#1324 Weight Loss Diary: Fourteen

October 5, 2024Scott Benner

Fourteenth installment of my GLP journey

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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode of The juicebox podcast.

I am back to talk more about my weight loss journey today is I don't know how many injections worth here, 1234567, about eight injections worth of content. My thoughts over these past two months, it's been a bit of a slog. I'm not gonna lie. Nothing you hear on the juicebox podcast should be considered advice medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your healthcare plan. Don't forget to save 40% off of your entire order@cozyearth.com All you have to do is use the offer code juicebox at checkout. That's juicebox at checkout to save 40 percent@cozyearth.com when you place your first order for ag one, with my link, you'll get five free travel packs and a free year supply of vitamin D drink. Ag one.com/juice, box. If you are the caregiver of someone with type one diabetes or have type one yourself, please go to T 1d exchange.org/juice box and complete the survey. This should take you about 10 minutes, and will really help type one diabetes research. You can help right from your house at T 1d exchange.org/juicebox, this episode of The juicebox podcast is sponsored by the Eversense CGM, an implantable six month sensor. Is what you get with Eversense, but you get so much more exceptional and consistent accuracy over six months and distinct on body vibe alerts when you're high or low on body vibe alerts, you don't even know what that means. Do you ever sense cgm.com/juicebox, go find out. Hey guys, listen up. It's Wednesday, August 14. You missed me. Take my last shot because I was on vacation. I'm taking this one now. All I can tell you is I'm already a day late. I took it on Tuesday last week. It's Wednesday this week, I went on my first family vacation in like six years. Did not, I think I gained like a pound the whole time I was there, which is awesome. So a lot of food, but I felt really good. Came back, put a couple pounds on last couple days. I couldn't figure out why, what was happening, and now I realize I'm eating more, and I'm eating more because my injection got moved from Saturday to Tuesday, and so the last couple days, I was waning with the medication, and needed to inject yesterday, and didn't even realize that I just lost track of my days. So I think I was just without the Med, and it led to everything. I was 186 this morning. Let me give you a tiny bit of context for that. If I can hold on one second, I was as low as 182 four on the 20 God, I get my glasses. I know every time I do this, I'm sorry, 25th of July was 182 for my wedding ring was flying off my finger. I was so at such a low weight, 182 four still on the second of October, August, left the next day for vacation on the third, didn't return till the 11th. When I returned on the 11th, I was 184 eight. I was super excited about that. But today, 186 in fairness, My God, how do I say this? I haven't gone to the bathroom today or yesterday. I think I'm readjusting. I don't think I'm going to be 186 for long, but I don't know. I think getting back to 182 shouldn't be much trouble. Here's where I'm going to shoot this. I'm taking off the cap, unlocking the pen, 12.5 milligrams of zepbound. Let's put it right here. We're all done. I'll see you in a week. Hey guys, oh. August 21 I just got back from hydro. 1400 miles in like 36 hours. So the long and the short of it is is we had to go pick up Arden stuff from her school, because she's leaving one college and going to another one, and we had to get the stuff out of there. So we left on a Friday afternoon around five, and I was home seven. Monday night at 1am and in the middle, drove 1400 miles. More importantly, in the middle, I ate at gas stations. So I'm 187.4 today, and there's really not a lot more to say. So I'm going to shoot my zepbound, and then I'll be back in a week where I hope I have better news, where I'm not driving just it's insane. We drove 14 hours one way, 14 hours the other way. Slept five hours on the floor of a room and four hours somewhere else, and then through a monsoon. And I think I lived on Doritos for like, a week. I just, it was a last minute trip I wasn't able to plan for. It's not an excuse. It's what happened. Sucks. I'm moving on setbound 12 and a half. That was the cap. This is the injection, little bit of pressure there with that one lost the drop. Talk to you soon. Welcome back to Scott doesn't lose weight. It's August 27 I know you heard me talk about a 1400 mile trip in the last one this week, it was only 650 miles as we took Arden to our new school. But round trip took up about four days of my life, moving her in and out. Lot of restaurants, I have to say, a lot of eating in the car. I have not figured out how to do that. Well, woke up this morning. Weight was 187 I need to wait. I'll tell you. I don't want to say this. So in the past, I think I said I gotta exercise more. Is a way to try to motivate me to do it like I felt like, oh, I said it to you. Now I'm gonna do it, but I said it to you and I didn't do it. So I don't want to say it again next time I come back, I want to tell you, you know, I've got an exercise routine going, and I'm doing it. I don't. I want to throw it out there again, like that. I really disappointed myself, if I'm being honest, 12.5 zepbound. I mean, listen, truth be told, I've done a ton of road eating and restaurant eating in the last couple of weeks. If this would have happened without zepbound, I'd literally be 10 pounds heavier. So, I mean, a pound or two, I'm not sweating it, but I definitely, I've seen myself at 183 I've seen myself at 187 there's weight to lose there. You know, I'd like to get down to, I'd like to get down to somewhere where I feel healthy in every aspect of my life, and every part of my body looks healthy, meaning I'm not carrying fat that's gonna hurt my heart or my life or whatever. 12.5 here we go. Give me a good spot here. All right, it's in kids. I'll be back September 4. I'm a day late because I had to go pick up my meds yesterday and couldn't get back here in time to use them. Skeletal muscle mass is up. Body water is up. Body fat is down. BMI slightly down. Good stuff. My weight today, 180 4.8 is that road food? It ain't good for you. That's my takeaway today. I don't have much more to report. I'm a little behind on my work, so I'm gonna shoot this and get back to making you a podcast. Ready, cap off, lock off, find a spot that looks good. Here we go. Felt right. Little drop wiped off. It's dark in here. I'm still going. Still going for the trash can. You ready? Nice.

