I'll tell you what, I thought this would be another fad thing that wasn't worth anything, really surprised that it did anything. It hit all the red flags for me. Tiktok, celebrity stuff, some person on Facebook talking about it, etc. All that usually screams snake oil to me. Glad I was wrong, but having some issues now that I'm up to full dose. Background and issues

I'm 6ft was 287 pounds. Wide frame, did manual labor for years so I've got a pretty thick base. As soon as I stopped working outside and came into the office, my weight exploded. I still exercised, still ate reasonably healthy, but just no matter what I did, I'd slowly gain. 1-2 hours exercise 3-4 days a week, heavy cardio, safe calorie intake, everything monitored by my dr, didn't matter, here's your pudge bro.

Know how depressing it is to be in a tight 3xl shirt, yet still be "in shape" enough to bang out a 10 mile run at a heavy job, with no problem, hooked to machines with Doctors going... wth dude you should be sweating like a hog and you don't even show you're stressed ? Doctor couldn't figure my system out, put me on Saxenda to try it out. Insurance wanted to be insane picky about Wegovy, so tried this one first.

A month later I am at 261 pounds, that's just insane to me. Normally I'll lose 3 pounds and next week gain a half pound over all back. Now, I think I could be even lighter, but I've had a few issues"

1) Starting off the smaller dozes, noticed no side effects but constipation. Almost immediate effect of no cravings to snack, slight hunger decrease.

2) Going onto 1.8-2.4, my taste changed to nonexistent for some stuff, sugar tastes metalic, and salt is WAY too salty. I'm never hungry in this doseage, to the point when if I eat, it's less than a handful worth of something, and I'm annoyed at lack of taste, and it immediately fills me up. Randomly bad nausea.

3)2.4 into 3, On 3 now, I'm incredibly fatigued, minor headache that doesn't seem to go away, never hungry, constipated, and taste is incredibly muted. Very bad acid reflux. I'm sure some of it is the calorie intake is garbage, and I'm probably not getting enough macros. To get around the constipation bloat, I'm drinking a protein and vitamin shake for breakfast that I struggle to finish 8 oz of liquid. Lunch is a small side salad with grilled steak or chicken, talking 2oz or so of meat. Dinner I keep just skipping, I feel too full and miserable, tired. Tending to just plop down and veg out, skipping exercise all together.

I was trying to keep 1500-1700 calories a day, but I've seen several days of 700-900, a couple days I struggled to hit 1100. I just can't eat that much anymore.

If this sounds like something you experienced, for step 3 anyway, how did you combat it? I was a big energy drink guy 3 months ago, but now the taste of Celcius makes me flinch, Monster Zero Ultra was another go to, but now it's like drinking battery acid to me. I think I'd feel better if I ate more or if I could bring myself to go back to drinking caffeine to offset the fatigue, but I'm already struggling to intake as it is.

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Really impressed with the medicine so far, but step 3 is kicking my butt.