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Thank you for being so open❤

Hi Mindy, thank you for sharing. I have struggled too with my weight all my life and recently learned that I have Lipedema. It affects 11% of women and is a lot of times misdiagnosed as obesity. I wonder if this is something you may have too based on your story. You have worked so hard and are such an inspiration.❤

Congratulations Mindy mounjaro! I’m T2D. I’m down 50lbs in 6 months! Your page inspires me. 🙌

Hi Mindy you inspire me so much and you've come so far we're all so proud of you. You mentioned your tailbone being sore after sitting too long I have experienced that problem and I work at a desk all day and sometimes it's just gets excruciating I'm going to the movie theater I'm squirming in my seat I can't even make it a quarter of the way through the movie does anybody know what this is about is this something that's going to go away I haven't talked to my doctor about it yet but I am.

this is one of my favorite videos of yours - I am 60 yo and started on Mounjaro due to A1C of 10 and high blood pressure (starting weight: 311 current weight: 256) I thoroughly enjoy your videos and your recipes and I am really proud of you. This is not easy - like many of us I've been fighting obesity since I hit puberty and have done all the things -- all the diets - all the exercise - and I appreciate your honesty and helpfulness. WE need to continue to educate the naysayers who think this shot is a "easy" pill to weight loss - we all have worked hard to lose the weight. The meds just help through providing us with those missing pieces. I celebrate 1 year since I started Mounjaro in November (on 5mg for 33 weeks) and I have to say it was the best decision I've ever made. We are all different.. we all respond differently but I am so glad we have this available to us. I'm looking forward to retiring healthier than I would have! Thanks again for a great discussion.

Mindy im so prouf of you! Lets celebrate your progress! You have lost over 120 lbs!

Can you share with us more about what you’re learning about OCD and control issues and how that relates to eating. I have been thinking I might have OCD

Best video you’ve ever made. I loved hearing how it’s not magic- it’s ups and downs, just like any other weight loss journey. ❤

Love that you are sharing your story! It is so helpful and revelatory. You help people every day.

Mindy thanks for sharing your story I enjoy watching your journey you look absolutely amazing ❤

Every cheat day you have, every day you don't exercise, and every day you put your diet off is another day you are away from your goal.

Mindy you are awesome,you sure helped me when I started my journey 17 months ago.I stated at 247lbs,and today am141.now working on maintance,I was so scared when I started,you helped me not to be.I a. Diabetic, my A1C is 4.9 all my blood work excelent.So just want to say thank you.❤❤

I have followed you since the start Mindy, on my own intermittent GLP1 weightloss journey - intermittent in my case due stock and suplly issues in the UK. I loved your early videos in the kitchen with the occasional happy dance! Thank you for your honest sharing about the challenges of weight loss slowing down and those negative thoughts which crept in. I am exactly there at the moment. After some great success on Wegovy, I have stalled and even started to gain as old habits have resurfaced. It isn't plain sailing with a GLP1 as people often assume.

Hi Mindy 😊 Thank you for sharing ❤

I am back,going to watch whole vidio now.

So good you explain what you’ve been through , this is not for sissies for sure. you look great! Well believe this , the 2.5 MJ came on strong well it didn’t put me down but the 3 rd day in i could really tell it! mater of fact , i decided not to take it ,didn’t feel really mentally like i needed to. so my first injection this time is going to be a second week injection i’ve got 3 days to go and i eat when i feel hungry and it doesn’t bother me. I’ve lost a lil over one pound!!! i’m not sure i did that the last time ill take it! but what’s better is my Sugar numbers are so much better in just the 2 weeks i was going down hill was at 59% on my target. and today it’s at 89%!! So that’s great i want my number down. But if it’s bothering me too bad im not gonna take it i really think at this point if i take it every 2 weeks why not? i’m older and i think that has a lot to do with it, there’s a lot going on in my life to feel as bad and not even able to fix food excercise or even walk to mailbox but now im beginning to see my hoarding house im making a dent in it! Yay’ Great video’ see ya next time . 🤗

Just wanted to say that I’m so glad I found you on TH-cam. You give very helpful advice.

