7 months on tirzepatide

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seven months on tirzepatide, down 41 pounds. the food noise is quieter, but the social stuff’s gotten weird. people ask invasive questions about my weight loss, like i’m some kinda experiment.

it’s awkward. does anyone else feel like they’re under a microscope now? i’ve started tracking my interactions, just to see if i’m being paranoid.

logging my doses and side effects on my watch is a small thing that removes enough friction that i actually do it. the pattern that’s emerged is that the more i talk about my weight loss, the more anxious i get. anyone else notice this?

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“Feeling like an experiment” definitely resonates, it’s a specific kind of external pressure. When you say “the more i talk about my weight loss, the more anxious i get,” I’d actually think about the direction of that 🤔

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that anxiety pattern is a known thing

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that anxiety pattern is a known thing, just

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the instinct to track the interactions is the right one to chase. ‘the more i talk about my weight loss, the more anxious i get’ is the real signal to