O-O-O-Ozempic

I’ve almost doubled in size over the last four or five years and I am very unhappy with the way I look and feel. My waist was about fifty inches and I weighed in at a whopping two hundred and thirty-eight pounds, which is too much for my five foot three inch frame. I’ve always suffered from body dysmorphia but it has gotten much worse since the weight gain.

I asked my doctor for a little help with weight loss because it didn’t matter what I tried I kept putting on more weight and as I gained I became more depressed about it. I made all kinds of harsh judgements against myself. Judgements I would not make on anyone else. My doctor prescribed Ozempic for losing weight and so far I’ve lost twenty pounds. I see the difference on the scale but not in my body yet (there’s that dysmorphia). I haven’t measured my waist again, I want to wait a bit.

Ozempic isn’t a miracle “lose weight effortlessly” type of drug. Weight loss still takes work. I’ve been getting out for walks almost daily with my dog and I have an exercise bike for those stormy days we don’t walk. I’ve been eating significantly less sugar and chips but I can’t seem to get away from bread. The doctor says to eat nothing with flour or starch in it because flour and starch increase your appetite where Ozempic works by reducing your appetite. I feel marginally better, I can walk a mile and a half before I tire, that’s a big improvement over only being able to walk a half mile.

At my next weigh-in I am hoping to be under two hundred and ten pounds, at least that’s the goal.