#979 Weight Loss Diary: Five

August 18, 2023Scott Benner

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

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Hello friends, welcome to episode 979 of the Juicebox Podcast

Welcome back everybody to another episode of my week go V diary, it's been another month. So you're getting another update, we're gonna find out if I lost weight, how it went if I can poop and stuff like that. 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. Or you know, any of that stuff. Really just talk to a doctor. Save 40% off your entire purchase at cozy earth.com When you use the offer code juicebox. Get a free year supply of vitamin D and five free travel packs when you get your first order at drink a G one.com forward slash juice box. Don't forget to check out the private Facebook group. If you'd like to ask me questions about we go V post them there, I'll do my best to answer and tell you more about my experience. What else do I have for you? Oh, if you're looking for diabetes content, the diabetes Pro Tip series begins at episode 210. And you can see a complete list of all the episodes at diabetes pro tip.com worth the top of juicebox podcast.com. And if you're in the private Facebook group, just check the feature tab for lists of all the series. If you have type two or pre diabetes, that type two diabetes Pro Tip series from the Juicebox Podcast is exactly what you're looking for. Do you have a friend or a family member who is struggling to understand their type two and how to manage it? This series is for them seven episodes to get you on track and up to speed. Episode 860 series intro 864 guilt and shame episode 869 medical team 874 fueling plan, Episode 880 diabetes technology episode 85 GLP ones metformin and insulin and an episode 889. We talk about movement. This episode is with me and Jenny Smith. Of course, you know Jenny is a Certified diabetes Care and Education Specialist. She's a registered and licensed dietitian and Jenny has had type one diabetes for over 30 years. Too many people don't understand their type two diabetes. And this series aims to fix that. Share it with a friend or get started today. Hey there cats and kittens. It's a July 18th. Tuesday again, time for Oh, no more 1.7 Time for 2.4 milligrams of weego V this is the highest dose. So this is the dose I will be on moving forward. How did the week go? You may remember from the last week Ovie diary, that I was a little constipated. And I was adding little fiber that was helping keeping up with magnesium oxide. So this week was interesting. In so much as that things were moving, but not up to standards. You don't I mean, like you're a little life, huh? Was that it? Okay. I feel like there could be more that it was that sort of a situation but things were happening. The thing I'm going to take away from this past week, though, is that I don't think I'm eating enough food now. So I have to start eating more. Going back to the 11. The last time I made this recording. I was two Oh 8.4. This morning, I was two Oh 7.2. So I mean, in a week I've lost 1.2 pounds, which is terrific. But two days ago. No three days ago, excuse me. On the 15th I was two Oh 5.6. I went from two Oh 7.4 on the 14th to two Oh 5.6 on the 15th. But now I've put back to a 6.6 like a pound and a half ish. Because I think as I'm looking back over this and by the way, making this diary was really helpful for me because I can makes me go over the whole thing. But I think the day before the weight loss, I had a big meal. That was it. I ate a lot of ate more food than I've been eating. Not a huge meal by the way. We just We went out to a good Chinese restaurant and I had a little fried rice. I had shrimp I had a little chicken at a fortune cookie. And then the next day I woke up. I use the bathroom. Then the next day I woke up and I was a lot lighter. But then I cut back on food again. By the way I'm not cutting back on food. Please understand. I'm just not hungry. I need a drink. Sorry. I'm not hungry, and I'm forgetting to eat. And I think maybe the constipation not hungry, forgetting to eat thing might be a cycle. So I'm going to finish this. I'm gonna go downstairs and make a breakfast for myself. Okay, well, without any further chit chatter you do 2.4 milligrams of weego V semaglutide injection it says right on a single dose prefilled pen pop off the cap. All right, sticking with the stomach because it works

