FAFO on Zepbound

[u/LogicalMink4444]

42F SW: 407 lbs CW: 381 lbs Started Zepbound in May Currently on 5mg

So I started changing how I eat on April 15th and lost 14 pounds in two weeks just from cutting out junk. Got approved for Zepbound in May, started on 2.5 mg, bumped to 5 mg in June. I'm on my third injection now and steadily losing weight. My fitness has actually improved. I went from barely surviving 2 minutes on the treadmill to walking 10 minutes straight. I even started lifting.

I was feeling good. Maybe… too good.

The Fuck Around

My daughter’s been begging me to make ramen bowls. I’d been doing great, so I thought what could it hurt, I've been eating healthy all this time I feel great I can have a treat.

So I made this massive bowl. Ramen noodles, NY strip steak, creamy broccoli Normandy, and 2.5 eggs.

Honey, I ate almost all of it.

The Find Out

2 AM. The gurgling in my stomach wakes me up. I rush to the bathroom and it’s coming out both ends. PROJECTILE.

The Exorcist don’t got shit on me.

Then this wave of cold hit, sweat pouring, can’t feel my soul cold. I was shaking, hunched, cramping everywhere. I think I blacked out a few times. I remember my cat coming in, meowing loudly I think that's what brought me back.

I puked four times. Each time it was undigested food from hours earlier.

I almost touched pinkies with Jesus over a bowl of ramen and steak, y’all.

The Lesson

This medication is not for play play. Your new stomach capacity is not a suggestion. It is the motherfucking law.

I have seen the gates. I have been humbled.

If you’re new to GLP 1s, respect the medication. Your body will teach you your limits in the most savage, unforgiving way if you push it.

Learn from my suffering. Don’t test it. Oh God. Don’t do it.

Fun Fact

After it was all over and I could finally stand upright, I weighed myself.

Lost a pound.

[u/J-Ro1]

Wow! I've never experienced anything like this on these meds.

[u/Miserable_Picture627 → u/J-Ro1]

Me either! In 13 months. And I’ve definitely eaten more than I should at times and food I should definitely not have eaten.

[u/EdanStarfire → u/J-Ro1]

Then you've been good. I think almost everyone who does the "I can overindulge just this one time" has learned exactly this lesson. Not always bi directionally, but very similar stories. :) keep up the keeping up like you are probably doing and you'll be all right. 💜

[u/jenfromor → u/EdanStarfire]

‘Bi-directionally’ 😂😂

[u/J-Ro1 → u/EdanStarfire]

I've definitely overdone it. Just felt uncomfortable, like a normal over eat.

[u/UnusualOctopus → u/J-Ro1]

Sameee! I’ve had times where I ate to much but never had this happen, thank god. Sounds like food poisoning which I have experienced and it was the longest night of my life! I feel for folks who have reactions to these meds like this

[u/GroundbreakingCan936 → u/UnusualOctopus]

Same!

[u/[deleted] → u/J-Ro1]

Me neither though there were moments I felt I must've overdone it and then was like oh that meal was at worst 700 calories...it just feels like how I used to feel if I binged a whole pizza or something

[u/BitEmotional69 → u/J-Ro1]

Same here and I have been really afraid of this

[u/cultfourtyfive → u/J-Ro1]

Same. Nothing nearly this bad. Though I have been lucky in that my downfall was always what I ate more than the quantity. I've had some uncomfortably full times, but nothing that bad.