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So if you're tired of dealing with things falling off or being too sticky or not sticky enough, or not staying on for the life of the sensor you probably want to check out ever since, ever since cgm.com/juicebox links in the show notes. Links at juicebox podcast.com. Hey everybody. I'm going to multitask here. I'm sorry. I'm going to do some cleaning up on the Facebook group at the same time as I talked to you about this, today is September 11. Oh, wow. 2024 going to do my injection today. It's been a week since the fourth when I was 180 4.8 I don't even know if I remember to say that last time, not certain. But anyway, there's like, a little cottage industry on Facebook where people take some picture of like, like, diabetes supplies. Then they write something like, oh, I have extra supplies if you want them, just, you know, direct message me and, you know, you just cover the postage. I just want you to have them. I'm like, they're all scams. They are all scams. Okay, Facebook actually is getting really good at seeing them and saying, no, no, no, and not letting them even post. But then you have to, I mean, I have to block the account. So let's see here, telling you the name's not important because they're not real people. They're not real accounts. They just make these accounts. Try to get people to send them 20 bucks for shipping. See if they can get that accomplished a few times before they get caught, and then they're on their way. They make another account and do it again. It is, like I said, a cottage industry so block, so we'll delete the recent activity. Make sure that that they say you can ban future accounts. But I don't know how well that actually works, so you click off all that and double check. I can't believe this is my life band. There were three band this morning. Actually caught one of them yesterday. Then I saw them pop up, like on a Dexcom user group, and I was like, oh, it's the same one. I just banned that one. So then we'll decline the post. Now, the post nobody saw, but it's gone. None of this is here, nor there. This is very behind the scenes, boring stuff. I got my zepbound today 12.5 it's Wednesday. I am going to shoot today. Uneventful weight thing, I was 180 4.8 last week when I did it today. I'm 180 5.2 it's, you know, point four more. It's, you know, negligible. Everything's pretty Yeah, none of these, none of these Trackables, are moving just a week. Had a lot of family stuff. This week, I'm getting settled back in after moving my daughter off to college, so that's good, but I'm gonna shoot this. I'm going to submit my stuff for my talk this weekend, and then I'm going to record an episode, actually, in about 10 minutes. That's pretty much it. Hope you guys are enjoying this. Actually got some more great feedback from somebody the other day about this episode, about these episodes, so I'm glad you're liking them. This person was motivated by the by this went off. Did it themselves? Lost like 70 pounds. It's crazy how well they're doing. There goes the cap. There goes the lock. Ready? You heard it in there. I got a spot that looks accessible. 1234, here we go. Kids, that one had a little pressure, not bad. Little drop at the end. Actually name it a drop like fuzzy bubbles. Fuzzy bubbles, all right. I I missed the goddamn trashcan All right, so, yeah, the trash cans three feet from here. I just want to be clear. Good morning, friends. I'm a day late. Today is September 19. I've got my 12 and a half milligram. Is that bound pen here? Can tell you a tiny bit about my last week, and I'll go over a little bit about my weight. I spoke at an event this Saturday, this past Saturday, excuse me, that I speak out every year, touched by type one in Orlando. And I guess last year, they made a video. And. And I I ended up in the video. So this year, well, let me go back. When I was there last year, I had lost some weight. I don't know how much anymore, maybe, like, 15 pounds or something. When I got there, people were like, Oh my God, you look crazy. Like, this is amazing. And you know, I felt amazing like being up there on the screen, being up there on stage and everything, I felt super comfortable. It looked different, like significantly different. Felt different. And then a year later, I go back and they run this video from the year prior, and my I'm on the screen for a second in the in the beginning, in the morning, and I look and I think, Wow, look how heavy I am there, much better than I was 15 pounds before that, but nowhere near where I am now, this little eye opening met a lot of people that I see every year, but only see once a year. There. You can really see it on their faces when you see them immediately. And while I was there, I met a man who said that the year prior we had met, and he had asked me about my weight loss that prior year, and I told him what I was doing, and he went off and did it and and a year later, we met again last week, and he had lost 80 pounds. I was so genuinely happy for him. I don't I just want to bring that up anyway. I get dehydrated when I travel. I'm starting to realize, because this morning, I'm 180 661 86.6 and which is cool. That's fine. I think last week. What was it? The 11th. I did this last week. I was 185 two. On the 12th, 185 four, but then I got back from the trip because I didn't take my weight for a few days when I returned from the trip on the 16th, I was 180 2.6 but I was positive I was, um, dehydrated at that point, and I missed the shot yesterday when I should have taken it. And I'll tell you, I had, like, a big lunch. For me, you're gonna laugh like I had a deli sandwich, but I ate the whole thing, so I expected to have a little more weight this morning. I haven't gone to the bathroom today yet, but I'm 186 six today. Gonna take my shot right now. Get Moving on the day. I'm gonna try to put it in my butt cheek today. Somebody asked me at the trip. They were like, they're telling me about their GLP. And they're like, I put it in my in my butt cheek all the time. And I'm like, I always put up my belly and I try a Bunche. And I was like, I've done it before, but alright, so I promised them I do it again, which is a weird thing to promise somebody, but here we go. I have to stand up for this one. I'm going to tilt the microphone down towards my butt. This is harder to do. God, I hope no one walks in here while this is happening. All right, buttreat. Unlock the pen. Apparently I was supposed to wake up now. Sorry about that. Apologies. All right, it's hard to pinch the do it backwards? Hold on, this is ridiculous. I'm so glad you can't see this. I'm kind of glad I can't say it ready. Ooh, little, pressure filled. All right. Well, that embarrassment is over. See you next week. What's up? Everybody? Wednesday, September 26 I'm going to do something a little different today. I'm

