#1085 Weight Loss Diary: Eight

December 13, 2023Scott Benner

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

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Hey everybody, welcome back. This is my eighth installment of my we go V diary. As you may know each week, Ovi diary is a few minutes of recording around my injections that are once weekly. I go over my weight what I've experienced that week, so on and so forth. A lot of people have been enjoying it so we're keeping going. I cry at one point and this one so I apologize. Anyway, 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 for community around anything, really type one diabetes type two. If you're using we go V or ozempic Check out my private Facebook group Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes 43,000 members. What a great collection of people I think you'll love it. If you're looking to save 40% off of your entire purchase at cozy earth.com just use my offer code juice box at checkout. That's for clothing, sheets, towels, everything they have 40% off, use the offer code juice box at checkout. I have recently had to buy myself some new clothing because my size went down and I got summit cozy earth this episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by touched by type one touched by type one.org. You want to see a great organization doing wonderful things for people with type one diabetes, follow touch by type one on Instagram, Facebook, and check out their website touched by type one.org. The podcast is also sponsored today by us med us med is where we get our diabetes supplies from and you can to us med.com/juice box or call 888-721-1514 Get your free benefits check and get started with us man. Hey everyone, it's November 7 election day. And it's time for me to shoot my we go V 2.4 milligrams. It's gonna be a pretty short episode, not episode but I don't know I'm already confused. Hold on. Somebody pointed out to me I drink water when I'm making the big O V diary. But you never hear me do it on the podcast. It's interesting. Listen, I want to talk a little bit about like long term view this morning. My weight is exactly the same as it was last week on this day. 196. Six, I think was the number. And I'm completely fine with that my wife's been sick. There's been a lot of comfort food around the house. And I think I maybe have learned that I don't have to be constantly losing weight to be doing the right thing. So I don't know how helpful that is if you're in a different part of this journey, but at the moment, I've been at this since March. And I ate pizza this week. Ice cream at some point, if I'm not mistaken. I had a chicken sandwich the other night that I don't think was good for me. And I didn't gain any weight. So we go V is magical. And I that now gives me an opportunity to reset myself or think differently or whatever. Step back maybe and see this as a much longer process. You know, in the past, if I was like trying to lose weight, I would have thought like, well, you know, in a month I'm gonna lose this much. And, you know, if I make a mistake or I slip up, I'll go backwards and then I gotta get right back to it. I don't have any of those thoughts anymore. Just I lived like a fairly normal human being this week. I didn't overeat or under eat. I had a couple of things that I don't think calorically were valuable for me. And I did not gain weight I didn't bloat I don't look different. My clothes still fit. And that's because of this. As we go V right here. That's what this pen is why that happened this week. So my opportunity here is to just sort of, you know, you guys listen to the last diary, a lot of traveling, some expected some unexpected over the last couple of weeks. I just I'm off my game. I'm not getting up in the morning and eating the right things I've you know, skip some of my supplements here and there. Last couple of weeks. It's just been bad. It's been not it hasn't been bad. It hasn't been optimal for my success. But now back and I'm settled. And I got through this week and my wife's feeling better. And I feel like Today's a new day, but I don't feel like I wasted time. I don't feel let down. I didn't go backwards. And I think looking back on again, other attempts to lose weight that going backwards, just takes all the I mean, you just lose your momentum, you lose your hope and you think it's never going to work. But instead, when we go V, I got to have an off couple of weeks, and I'm still in it. Like, I'm not just did it I'm doing great. So Let's inject it again and get moving and let and here's to having a long term outlook on things. And not not quite so I'm not quite so just short term and like, what do I have right now? Like, you know, that kind of a way we live now where everything's expected right away, like, now, like, I find myself in the thought process where if, if this whole thing takes two years, I don't think I could possibly care less because I've got, I've got some success to build off of, and it takes more time, it makes more time. Anyway, this might be off putting, because it's it's like getting cold here now. So I'm not in as much like stretchy material, like, I usually, like make the podcast and like sweatpants or shorts. But now I'm wearing pants and I have a belt on because like, you know, I lost all my button everything. So I need a belt. So you're gonna hear me undo my belt to do the weego be shot and I apologize for that advance. Because it seems like it's weird. But anyway, I was toying with the idea of not shooting it in my stomach. This time. I was thinking about doing it in my butt. Or just changing locations once just to see if that like there are people online who swear that does something it doesn't seem that doesn't seem scientific to me. But I thought maybe I'll just try it one time. So bear with me while I take off my pants and try to decide where else I can do this. Sorry. So I think I could probably do my thigh no problem, but like, is it gonna be like with insulin where you shoot it in your thigh and then the big muscle kind of my butt is? I could do my butt. I could do my butt. What a funny sentence. All right, hold on a second. i This is for you guys, because I would have this. If this wasn't being recorded, I would have just chickened out and put it in my stomach already, but I can alright. I've never done this before. That's interesting. I can reach it. And I can pinch it Yeah, I can. Alright, I'm gonna stick this week over in my ass. And don't you know what I mean? Don't be like that I'm nervous. Isn't that weird? Why am I nervous? Alright, let me get the meat get my ass near the microphone. This is the first two all right here we go. Oh my god. Why am I so nervous? Isn't this where everybody puts their shots

