Exactly 1 Year Later....

An update on my own journey. March 22, 2024, I took my first dose of Tirzepatide. 52 weeks later: 53 pounds gone.

I'm 12 pounds from my goal weight of 190. And here's the number I actually want to talk about: I averaged 1 pound per week. Not dramatic. Just relentless.

But look at the graphs at the bottom and you'll see the part that almost broke me: a three-month plateau — October, November, December — where I barely lost 2 pounds total. Three solid months of doing everything right and watching the scale go nowhere. It was frustrating in a way that's hard to explain if you haven't lived it.

Here's what I knew intellectually and had to keep reminding myself emotionally: plateaus are your body renegotiating its set point, not the medication failing. I'd seen it in the research. I'd counseled patients through it. And it still sucked when it was me.

What got me through? The scans, honestly. Even during those flat months, my body composition kept shifting — inches moving, fat percentage dropping. The scale said "nothing is happening." The scanner said "everything is happening." One of them was lying, and it wasn't the scanner.

Then January came, and the scale started moving again like the plateau never happened.

52 weeks. 53 pounds. One stalled quarter. Zero regrets about sticking with it. If you're in your own plateau right now: hold the line. Your January is coming.

-Daryl

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