[nessguy]

I'm with you on this, tirzepatide has been life changing for me. I've struggled with my weight my whole life and I can actually imagine a future where I lose enough that I'm no longer ashamed of my weight.

I've been on tirzepatide for just over a year now. Before that, I managed to lose 6% of my body weight over the previous year. With tirzepatide, I've lost an additional 17% of my body weight, for a total of 23% over two years.

Tirzepatide isn't a magic drug that just makes you lose weight, it simply makes it much easier to avoid overeating.

It makes the difference between being so hungry that I can't fall asleep and having the ability to just go to sleep.

[gscott]

> It makes the difference between being so hungry that I can't fall asleep and having the ability to just go to sleep.

I had this problem as well. Being on tirzepatide I went from 220 to 185 in just six months because my previous insatiable hunger went away. It feels so powerful now choosing when to eat or not.

[riffraff]

> It makes the difference between being so hungry that I can't fall asleep and having the ability to just go to sleep.

Forgive my ignorance and curiosity, was the feeling of hunger due to drastic reduction in portion size? Could you not eat some low-calories filling food?

I ask cause I've been overweight and sometimes obese most of my adult life, but when on a diet I usually feel "unsatisfied" but rarely actually hungry, e.g. I can eat a couple carrots or whatever and hunger goes away, but I would still crave a hamburger.

Still, I'm happy for you that you found something that works!

[nessguy]

> was the feeling of hunger due to drastic reduction in portion size?

While that was sometimes the case, it wasn't always so. Sometimes the feeling of hunger was almost random, and certainly stronger than it should have been. This was likely caused by insulin resistance.

When I got out of bed because I was too hungry to go to sleep I didn't always make great food choices. I'd tend to eat a 200-400 calorie 'snack', which felt like it wiped out any progress.

Now that I'm on tirzepatide I still feel hunger and cravings, but I suspect it's more in line with what regular people feel. Even if I haven't eaten much during the evening and am a little hungry at night, it's not the type of hunger that stops me from being able to get to sleep.

> Still, I'm happy for you that you found something that works!

Thanks!

I'm honestly in the category of people that have considered weight loss surgery, but I've seen enough problems from that that I've never really wanted to risk the associated problems.

From all the reading I've done it sounds like tirzepatide is almost as effective as weight loss surgery. And people are going to have a hard time convincing me that weight loss surgery is 'safer' than a GLP-1 injection.