#1276 Weight Loss Diary: Thirteen

August 11, 2024Scott Benner

Thirteenth installment of my GLP journey

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Hello friends. Welcome to Episode 1276 of the juicebox podcast.

This is the 13th installment of my weight loss series. I hope you guys are enjoying it. I'm losing weight, doing good, feeling healthy. This has been the story. Please don't forget 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 or becoming bold with insulin. I was looking for a way that we could all get nice and tan and meet each other and spend some time talking about diabetes. How are we going to do that on a juice cruise. Juice cruise 2025 departs Galveston, Texas on Monday, June 23 2025 it's a five night trip through the Western Caribbean, visiting, of course, Galveston, Costa, Maya and coz Mel, I'm going to be there. Erica is going to be there, and we're working on some other special guests. Now. Why do we need to be there? Because during the days at sea, we're going to be holding conferences, you can get involved in these talks around type one diabetes, and they're going to be Q and A's plenty of time for everyone to get to talk, ask their questions and get their questions answered. So if you're looking for a nice adult or family vacation, you want to meet your favorite podcast host, but you can't figure out where Jason Bateman lives, so you'll settle for me. If you want to talk about diabetes, or you know what, maybe you want to meet some people living with type one, or just get a tan with a bunch of cool people. You can do that on juice cruise 2025. Space is limited. Head now to juicebox podcast.com and click on that banner, you can find out all about the different cabins that are available to you. And register today. Links the show notes. Links at juicebox podcast.com I hope to see you on board. Well, it's June 8. I did not lose weight like I was hoping to at the end of the 12th episode of my weight loss extravaganza. I gained but only a little bit, choosing to look at this as the 10 milligrams working. Because if we go back to the 26th of May, I was one 90.2 then, you know, I had the drop, and I ended back on the first that last recording, 180 4.6 today, I was 180 5.6 so I gained a pound over the week, 180 4.6 went to 180 581 80 621 86 four. Now this was great, not great, but because on the sixth, which is just two days ago, so on Wednesday or Thursday of this week, I was 180 581 80 581 80 you know. So I lost weight at the end of the week, which is not common. So yes, I rose Tuesday, and it held but then I came back down again. My hunger this week has been fine, no problems. Sorry, if you can hear that cricket in the background, oh, my god, shut up. My hunger this week has been fine. I have not been overly hungry. Have not done much snacking at all, healthy food. Maybe it didn't eat quite enough this week, but still playing with my supplements that I again, I'm sorry I'm not ready to tell you about yet for like stomach stuff, like trying to get my stomach under control, working on my gut health a little bit so hunger is not bad. No cravings for sugar went up in the beginning of the week, but came back down. Just didn't come all the way back down. I feel pretty good about this week. Doctor still says to me when I tell her, she's like, Oh, try the 10 for like, another month, but we might go to the 12, so I don't know. I got my belly out here. Give this a shot and give it a go and see where we get to next week. 10 milligrams of Zep bound cap comes off, lock comes off step bound goes in. Where am I looking for? It's a nice spot right here. How's this look? I like it. Hold on.

