is naturally keeping me in or around 15-1600cal per day....but I'm happy to be between 1500 and 1800 day to day for now.
Will see how things continue, but I'm thrilled, beyond thrilled to have shown a response on these early doses to enable me to easily start making changes to my diet which I hope can become habit/established with the scaffolding of the medication. Open to using it long term at a low dose for maintenance, but my journey will be whatever it is.
No major side effects apart from constipation....but I've got that massively improved by adding in psyllium Husk supplements this week. So hopefully it stays that day as I've got to add iron in for anaemia again this week. 🤞
I have had two totally unexpected side effects.....my lifelong insomnia is more or less gone ....I have ADHD and my inner monologue becomes oscar-worthy at night so I fluctuate between most of the time managing 4/5 hours with restless periods scattered in between (when I toss and turn so much I literally move the superking mattress off my edge of the bed despite having to 100kg+ bodies in the bed) to full no sleep insomnia nights every 10/14 days ish!!!! So no more tossing and turning, IF I wake, I'm asleep again in a couple of minutes. Sleepless ness was my norm, so it has exhausted me getting used to sleeping more as bizarre as that sounds. I think this weekend I'm finally getting used to it.....also I'm probably adjusting to the fatigue that the medication may have given me, still sleeping well so I'll take it!
The second may be a little TMI for some ...apologies in advance. With my ADHD I have always had a bad habit of picking at blemishes/dry areas of skin...cuticles, scabs, spots if any etc. this is the first time in my life I can remember that I'm not compelled to do it! I pick until I bleed and it's painful, but it's gone! It's bizarre!
Sorry about that!
Anyway.....a few new protein rich foods to try out this week so I'm looking forward to the week ahead!
Hope everyone is doing great!
Laura
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