Hi, Mindy. So glad you are sharing your story. I’m finishing up a 2-week vacation tomorrow, and I’ve been without my scale and my familiar foods this whole time. I have done very well and stayed on plan, but I’m still concerned about how all this travel may have affected my weight. I guess I’ll find out in 2 days when I get on my “home scale!” I always look forward to your videos and am cheering for you always! 😘

I think you said you're using Nourish, which I've been really curious about lately. I've considered doing therapy/nutrition for my disordered eating ways & past ED. Are you still using your therapist in conjunction with the nutritionist?

You are doing fantastic. You have lost way more than the average person does on these medications and I think it is because you are working on both you physical and mental health. Keep it up!

Slow and steady gets us used to lifestyle changes long term. You look fabulous 🎉🎉🎉❤❤

Thanks for everything! Thats all I can say! I am wondering if I will feel more appetite suppresant at .5. Been on Zepbound 1 and 1/2 months. Lost 8 lbs Seems slow. Thinking of asking Dr to increase to .5 but everyone says stay low for as long as you can. Grateful for no side effects! Def cut out all junk food and sugar. I def could do better with the water intake! Sending good wishes to you!😊

Thank you for your honesty. I am a slow loser so am happy with a 1 or 2 pound loss each week.

Hi Mindy

Mindy, I’m so glad you were able and willing to share your honest journey with GLP-1. I came to YT looking for someone who would do just that, and who wasn’t into restricting any particular types of foods. I have appreciated so much your intelligence, your wit, and your authenticity. For various reasons, it was almost a year and a half into following your journey before I was able to get on the meds. Because of you, I was so well prepared, and I attribute a lot of my success to having the benefit of your experience. I am a super-responder, too, though I definitely struggled more with side effects at the beginning than you seemed to. (Thank goodness for the kindness of Redditors helping so much with that). But from you I gained knowledge and tools for managing a calorie deficit in a sane and healthy way. I will always be so grateful. ❤🌳❤️

Thanks for sharing your story. I have been on compounded tirzepatide since May and am down 40 LB. I am right at 200-201 and this is the point where things have failed in the past. The consistency of the weight loss has me excited that in the next week or two I will pass that 200 mark and keep losing.

Have a wonderful day 💗

I’m confused. These drugs are appetite suppressants. One can eat a normal, balanced diet and, if the drug is working, one eats less, not cooking special breakfast pizzas.

Just get back on track asap. This is part of the journey. A good and smart journey may be 20 lbs off a year. Be good to you. 😊

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I am inspired by your video Mindy. You look beautiful and you’re so energetic and encouraging. i’ve been up and down with my weight for a few years and I have changed what I eat. I was losing weight and a month ago. I fell and busted my kneecap on the corner of this shower thing in the bathroom at this hotel, basically it’s a walk-in shower and the part that keeps the water from running out was raised up and that’s what I hit my knee on. ..and I say that anyway it’s not getting much better so my doctor is sending me for an x-ray. I unfortunately didn’t go to see one after this happened thinking that it would just get better if I kept ice on it, but it’s just completely insane like it was bruised from the top of my knee behind my knee all the way down my leg to my foot so also I asked her to prescribe me Wegovy and she sent that in and I just seen that it was filled so I’m ecstatic and so anxious and eager to go pick this prescription up. I really do enjoy walk in, but I have fibromyalgia and neuropathy and when it’s wet my arthritis with the other stuff. It just hurts everywhere. so I had been losing weight before that had happened, and then I was like stuck on the couch with my leg up ice on it feeling terrible because I weighed myself and the weight that I lost I gained back . So I have a new doctor and she wanted to know about my family history and there is heart problems, blood pressure. I have blood pressure problem, diabetes, cancer, both of my parents side of the family and I asked her about Wegovy or something because I’ve seen it online right before I was to go to the doctors appointment so she just crawled it in and I just looked up how to administer this and found your video and I am anxious to get this medicine tomorrow and I hope that I can communicate with you on this journey or find other people that have currently weigh 199 pounds and it’s so humiliating to say that but I am determined no matter what I do i’m going to lose this weight and I hope I have to throw all my clothes away next year because I hope to get this weight off and keep it off I have a 12 year-old daughter to raise and I’ll be 52 next month. I just don’t understand. I really do eat healthy. I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables that I just think is and I don’t get enough exercise but it’s hard to do that when I get this problem with my knee, I mean I can sit down and do stuff, but I mean, I have a stationary bike and I can’t even ride that because magnet pops every time I do it. I’m afraid I’m gonna cause damage so I have a appointment to get this x-ray on Wednesday and a mammogram as well and bloodwork, cause I haven’t had any blood work done in over a year in the last time that I did. Everything was normal or blown or slightly above, I have a doctors appointment in the month, so that’ll time out to about the time that I start taking this medicine. Hopefully there’ll be something change. I hope there’s no bad results with any of my bloodwork or my tests. I haven’t discussed this with anybody, so this is my first time actually saying anything out loud about any of us regarding Govee or my concerns with my health because of my family history when my husband knows I wanna lose weight. My kids do intermittent fasting and I don’t think that’ll be very healthy for me to starve myself. I just wanna lose the weight and keep it off so I’m wondering if this will be will give me energy and it says it causes nausea so I was wondering if you or anyone had experienced that and if there’s anything that you can take eat or drink to help with that well I hope that someone’s read this and cannot respond to me. I feel really selfish putting this on here when all these people are struggling from these hurricanes and floods. My heart and prayer should go out to everyone affected by them either be in touch by the traumatic events or just loving someone that’s been affected with. I just hope our country can overcome all thisand they get the help that they need. God bless you and I hope to hear from you and you look wonderful.❤