okay, I don't have much more to say, I'm very happy with how this is all going. I am, let's see 26.2 pounds lighter than when I started as of today. That's amazing. I have a feeling like this is going to start happening. I just like again, like another movement of the number, just have to put all the pieces together, I think the fiber supplements and now I'm going to add more food like consciously more food. I think we're gonna have a better outcome next week, I'm gonna make a prediction. I've never done this before. By the way, also, I'm getting my toe fixed. I just got that this morning. Very excited. I went to see a surgeon. I don't know I've mentioned this on here. I think anyway, my toe is almost set a bad word, but it's really messed up. And I can't really exercise or walk or ride a bike or anything. So I went to a surgeon yesterday. And they actually got me on the schedule for the 25th. So believe it or not, believe it or not, I will get my toe fixed next week, in the morning and then make my next injection recording in the afternoon. So I'll tell you about the surgery next time. And then they say it's just a very quick recovery process. And then I'm going to be able to add some exercise which will be terrific. But anyway, my prediction. What is my prediction? A month from now? A month from now. Two Oh 7.2 This morning. I'm gonna make a bold prediction. A month from now I'm gonna be 199 and a half. That's my bold prediction. Okay, I am back July 25. I had surgery on my toe this morning. It hurts. But we're still going to make the recording and inject the 2.4 milligrams if we go away. Here's the thing. I gained like almost a pound and a half this week. The eating more thing didn't go as well as I wanted it to. So you know, I will persist the and then the surgery right? I had to like do a weird fasting overnight for the surgery the next day. I'm probably like they gave me a what's his name and IV so like I don't know if I'm super hydrated or too hydrated at the moment or I can't really tell you doesn't matter point is my weights up like a point 1.4 pounds since the last time I made this recording. I am undeterred. I will continue to try to eat better. Meaning more, I'm gonna go back to the food schedule that I was on. When I first started doing this like like the the food decisions I was making, I want to go back to those. I think I might have gotten in the in the situation where I was losing weight no matter what was happening. And maybe I got it into my head like I'm just going to lose weight. So I'm going to go back to the things that I was doing in the beginning egg in a wrap in the morning, some mushrooms that kind of stuff. Yogurt, my, my my athletic greens, which are they're not calling Athletic Greens anymore. Drink ag one I'll drink my ag one in the morning like I always do the egg wrap the yogurt boom breakfast. And then I'm going to be going with more kind of like seafood in the evenings and try to get back to eating a little earlier in the evening that I was. So those are today's marching orders for this week. Not a whole lot else going on my toe surgery actually went really well. They told me it was going to be a bunch of arthritis and a bone spur But doctor called me later in the evening to say that it really wasn't much arthritis at all. It was like a torn piece of cartilage that was causing the pain and he took it off and they gave me what they called microfracture like a microfracture procedure to try to get the cartilage to grow back. Anyway it hurts like hell right now. But I I'll be okay. It's gonna it's probably to take a couple of days to feel better. That's it right let's we go via 2.4 milligrams every week, I think I'm just gonna put it somewhere different than I stomach but then I go there. And then I just put in my stomach

