Big Guy

Because frankly I can’t be seen taking an L like this

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

I’m a trans dude and also I’m on semaglutides and its wayyyyyyy too embarrassing to admit to any of my irls so I made this blog to share my thoughts and feelings about it as its happening, to demystify the process, and also to hear from someone who is actually overweight using a GLP1 to lose fat, with a focus on building muscle and being strong instead of being skinny, and ideally not developing an eating disorder.

Probably nobody’s gonna see this blog- which is chill. But in case you do, I’m aiming to focus on how a semaglutide interacts with medical transition, specifically with testosterone based hormone replacement. Welcome!

I’ll keep the ask box open if anybody has any questions- if anyone ends up here lol

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

I keep having thoughts like “omg the glp1 is making me nauseous” or “the glp1 is making me tired” and then I have to confront like… no dude, you’re nauseous because you slammed two sandwiches in a row and you’re tired because you slept three hours last night

[yourfatherjustinmcelroy]

Fucked up my shottttttttt thought it looked kinda cool though. Idk why my first thought is always make a forcemasc post about this…. ripe market I suppose.

An alternate version:

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

I keep thinking about how easy it was to get a prescription for a glp1. Like maybe too easy like I feel like they should have screened me more. Obviously I’m glad they didn’t because I wanted the prescription, but it felt a little bit irresponsibly easy. I’m not in the United States, so I just booked a free appointment with my GP nurse practitioner that I got placed with through the free trans care in my province, and I went and talked to her for like, fifteen minutes tops? I was basically like I’m fat as you can see and would like to be less fat, diabetes runs in my family and I wanna have more top surgery options. And she asked a few questions and was like yeah ok what’s ur pharmacy I’ll fax it over.

I had already gotten blood work done recently so I didn’t even have to wait for that, and I literally had it in my hands two hours later. Two hours. This is the smoothest an interaction with the medical system has ever gone for me, and big surprise, it’s on the one that makes me less fat. Again, maybe I’m just comparing it in my mind to the rigours of obtaining HRT, which since testosterone is a controlled substance definitely are much stricter, but even in times when I’ve been trying to get antibiotics for like infections and whatnot, I keep getting put through the ringer until I’m like bro PLEASE I can’t drink water my throat hurts so bad, and then they’re like ok fineeeee

Maybe my real feeling is just that this is maybe my first brush with the medical system working properly and quickly, and I’m just cynical about the fact that its on the most inconsequential thing, and on the thing that upholds societal fatphobia. I wish every medication was as easy to get as ozempic forever

[deltontovanelly]

How to flatten chest without binder??

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

The will of the mind 🔥🔥🔥

[tboy-trash]

if i ever wrote a character that was not meant to be eggy but the girls started telling me she's 100% a trans girl i wouldn't be saying "art is subjective, though He wasn't written with that intention" or any of that bullshit, i'd be saying "woohoo", "fuck yes", "this is the best thing to ever happen to me" and things of similar nature

[i-suggest-transing-your-gender]

Hey baby transmascs, never detransition for a shitty straight guy no matter how attractive he is or how lonely you feel. You deserve better, you deserve to be happy. You deserve a partner who will love you truly and want you to be the most authentic version of yourself.

[queerintheuk]

Just met a trans man who's going on T because he specifically wants to be bald and i'm afraid to say i think i'm just never gonna meet anyone cooler than that ever again

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

Very funny moment I was eating some cheese cubes and I didn’t want to finish them and I was like wow I’m just like Emily from Devil Wears Prada…

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

Went to a huge house party yesterday, made it home at like 3am, went to bed around 4, woke up around 10:30 for work, and the level of brain fog I have is wayyyy less than usual, especially considering I only slept maybe 3 hours the night before as well. I’m no stranger to bad sleep habits, but that means I’m used to how it affects me as well, and its not exactly that I felt energized per se this morning, but I felt alert. Ate a burger and fries for dinner last night around 8pm and have felt not hungry ever since, and it’s around noon now.

It’s weird, I feel like I should be hungry (because again I’ve had to make sure I eat when I’m not hungry because adhd I can’t tell when I’m hungry) and I’ll eat like, a piece of salami, and then I’m like oh I’m good actually

And I don’t feel gross or pained like my full signals usually are, I just kind of feel like, like I don’t need this food rn so it’s fine. Is this how people are feeling normally when they get full? I think this drug is stimulating hormones I do not naturally produce

Which hey, no stranger to that lmao

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

I don’t think I realized how much food noise I actually had, like to a detrimental degree. It definitely is fed by my ADHD making it impossible for me to actually physically tell when I’m hungry, but the mental stress of having to keep that in mind being gone is kind of crazy. Truthfully I wasn’t expecting any changes on day 1, and I kind of felt like it maybe wasn’t gonna do anything in general lol

But it’s actually super noticeable. I’m working my job which is a place on a block with a shit ton of restaurants and quick grab food that’s actually really good, and usually on my shift I’m agonizing about spending money on food, knowing I shouldnt, and then doing it anyway because I’m too hungry. Today? None of that.

It feels like how people describe going on adhd meds feels, but for your body. Like I feel like I can just kind of… exist. I didn’t know I was so preoccupied and stressed abt this beforehand I thought I was doing fine lmaooooo

[big-guy-bigger-guy]

First day on a generic brand semaglutide. It’s crazy to me that there’s such a push in advertising and marketing that people are like “how to get ozempic-level weight loss without the scary needle!!!!” And then the scary needle in question is as thin as a hair and shorter than a fingernail and feels like nothing at all.

Maybe it’s because I did it right after my T injection (subcutaneous) so I could line up my shot day but it feels CRAZY that THIS is the needle people are freaked out about?? It’s so small you don’t even have to angle it, and you don’t even have to plunge it down and inject it manually, you hold a little button and it just does it for you in one second. Bonkers.

Honestly its great though because I was afraid of adding another dread to my shot days but now I know this will be a nonissue