I've been on Reta about 6 months, lost 70lbs, pretty much at goal weight and now trying to navigate how to eat like a normal person. It's my bday next weekend and we got tickets to a beer and food festival we go to every year, it's tons of vendors offering various food and alcohol options and it's always been one of my fave events but now I'm having anxiety about it. Like, I have been on a pretty strict diet for months, I have barely had any alcohol and I have become kind of neurotic about food. I barely want to go to this thing, I'm all worried about calories and weight gain but I really really don't want to be that person. I want to live my life and enjoy food and drink and not obsess like a crazy person - like, okay I gain a couple pounds - it doesn't have to be permanent, regroup for the next week. I keep telling myself that but I don't like how much effort it's taking to convince myself to just enjoy something. Anyway, anybody else crazy and working themselves into an eating disorder?
how to not be crazy
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ochoseis
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So first, you're not going to gain a couple pounds of fat from 1-2 days of eating terribly. That is definitely an eating disorder in the making talking. Even if the scale goes up, it's going to come right back down.
I've had too many times in my life where I missed out on something or restricted myself because I was worried about calories or weight gain, and while tirzepatide took away my food noise it did not take away the obsession I had with my weight & body. Therapy has helped. I know that isn't a quick fix right now but it's worth looking into for the future.
Go to the thing. Enjoy the thing. Graze on the foods. You don't have to overeat there. You can try things and put them down. You can share with others. You don't have to finish the food. That has been the biggest help for me with the restricting is just accepting that I can TRY the food. If I want more of it, that's cool too. But at least let myself try it and enjoy it. When I start telling myself I can't have it at all, or I shouldn't enjoy it, I tend to over-restrict and end up binging on something far less good or exciting later on because I get all up in my feels about the FOMO.
Edit: and I get where you're coming from and I'm sorry you're feeling that way. You deserve to have a fun weekend at a festival without worrying about your weight.
I've had too many times in my life where I missed out on something or restricted myself because I was worried about calories or weight gain, and while tirzepatide took away my food noise it did not take away the obsession I had with my weight & body. Therapy has helped. I know that isn't a quick fix right now but it's worth looking into for the future.
Go to the thing. Enjoy the thing. Graze on the foods. You don't have to overeat there. You can try things and put them down. You can share with others. You don't have to finish the food. That has been the biggest help for me with the restricting is just accepting that I can TRY the food. If I want more of it, that's cool too. But at least let myself try it and enjoy it. When I start telling myself I can't have it at all, or I shouldn't enjoy it, I tend to over-restrict and end up binging on something far less good or exciting later on because I get all up in my feels about the FOMO.
Edit: and I get where you're coming from and I'm sorry you're feeling that way. You deserve to have a fun weekend at a festival without worrying about your weight.
john_askins
GLP-1 Apprentice
You answered your own question. We use these “tools” to get healthy and to a good weight. Then what? Are you going to be sad and not enjoy things the rest of your life? You lost 70 pounds. So you know it works and you can do it. I’m going to be going on a 12 day trip to Europe in a few months and I plan to stop taking Reta 2 weeks before it. I’m going to have fun, enjoy food and booze and enjoy myself. I’ll try to be reasonable with my eating. If i gain a few pounds so what? I’ll lose it again. All of these people out there who say you should never stop and this is a gift and blah blah. They suck. Is it a gift? Sure, it’s a great tool to help us get where we need. But I’m not going to give up enjoying myself because of it. Go out. Have fun. Be happy and stop stressing.
5byfive
GLP-1 Enthusiast
I am where you are in my thinking but I've also come to the realization that as much as I think I like to do those things, I really don't like to do those things the way i used to anymore. I used to love to go crazy and spend a week eating everything in sight on vacation. I don't do that anymore becuse I don't want to do that anymore. My relationship with food has changed. I won't hold myself to as strict a 'diet' but I don't feel the need to go crazy. And yes, sometimes it is hard to let go even that much, but I can have fun that isn't centered around food anymore and I'm not missing out. It took me awhile to figure that out.
CJsMom
GLP-1 Apprentice
Go to the thing and enjoy it. For one thing even if you eat to your heart’s content, you now get full much faster and eating beyond that will make you feel uncomfortable so chances are you won’t overeat much. If you’ve been before you probably have favorites. Plan how you’ll be able to get them before you reach your full point. You’ll probably only have room for one or two, so start thinking about which ones you’ll go for, in what order.
I understand your anxiety, but I think the medication will help you - just as it was designed to do and as it has been doing for the past months. Use the festival as your cheat day and let yourself enjoy your favorites.
I understand your anxiety, but I think the medication will help you - just as it was designed to do and as it has been doing for the past months. Use the festival as your cheat day and let yourself enjoy your favorites.
woundcarping
GLP-1 Specialist
I'm down nearly 50lb since December, and I pretty much eat what I want... that's healthy, mentally. It's far healthy physically with the help of GLPs.
If I want steak and taters, by God I eat steak and taters. Sometimes I want a pile of lean protein like a variety of sliced deli turkey/chicken, or less lean like air fried drum sticks. Sausage rotel cream cheese dip with tortilla chips is delightful, sometimes. Tonight I wanted Sister Schubert Parker House rolls with A1.... I just had 10, which is 600 calories plus the A1. Perhaps it was food noise, perhaps I wanted/needed carbs, perhaps some combination.
I weigh myself each day, and that is my main guide rail above most everything else. It's been a long time since I ate too much and felt poorly from it. I didn't drink much before, but I also haven't drank since being on Reta, I am curious about the anecdotal reports of people feeling like crap after drinking and want to test that for myself when the mood strikes.
I'd suggest trying out something that sounds good food wise that isn't in your strict diet, but fits inside your goals. Gotta live a little without going crazy all at once... that's a recipe for feeling like crap.
If I want steak and taters, by God I eat steak and taters. Sometimes I want a pile of lean protein like a variety of sliced deli turkey/chicken, or less lean like air fried drum sticks. Sausage rotel cream cheese dip with tortilla chips is delightful, sometimes. Tonight I wanted Sister Schubert Parker House rolls with A1.... I just had 10, which is 600 calories plus the A1. Perhaps it was food noise, perhaps I wanted/needed carbs, perhaps some combination.
I weigh myself each day, and that is my main guide rail above most everything else. It's been a long time since I ate too much and felt poorly from it. I didn't drink much before, but I also haven't drank since being on Reta, I am curious about the anecdotal reports of people feeling like crap after drinking and want to test that for myself when the mood strikes.
I'd suggest trying out something that sounds good food wise that isn't in your strict diet, but fits inside your goals. Gotta live a little without going crazy all at once... that's a recipe for feeling like crap.
sheilarae74
GLP-1 Enthusiast
I don't really know how to not be crazy, but if it were me I would just enjoy myself. If you gain a few pounds, you can work it off later. I believe the metabolism needs to be freaked out once in a while.
lessthanhalf
GLP-1 Specialist
Given you will still be taking reta when you go there, it will still be working and the odds are you will simply get full faster and may well feel like drinking less. Given it has worked well enough to lose 70 lbs it will likely still work just as well at a festival. It does not have to spoil it but it might make sense to deliberately try to not overdo it so you do not make yourself feel sick from eating or drinking too much. The lost weight, the reta and the long period of lower calorie input will all alter your responses to food and alcohol, so enjoy but maybe take it easy at the same time if that is possible.
Gt3294a
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Reta is strong, but tripping at a festival and you won’t eat all day. Just kidding. Maybe.lessthanhalf said:
Rolltide61
GLP-1 Enthusiast
Let me save you some pain. It's called a hangover. You will not like it.woundcarping said:
rettta
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You will probably just gain water weight anyway, you know how to lose weight if you do gain fat. Go enjoy your life with friends , this will be a good training for you, turn this into a positive experience. You dont have to "regroup" or be extra strict to make up for it next week just go back to what you were doing. Dont turn this into a big deal you got a whole life to live
woundcarping
GLP-1 Specialist
I’ve only had one legit hangover, and it was well earned in Milwaukee.Rolltide61 said:
I don’t like the taste, but I like the effect. Before, a 12oz serving of Crown in 10-20 minutes got me to the level of drunk I enjoyed with minimal side effects the next day.
I’m smaller now so the math has changed, but I’m mainly curious if a 6 pack (for example, say 4oz of Crown) would make me feel rough.
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