#935 Wegovy Diary: Three

June 24, 2023Scott Benner

Scott is taking Wegovy for weight loss. This is diary number three.

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if you've been following my week Ovi diary This is entry number three entry one was just like this entry is going to be every week that I injected I came on and talked a little bit about the previous week did the injection moved on? We go read diary number two was actually me talking to Erica Forsythe about the metaphorical empty feeling I had while on we go V and today we're back to the injection conversations. So while you're listening, please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan. If you're looking to save some money, here three quick ways betterhelp.com forward slash juice box saves you 10% On your first month of therapy, athletic greens.com forward slash juice box get you five free travel packs and a year's supply of vitamin D with your first purchase of ag one from athletic greens. That's a green drink that was so many people talk about. I drink it every day. And the offer code juice box at checkout will save you 35% At cosy earth.com This episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by me, Scott. I'm just here to remind you that if you're listening to this podcast, and you're not using an audio app or a podcast app like Apple podcasts, Spotify, Amazon music, so on and so forth. Please consider getting one on your phone, downloading the podcast, subscribing and following. It's absolutely free. And it's the best way to listen. I want to remind you too, that there is a Facebook group for the podcast 40,000 active users, and it's just amazing. Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes, even though that's the name I don't care what kind of diabetes you have. We welcome you doesn't matter how you eat, how you live, how you think how you feel. You got diabetes, you love someone with diabetes, you're welcome in the group Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes

Hey, everybody, good morning. It is May 9 Tuesday, time for my 123 my seventh injection of we go V still on the point five milligrams. dose the last week. Last week, I had not a lot of weight loss. And then a little bit over the weekend to 220 pounds 220 pounds where I'm at now. And I basically stayed at that weight all week to 20 in the morning to 20.2 next day to 20 next day to 20.4 this morning to 20. So how was my eating this week? Not bad. I increase the amount of food I took in. I added I had some bread this week, which I didn't do the week before. And I added more red meat and I didn't lose any weight. It didn't gain any weight. I mean, I lost a couple pounds but I mean there was no like big weight loss. But my weight is incredibly stable. I feel great. I don't have any problems. Little bit of reflux if I eat the wrong thing. Who What did that mean? Okay, two things. I was at an event where I spoke and I had a little cheese cake. I think I might have brought that up and the other one that didn't sit well. But this week, what I really had to focus on was not eating late at night and late at night man after 658 after six I'd have kind of like a reflux feeling. So that's it. All right, this is a let's see. Number seven. Alright, so here comes injection number seven. Sticking with the belly working well so far

all right, I'll see you next week. Hello everybody. I am back to do my eighth injection of weego V. This is the last point five milligram injection I move up to the one milligram next week. I lost Three pounds this week I'm to 17.2 this morning, and BMI continues to drop slowly. Body fat dropped pretty significantly over this week down to 31.4 from like 3332 My body water keeps increasing, which is good. And let's see what else is here. I am going to tell you what scale this is because I'm liking this skill. Fat free body weight is dropping down to 140 9.2 subcutaneous fat dropped from 28.7 to 27.1 this week, visceral fat down another point from 16 to 15. Let's see what else I got here. I don't know how it says protein but that's going up metal and my metabolic age went down to 57 I'm almost to my actual age Amy What is this thing called it is the

bread fo r e n p H O is the scale. My wife said it was like 40 bucks or something like that on the on the Amazon. Alright, so I'm going to do another injection in my stomach. And what was this week like? Still eating late at night will lead to like reflux. So I mean I'm down to like I try not to eat after like 6pm at this point. If I do certain things are okay, like I eat a I'm a small gram cracker the other day and it was like Kodiak. So it was all like protein thicker. First of all, it didn't taste great. But secondly, it just sat really heavy on my stomach. But I had like a rice cracker the next night, and that didn't bother me. So I think the density of the food later at night has something to do with it. My hunger is exactly the same. I don't really think about food. I have to remind myself to eat I eat on a schedule. Or you know, where I just won't think to eat. I'm not hydrating enough. I wish I was drinking more. I'm going to try to push myself to drink more all my supplements I have no trouble with vitamin D, zinc, digestive enzyme, things like that all are going in no trouble. Sit on my stomach very well. I injected like you heard in the previous recording, I was a little like steady my weight was kind of steady last week. But I injected the week over on Tuesday I woke up the next day like 1.2 pounds lighter. i Right now weigh this is the lowest I've weighed since 2018. So in five years, I would not say that my lifestyle. I mean, I guess if you want to make eating food, like part of your life, like meaning, like it's super important to you, like obviously, I haven't had pizza or anything like that in the last couple of months. But I would say my lifestyle hasn't changed at all, I've just adapted a little bit. I feel so much better. Having lost this wait. I'm super excited to see how I'm gonna feel, you know, 15 more pounds from now hopefully. So let's get this done. And then I'll let you get back to your lives. Here we go. I'm gonna just move the microphone towards my injection spot. Take off the cap. And here we go V

