As a former midwife, I can’t help but think about the mix of GLP-1s and pregnancy. Here are some thoughts about possible hurdles to come with obesity medications and pregnancy.
Category: Mental Health
Having a Hard Time
Even when things are going so well, some of my health is still compromised from my Obesity and my RNY Gastric Bypass. It’s frustrating when things seem to be going so well. I’ll just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.
Disordered Eating Knows No Bounds
When I least expect it, my bizarre mentally-unwell eating issues fly out of my mouth. Here, I face my confusion between my health and my weight loss desires. Food, as always, is at the center of the hurricane.
GLP-1 Food Ideas for Manufacturers
I’ve been thinking about what size foods I will need in my Mounjaro future and thought I would share here. I know these things are going on all over the world in food manufacturing boardrooms, so I thought I’d toss my pint-size ideas in, too.
GLP-1 Proselytizing
I have a compulsion to tell people about my new “religion”: GLP-1 medications. I work hard to keep my mouth shut unless I see the perfect opening. This time I did.
Food Aversion from GLP-1 Medications
I was surprised by food aversions after my RNY Gastric Bypass. While I didn’t expect it with the GLP-1 medications, I wasn’t totally surprised. But the alcohol aversion? I had not heard of that and was shocked. Now I know that is fairly common and the meds are being studied to help with other compulsions as well. Do you have any new food aversions with your tirzepatide or semaglutide?
GLP-1/GIP Eating’s a New Game
When it comes to any major health gain/weight loss, eating is going to be different. Here, I compare the different kinds of eating after an RNY Gastric Bypass and while on GLP-1 medications.
GLP-1 & Psych Meds
With Bipolar 1, I am well-versed in taking psych meds with obesity treatments… RNY Gastric Bypass and now with GLP-1/GIP. This is MY experience with the combinations. It’s important to know there are a wide range of possibilities one might have with their meds. As always, you and your psychiatrist can work together to create the right prescription for your best mental health.
Delineation of Time: Healing Type 2 Diabetes
We are at the dawn of healing the disease of obesity. Does Type 2 Diabetes run in your family, too? Do you also hope your progeny does not have to suffer in the way you are? That is me. I want all of us alive and healthy. Thank goodness for these medications!
The Easy Way to Lose Weight?
If you had the choice between walking to New York City or driving… would you “take the easy way out?” Me, too. I could go on with the analogy, but you get the gist. And shouldn’t we ALL have the right to save our lives? I say, “YES!”
The Fatter You Are…
We all lose weight at a different pace. What’s challenging is we can’t see the changes inside as readily and all we have to go by is what is on the scale. Be patient!
This Is All Too Familiar: GLP-1s vs. RNY
Reading about the concerns or worries of those taking the GLP-1 medications like Mounjaro, Ozempic, and the others, I am seeing them as incredibly similar to when one has Bariatric Surgery. I had an RNY Gastric Bypass in 2001 and here are the comparisons to that and the new health and weight loss medications.
GLP-1 Haters, Beware
When we begin the health and weight loss experience, the haters come out of the woodwork. They need to migrate back in because this is OUR choice… with the help of our care providers. It’s no one’s business to tell you you are wrong or bad or lazy when you take Mounjaro, Zepbound, Ozempic, Wegovy, or any other GLP-1. This is OUR lives. Not theirs. Let’s LIVE!
My Turn for GLP-1s!
This is the beginning of my GLP-1 adventure. So much to come! I hope you follow along and watch the amazing changes from my new life on GLP-1s and GLP-1/GIP. Trulicity and Mounjaro are saving my life.