Alright, Everybody cross your fingers, that I get on back onto a better elimination schedule. How's that? It's a nice way of saying all right. I will talk to you next week. Hey there, kids. It's Scott. I'm back. August 1, pulling out my app. August 1. I'll tell you, this has been an interesting week with Do we go V. We get a drink. Okay. So, back on the 23rd Is that the last time I recorded? Yes. I was two Oh, 8.6. And I was having a little trouble going potty. You remember? While we got that worked out? We I got that worked out. Took a little fiber supplement. Once or twice, twice, I think. And then I ate a half a cheeseburger. I thought this will help. And boy did it. So on. 27th I was two Oh 7.6 on the 29th I was two Oh 5.2. So I thought that was the fiber. Then the burger. Oh my goodness. I woke up the day after the burger. The burger incident we should call it 203.6 pounds. Holy Hanna Barbera, am I right? It that burger went in there. My body was like I have not had a cheeseburger in quite some time. Whoosh. It was not pleasant. We should not be talking about it. But it happened. So I'm telling you. Now, I think that next day, I was a little dehydrated and bereft of anything in my body perhaps the wrong word. There was nothing in my body. So two or 3.6 I was like this is not a weight that's going to stay I actually could tell I was dehydrated. My wedding ring was like slipping off. So I'm like this is not my real weight. But anyway, it is what I weighed in at on the 30th of July. Next day 31st Two Oh 4.8 Got a little rehydrated now this morning, two Oh 6.2. And I have to tell you after seeing the two or three number I was like, Oh man, come on. But retrospectively I look back two oh 6.2 Is a 2.4 ounce. Or excuse me a two pound four ounce weight loss over the 30 over over the my my weight on the 26th. So I've lost 2.4 pounds. It's great. I love it. I'm in I'm now cats and kittens. Things are happening. Scotty told you I'd start losing weight again. Still feel great. I'm not having any trouble eating. I actually went to a bar where I got the burger. And it's usually if I go there during this week, everything I would usually get seafood just like kind of some light meat, crab or maybe a boiled shrimp. But instead I went with this burger. I mean it was a real burger. had cheese had a crab cake on top of it these people but crab cakes on top of cheeseburgers. I didn't. I cut it in half. I ate half of it. I was stuffed when it was over. It was hard for me to get half of it in. I brought the other half home with me and I've had no inclination to eat it whatsoever. Just interesting little side note, anyway. I wasn't nauseated or anything like that. I was still able to eat half the cheeseburger but I was it I kind of was like oh this as much as I can do. Anyway, we are of course 2.4 milligrams of we go V I am excited things are moving. I my foot surgery went okay. Well, it's been a week since that happened since I talked to you. It's filled throbs a little bit when I sit here, I actually just recorded an episode that you won't hear for like six months, but I had to record it with my foot up on the table here so I could I could get through it without the throbbing. I'm going to do my injection every week, I think let me put it somewhere different than my stomach just for fun. Like I don't even know why that would matter. But I'm just gonna do my stomach honestly. I can go through some of the other numbers with you in a second but Let's inject this first cap off click it in the belly. Nice spot