going to use up some older doses. So I have a five and a seven and a half here, 789, 1011, 12, five and seven and a half, or 12 and a half. Boom, bang, bang. Look at this. Go. I'm gonna have to hit it twice. I'll do one. I'll tell you a story. Then I'll do the other one. Let's put one on my belly. Do the seven and a half now. Cap off. Unlock. Hmm. This side. Ready. Hold on. I'll move the mic for you.

That wasn't bad, okay, trash can, which I've moved closer to me now, my story in the last seven days, the amount of people, the number of people, the countless groupings of folks who have been telling me that I look younger, is awesome friend I haven't seen in a few months. Sat down, had breakfast with her. I. First thing she says to me is, my God, you look younger. You look good. And I was like, Oh, thank you. And I really did. I was like, Oh, it's fine. Like, you know, like, everything's like, I was very like, I don't know what. I played it off, I guess not, but not in the way where I was, like, pretending. I really felt like, it's okay. We don't have to talk about this, you know, like, I don't look better than anybody else. I've just looked better than I did, you know before, probably. But she goes, No, no, you don't understand. You look good. And I was like, Good. And she's like, good. And then I was like, Oh, she's not just saying, like, you look smaller. And she went on to talk about, I can't tell how old you are. I was like, Oh, that's so nice thought. Nothing up later in the day, I was in a store with 1234, kids working at it. They were like, high school, almost college kids, you know, like seniors at their after school job walk in buying something. Kid looks at me and says the craziest thing. She goes, You look like Bill Nye the Science Guy. And I went, I don't think you know who Bill Nye is. She goes, so definitely that's who you look like. So I'm like, I think you're so we all pull out our phones. Kids have phones. We have phones. We're all phones out. We're all googling Bill Nye. Show her, Bill Nye the Science Guy. She goes, yeah, like, see, you look just like him. Now listen, between you and I, I don't like anything like Bill Nye the Science Guy, which is fine. He's a fine looking gentleman, but he and I do not resemble each other. Then we come to realize that I'm wearing a piece of clothing, which it was a jacket. And she's like, See, you're wearing a jacket, like Bill Nye the Science I'm like, Oh, see, facially, you don't think I look like him? Oh no. Who do you think I look like facially? I said, Here's what I usually hear, I tell them, and then they start pulling up pictures of Vince Vaughn. Like, oh my god, you do look like Vince Vaughn, blah blah. Like, everybody's going crazy and everything. And that was the end of it. And I said something about my daughter is a little older than you guys. I don't remember how the conversation got there. And the one I look over at this one kid, this big, tall boy, and he's just like, he's got this incredulous look on his face. I'm like, what's wrong? And he goes, your daughter's 20. And I said, Yes. And he goes, I don't understand. How old were you when you had her? And I was like, Oh God, I don't know why. And then I realized what he was saying, and I was like, Is this happening again? Hello. I said, How old do you think I am? Now, listen, these are kids, so, you know, we have to undercut