Progress Report - 8-19/26 (Creative Title, eh?)

 

A while back, I had lots of conversations with Claude regarding my health adventures, work, etc. (This is not a philosophical debate about AI. It's not that serious.) Anywhoo, at some point, I asked it to give me a prompt to create an image of my scattered brain, my need to overplan everything (and underdeliver), etc. 

THIS is how it felt I would best be portrayed. It's not wrong. Except that i have a lot more gray, and I use circular needles when I knit, thank you very much. What absolutely slayed me was that the machine was a combination of bored and exasperated with all my constant overthinkage. 

All that to say, I think, even after a full two weeks, that the tirzepatide is starting to silence my busy brain. 

I wonder, if I started conversing with it again, if the image prompt would change at all. Time will tell :) 

And now, the moment you've all been awaiting with much bated breath - the update. 

Here's this week: 

Here's the start: 

As of today, still no significant side effects. 

I can tell when I ingest food or a smoothie too quickly - I kind of get this gross feeling in my esophagus, like everything is stacked up, and the stomach has not opened for business yet. Somewhere between needing to belch and needing to puke. It's not overly overt, not dramatic at all, just really not pleasant. 

I am learning to slow down. 

Blood sugar - I have a cheaper home monitor, so I am not quite comfortable with its accuracy - I started at 133 (insert measurement here), and as of yesterday, I was at 104. BUT, earlier in the week, I was down as low as 90. I would love to stay in the Below 100s, but I'll get there eventually. 

I didn't have actual cravings or constant EAT-EAT-EAT noises beforehand, so I can't really speak to that part of it, but I can say it's starting to quiet my overzealous mind. Starting. That's all the data we have right now. 

There's been a magical metric fuqueton of personal shite happening in the past several months, so to explain the newfound silence better, I can tell you that previously, I would have just ate my feels. Snacks, junk, more snacks, more junk. Last week, more heartbreaking news arrived, and I didn't once think about food as a comfort. 

Still no exercise. Still no walking. Still no tracking. Until we get the next few weeks over with, I just want to be present for the actual important things. I'll address exercise and planning better then. Meanwhile, I eat three "meals" a day - using a lot of Greek yogurt, protein powder, and one main meal at lunch. 

The Factor meals are a good in-between method for making sure I get my protein. Not gonna lie, even though they have increased their selections exponentially, at some point, it all kind of tastes the same - chicken is chicken, salmon is salmon, etc. 

I'm curious to see what happens next week. We'll be traveling, and completely out of routine. That'll be interesting. 

I think that's all I got for the moment. Just checking in :)