nice, just hold it for another couple seconds. Cuz why not? Let's fucking go V All right. What else am I noticing? I don't have any reflux, which I did have for a little while but that's been okay like you know a couple episodes back. I haven't had that in a while I don't have that high up and nausea feeling that like, like I've described in the past it almost felt like my esophagus was full of food like he felt like full a pie in my almost to my chest and my sternum. I haven't had that. I can eat, like, if I want to. So but I'm still not hungry. I don't have like that crazy hunger. The one thing my wife and I are both noticing is that food feels like it tastes different. Now. I don't know if that's the week govi or if that's just getting the sugar and the carbs out of you or what that is. But um, last night, Arden was like on board. And I was like, Alright, well let's do something. And I was working. So I stopped working. And I came down and I was like, What do you want to do? I said, Hey, you want to go get water ice? And she's like, Yeah, cool. So we went off and got these little water ices. And I ate that, like no problem. I couldn't finish mine, but I ate it. It was fine. But it wasn't like it didn't hit me as sweet as it usually is. So I don't know what that is. But my wife talks about food tasting differently. I have noticed that with some things. Sweet doesn't taste as sweet. Maybe savory doesn't taste as savory. I don't know why. Like I don't I'm not saying that's the medication or not. It's just something I've noticed. Other than that, I'm feeling good. I'm excited for my toe to feel better so I can start exercising. I think that's really when this is gonna like come together for me. Weight loss. I mean 2.4 pounds in a week is terrific. Using this I started this 233.4 pounds on the 28th of March. And today is August 1. And I weighed two Oh 6.2. I honestly still think I'm going to be under 200 soon. My BMI is 30.5 Right now it started at 34.6. My body fat is 28.9 down from 35. I mean that's crazy, right? My body water is good. My skeletal muscle mass is holding this is all based on this some the scale I'm using the Renfrow scale. Couple of you have bought it I guess after hearing me talk about it. My fat free bodyweight holding pretty steady. subcutaneous fat holding steady, visceral fat holding steady. My muscle mass increased a little bit this week. That's cool. And my bone mass has gone up. It's nice. Yeah, my metabolic gauge is still not going down. But I losing weight and I feel better. I was I was at I took a day off this weekend, I didn't make any podcasts or anything I went, I sat in the Sun at a family member's house around a pool. My foot hurts, obviously. So I couldn't get in the water, all that stuff. But I sat like up in this kind of like Bartok chair. And I had another one across from me to keep my foot up on so it wouldn't throb. And at one point, I've kind of pulled my knees back to myself. And I was like, I don't know how to put that, like I was sitting in the chair, but my feet were back by my butt. And I thought this is not a thing I could have done before. Okay, I don't sit like this usually. And it's because my stomach is gone. It's really wonderful. Honestly, super excited. I'm starting to see some more muscle tone in my arms and my legs. I can't wait to start exercising. I know this one's going on for a little bit. I'm sorry, I'm babbling a little here. But I think my point is just that it's going well, and that losing weight is valuable. I didn't know that I'd feel this good about it, honestly. And it's teaching me about patients in a different way to like I always thought I was a patient person to begin with. But a pound or two a week, you know, seven days to lose a pound. Seems like oh, it's not worth it. But it really is. And you just you know, because of the medication I'm able to stick with it. Not like haven't had one moment of like a binging or an overeating This whole time I've been doing this and I do credit that we go before that, I'm certain I would have like fallen off the wagon if I tried to do this on my on my own. But like actually being able to stick with it for this long time, and seeing the benefits, it's not something that you can understand if you just dieting for a week or two or, you know, changed your fueling plan for a month, it really does take this amount of time for you to really get perspective on what's happening and how valuable it is. So I don't know what my message is there. But stick to it is, is what I'm noticing, just sticking to it and being patient. It has been really valuable. Alright, I'm gonna go. I will talk to you soon. I'll be back next week when I checked it again. I am so grateful for this little week over the blog. And I'll tell you why. Because it's August 8. And I weighed myself this morning. I haven't weighed myself in a couple of days weighed myself this morning, because I was going to make this recording. And I weighed 204.4 pounds, and I was pissed. It's like, you've got to be kidding me. And why do you say that? Right? Why am I telling you I'm mad at two? Oh, 4.4 when just a moment ago, on August 1, I was two Oh 6.2. I've lost two pounds this week, basically? Well, it's because three days ago, when I weighed myself, I was two or 3.4. And I thought I was gonna get three, I thought I was gonna get a three pound weight loss this week. I was genuinely upset for just a moment. I saw the scale and I was like, damn it. Now. Here's the stuff you don't know. I didn't have to go to the bathroom when I got up this morning. So fair enough. Not that I was going to add that I was going to eliminate a pound. But my body's in a weird shift at the moment. I didn't use the bathroom this morning. Whatever. I was a little nauseous this morning. NOT want to call it nausea. You'll get the wrong idea. It just it's not good. But it's not good. Because I think two things I worked late last night. So I ate late. That was a mistake. I had like this just small little wrap with a few shrimp in it. But at like nine o'clock, I think that was my mistake. And and I need to go I feel like I need to go to the bathroom. It's not happening. So that's the feeling I'm having right now. It's very specific to being on Weibo V. Not away I felt prior to being on it. What else I am getting a lot of great. My brother is using ozempic At the same time. And he's getting starting to see some real results and a lot of happy texts from him. My wife who is also using weego V. The other day when we Saturday's the day she injects today's Tuesday. So she was injecting on Saturday, she jumped on the scale, she only gets to the scale once a week. And she'd lost pounds. And she and I literally both like I'd lost 30 pounds and she'd lost like 30 Water, something like that. So happy for I'm back actually back to 29. Now because of this one pound thing that we've heard about no big deal. I think that's it for today. This is my fourth injection of 2.4. So they're all 2.4 Moving forward, but this is my fourth one. I've been doing this for a month now. And I think we should take a second to see where we started the month and where we're ending it. So we pop back into the app. So when did when was 30 days ago? Probably like probably like July. Scrolling. Scrolling. Okay, well, on July 8, I was 209.2 pounds. And today I am 24.4 So 2056789 I lost about five pounds this month. I have to tell you, that's amazing.