What you said about perfectionism jumped out at me - do you think in terms of seeking perfection/control that previously food was your drug to let off steam from everything else in your life you were attempting to control? I’m familiar with the idea that restricted eating is a common woman seeking control outlet - have never considered that over eating may be a coping mechanism for people who seek a respite from everything else they’re trying to control. Been watching you since the beginning- I was on wegovy for a quick 3 months- wasn’t for me but I’ve loved following along with your success Great work!

You look great!! I have always tracked, too much mental for me. I am 68 lbs down last time I weighed since 2/14/24. I don’t weigh myself all of the time either. Just turned 60 In August, trying to finally learn and listen to my body. I am on tirzepatide compound💗 thank you for your videos.

I started my wegovy weight loss journey without tracking. I had tracked and tracked and tracked in the pass with WW and it just didn't work. I got so involved in calories and points that it was overwhelming and I knew I would not stick to tracking so I opted to not track. I would attempt to follow my full feeling and make healthier choices along with eating the higher calorie items in moderation. So far it has worked and I have been on wegovy for 18 months and have lost 60 lbs. It has been a slow lose but I do not feel deprived and feel I eat "normal". Slow losing is sometimes stressful but I believe this will help me in the future. I still have to convince myself not to eat when my brain is telling me I want something to eat, but that has gotten easier too.

Great video, Mindy! Thank you for being honest & vulnerable! I have just had my insurance deny my rx so now I have to pay $650/mo for my medicine! 😫😫😫 I'm trying to stay positive & motivated! ❤

Congratulations on having a new and important learning experience and believing in yourself. This video meant something special to me because I reached my goal weight a few months ago, but was stuck at 1200 kcal/dy. I track obsessively and was absolutely certain I'd gain all of my weight back (some 65 lbs). But I didn't and the weight stayed pretty stable (within 3-5 lbs). It was unsatisfying to be stuck at 1200 kcal, however. So... I'm currently reverse dieting, which means I'm adding about 50 kcal/wk back to my diet and increasing my strength training which is supposed to allow me to reach a more reasonable maintenance calorie goal, which for me is 1750 kcal/dy and then transition to purely intuitive eating. While I'm traveling down this path, I still have to track calories (50 kcal/wk is a minuscule increment) but I'm focused on the goal: eating without counting. But I have to learn what 1750 kcal looks like without jumping there or I really will gain weight. Apparently, you can teach your body to adapt to higher calorie counts if you do it slowly and incorporate extra strength training (which will focus on building/keeping muscle mass). I will not be losing more weight this way and I don't need/want to. But I don't want to gain either. I really understand your fear of losing the control that counting calories gave you, but there is a point when you have to trust that you've educated yourself enough to ride without the training wheels. Your video is a great reminder to me that no matter where we are in our journeys, we all have things in common and those things are more important than our differences. Thanks for sharing your life so openly with this community. We need more people like you. 😊

