Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
Posting this under the heading it deserves: Talking to a therapist about this specifically Everything below is what sits behind that.
Something that has come up for me and that I suspect is more common than the discussion suggests.
It is not a side effect in the labelling sense and it is not nothing. It has changed over 7 weeks in a direction I did not expect.
Nothing here is advice from me to anybody, and I would like to hear how other people have thought about it.
I had read the opposite somewhere and cannot now find where, which tells me something.
Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
Worth separating two things that post #6 runs together.
Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.
None of the above is medical advice and I am not qualified to give any.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
Coming back to post #6, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
The social side of this — how other people respond to visible change — comes up constantly and has nothing to do with pharmacology.
I read post #9 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Social and relationship impacts: weight change affects how others perceive and interact with a person. Those impacts are real and can be psychologically significant.
Post #9 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
If you are in crisis, contact a local emergency or crisis service rather than posting. A volunteer forum cannot help and waiting costs time.
On balance I think that is right, and I would not bet much on it.
Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
Coming back to post #13, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Where a member is finding this hard, the useful reply is usually a question rather than an answer, and this subcategory does that well.
Written quickly, so the reasoning may be tighter than the wording.
Maintenance brings a different set of psychological questions from loss, and the discussion here is much thinner on that phase.
This follows post #17 rather than contradicting it.
Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.
Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
Genuinely open to being wrong about this one.
Social and relationship impacts: weight change affects how others perceive and interact with a person. Those impacts are real and can be psychologically significant.
Flagging that the sources on this are thinner than the confidence in the thread suggests.
Post #18 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
Support and community: some people process weight change through community (online or in-person). Others prefer privacy. Knowing what you need and seeking it proactively helps.
I read post #20 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
The social side of this — how other people respond to visible change — comes up constantly and has nothing to do with pharmacology.
I am not the right person to answer the follow-up to this.
Where a member is finding this hard, the useful reply is usually a question rather than an answer, and this subcategory does that well.
I would be interested in a counterexample if anyone has one.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
That holds for the case as described. Change the assumptions and it may not.
Post #22 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Maintenance brings a different set of psychological questions from loss, and the discussion here is much thinner on that phase.
That is one dataset and I would not build a rule on it.
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