it's in baby. I'll be back next week with the one unit injection or the one milligram injection. I keep saying units because the diabetes you know that right? Say, Hey, it is May 23. And I am back to talk about my first one milligram injection of we go up before I do. Let me just open up the app that came with the scale, which is working very well I think and tell you that I have Yep. Took my weight the first time on 328 Bytes march right March 28. Today is May 23. And I have lost exactly I mean Exactly. To the ounce. 20 pounds. Crazy. So last week, like as you heard just a second ago. Not a lot happened. This week. I just you know stayed the course actually went to a graduation party had like a reasonable amount of food continued to lose weight this week added some exercise this week for the first time in the form of household chores. So I had a big project that I wanted to do outside was going to be many hours, probably by the time I got done 2025 hours of moving over three days, outside physical labor. I did that. And I just kept losing weight. So very cool. I also recorded an episode that is up already about the kind of hollow feeling I have, as I'm eating less and less and hollow meaning like, like a loss like I'm not like I don't have as much to do because I'm not cooking as much and shopping as much and all that stuff. If you want to hear that it's actually with Erica Forsythe. And it's episode 919 It's actually we go V diary two, this will be I think we go the diary three. Anyway, things are going great. I'm taking my supplements every day vitamin D, magnesium oxide, I take a probiotic, I take zinc, that all is just going along very well. Some mornings, I have a yogurt. Some mornings, many mornings, I have an egg with maybe like a piece of shrimp or two or piece of chicken a couple of ounces of chicken in a wrap. It's probably because of the wrap of 40 carbs. Middle of the day. Some days I've been having like a small sandwich salads you know, just it's not a lot of food. I don't know another way to put it. Again, I'm still not hungry at all. Don't think about food, although I did have the experience. After working outside all day, like I got up I had an egg wrap. I went outside, I worked all day I had grabbed a banana in the middle of the day because I felt a little like hungry, like not hungry. I felt tired. Like I was hungry. But I didn't have hunger. So I had a banana. And I got done in the evening. And I was wasted. And I was like I had that, um, it felt like like just released from prison hunger, you know, where I sat down, stared down and just ate. But I had like a can of like chicken soup with a few saltines in it. And I couldn't finish it. I was like, not I was ravenous, like head hungry. Not belly hungry, which I think I've explained well enough already. Like I knew I needed sustenance. Because I was just like, you know, zoning from all the work. But I ate ravenously like an animal, but then couldn't get it all in. Last night actually had a slice of thin crust pizza went in very well. And no heartburn. That's another thing I should bring up as times passing. I'm not having like I was having heartburn a couple of weeks ago. Remember after the cheesecake, that's not happening nearly as often or at all maybe this week. I'm gonna have to keep better track of that. I don't remember it being an issue this week. I think that's about it. I'm going to do the injection. We go v one milligram. All right. Here we go. You're ready. You're like yeah, I'm not injecting and I don't care stuff. Here we go.