Ooh. I pinched a little bit, no blood, though, no wetness, no leaking. Very good can. I hit the trash can. I've moved the trash can. There's no way I'm gonna hit it. Missed it by at least eight inches. I'm trying, kids, it's a long fight, but let's keep in mind. Find that, as I'm sitting here kind of bemoaning a pound this way or a pound that way. Let us keep in mind, I have lost 47.8 pounds since I started this, and I feel terrific. Get these other like kind of gut issues in line, maybe get the medication to the right spot. Lose this last 20 pounds if I can. I don't think. I don't know if it's 20 actually, honestly, I don't know how much it is, if it's 20 pounds left or what, but we'll find out, uh, I'll talk to you later. Bye, it's uh, Saturday, June 15, and I've gained two pounds again by having salt. Okay, I tried to have air fried wings. They were just in hot sauce. I'm like, Jesus, what? Like, I didn't even use a dry rub this time. Then I looked, you know, hot sauce has 400 grams of sodium in a tablespoon. Well, I didn't know that either. Now I do, and now I'm two pounds heavier, and I've made the decision, I am going to exercise this week with intention, because this medication, I mean, 10 if I'm just going to lose weight on just the Med, I gotta think this, 10 milligrams would do it, you know? I mean, I can ask the doctor to go to 12 in a couple weeks, and I probably will. But I mean, obviously something else has to happen here. So I think the the era of GLP being the only reason I lose weight is over. So if this recording doesn't pop back on in seven days with me telling you that I lost weight and I exercised, I mean, I don't know what you can I don't know I'll be disappointed in myself, but I'm going to shoot this real quick and start having a thought, and I might finish the thought up next week. But hold on, cap off. Cap on. Cap off. That capper. Lock off. Definitely not doing the same side of my belly, as I did last time, because it doesn't fight salt. I'm just kidding. I hope you can hear sarcasm. Here we go. God damn, I said, God damn, that stung a little bit. Whoo, a little drop of blood that time. Drip, drop. Whoa, okay. Uh, anyway, time, I want to talk about time for a second. I've had this experience. I've talked about it with other people, my brother who I have, a brother who's lost like 90 pounds this year, 9080 and a lot of weight this year, just dieting, exercise, no medication, no help. He has the same exact experience I'm having, and I want you to be ready for it. If you should start using a GLP specifically, or, I guess maybe not even specifically, if you start changing how you eat, you end up with more time, more time because you're not cooking sometimes as elaborate meals, bigger, bigger meals, you're not eating as much. You have more time. And you think, Oh, that's great. I have more time, but wait till you don't know how to fill it. And not that you don't have great ideas or things you want to do. There are things I want to do, but I was so accustomed to living a 24 hour day the way I was, that when there is suddenly appreciable chunks of time given back to you, you realize you don't have a plan for it, and if you're not careful, I found that it could feel lonely or lost like in an abyss, but I've I identified it and picked something that, if I ever feel like that, I'll go do. And anyway, it's been a it's a blessing now that I know how to handle it, but in the beginning, it was confusing and off putting, and I wasn't really aware of the like. I had this like, dizzying feeling, and I didn't know what it was, until I realized I have so much free time and nothing to do that I feel lost anyway. I don't feel like that anymore, but I want you to be ready for it. You can. This is not specific to me. I, like I said, I've heard, heard heard from a number of people who have felt this way, and had one very personal conversation with my youngest brother who identified the same thing. So be ready to have extra time. Less weight, more time. Okay, kids, been a week. June, 20. My second Saturday. Let's go over what happened. I did get some exercise, not exactly the way I was expecting to, but got some muscle training, some cardio. Spent a lot of time in the heat, moving and sweating. What did that bring us? Well, let's take a look. It brought us back. Let me look at it this way. On the 15th, it was 187 pounds. It's the day I recorded right 187 the next day, on the 16th, I gave myself a little break and didn't weigh myself. Sorry, rubbing the microphone. That's very unprofessional. Sorry about that. On the 17th, 180 6.8 a point two reduction. Now the next day, that's going to be the 19th, after a big burst of exercise. 180 5.6 Whoa. Crazy, right? 180 5.6 actually held for the 20th and the 21st I did get some more exercise yesterday and today, I woke up at 185.2 pounds. So am I down? I'm down two pounds since the 14th, almost two pounds since the 15th. Nearest I can tell, exercise was the difference. What do you know? We'll try it again. The thing with the extra time, I really hope you took that to heart. I want to tell you that, um, people shouldn't text me while I'm making a podcast. Hold on a second. My neighbor wants me to grab a package for them. Oh, my God, this is fantastic. Sent me a text 730 this morning on a Saturday. I was sleeping, by the way, telling me they might need me to get a package. I responded at 820 and just five hours later, she let me she said, Thank you. While I'm recording a podcast, it's okay. Everything's fine. Got my 10 Millies of zepbound Here I am going to boy, I don't want to waste a month, but I don't want to go back to the doctor and ask for the 12 just yet. So I'm gonna ride 10, get my refill with 10. I think this is my third injection of 10. You guys would probably know better than me. But anyway, what was I gonna say? Oh, yeah, so sorry. We we lost the pet this week, our oldest indie. And I feel weird that last week I was talking about how there's so much time and I don't know what to do with my time. And today, all I can kind of think about is, you know, days go slow, years go fast. Kind of stuck in my head. Days go slow, years go fast. Don't waste time anyway. Not going to waste any time. I'm going to shoot this up bound and in honor of my daughter, who does not love injections and sometimes can struggle with hers, I'm going to put this one in my butt cheek, because I'm always telling her, try different places. And she's like, No. And then I realized I come up here every week and I shoot this in like, the same location over and over again. So, all right, don't I mean, I gotta, I don't know what I'm gonna do. Hold on a second. Let me stand up a second. This is not going to be particularly easy. Hold on. Very little, but she care to work with that's not a flex.

