Go for Mounjaro if offered. I've lost about 15 pounds in the last three months, and it's definitely done more to shift my thinking about food than three years on Ozempic did. Although it did do a pretty good job with my A1C.
Also, your doctor or nurse practitioner will probably not have you monitor your blood glucose. Daily sticks aren't as effective as getting lab work done every three months. More importantly, they make you obsess over every tiny fluctuation.
Get an eye exam every year: depending on what they see, they may want one every six months. It's easier to see the capillaries in your eyes than the ones in your toes or kidneys, so they'll want to keep watch.
I'm a ten year vet as of last month, so if you have any questions, let me know.
I was on ozempic injections for 18 months. Lost a shit ton of weight, got my A1C down to manageable levels. So yes, despite the diagnosis, this is something to be positive about.
After I got everything down to managed levels, I went to a Berberine/Ceylon/ACV triple dose daily, and kept it down, and my weight (because Id gotten up to 325lbs....).
Take care of yourself Lawrence. Always. You are too important...:)
My husband low key would like the same diagnosis for the same reason...he struggles with his weight even though he walks ALL the time...like crazy miles... and is a healthy eater but still struggles with his weight. So, I get appreciating the silver lining of the diagnosis. Boo to the diagnosis but yay to the treatment.
I'm a usually-recovering atypical, restrictor, trauma-anorexic, from age 16. I got T2D at 55 after 20 yrs overweight. I reversed it a year ago, at 59, with diet & exercise, no meds for weight loss, and was given a custom gym-bottle gift with a cat flipping off it's middle claws, saying,
"FUCK YOU, DIABETES".
I didn't follow any "diets", I know, as an anorexic, about nutrition to a possibly-neurotic extent. I just looked up the glycemic index and nutritional data of a bunch of foods and designed my own plan. Mostly low-glyc. vegetables as the bulk of my eating, some lean protein (plus a bit of Alaskan salmon for the EFAs), a little low-glyc. berries. Very low carbs & fat. Almost never any grain products. Now having to eliminate lactose, for fuck's sake but whatever.
I was a fucking knock-out and I'm going to return to it even if I'm 60. I was an athlete. A dancer. I miss movement like I once had so easily available. I refuse to give up.
YOU do what WORKS, baby. And you have all my support, love and cheering section!!!!
This was beautifully written: clear, certain, unapologetic and hopeful. I am so damn happy things are looking better, sweetheart Bear XOXO
I get the impression that you feel a similar kind of optimism and relief that I felt when I was finally diagnosed with endometriosis and was able to schedule my hysterectomy in 2023.
I'm happy that you are able to see a silver lining in this, there are many people who wouldn't be able to achieve that perspective.
Mixed blessings indeed! But it is never too late, at any point in life, to try for better health. Your experience also reminds me of a friend who started taking a weight-loss drug and said that it cut out the noise in her head about eating and food. She, like you, was able to listen to her body for the first time. I have been lucky to have always had that connection/connectivity in my brain but I can still appreciate what a revelation it would be to discover it because I can't imagine being without it.
Go for Mounjaro if offered. I've lost about 15 pounds in the last three months, and it's definitely done more to shift my thinking about food than three years on Ozempic did. Although it did do a pretty good job with my A1C.
Also, your doctor or nurse practitioner will probably not have you monitor your blood glucose. Daily sticks aren't as effective as getting lab work done every three months. More importantly, they make you obsess over every tiny fluctuation.
Get an eye exam every year: depending on what they see, they may want one every six months. It's easier to see the capillaries in your eyes than the ones in your toes or kidneys, so they'll want to keep watch.
I'm a ten year vet as of last month, so if you have any questions, let me know.
Not “morally complicated”!
Everyone who benefits from these drugs deserves to have them.
I hope we can manage to make that happen.
Relatable af
I was on ozempic injections for 18 months. Lost a shit ton of weight, got my A1C down to manageable levels. So yes, despite the diagnosis, this is something to be positive about.
After I got everything down to managed levels, I went to a Berberine/Ceylon/ACV triple dose daily, and kept it down, and my weight (because Id gotten up to 325lbs....).
Take care of yourself Lawrence. Always. You are too important...:)
My husband low key would like the same diagnosis for the same reason...he struggles with his weight even though he walks ALL the time...like crazy miles... and is a healthy eater but still struggles with his weight. So, I get appreciating the silver lining of the diagnosis. Boo to the diagnosis but yay to the treatment.
No matter what they tell me, I will insist on calling it "Mound Charo"
CUCHI-CUCHI, btchz!
Oof so relatable. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing, Lawrence!
I'm a usually-recovering atypical, restrictor, trauma-anorexic, from age 16. I got T2D at 55 after 20 yrs overweight. I reversed it a year ago, at 59, with diet & exercise, no meds for weight loss, and was given a custom gym-bottle gift with a cat flipping off it's middle claws, saying,
"FUCK YOU, DIABETES".
I didn't follow any "diets", I know, as an anorexic, about nutrition to a possibly-neurotic extent. I just looked up the glycemic index and nutritional data of a bunch of foods and designed my own plan. Mostly low-glyc. vegetables as the bulk of my eating, some lean protein (plus a bit of Alaskan salmon for the EFAs), a little low-glyc. berries. Very low carbs & fat. Almost never any grain products. Now having to eliminate lactose, for fuck's sake but whatever.
I was a fucking knock-out and I'm going to return to it even if I'm 60. I was an athlete. A dancer. I miss movement like I once had so easily available. I refuse to give up.
YOU do what WORKS, baby. And you have all my support, love and cheering section!!!!
This was beautifully written: clear, certain, unapologetic and hopeful. I am so damn happy things are looking better, sweetheart Bear XOXO
I get the impression that you feel a similar kind of optimism and relief that I felt when I was finally diagnosed with endometriosis and was able to schedule my hysterectomy in 2023.
I'm happy that you are able to see a silver lining in this, there are many people who wouldn't be able to achieve that perspective.
Mixed blessings indeed! But it is never too late, at any point in life, to try for better health. Your experience also reminds me of a friend who started taking a weight-loss drug and said that it cut out the noise in her head about eating and food. She, like you, was able to listen to her body for the first time. I have been lucky to have always had that connection/connectivity in my brain but I can still appreciate what a revelation it would be to discover it because I can't imagine being without it.