it's then I put the week over here my but it didn't hurt. You're all like Yeah, no kidding. Alright, I'm done. I might I usually hold it in for a minute to make sure it's all done so it's done. Put that right my ass like it was nothing took it like a champ, baby. Anyway, have a long term view. I think that's really important. That's one thing I've taken away from these months so far. really step back, look at things macro. Don't be in such a hurry. But don't ignore the fact that if you have a setback with weight loss, it can. That setback can snowball on you. And I think the weego V has helped me to keep that from being a snowball and stuff like this happens. Anyway, I'll see you next week. Sup kids. It is November 14. It has been seven days since I last spoke with you in my life. Gonna be a short one today. Doing a live event tonight and recording an episode and working so hard to get moving here. But if today's vignette had a name, I think it would be piston pleased. And I'll tell you why. Pull up the app here. I lost weight. But I lost more weight in the first four days and then gained some of it back in the last couple. My wife and I have been going to lunch on Saturdays now that our kids aren't home. We've been like having like a standing lunch date. I wanted chicken wings. And I picked this place. That I guess it was just like, again, like over salted or something. This is I'm now noticing this as a behavioral issue, but 190 6.6 That's what I weighed on the seventh of November 190 6.6 The next day On the eighth, I was 195. Eight. The next day on the ninth 194, eight, and I thought to myself, this injecting the weego V in my butt. Is this having an impact? Who knows? like, Nah, but then the next day, Nov 10 190 4.2. That was my, I just like that's my lowest weight ever. That's the lowest weight I've hit since I've been doing this. One more day goes by 193 Eight. I was like this is it gonna be 150 pounds before would like six more weeks? Yeah, then we went for the wings. And I woke up the next day. 195 Six. That was let's call that upsetting. And today 196 even. So I guess I lost point six pounds this week, which is terrific. But I was 190 3.8 at some point. That's like literally three pounds less than I am today. And I honestly think it was that one food choice. Shrimp and chicken from a bar that just probably had it and over salted food and stuff. I didn't need any carbs when I was there. I don't think I may have had like, honestly for French fries. And a little piece of bread. But that was it. He was just all that sodium and it just hoof anyway sorry if it's loud my neighbor's a lovely person but he he picks up his leaves every three days in the fall. It's not something I completely understand it. Anyway. Piston pleased I'm pleased I lost weight. I'm pissed that apparently I lost 3.6 pounds and put three back on. But I'm just gonna go forward this week with the idea that that isn't going to happen. And just do it again and see what happens. Right? So got my week over here. 2.5 milligrams. And I'm just gonna say it let's put it in my ass again. Right because that seemed like it might work. Can you hear that? Unbelievable.