Why'd I do this? Okay, hold on a second. Cap off. Throw it at the trash can. Ooh. It went in fancy unlock. Okay, hold on. Let me turn the microphone towards my but, you know, hold on. Don't let me forget to say something in a second. All right, I've given myself a bit of a wedge. Hold on. A second. What the AHA. Why did I say I would do this? All right, pinch ready. All right, that wasn't.

All right, there you go. Tell your friends I take an ass. Do you know, by the way, I shouldn't have said that. Somebody's gonna pull that out. Was I gonna say, oh, ass? I put a Facebook post up the other day. I used the word ass in it, and the ladies like, I love you, but I have to unfollow. I mean to her, I love you too, but I. You know what? I mean, tighten up. Hey, I decided to do like a little experiment. So as you've been hearing like, add a little light exercise, lost some extra weight. I was like, Okay. I mean, not that we all don't know that exercise helps you lose weight. But I was like, okay, you know, how do I put this? First of all, it's June 30, Sunday. How do I I know, we all know exercise can help you lose weight. I've been on this weird journey where you just inject this thing, and then you lose weight, and you get to the point where you're like, well, when, when does this stuff just maintenance? Like, like, when is it not going to be aiding in the loss anymore, just holding me where I am? I have to kind of understand what this, the juice in this thing does exactly, you know? And I mean, look, it's easy to understand what it does technically, but like, what's what am I really saying? Here's my point. So this week, things were going well. I was like, in the 185 like, low 185 let me pull up a thing. I'll tell you the numbers. But I was happy all week. I was like, This is going well, but I wanted to stretch out my I wanted to stretch out when my next injection was happening, because I had this idea for an experiment. Which I'll tell you about in a second. But if we basically go back a week ago, sorry, I just sniffed into the microphone. That was ridiculous. I'm so sorry. Like, let's just go back to the 22nd right? Was last Saturday, and I'm 180 5.2 then Sunday, 186 but then Tuesday, 180 5.2 then Wednesday, 185 even Thursday, 180 5.2 and I'm like, Alright, I know this is Thursday. I know that the magic Z upbound juice is going to start to wear off a little bit and I'm going to drift up. I just know it. But I've got these two extra pens from when I went up in dose before. So I have these pens with much like, a very low dose in it, and then I have these the 10 mill elite, or milligram pens that I'm on right now, 10 milligram pens I'm on right now, but I've got like, a seven and a half and I'm like, is there a way I can, like, I've got these two seven and a half pens left. Can I stagger this? Because obviously I'm shooting this stuff Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Okay, I'm not like, losing a ton of weight. I'm just, like, pretty much maintaining and I'm eating and none of the impacts that food normally has on me, like this. Like, you know, weight loss out of or weight gain just from being alive. It doesn't happen to me on the zip down. So the zbo is doing that, but I'm not really going backwards. Like, you know, the doctor's like, well, we could go to 12. I'm like, All right. Well, you know, let me wait and see. I don't care about moving up another, another two milligrams, if that's going to do something, but isn't it just going to piss out? You know, five days, four or five days into it. I wonder if, just as an experiment, because of these two extra pens, seven and a half pens, why don't I shoot the 10 this weekend, on Sunday, I think, instead of Saturday. And then as soon as the fifth day comes around, Friday, Thursday night, Friday, I'm gonna hit myself with the seven and a half pen two days early, but it feels like it's not there the last two days anyway. Plus it'll cover me over the weekend, right? And then I'll wait till I see it wane again five days. And then I'm gonna go 10, then I'll wait to see it. Wait. So anyway, I've got these two extra pens. I think I'm gonna try this for two weeks. I have this big idea, but I want to move it to Sunday, because I want the Monday. I want the the new