I know. I think I think what this has done for me more than anything has given me a perspective about time. Because I think if you would have told me in the past, Scott, you're gonna lose five pounds this month, I would have thought oh my god, a whole month to lose five pounds terrible, like you know, would have seen which is what doesn't seem good to me. And now I'm thinking it's amazing, because what am I now 204 something if you're telling me that a month from now, a month, which is if I'm lucky and stay alive, it's gonna pass anyway, if you're telling me a month from now, I'm going to be 199 pounds. That's insane. Like really just didn't feel I started at 233 something. I'm gonna get to 199 I haven't been under 200 pounds and forever. I think the last time I was I think I was 205 I actually do want to hold on a second. I'm gonna pause and pull up a thing. And I'll be right back. I found some notes I made over the years. So back in 2019 on January 20 2019, I started Wow, at 233 pounds. I did something called the baked potato diet, which was not pleasant. And I lost 10 pounds in like six days that I stuck with something. And over the next three months, January, getting into the middle of April, I got down to 218 pounds. So back in 2018, I was to 18. Now in 2018, I did this as well. How about that? In 2018 and September starting at 236 pounds. I went on some sort of weight loss journey, who knows. And I stayed with it through September, October, November. And on November 12, I was 216. Wow. So on November 12, I was to 16. December, January, two months later, in January, I was back to 233. So I lost 20 pounds. And then 26 And then I put almost all that back on and two months. Isn't that interesting. And then I did the big potato thing that I got back down to 18. So the lowest weight I've had in Gs 23 In five years was 218. And today on 204. And we have every reason to think I might be 199 a month I don't know why this works. I really don't. This week I had this week somebody brought me ice cream. I had ice cream this week, I have not had ice cream since I started doing we go V was a pint of Ben and Jerry's that stayed in the house for four or five days. And over four or five days, I ate pretty much the entire pint of ice cream. And I still lost weight this week. I had wraps for dinner breakfast, I'm never hungry. I'm very happy. I don't know what's in. I don't know what's in the cards for moving forward. I don't know if I would just stop using this. If I would just put this weight back on. I really don't know. But what I can tell you is my life is is very much better right now. And I appreciate you guys going on this this little journey with me which I feel like an idiot Saint journey but learn a lot about myself and learning a lot about eating. And I am healthier and healthier as I go. I actually saw myself in the mirror the other day. And I thought oh, I don't I don't look bad. That's not my face. My wife was poking at my double chin the other day and she goes, this thing's really going away. I was like, Oh, this is fun. This foreplay. What are we doing right now? It was not by the way. Let's do this. We go we shall we 2.4 fourth one. We are right here in my stomach, which is getting smaller and smaller. And here's the losing five more pounds this month.

I like to hold on for a couple extra seconds. I don't want to waste any. All right, guys. So I might have been a little off on my 199 at the beginning of this episode. But still 2042 or three 199. I mean, now it's just the process, right? Just a very slow process that is consistently moving in the right direction. And I think that's all that matters. Honestly, for more months, could I be 20 pounds lighter? I do I want to be 20 pounds lighter. I'm not even sure I have to be perfectly honest with you. I don't even know what my good weight is going to be. What I can tell you is, is that my toe surgery is getting better and better. I have just a couple of more days to visit doctor. Let me tell you when that is actually, oh, this Friday, one to like three more days and I get to go back to the doctor where he will hopefully tell me I can take a regular person shower and not a shower with a bag on my foot. It feels much better. 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