My Journey on Hers

I've used the website Hers to get my antianxiety meds for a couple of years, and I just started their weight loss medication. . hw: 240lbs cw:190lbs

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I'm starting my weight loss journey!

I went through the options available on the website that I use to get my anxiety medication and landed on one of their medication kits that combine a few different things. Here's what I'll be using:

Bupropion XL. (Curbs cravings and controls appetite, this is the generic brand of Wellbutrin XL.)

Metformin ER. (Controls blood sugar.)

Naltrexone. (Curbs cravings and controls appetite.)

Topiramate. (Controls appetite and reduces body fat.)

Vitamin B12. (Additional supplement added.)

[The combination of Bupropion and Naltrexone is what Contrave is.]

I'll be keeping a blog so I can have somewhere to keep track of things. I also do a lot of hiking, hot yoga, and am getting into a diet of whole foods plant-based and reducing the amount of processed foods I am eating.

Wish me luck on my journey!

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Been a little bit since an update.

Just the usual. I've been doing some baking and having fun bringing the majority to my friends and coworkers and having a small portion at home for myself so that I don't just have a huge amount at home to pick at constantly. It's definitely been a good balance to still feel like I can bake without it leading to a massive binge.

Weigh in: 186.6

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Weigh in: 188! I'm feeling it so much now, I went and got another pair of jeans in a smaller size because my last pair were too big. (I'm only really keeping one pair that fit me because it isn't worth buying a whole new wardrobe until I really get into a size that I'll be staying at long term.)

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I baked some scones! I honestly have avoided doing bigger baking things because I would go ham eating all of the things (and the batch was twice the amount of this photo). But I saved three for myself, and portioned out the rest to gift to my friends who were really excited to get some freshly baked goods.

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There's a million blackberry bushes everywhere I go.

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It's hot as balls and I also really wanted chocolate. So I made a banana nice cream bowl with some chocolate peanut butter granola, both of which are absolutely amazing. My friend gave me some homemade bourbon vanilla extract and I put a tiny bit of that into the banana nice cream (which is just frozen bananas, oat milk, a little bit of chocolate powder, and this extract) and it is HEAVEN!

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I got one of those bags of salad with the toppings and dressings all together that you mix at home, and it was supposed to be a lettuce salad but is definitely 99% cabbage. 😂 I'll still eat it, of course, but I was kind of looking forward to a leafy salad.

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There's a vegan food truck that I haven't been to in forever and they were open when I happened to be in town. Their portions are absolutely MASSIVE and I'm also surprised that I used to eat all this in one sitting as just one meal, because looking at this now just makes me realize how off my relationship with food was.

This time I ate until I felt full (about half ish), separated the sauce off the top so that when I went to reheat the rest later I wouldn't have to have hot tzatziki sauce.

Absolutely delicious!

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Weigh in: 190.2 lbs

LITERALLY 0.2 POUNDS AWAY FROM 190! I haven't been 190 in years!! And when I was I had such a horrific relationship with food and my body. It is so amazing to be in this same spot that I used to be but in such a healthier mindset.

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Caved and got a chirp halo unit to try out. Between me, my husband, my mom, and my friend, we all have problem areas that a TENS/EMS unit could help us with. Anyway, just tried it out on my shoulder and it felt nice! Not sure how long the relief lasts since I've never used one before, but even if I have to use it everyday it's worth it

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And another weigh in! 192! I'm down a total of 38 pounds since I started this whole program and have been steadily losing a pound or two a week. Wild that I'll soon be under 190!!

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Weigh in! I haven't been able to weigh in for a bit since the only scale I have access to is at work and I've been on vacation. But I'm finally back and got to see where I'm at. 194! Woo hoo! I'm pretty happy that things are still slowly trending downward.

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I ended up going on a fantastic camping trip with my friend and taking some time off of work, and while I've stuck to my good eating habits like 80% of the time, I haven't had access to a scale in a while. So it'll be interesting at the end of the week when I go back to work and weigh in again after three weeks.

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I did a great two hour hot yoga workshop that only focused on arm balances so I could get better at those. My arms and shoulders are SCREAMING and I have little bruises already forming on my triceps from where my knees were sitting a little too hard on them. Oops.

But afterwards I was absolutely starving and got a vegan bacon burger from a food truck and it was so good! I probably should have had more to eat before the class, but ah well. I'll have to plan on waking up earlier for the next one so I have more time.

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I haven't been posting a ton cause it just feels like nothing exciting has happened. Just the normal day to day. Today I was fairly bloated? But otherwise it was just an average day. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Weigh in! I'm officially down 30 pounds! 30 whole pounds!! Hang on while I go run around the room screaming for a minute.

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Last week was a mess (our work went on strike), I just started my period and I'm super crampy, I have had so many things planned last week and week that I could only get to yoga once last week and might only make it to one this week (I like two a week). I've still been cooking most of my meals at home but they are most definitely as lazy as possible lately. But I got more fresh fruit and veg on the way home from work this morning so I'll try to make something fresher tonight and get back to how I was eating a few weeks ago because I was really enjoying it.

I feel a little guilty that my exercise, food, and health kind of took a backseat this last week and a half but there are going to be times that's going to happen, I guess. Now that things have calmed down again I can get back into the things I've been enjoying about my weight loss journey.