injection to happen like Friday morning, the fifth day. Well, hell. I mean, Jesus Christ on a cracker. So on the 27th on 180 5.2 on the 28th I'm 180 6.4 and I'm like, Okay, it's not working. Sorry. You know, I go to my what would normally be my weigh in day, which should have been yesterday, the 29th Well, God damn, I wake up 180 6.8 I'm like, All right, not bad. It's hanging in the 186 range. Now, last night, we watch a UFC fight. I am hand to God. It's like 1130 these guys are beating that holy hell out of each other on Pay Per View. And there's these pretzels and Doritos there. And I take a handful of pretzels and Doritos and eat them, and wake up this morning. I am not kidding you, 188.2 pounds. I got up this morning, went for my constitutional, felt very cleared out, if you know what I mean, and then got on a scale to find out I was 180 8.2 versus the day before, 180 6.8 versus a week ago, 185 Five. So one, I've gained 3.2 pounds since my best weight this week off of a handful of almost cursed potato chips and pretzels in the middle of the night, basically while watching this thing. So the juice in the pen. And this is not technical, because I don't know what I'm talking about, but it's got to have something to it's got to be blocking the impact of the food too. Because I've had a handful of pretzels while I was on set bound and not gained any weight. As a matter of fact, this week, I did very well in the 185 range, as you heard, 185 maybe 186 I mean, I had a frozen yogurt this week. I had pizza earlier in the week. Like, I've eaten food, but I haven't gained any weight. I haven't waken up and woken up in the morning, been like, oh my goodness, I've gained two pounds. But Saturday to Saturday, seven days, then on the basically, on the seventh day, instead of injecting, I didn't inject, so that the magic goo is gone at that point. And I listen to me, a person shouldn't gain two pounds from having hard pretzels and 17 Doritos. Now, is it good for me? No, but it shouldn't have that kind of impact. So anyway, this week is experiment that I'm going to just tell you right now. I'm not a doctor. This is not advice. I wouldn't do this if I was you. I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to me, but and gets what I'm going to try and I put in my butt cheek last time, it didn't help at all. I wanted, I wanted a bonus for the butt cheek thing. All right, people, 10 milligrams is up down, uncap it. Put the cap down, unlock it, find my belly, which is a pound and a half bigger than it was yesterday. Here looks like a good place. There's this little I don't want to hit that looks like a vein. Gonna go around that there. Here you go. Ready? I'm all right, I'm Zep down and up a couple of pounds, but instead of you hearing me seven days from now, the next time I come back, it's gonna be Thursday night or Friday morning, I think, I think also the trash can is really close, so wasn't gonna be hard to hit. So anyway, well, it ended up being Friday morning. It's actually more like Friday afternoon. It's a little bit after lunch, but it is Friday, July 5, and wait till I tell you what happened this week. This is something watch this opening up my magic app for the scale, renfo scale, by the way. So as you know, I'm I was on here on the 30th. On here, I sound 100 years old. My programs I recorded on the 30th. It was Sunday. I was 188.2 pounds. Now I didn't weigh myself again till the first 180 8.2 still. Now I was very careful about eating this week. And no, that's not true, careful in the way you're Let me explain. I went back to eating not quite as many calories, but I was not careful about what I ate. Meaning, I had a bowl of cereal this week. I mean, I still had, like, eggs and steak and stuff with wraps and everything, but like, once or twice I had food where I was like, Oh, what is this? I had like, a couple scoops of ice cream one night. So not, like, careful that way, but I was careful about my calories overall. Anyway, 187 on the second, then on the third, 180 5.8 on the Fourth of July. 185 and this morning, I weigh 183.8 pounds. Now, letter of the law every seven days, I shouldn't inject again until Sunday. But like I told you, I am going, I just I've been doing some reading, more reading on half life.