I gotta record in like 10 minutes just hear it shut off. It's like the fucking jet engine. It's crazy. Sucks those leaves up like, like that. Damn, when he's done. It looks like he doesn't listen to us. Yo, man if you're listening to this What's up? I love you. I'm just talking about the thing I get its podcast get talking about stuff. When he's done his grass looks greener. Like he painted it green. There's not a stitch of dirt or leaf or stick on it. The thing it works amazing. It's just really loud. Anyway, we go V 2.4 By the way, for those you not listening, the men Jarno people is that Lilly, I don't know. They they put their drug in for weight loss and it got it through the FDA. I don't know what they're calling it but majorna is gonna be available under a different name for weight loss like we go V is available for weight loss, but really is just those Empik at different doses. Alright, let me expose my buttocks found it. It's right where I left it. I can't reach it. Is it going away? What the hell? I like do that. How do you people do this with insulin? I gotta pinch. You gotta pinch I gotta pinch here it goes

so after a hold on, I'll be back in a second. Pull up my pants. Sorry. Something I bet you thought you never hear on a podcast. After the three pounds in the middle of the week. My wife's like what do you do or if differently? I said I put the widow via my ass. So the other day we put it my wife's ass. Everybody who has diabetes has diabetes supplies, but not everybody gets them from us med the way we do us med.com forward slash juice box or call 888721151 for us med is the number one distributor for FreeStyle Libre systems nationwide. They are the number one specialty distributor for Omni pod dash. The number one fastest growing tandem distributor nationwide, and they always provide 90 days worth of supplies and fast and free shipping. That's right us med carries everything from insulin pumps to diabetes testing stuff lies right up to your latest CGM, like the FreeStyle Libre two, n three, and the Dexcom, G six and seven. They even have Omni pod dash and Omni pod five, they have an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau, and you can reach them at 888-721-1514. Or by going to my link us med.com forward slash juicebox. When you contact them, you get your free benefits check. And then if they take your insurance, you're often going and US med takes over 800 private insurers and Medicare nationwide. better service and better care is what US med wants to provide for you. Us med.com forward slash juicebox get your diabetes supplies the same way Arden does from us med links in the show notes links at juicebox podcast.com. To us Med and all the sponsors, when you use my links, you're supporting the show. Hey, everybody, it's November 21. And pretty much the way it's been going is the way it's going. I pulled up my weight here. But basically, I'm losing a little more weight in the first few days of the week. And then putting it back towards the end, and then ending about a half a pound lighter. So seems kind of par for the course at this point, as you know, is 196 on the 14th. On the 16th I was 195 on the 18th If I was 194 Eight, but by the time I got to this one, the first 195 Six, which is cool. It's still, let's see, point for about a half a pound loss. I'll take that. And overall 37.8 pounds. Pretty great. I've been to 41 time, but like I said, I think I was dehydrated for that. So no big deal. Thanksgiving is in a couple of days. So pretty wicked. We'll see how that goes. I don't think it's going to be impactful on my weight one way or the other. Honestly, I you know, I'm not going to eat a ton of food. So I don't see that as being an issue. What else did I want to tell you about Oh my My wife talked about. My wife talked about this thing. She's online. She's online, that's not English. She's in a group online, where people are using we go v. And this person described that they had been on we go away for a couple of years, I guess they lost all the weight they meant to lose, doing great maintaining Well, everything's going fine. And then one day, like zip their insurance just doesn't cover it anymore. But the person said, doesn't matter. I'm down to my weight, like, right, I look terrific. I feel terrific. I'm just gonna keep doing the things I'm doing. I'm gonna eat the same way I'm gonna exercise same way I'm gonna do all the same things. And the person said that they did that they didn't change anything about their intake or their activity or anything else about their life. They just stopped taking the week OB because their insurance took it away. And they gained their way back. Just gradually started to come back. And then right back to where it was. So if there's not such a thing as a GLP deficiency, I don't know. I don't know what it is. Anyway, there's been a couple of announcements of other companies bringing stuff to market this week. I'm excited about that. i There's part of me that thinks that this 2.4 week Ovie maybe it's not quite enough for me, because you know, the first four days of the week, I'm losing weight, and then it kind of dies off. So something's not working exactly right. I'm going to talk to my doctor about it and see if we can't figure it out. Anyway, short one today, I got to go buy a turkey. Actually, I bought the turkey just gotta go pick it up. Should I stick this in my butt again, on my belly or actually, I don't want to pull my pants off. So I'm gonna do my belly this time. If I don't lose a half a pound next week, I'm going to be like, Hey, what the hell I still have some belly here. Ready