I discovered Intuitive Eating in 2022, and read the book and did the workbook with an RD. I took several online courses and read a number of books, listened to a lot (and I mean a LOT) of podcasts. The good part was learning how to listen to my body and to evaluate food sanely. The bad part was gaining a lot of weight and falling prey to distorted ideas about being “healthy” while being fat. Improving my relationship with food was very helpful and I have carried those lessons into my weight loss journey and day to day life. The exposure to Fat Activism was not helpful and in my opinion is another rabbit hole of distorted thinking about body and health. I totally get needing a break from tracking and learning about Intuitive Eating can be a wonderful thing. Just watch out for the pitfalls. There is a lot of weird, cult like thinking out there that can and has derailed people badly. Your channel was one of the most helpful parts of my journey back to sanity and healthy weight loss. Maybe “the” most important. I track because I need that awareness to stay in a healthy deficit. It’s still a learning process. I suspect I’ll continue to fall back on it throughout my life to help me stay healthy. But IE drilled into my head to not judge food as good or bad, to value my own preferences and experience of eating as a quality of life issue. It got me out of orthorexia. So I can approach tracking without making myself crazy. That’s just my experience. I know you will find a good path. ❤️🌳❤️

Great job, twin. I obsessively track my food, but right now, not doing it would give me too much angst. I’m currently halfway through a 2-week vacation. I can’t weigh myself, and I’m eating unfamiliar food, so I’m a little anxious how it’s going to work out. I’m doing everything I know to do, so whatever the results, I’ll know that I did my best. Thanks for inspiring me to let go a little. 😉 😘

One thing you mentioned is huge for me, too -- letting myself said "you accomplished this" without the "but". I NEVER let myself have credit for accomplishments without that "but".

I’ve been on an intuitive eating journey since 2021. I did initially gain 70 lbs after giving up restriction (this was before GLP-1s). It took a very long time for me to learn a new way of eating and also how to unlearn so many other things. Others have mentioned Christy Harrison. I followed her paid program and then one on one counseling with a different RD for about 9 months. Something that Christy talks about a lot is how many people think IE is the hunger-fullness diet and that you make all decisions based on your gut/intuition. That’s not really true. IE is also about making conscious choices knowing you will feel your best later. Like eating a big meal because you know you won’t have a chance to eat later. IE has helped my GLP-1 journey because there are times I force myself to eat knowing my body needs it, and make different food choices than what my body is craving because I have a better sense of how my entire body will feel once I make that choice. It’s quite a process, but it’s so incredibly freeing to have a healthy relationship with food.

This is the hard part about this medication we often don’t talk about, very wise choice ❤ I’ve stopped weighing myself for now. I’ve become too obsessed.

Mindy, did-you have any back/knee/hip/joint pain with being overweight? Has it improved since you’ve lost weight? Are there any exercises or supplements that you take that you can attribute to feeling less pain?

Oh Mindy that's amazing 👏 😊 well done xxx

I loved the video this week. It seems to be the natural progression for your health process. You are such an inspiration friend. You keep me going even when I stumble. Love you bunches!!!

I only took one injection of Mounjaro gave me energy and made me feel a great sense of self …. I just didn’t like the headache and the potential severe constipation so I quit

Proud of you!😊

Thank you for this video. I am still hanging on to my scale for dear life. I threw away my Intuitive Eating book shortly after starting my GLP-1, disgusted that I had tried to follow its principles for years but my body just wasn't sending the cues that I needed. And then I would beat myself up for not having the discipline to stop eating when I was full. Maybe now I should start paying more attention again. But the idea of trusting myself is still terrifying after years & years of failure. This was SO helpful today!

This video is perfect to get me motivated to meal prep. On my journey i got down to about 168. I been hovering closer to 175 for about a year. So I'm going to do a cut for about 8 weeks. To see if i can drop back down. Yeah for not having to cook everyday !

Congrats on the weightloss great job!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Woweeeeee congrats 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤😊