1.0 mg (ish)
Last Weight: 195.8 pounds
Down 73.2 pounds (27.2%)

32 injections.  8 Months to the day 73.2 Pounds.  As of today, there is about 2.0 MG in my system.  With a half-life of one week, I will continue to see effects through most of March.  But, as insurance decrees, no more injections for me.  With less than 7 pound left until my final goal of 189 (the top of the normal weight range for my height) I am still holding the line in the hopes that I can make it,

I do love that I am making this pivot as Spring starts to emerge.  As the two-week cough I have had starts to fade, I am looking forward to this transition.  I have downloaded a couple running apps and am hoping to find one that works for me.  I’m excited to have overcome such a huge life-long goal and want to pivot to the next big goal.  Even running a 5K would be amazing.

This journey has been eye-opening.  Re-tooling my brain has helped me realize that obesity is just like any other chronic condition and should be treated as such.  I take pills for other chronic conditions.  Why not for obesity?  It helped make it easy to see how my brain tended towards eating when it was bored or stressed.  The injections simply lowered that food “noise” in my brain which helped me make more active decisions.  I still ate a cookie.  But I wouldn’t continue eating cookie after cookie after cookie.

In the end, I kept focus on the numbers.  Obesity leads to short life expectancy.  My kids are 4 and 6.  I want to see them become successful adults.  I want to enjoy my own retirement.  These realities feel a lot more realistic now that I feel so much healthier.  That alone was worth the journey.

Now on to the next journey.