my mom stayed with me for a few days last week. It was the first time she’s seen me in person since I started tirzepatide
the family commentary is its own specific kind of awful, I get it. It’s hard to explain to people that you’re not on a “diet” in the way they understand it, and that the rules have genuinely changed. The part about the “quiet hunger signal” is the piece that really lands for me.
It’s not just less hunger, the quality of the signal itself changes. I can see this in my CGM data. Before tirzepatide, a minor glucose dip would feel like an emergency, a full-on panic signal to eat everything immediately.
Now, I see the same dip on my Libre and the physical signal is just… information. It
family seeing you for the first time on tirzepatide is a specific kind of conversation. my own mom made comments about how little was on my plate, and it took a while for her to understand that it wasn’t 💉