The half life of Zep bound is approximately five days. This means that it takes about five days for half of the dose to be eliminated from the body. Given this half life, it generally takes around 30 days for step bound to be completely cleared from your system after the last dose. So that's fine. So if I'm understanding that correctly, actually, I don't have to understand it correctly. I'm going to read to you understanding the elimination when a drug is administered, it's concentrated in the bloodstream. In the bloodstream, rise to a peak, and then it begins to decrease as the body metabolizes and excretes it. The half life is measured on how quickly this decrease occurs. So hold on. So if a drug has a half life of five days, this. Means that every five days, the concentration of the drug in your blood reduces by 50% so you inject 10 milligrams, five days later, there's five milligrams left in you. Five days after that, there's two and a half. Five days after that, there's 1.25 days after that, point seven that. So that's how it takes 30 days for it to completely go but you can see the efficacy of it is dropping exponentially as the the drug is being excreted and metabolized. So my thought here is, I'm shooting whatever. No matter what I'm shooting, I'm seeing the same seesaw effect. Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, lose weight. Day six, day seven, gain weight, gain weight, put it back in. Day one, day two, don't I'm sorry, don't really lose weight. Day three, day four, day five, lose weight. It just keeps happening like that. First two days, nothing happens. You hold steady. Day 345, you lose weight. Day six, seven, you put it back on. Day one, two, again, you hold steady like so that just keeps happening. So I'm basically just trading back and forth the same handful of pounds over and over again. So like I said, we changed insurance, and because that happened, I ended up with two extra 7.5 milligram pence. Today is Friday, and I'm working this out with you, by the way, I don't I have a reasonable idea of what I'm doing, but I wouldn't call this, you know, any deep thinking on my part, so please don't do this. First of all, this is not medical advice. Nothing here on the juicebox podcast be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician. But what I've decided to do is I'm going to inject this seven and a half right now. So let's do that now. Cap off, lock off, find the spot. This looks good. Let's go. Seven and a half is in now. Last time I shot 10, this is seven and a half. Now, the pharmacy didn't have 10s, so my doctor moved us to the moved me to the 12.5 right in that trash can, no problem. So the next time I shoot, it's going to be 12.5 now, when is the next time going to be well, I'm at a five. I shot 10, and today I basically have five left because of Half Life. I'm still losing weight, but we know I'm going to start gaining weight tomorrow, the next day. So now we've put in the seven and a half. My expectation is to see a hold in my weight for the next two days, so Saturday and Sunday, and then a loss, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. If that holds true or comes close to being what I'm expecting, then that means on Wednesday or Thursday, I'm going to shoot the 12 and a half. So if that works, then the next time you hear me, I should be more like 181 pounds. If that happens, then I'll shoot the 12 and a half, see how the 12 and a half acts, because this will be different for me again, and then I'll reassess. Five days after that on the seven and a half the other seven and a half pen that I have. So it's possible that maybe doing this staggered thing could my hope is that it leads to about a five pound weight loss in the next two and a half or three weeks. So knock on some wood. We'll see if that happens, and I'll be back very soon to tell you what's going on after I tell you what's going on with that one, I'm gonna button up this episode and put it out

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