I’ve made it! I’ve hit my target!
I still fluctuate, but this is now going to be forever, so I have no intention of trying to stick at one single point on the scales for the rest of my life, but I do want to always stay in the 10 stone bracket
I’ve been on the jabs now for over two years. I’m now taking half a dose each week in an attempt to maintain.
I don’t have any plans to come off the drug. I still hope that the tablet version will be out later this year or early next year and that will offer a long-term cost-effective solution, but to be honest I’ll sacrifice spending money on anything else before I would give up taking this drug. I’ve recently read Oprah Winfrey‘s new book called Enough, and she tells of how she came off the drug and gradually put on quite a lot of weight again. So she, and the doctor that she’s written the book with, have made the case that this is an illness, it is a chronic condition that requires medication to solve it, and that medication is going to be needed forever. It’s not something that I’m ever going to go back to trying to do on my own.
I’m still surprised when I order something in a size 12, and I pop it on and the zip goes up straight away. I really do feel like I forgotten now how it felt to be fat. How it felt to spend every single day either being on a diet or off of a diet. I now eat what I want when I want and that just somehow balances out. Sometimes I really fancy a Domino’s Pizza and eat the whole thing, and sometimes I fancy it but when it arrives, I eat one piece and I don’t want anymore
I truly believe this is how it feels to be normal. This is where my body wants to be and I can trust my body to eat the right volume of food.
This feels like the end of my journey.
I hope you’ve enjoyed following my progress. I hope it’s helped you in some way to be reassured, if you were starting out, to know what to expect, because that’s all I wanted at the beginning. I didn’t know what to expect as I nervously took that first injection, without any clue as to what was going to happen to my body or my brain, and I couldn’t find anybody else’s personal, lived experience of doing it. That’s why I chose to be the person who would be open to sharing.
I may revisit this blog if I feel I have something new to say, and maybe when the tablets come out and I transition over to that, but otherwise I feel like I’m signing off.
Thanks for taking an interest and good luck if you’re still on your journey.