their you know, they think 40 year old people are, like, 110 so he goes, I don't know. Man, like 35 and the girl next to him goes, yeah, like 3538 and I started like, Oh my this is gonna be the best part of my day. So I whipped around the room like anybody else, they're all guessing late 30s and everything. And I was like, I am 53 my 20 year old is my younger kid. I said, my son's almost 25 and they were just like, No no, no, no. And so excited. I was like, Oh, this is awesome. Thank you. And then I do a live on Facebook, and people are jumping in and be like, Oh my god, Scott, you're reversing. And your age is like, you're, I think you're aging backwards. I'm like, am I looking younger? But I don't think it's younger. I think it's healthier. Like, I just think that I don't look weighed down by poor health, is what I'm starting to think of it as. Anyway, I don't think I look younger. I'm sure that a person my age would look at me and go, Oh no, you're 53 I can say it, but it's nice that people are having that reaction like it's pretty cool. So today's weight, I'll tell you the whole week actually, my glasses, very quickly. What was I the 19th? We did this last I was one. What was I on the 19th? 186 six. Is that what I said in the last recording. From there I went, 180 461 80 441 84 eight. Then on the 25th was that yesterday, I was 183 six, a cognizant, cognitively, drank a lot this week. I'm gonna keep that up, even though yesterday I was running around all day, as you could tell out. I had a breakfast and diner with a friend. I stopped at a place we eat pizza for dinner last night, woke up this morning, haven't used the bathroom yet. 185 even. I was excited about the 183 six, because I was drinking so much liquid and eating a lot of protein this week. And I really thought, like, this is it? But that pizza came in last night and I said, I am gonna have some pizza. So anyway, I'm 185 today. That's 1.6 pounds less than I was last time I spoke to you. My my low this week was 183 six, my BMI over 27 still. Body fat is steady body water. Steady, skeletal muscle mass, steady, BMR, steady. Everything's very steady. Fret free, body weight, steady, subcutaneous fat, Oh, wow. It's down to 21.1 but steady, my visceral fats at a 10. It's awesome. Give you some idea where that started. It started at 17 a year and a half ago, when I did this, my muscle mass is super steady. 133, two started off at 144, I lost some obviously, but you lost a lot of weight. Expect that bone mass, steady, protein, steady metabolic age says 55 what are those? What is? What is this thing? Now I'm gonna go find you some 18 year old kids. Think of a 35 anyway, doing well, hope you are the same. Gotta put this seven and a half in, or the five in. I put the seven and a half in the one side of my belly. Am I just gonna put it in the other side of the belly? Although I had it in my butt last week and I lost weight. But I can actually mean anything, but, oh well, you know what? Screw it. I'm gonna do it. I that's completely, you know, there's no way that could be a thing. But I'm gonna do it anyway. I'm gonna put the five in my butt, cap off, lock off. How am I gonna put my pants down? Alright, I'm standing pants. Move the uh, move the microphone. It's very hard to find your butt sheet. All right, I'm just gonna guess this is okay. Is that what I'm gonna do? I guess so, ready.