Okay, a lot of great feedback about the weego V stuff recently online. I appreciate that very much. And hold on. Toss that right in the trash can. That was 2.4 As I've been taking for quite some time now and have some things I want to talk about bigger ideas about weight loss, but I'm gonna hold them until after the holiday. So I mean for you. It'll be just a second from now but for me, it'll be a week. All right, guys. Got my headphones on here. What's up everybody? November 28. Scott has learned a lot. I'm going to share it with you. It's my we go We plan to get my app out. So it was Thanksgiving last week, and I decided to do a little experiment. Here's how it went. On Thanksgiving Day was the Thanksgiving Day. The 20. Now, excuse me on the 21st. I was with you last. That was Tuesday. Today's 28th Yes, Thanksgiving was the 23rd. So last time I was with you on Tuesday, I weighed 190 5.6. On Thanksgiving morning, I was 190 5.4. Now, I purposefully did not weigh myself again until yesterday. I just was like, I'm just going to do Thanksgiving, and I'm going to see what happens. Well, let me tell you what happened. I'm going to try to paint a quick picture about food for you. I do all cooking here. I made handmade stuffing. The day or so before Thanksgiving. I made four pies, pumpkin and apple. I made chocolate chip cookies. That's what I pre cooked. On the day. I put a turkey in the oven and I put a turkey a turkey on the smoker. We had people over I made like two different kinds of Turkey because you know, I was just showing off. But like she just wanted to try smoking in Turkey both worked out really well. They were terrific. Mashed potatoes, the stuffing that I already talked about that I made myself. I saw applesauce, some green beans. There were sweet potatoes, some vegetables, maybe carrots if I'm remembering correctly. But when I sat down I just took turkey stuffing mashed potatoes a tiny bit of gravy. I don't think I had anything else. I ate the food. It was not a lot in comparison to what I would have eaten the Thanksgiving before it was less. I had a slice of pie later in the night. I do think I had a cookie. The next day we got up we actually went to lunch. We went to a diner where I had some for some reason I can't explain more turkey. A slice of bread handful of French fries. We stopped at a bakery because we were having people over my wife grabbed a pancake, a small pancake and some cookies. At some point over the weekend I had a slice of that pancake to have those sugar cookies. And over the weekend, somebody brought pizza I had two slices of pizza. Because there's a lot of eating especially for having been on recovery for a while. But in my mind, like in the in the memory of the person I used to be. I didn't think I was eating like insanely I was eating more than I would normally Sunday. Gosh, I had leftover turkey, Thanksgiving stuff like turkey mashed potatoes, stuffing and a slice of pie. And I had some ice cream. That is I've just told you there was candy in the candy dish to like so assume at some point there was a handful of gummy bears spread out over a weekend. So that's what I've eaten from Thanksgiving morning until Sunday. I woke up on Monday and weighed myself. Not today. Yesterday. I woke up yesterday. I was 4.2 pounds heavier than I was on Thanksgiving morning. That food I just described to you. Not only it was food that I don't normally eat anymore, but it slowed down my digestion. My elimination almost completely shut off. I'm not I wasn't using the bathroom correctly over the weekend. I wasn't even expelling water waste correctly. Like the way I don't I wasn't I wasn't even paying the way I usually do. Just eating that food over four days through my body into turmoil and added for I think it was like 4.2 or 4.4 pounds to me. That's insane. But then I weighed myself Monday yesterday. Got up had my coconut milk yogurt had two eggs. I had some chicken for dinner. actually still think I had a scoop of leftover ice cream last night. I did. But I woke up today 190 7.4 I lost two pounds in 24 hours by not eating the things that I made for Thanksgiving. That's all I did. I just went back to how I had been eating in the past. I dropped two of those pounds in 24 hours. So this morning, I'm 190 7.4 which is literally two pounds heavier than I was the last time I talked to you. Not quite two pounds. 2.9 A little less than two pounds and I was last week 190 5.6 Last week 190 7.4 Now, next week, I'll be eating normally again, I don't know where I'll be. But the takeaway from this week is it's Thanksgiving, everybody eats stuff Saying blah, blah, blah. What if I wasn't on weego? V? What if I would have eaten more? Like what? I've been six pounds heavier in four days? Would I have not weighed myself yesterday and continued eating the stuffing and the leftovers for a few more days? Would I have put 10 pounds on and a week from Thanksgiving? I'm going, maybe that's why I'm saying to myself, maybe I would have instead, because I'm weighing myself tracking my weight taking care of these things. I'm right back to it. The weights going to come off. I might end up losing weight by next week. Based on losing weight from two weeks ago, by next week. I have no idea. But all I can tell you is I looked down and my stomach was starting to stick out again. Like I was bloated. I was like What in the hell is happening? And that saying came to me that I've heard people say so many times. Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. That's what I learned this week at Thanksgiving. I don't give a I don't care. I almost cursed. Next year on Thanksgiving. I'm having a goddamn yogurt, no. Egg and that's that. Let's shoot this we go V 2.4 milligrams. I seriously, I felt bad about myself. Yesterday, I got on that scale. And I was like, What did I do to myself? Like, like, before I shoot the week OB What did i What did I lost? But what first of all, let's try to use English while I'm talking what had I lost in total. So I was like, down like 3839 pounds. I put four almost five pounds back on that rough math 13% of the weight I lost. I gained over four days, because of Thanksgiving. And I think probably a little bit being on the tail end of my weego via injection, but that's neither here nor there. All that hard work. March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and in four days, I put 13% of my weight back on. If I stay on this path for another week, I do I put 25% of my weight back on in two weeks. We're not going to find out first of all, but I was blown away by that. I just the food has more impact on you then you think that's all I'm gonna say? And you make whatever decision you want. But things that you write off in your head is Oh, it's a holiday or it's Thanksgiving. It's my brother's birthday. How am I going to skip it? It's Thanksgiving. I can't but Baba, you know how you can 13% That's how we go. He's going in. I'm going downstairs and I'm gonna freakin egg. Scott getting thin. I ain't doing this anymore. Where am I going to put this govi today? I get I got more belly to put it in. I can tell you that much. Was fun when I shot it my butt earlier. But I'm not gonna do it. I think I only like saying it. I just thought you guys would think it was funny. I don't know that I care about where it's at. I'm going right here

