David note that the expected progression is up a dose each month but if the prior dose is still working for you there’s no real need to increase the dose! Talk to your doctor if you’re having a lot of nausea and they can likely give you something for it but you can also NOT increase the dose as fast as possible. Check with insurance too, but…if it’s still helping, don’t rush to increase, especially if you’re getting bad side effects.

David note that the expected progression is up a dose each month but if the prior dose is still working for you there’s no real need to increase the dose! Talk to your doctor if you’re having a lot of nausea and they can likely give you something for it but you can also NOT increase the dose as fast as possible. Check with insurance too, but…if it’s still helping, don’t rush to increase, especially if you’re getting bad side effects.

That's what I hoped to hear! I lost 9 lbs in two weeks on the lowest dose. It doesn't need to go faster than that!

Hec, for what it's worth, when I bumped up to 0.5 my weight plateaued. I've been gaining and losing the same 3lbs. I go up to 1.0 in two weeks and I'm curious to see what'll happen.

I'm at 1.5 right now -- which, I have to count clicks, because there's no 1.5 pen, but I don't mind. Anyway, I met with my doc several months ago, and she said, "You may plateau at some point, just fyi, and we can talk then." I did not lose a single OUNCE after she said that, ha! I called her a month or so later and told her, "I guess I'm pretty suggestible..." We upped the dose to good effect. Down 30 since last March, and I am lucky not to have quease very often.

Hec, for what it's worth, when I bumped up to 0.5 my weight plateaued.

I'm at 1.5 right now

Thanks! I really appreciate everybody sharing their experience. It's really helpful.

I managed to do my whole Pilates class despite my bandaged hand, and without busting a stitch.

Next week I start doing three classes a week, including my one-on-one with Pilates Domme, Rachael.

If I can continue to throw in two runs a week that should be a really good level of activity for me.

I do need to do some more cleaning before Matilda gets back, including the dreaded Guinea Pig cage.

I think lunch will be a small soup with sausage, chicken and vegetables.

Nice. I'm doing a short (half mile) walk with the dog every day now -- that honestly seems to be her limit, ha! Then I swim three times a week, and I just got one of those snorkels you use when you're trying to perfect your freestyle, which I am not trying to do, because I don't actually have a form to speak of, BUT, I suck at side breathing and cannot stand water in my mouth, so I never do freestyle even though I'd like to. I'll report back on how that works out... breathing through the snorkel is weird.

breathing through the snorkel is weird.

I grew up in South Florida and had my scuba certification by age 10. Lot of snorkeling and respirators (for the air tank).

Guys, Guys, Guys... I know AI is probably evil, but I had the best win today. ChatGPT helped me write a Python program to rename 100 files with the correct course name instead of the gobbledegook that comes out of the program that creates the files. It helped me figure out how to install Python and run it. It saved me HOURS of opening the files and renaming them and then saving them to Box. I understand enough of the code so that I can change it for other projects to name them correctly as well! It is my first little program in years (I am IT adjacent, so mostly worked with Macros before).

Guys, Guys, Guys... I know AI is probably evil, but I had the best win today. ChatGPT helped me write a Python program to rename 100 files with the correct course name instead of the gobbledegook that comes out of the program that creates the files. It helped me figure out how to install Python and run it. It saved me HOURS of opening the files and renaming them and then saving them to Box.

That's impressive! I know AI is being used to make significant breakthroughs in medicine now. And when I went to Josh's memorial, I talked to an attorney who was incorporating high level AI into his law firm, and it sounded like it had a lot of utility.

I'm not sure there's anything intrinsically evil about AI, it was just very unethical in the way it scraped its data.

It is going to eliminate whole bands of jobs though in the fairly near future, and it would be nice if countries started figuring out Universal Basic Income instead of dumping a large chunk of humanity into unemployability, with a gross top layer of have-it-all billionaires and their adjacents.