All right. Well, I can't tell you I'm excited. This is the ninth injection I've done. Four point twos, four point fives now a one milligram and I so far could not be happier with this. The weight is still coming out of my midsection, my chest, my back. love handles belly. My arms and legs all look fairly similar. My face still hasn't thinned out much. Which is funny because everybody talks about like ozempic face and I don't I don't have that yet. Actually, I would like a little bit of it a little chubby and my face still hopefully some of that comes out. I have no idea where this is gonna go but 20 pounds in two months is a triumph. In my opinion. It has been easy, and it really has changed. Like my day. Like you know, I'm not as involved with food even though I wasn't before. And somebody asked me the other day about I said oh you could pick that up at Wawa. It's a convenience store around here. And I said I can't think of one thing in that store I could eat or want to eat and that's just not like you know we used to get sandwiches there like at baseball games and stuff like that and grab like chips and drinks and and now I think about that store. I couldn't there's nothing in there I want not a thing. It's amazing. Anyway, Novo Nordisk makes this stuff thank you Novo Nordisk, you should buy ads because I'm a fan. This next check in comes from the patio of a hotel that I was staying at. It's little noisy and will sound a little different, but at least I remember to do it. Alright everybody it is Tuesday, May 30. I'm about to take my one milligram we go V can you see that? Anyway, I'm in Georgia, we're getting ready to pick up art and after her freshman year of college has ended which will just be happening in a day or so. But it's time to take my we go v. And I thought I would tell you about it. Just like I have been so cap off. But it looks like if I can do this with one hand, probably can pick up my shirt

Okay, anyway, I don't know how much weight I've lost this week, because we left on this trip. Let's see, what did we leave for this trip? Thursday, Wednesday or Thursday, last week, it's Tuesday already really nice day here. We spent a few days with our son. And now we're here picking up Arden. And Canvas, might we go V, I can tell you that my hunger is exactly the same, which is to say none. eating at restaurants you just have to kind of be careful pick through the menu a little bit. I've ordered some things that I haven't been able to finish, obviously a big deal. Kelly and I have been splitting food instead of ordering our own. What else I appear to be losing weight, I feel terrific. That's about it. I guess. I'm gonna put this audio in with the diary that you'll be hearing on the podcast, probably in about a week or so. Hey, everybody, I'm back. It's June 6. I'm about to do my third injection of one milligram but I'm going to tell you some kind of exciting stuff first. So as you heard a minute ago, I left my house on a Wednesday and didn't return till the following Friday. So all day Wednesday in a car. Thursday we went to professional baseball game with my son saw the Braves in the Phillies play. I avoided ballpark food but I had some grapes. More importantly, Wednesday was travel time and a restaurant, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, all restaurant days. Now I was careful not to eat fried foods or anything fatty or weird or anything like that. I felt great the whole time. But I didn't really know what was happening with my weight. Because obviously I wasn't weighing myself was getting a little more exercise. But overall I felt good the entire time. I didn't have any trouble eating in restaurant had to be careful. Get a turkey sandwich here have half of it. little bowl of soup, stuff like that. Anyway, I got home and weighed myself on Saturday morning. And I was only up like a half a pound. I'm telling you that if I would have gone away like this without we go V I would have come back five pounds heavier. But instead, no real weight change. Now today's really my first day getting back into it kind of slowly drift back into life, went and saw a movie that spider verse movie is terrific, by the way, did some other things like that? Getting the house settled down getting Arden booth back in. But now I'm back on it now back on my regular schedule back on my regular eating habits. So we're gonna see what happens. But I did weigh myself this morning. And I weighed 213 Let's say yeah, 213.8 pounds. So that is officially only point four pounds heavier than my lowest weight so far. Back on 523, that's may 23. I was to 13.4. Since then I've got a couple of weigh ins to 14.6 to 14.8 to 14.2. And today to 13.8. Sorry, taking a drink. It's early here. That's a major success in my opinion. So I can't wait to see where this goes after this. But for now I've got to do my injection. one milligram of weego V still putting it in my belly. Still have a belly to put it in. But I'm actually I'll tell you this in a second. Let me inject this first. Here we go.