part of me thinks I need a little more like I need a bigger dose. But I'm capped out at the top of what we go View offers. So for now, I guess this is the game. Anyway. I really appreciate you guys. Thanks so much. I hope you had a Thanksgiving that was happy. We did had family around was wonderful. Both my kids were here. I can't say enough good things about what happened other than the part where I gained almost five pounds. But I do appreciate the lesson that came with it. I'll see you guys next week. Well, the Thanksgiving massacre is over. I have defeated it. I am back. Let me tell you where to right where I started. But that's okay. So today is December 5, and I weighed 195.8 pounds this morning. Going back to let's see. Today's December 5 Was that make it the 28th was last time right. So the 28th I was you know you heard though the last recording a second ago. 190 7.4. Today 190 5.8. Back on the 21st I was not 190 5.6. So I'm back in the game. I gained five pounds and lost it in the last What 14 days. Cool. More importantly, and this is what this little bit is going to be about. I went clothes, shopping, clothes, shopping, clothes shopping when I say clothes shopping when I buy one thing. I went sock shopping I got one I'm going back next week to get the other one. I went clothes shopping this weekend, not a big purchase just a few items. And my wife and my daughter went with me and I'm just going to share something here with you. I was a fat kid. I don't think I haven't been fat since I was a kid. For four years old, that's the last time my body didn't look like it was carrying weight that it shouldn't be. I have memories of some of my school photos, like burned into my head. My head was so big and round at times. And even though growing up, I felt like people really liked my personality. I never felt like they were completely comfortable with me. And I have no idea if that was real, or if that was how I felt, or if that's how I felt about myself. And I was projecting on those other people, etc, etc. So on and so forth. I put a lot of effort, a ton of effort into exercise in my very late teens and early 20s. And I got down to I don't remember the number honestly. But I remember looking good in a suit when I was like 22. But I don't know what that meant. I've always had a belly and never been particularly like toned. But I was toned. At that point, I was going to the gym constantly and doing cardio and lifting weights and is the best I've ever looked. But looking back, I still had a belly I don't know if I've ever said this on here. But you know what? I don't want to curse because I don't send this one to the editor and I don't want to have to go through it. But what the what the hell, I'll just tell you. I don't have a classic belly like you think of a man's gut. Like a beer belly. That sort of goes like, like a turtle shell. Does that make sense to you? It'd be me it does. I have a belly that hangs at the edge. Like I just gave birth three weeks ago. That's what my stomach looks like. And I hate going clothes shopping. My whole life that

