Ninety two days ago I took my first shot of tirzepatide. By the 90 day mark I had lost 33.4 pounds, which works out to 2.8 pounds a week and 11.4 percent of my body weight. Then, right around the 265 pound mark, everything stopped.
Not slowed down. Stopped. For a week and a half the scale did not move, even though nothing else had changed. Same shots, same lack of hunger, same missing food noise. I just was not losing weight anymore, and it took me a minute to figure out why.
This is not medical advice, and I am the first to say so. This is just my journey, and anyone considering a peptide should talk to their own doctor. But here is what I noticed.
Food noise was gone. Portion size was easy to control. Hunger basically was not a factor. The problem was simpler than any of that. I had settled into eating enough food to maintain a 265 pound man, not lose more weight as one. Once that clicked, I stopped treating every meal as automatically fine just because I was not hungry, and started paying attention to what the food actually was.
One week of tightening that up brought me down to 257, my lowest point so far. I have settled back around 259 since, which is still 33.4 pounds gone since May 26th.
I spent years in CrossFit before the weight came on, so the nutrition side was not new information, it was more like remembering something I already knew. Abs are made in the kitchen. You cannot outwork a bad diet, especially at 53 when I am not currently outworking anything.
The real shift was deciding to eat now the way I plan to eat once I hit my goal, instead of treating this as a temporary diet I get to abandon later. I set a protein floor of 170 to 180 grams a day, which turned out to be a lot of chicken, beef, and fish for a guy with zero appetite. I also started tracking a third thing alongside hunger and fullness: food noise specifically, the leftover urge to eat something even when I am already full. Catching that gap is the part I want to carry with me long after I am off the shot.
The clearest evidence is not on a chart. It is the shirt I could not button a few months ago, now worn with room to spare. Shorts need a belt or a tied string now to stay up. Clothes that used to fit are loose.
My current goal is simple: get under 250, and finally get consistent with exercise instead of restarting it every few weeks. The plan going forward is three workouts a week, eating a little less freely than the last month but more freely than the first two, and aiming for a steadier 8 pounds a month instead of chasing the fast early numbers.
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- 7 Minute Man Nutrition Tracker, built by my buddy Webb. This is the app I use to log meals and get real-time feedback on what to eat next. No affiliate link here, just a friend’s app I actually use.
- Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity, the New England Journal of Medicine trial behind the drug I am actually taking, for anyone who wants the real data instead of just my results.
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