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The Importance of Being Smaller

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I’ve gotta get this knee fixed. It’s my main priority for the year, because that will make my quality of life so much better as well as afford me more movement opportunities to lose even more weight. It’s the age old “get a job, but to get a job, you need experience, to get experience, you need a job” dilemma. Move more, exercise more, but to do that I need to not hobble… to get my knee fixed, I need to lose weight. To lose weight, I need to exercise more. I’m doing what I can with a recumbent bike, swimming (when weather affords) and dumbells at my desk when work is slow.

Yesterday I decided to put a little bit of mild fasting into my schedule, only eating when my lunch break hit at around 11am. I then made a huge salad and ate that, and a little later had some fruit – grapes and cherry plums. A little later I had some garden crackers and was good until dinner, where I made a balanced dinner and then had a little more fruit/veggies and hummus as a snack while I raided. All in all I had a great food day, so I think I’m going to continue the trend of fasting until lunchtime and seeing if that helps me keep my caloric intake to a minimum.

I am drinking plenty in the morning. Water, an alani, a coffee or two or ten (just kidding but some mornings I need it!) and my medicine and vitamins/supplements until 11am. I’m using the dumbells until my arms are sore so we’re going to keep these good vibes going. Meal plan is almost done for the coming week, thanks to Pinterest. Just need one more meal to make it complete!

Rybelsus Is My New Future Husband

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I started my new medication this weekend, that included a new wonder drug called Rybelsus. Now this is a semiglutide similar to Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy etc. The only difference is it’s a pill taken orally instead of the once-weekly injection that the other medications are. Now, I tried Ozempic when it was still mostly used for diabetes, and it was working great. As soon as I went from the starter dose to the next step, however, the side effects started hitting me hard. I was so sick I thought I had the stomach flu. Nausea, vomiting, excessive fountain pooping . . . and it lasted for months. We didn’t connect it to the Ozempic at first because I didn’t have any of those side effects on the lower dose. It ended up with me in the hospital after blacking out and slicing my hand open while I was unconscious.

Flash forward to years later, about 2 years ago, when my (new, then) doctor decided to try Mounjaro. I was up front with the doctor about my previous GLP-1 woes and my concerns about trying another, but reluctantly agreed to try with the assurances we’d stop if we started to notice the same side effects trending . I gave it about three months, and started struggling with the same issues, so had to go off it then. I was disappointed, but resigned myself to not being able to take any of the weight loss medications.

This medication you have to take 30 minutes before you put anything else into your mouth in the morning, with at least 4 oz of water. Saturday was my first dose and I started noticing the food noise in my head and the hunger all the time was starting to dissipate. Sunday morning, I didn’t eat until well after noon and even then it was because I knew I needed to. That was a feeling I needed to feel, because the last two weeks have stressed me out post-surgery with all the “food noise” going around. This is going to be wonderful! I’m so excited for this new Rybelsus journey.

Akkermansia muciniphila: Learning More About My Gut

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Click to read the link! <— This is a very good article about the new regime I am working on. So I have been slowly adding in the right nutrients and probiotics to my body, much by my nutritionist’s recommendation. Daily I take Vitafusion Omega-3, Vitafusion Women’s Multivitamin, and Spring Valley Calcium + Vitamin D. This week she suggested that I add Codeage GLP-1 Probiotic + that contains Akkermansia, Clostridium, Bifidobacterium, Chicory Inulin Probiotic, Prebiotics & Postbiotics into my daily regime. I was cautious at first because of the problems that I had when trying to take a GLP-1, but honestly I am willing to try the right combinations of anything to keep me healthy and losing.

I’m getting them delivered today and I will start on that. I have also been suggested to ask my doctor about phentermine. This medicine was originally developed to treat ADHD but found some GLP-1 weight loss properties as well. I thought this was a lovely idea since I was unable to take my ADHD medication due to the PVC’s I developed last fall. PVC’s are Premature Ventricular Contractions. They are not dangerous as long as they do not escalate, and I take medication to keep them under control.. The only down side is I am raw-dogging my ADHD. Jesus take the wheel. So, yes! Let’s do two things at once. I will hear back from her hopefully monday and maybe start that goal.

It’s a lot at one time, but considering the weird hunger and obsession with food since my surgery and my capacity increased to infinity (or so it seems), I am willing to try new things and figure out what works for me.