Okay, what do I want to tell you? I saw some graffiti while I was away. And it reminded me Hold on, I'm taking off the injection thing. There we go. I held it longer, I always hold it longer than I'm supposed to just to make sure. I saw some graffiti that reminded me of live from a recent afterdark episode, live with me. And I took a photo to send to her. But I jumped into the picture. And my wife took the picture. And I'm 100% being honest with you. It's the first photograph in maybe 15 years that I've seen myself in where I was comfortable with it. That was pretty much all I wanted to say about that was, it was a leading to look at the picture and think I would show this to people. And then after that I had the realization that I have at times not gotten in photos with my children and my family because of how they would look. And that was pretty heartbreaking. Anyway, okay, what happens now is I emailed the doctor to tell her that I've taken my third injection of one milligram, she starts the process of writing a new prescription for the step up, I don't actually remember what the step up from one is, but you'll find out soon, I have one more injection of one to go one milligram to go. And so you'll hear me again in just a second, a week from now, I hope you guys are having a great day, and you're enjoying the diaries. On the next installment, I'll go over all of the different measurements that the scale makes. So like, you know, water weight, etc. This role fat, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I mean, you're gonna hear it right now. So I probably didn't have to say, Hey, everybody, I'm back. It is June 13. And I am about to inject my last dose of one milligram of weego V. But first, let's see about the measurements. This was an interesting week, my doctor put me on an oral iron replacement, so that we're trying to keep my iron from falling again. But it was too much too significant was too severe. But it was too much constipated me just gonna come out and tell you that. So that kind of threw the whole week off here with B, go v a little bit wasn't losing weight, I realized the iron was having the impact. I stopped it add a little extra magnesium oxide to get things moving again. And then all of a sudden, I was like, I'm losing weight again, I'm gonna lose a couple pounds this week. But then I had a sandwich now. I think this illuminates food choices really. I had this feeling all day I got up in the morning I had a yogurt and an egg. And like a little rap. That's like I'm gonna go to the store today and get a turkey breast and I'm gonna bake it and then slice it up and make a small sandwich. But they got away from me and I was never able to do that. But I was still thinking about the sandwich. At the end of the day. I was hungry. It was time for dinner. And I went to a sub shop instead and bought a six inch turkey roast beef with a piece of cheese on a roll. And I woke up the next day, like almost a pound heavier. And I thought I mean, alright, it's a little bit of bread, but I've had bread on this diet before I've never put weight on. I think it's the salt in the deli meat. Actually think I'm retaining water from the salt, the deli meat. Anyway, the measurements. So we started this whole thing and by way, I guess I mean me and then me telling you about it. Let's see, march 28. I hate doing this on March 28. I weighed 233.4 pounds. Today, June 13. April, May June, not three months yet. Just about maybe another week. 213.2 pounds, so that's 20.2 pounds, but two days ago I was 211.6 So two 12.64. So I put like a pound and a half on with the sandwich and you know, I don't know whatever else not going to the bathroom regularly. That's just a little look into that. My BMI right now is 31.6 Wow, it started at 34.6 body fat 30.1 started at 35 This is interesting. My hydration continues to go up today. It was 50.4 I started 47% I still don't completely understand the connection between losing fat and hydration but maybe I'll figure Read up on skeletal muscle from 42 to 45.1. BMR 1856. It began at it's 1822. Now, my fat free body weight is 140 8.2. But it started at 150 1.8. Does that mean that without fat I'd weigh 142 pounds is what that means. subcutaneous fat began at 30 is 26. Now, visceral fat began at 17 is 14. Now, muscle mass is dropped a little, which you expect with dieting. with weight loss, excuse me started at 144 and is 140. So, bone mass 7.6 to 7.4. That's nominal. My protein is going up. I don't know how I don't know how the scale knows this. But 14.8 at the beginning 16 now and my metabolic age has dropped still just one year from 58 to 57. Which of course is concerning because next month, I'll be 52. But maybe that will keep going down. Alright, so those are the numbers. I'm gonna tell you a little something about hunger in a second. But first, let's, let's shoot this week. Ovie? Shall we, I just keep putting in my belly. And that seems to be fine, right? Yeah, what the hell that's working. I haven't said this in a while. Here we go V. Y is that point they make ads, you can have that for free. Here we go. He's genius. Here we go.