Oh, I didn't like that.

I didn't enjoy that. All right, I'm gonna go see you October 2. It's a Wednesday. I'm back. I have a 12 and a half set bound here to shoot, but before I do, I'm gonna philosophize for a second. I let me sit back.

I feel like I'm back where I started. That's how I feel in in this regard, if you would have taken me back to before I began this whole thing and told me, like, you know, what's your need for? Weight loss, body change, health change, all this stuff, I would have been like, I'm okay. You know, I feel fine. This is good, where I'm at, and then, like, I've gone over before, like, you know, you drop 10 pounds, you think I feel better, I look different. It's weird. And then it keeps happening. You know what I mean, 10 pounds, 20 pounds. I've been lucky. I lost more 30 and along the way, at every stop, you could see, okay, this is good, but there's more like I'm not there yet, and at this moment, I'm not there yet, but I'm so good where I am that it's gotten me back to that feeling of like, this is okay, like when I sit and talk about it, I know this isn't done, right? There's, you know, fat in my midsection that needs to go from my own health and, you know, my longevity, etc, but I just like, it's hard to get excited about it, because I'm good where I'm at. I'm just not where I need to be. Except I'm thinking about that now and realizing that that's how I felt two years ago. And I guess I'm here to say I'm looking for the I need, the motivation, the momentum build again, like that excitement, like, let's get this thing going. Because, like, little stuff, like, I don't know, just, you know, not exercising the way I should. Just not I want to be, I mean, to be notes to myself everywhere I say I'm going to just can't get the zoomed up to go and do it. It's really important, and I just am not doing it. So I don't really know what the answer is. I can tell you that without the the GLP, it would go backwards very quickly. I know my hunger would return, like, pretty quickly. But just the other metabolic impacts that I'm getting from the from the from the magic juice here, like, I mean, absolutely necessary. So I shouldn't just say that I'm okay with where I'm at. I am happy with where I'm at. I know that there's more to do. I don't know how to find the excitement to get it accomplished. That's gonna be on me. Obviously. I. I guess for now, we just kind of keep going and be okay with this lull. Like, I think I just have to be okay with this lull, meaning, like not to beat myself up over which I'm not. But I just, I think I cognitively have to not beat myself up over this, not get and not get so comfortable in this lull that I never get out of it again, that I'm just like shooting the medication and sitting at this weight over and over, which bounces around a couple, you know, pounds, one way or the other. I think I'm 186 this morning. I don't know that most people could tell the difference between me at 183 and 186 so that's not really the point. The point is just that I'm not moving towards, you know, my ultimate health goals. I'm gonna shoot this whole 12 and a half into my belly.

There. It looks like a spot. Is that gonna be good? All right, yeah, okay, who am I talking to? By the way, I'm not even sure. It's so weird not to know how you guys know, but it's so weird not to know how it's gonna feel when the thing injects so All right, here we go. I didn't unlock it, all that talking, and here we go. Oh, that was good. That was the soft underbelly of my belly. All right, so I'm gonna put this one out. It's not downbeat, but right in that trash can, like it was nothing. I don't feel I don't feel like beat down by any of this. I'm just becoming aware that I think I'm back where I started in my head, which is, like, this is fine, this is good. I'm okay, and I need to find some better motivation. I think, I think, I think some of the steps to that would be meal prepping better, which I haven't been doing lately. I've been eating on the go. I should be meal prepping better. And I don't know how to get myself excited about I've just never been a big exercise person. Like, it's just not I don't mean like, nobody likes exercise, I don't think maybe some of you do, but I'm just saying like she's never been a big part of my life, but I guess it's gonna need to be, or this is where I stay forever. All right, let me try to figure that out. I'll talk to you guys later. Thanks for listening. By the way, I got some great notes this week from people about this series, and I really appreciate it.

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