is used to pick fights with my mom when she tried to buy me clothes because I didn't want to put them on and want to look at myself and be disappointed and want to feel fat hated going clothes shopping

but um but this weekend, my daughter wanted to go out and look for clothes for herself. And and instead we looked for me. And it was hard at the beginning because all of those feelings from my whole life came to me and, but I knew I was I knew I lost weight. And I have looked in the mirror a number of times and thought that looked good. So I was excited to get more clothing and thing you do when you're heavy like you buy clothes that are bigger to hide yourself. Because you don't I mean for me like I don't even want to feel the clothing grab you. Because it I don't know how to explain it but it reminds you of where you're you know puffier than you want to be. And, but I don't feel like that anymore. Like now I'm okay that my shirt fits me even though I'm not like I don't know I'm not perfect, but I don't have that horrible feeling. I'm sorry, hold on a second, I apologize. I apologize. Don't mind that my shirt fits tighter now and honestly I look better even though I'm not perfect. I look better in fitting clothing than I realized I look in hanging clothing or stuff that bunches are kind of curtains or something. So I wanted to go get a few new shirts. My daughter's you know, in her second year of fashion school and she wants to make clothing for people and she started handing me things. I was like I'd never would wear this as a matter of fact that I don't like to get away from dark colors because they kind of cover you know visual contours and stuff like that. And I may have had this idea in my head that I don't look good and like colors, bright colors. I'm not okay in like that kind of stuff. But anyway, she handed me this shirt, and I was like oh art I'm not going to look good in that. And she's like, No, try it on, I think you will. So I put it on and I just decided to trust her. And I was like, Okay, I'll buy this one. And I have to be honest with you, I don't know. I don't know how I look at it. But then we kept going. And then I said to her, I want to get, I want to do a little more layering, you know, I want to put some things over things, which is not something I would have done in the past. And she's like, okay, we can get you like a like this and a jacket. And like, she's like, you could put this over that. Anyway, by the time it was over. I didn't hate being there. As matter of fact, I enjoyed it. I had a great time. And I wasn't angry while I was there, or sad. And I was really grateful I thanked my wife and my daughter a bunch of times for coming with me. I wouldn't have known how to pick out some of the clothes she picked out. I never would have picked some of it up off the rack and ends up looking amazing. You know, that's her skill, but I would have never been able to do that on my own. Anyway, I am very regretful that I didn't have this experience

I'm regretful that I didn't have this experience while my mom was alive. So she could have experienced that me and not the one who was yelling at her for no reason. Anyway, I would not have been able to do this without GLP medication and if anyone out there doesn't like it or do you think I'm cheating yourself

I'm gonna put this one out now. Next one will come in a few weeks

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