Okay, well, that was pretty easy. Just holding it in for an extra second or two. Because you know, I'm used to doing that with insulin and needles like to get it all out. And we're done. So I'm saving all the pens. I don't know why. There's a little box here at my desk. A hunger. Yesterday, had been obviously six days since I had my last shot if we go up. And I have to admit, I was able to eat a sandwich that I would not be able to eat earlier in the week. What else I want to talk about about food. Oh, when you get constipated, the slowdown throughout your entire system makes you feel made me feel a little more. I guess some people might call it nauseous. But just like your food's not going all the way down like it's got nowhere to go. So what I've noticed is, if you have that feeling, going to the bathroom can eliminate the feeling number two now number one. And you do have to be very careful about not eating too late in the day because I'll get acid reflux if my foods not digested before I go to sleep. So at this point now, in honesty, five or six o'clock in the afternoon is the last time I tried to have solid food or something that's going to sit in my stomach for a while because obviously the medication makes it stay there longer, slows digestion. Last thing I want to tell you is that I went to the doctor on Saturday, a little follow up for my week OB and she was just like, wow, you're great. She said I looked younger. That was nice. I was two people have told me this week for the first time that I look like I've lost weight. One person said did you change your hair? And I don't think they were being polite. And one person just looked at me from across the parking lot and yelled go skinny, what's going on? That was better. I enjoyed that. Thank you for that person. I am not skinny, by the way. But what I have figured out is that I don't think consciously, but I've lost 20 pounds now. And if you would have asked me before I started doing this, how much weight do you need to lose? I would have said 20 pounds. And now I see myself and I think oh boy that was either generous or a lie. Not sure which but I do think that you can slowly start to just accept things, even visually or how you feel. Maybe you make excuses for them along the way. But I definitely need to lose more than 20 pounds for my own health like forget how I look. I will tell you that I feel better My back feels better. My feet feel better, my knees feel better. Generally speaking, I have good energy. I think a lot of this has to do with the decrease in mass that I'm just carrying around all the time. Anyway, I hope you guys are enjoying this. I think I'm gonna button this one up and start a new one with the first injection of the next step up. So I'm gonna go now, but I'll put this up for you soon. Maybe this week even? Yeah, maybe I could do it on Thursday or Friday, at the very least on Monday. You don't care about this part. This is just me thinking about my schedule now. Thank you so much for listening. I'll be back very soon with another episode of The Juicebox Podcast. This week, we'll be WorkKeys they should call workI they should call it work Covey, or I don't know what they should call it. But it really is amazing. I'm telling you, like i Two days ago, well, I'm sorry. I know. I said I was done. Two days ago, I got up. I had a yogurt in the morning. I'm drink drinking. I mean eating coconut milk yogurt, which is really good. I did not expect that to be good. But it was it is. And then it was like, three in the afternoon. And I thought, oh my god, I haven't eaten today. But I had no indication of it physically. Now, on Saturday, we decided to go visit some family. So we jumped in the car, and we're going out the door and I was like, I gotta take a banana with me because I'm gonna get hungry while we're there. And I grabbed a banana went there. And it turned out my banana was too ripe. So when I started feeling like well, I should eat something and I was like, Oh, this thing's nasty. And I put it down and I just did what I normally would have done. I'm like all eat later. But like 20 minutes a half an hour later. I said to my brother in law, I'm like, I'm woozy. Like do you have a banana in your house? Interesting. Like I started getting like dizzy. Banana fix it obviously ate a little something else. I had like a handful of something. I forget what it was a hard pretzel or crack or something with a banana because I mean, I was at someone else's house. I was just grabbing out of their closet. Anyway, you got to remember to eat on this, which I I feel like I should keep bringing it up. All right now I'm really going see

well, there's no one to thank because I was the only one on the podcast. So anyway, thank me for coming on the podcast being so open and honest about my week. Ovie thing. Yeah, that's probably too much. Now it's too late to go back. Thank you so much for listening. Please remember about the private Facebook group. Please remember that you can save 35% off your entire order cozy earth.com with the offer code juice box at checkout that you can get 10% off your first month of therapy@betterhelp.com forward slash juicebox and of course you'll get five free travel packs in a year supply of vitamin D all for free with your first order of 81 from Athletic Greens when you use my link athletic greens.com forward slash juice box. I'll give you a little bonus for staying till the end. I am putting this all together recording these bumpers for you two days after I just recorded the last entry and I am back to my lowest weight ever. Tomorrow morning. With any luck. I'll see a new lower number one