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c/semaglutide·posted 2 years ago by u/dead_space_doug

what would you tell week-1 you about food noise

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Been lurking in c/dosinglogs for about 22 months and finally have something worth posting.

Short version: week 48, 0.5mg, and titration is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 13 threads, and the answers split roughly down the middle.

What I actually want to know is whether the people saying it does not matter have measured it, or whether it is just repeated confidently. Happy to be told I am overthinking this — I probably am — but I would rather overthink it now than at week 42.

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u/viktor_nkemelu1.1k points·2 years ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 75.

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u/noor_hovland0 points·2 years ago

Week 42 for me and the honest summary is: 18kg down, sulphur burps manageable, and the quiet happened around week 23.

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u/niels_lindqvist-10 points·2 years ago

nope, 0.25 counts, it is just not the dose most people stay on

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u/careful_gradient_again0 points·2 years ago

Yeah, 30 weeks on 12.5mg, same pattern, same timing.

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u/kenji_vasquez524 points·2 years ago

week 30 on the pen, 23kg down, this is the answer

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u/dead_space_doug287 points·2 years ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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u/nausea_notesMOD646 points·2 years ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/georgi_haddad422 points·2 years ago

week 35 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/kaplan_meier_kim492 points·2 years ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/sofia_wikstrom234 points·2 years ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/dead_space_dougOP0 points·2 years ago

Tried the split-dose thing for 6 weeks. Felt slightly smoother, lost at exactly the same rate. Went back to weekly.

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u/dead_space_dougOP1 point·2 years ago

my ApoB moved before the scale did and i nearly missed it

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u/gustav_solberg406 points·2 years ago

the fatigue passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/dead_space_dougOP165 points·2 years ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/anya_antonsen267 points·2 years ago

the constipation passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/yara_boateng232 points·2 years ago

Crossposting this to c/researchpeptides because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide118 points·2 years ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 15.

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u/camila_mensa57 points·2 years ago

pens are overpriced, research vials are research grade, same molecule different price

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa20 points·2 years ago

pens are overpriced, research vials are research grade, same molecule different price

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/anya_erdogan63 points·2 years ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/rafael_ostergaard47 points·2 years ago

Right, and the corollary is that stopping escalation does not reset your tolerance, it just pauses the clock.

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u/rina_bergstrom30 points·2 years ago

titration speed is Ozempic plus side effects, period

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