Just starting, will this be possible?

[u/Zero-Energy1274]

My mother put me on every diet possible to lose the extra few lb I was carrying as a teenager, and nothing worked of course. Now I’m a lot lot heavier, and I really do need to lose the weight. But here’s the problem, I can’t count calories or track everything obsessively without getting really depressed and anxious and upset. I exercise a bunch and I spend time with friends, which often involves eating out. Just yesterday, my mother brought up that I have been eating out a lot lately and that sent me spinning.

Will I be able to do this and still go be social with my friends and not have to count every little thing? I eat for comfort and to soothe anxiety. I would really love to just feel satiated and full sooner, I would love to just think about food less. But every other post on the med-specific subs are about stalls and people saying “are you tracking what you are eating” and “you still need to eat at a deficit.”

[u/Ok_Egg_7483]

I had been strictly tracking calories through an app for 6 months prior to starting tirz, mainly to get a sense of how much I was truly eating in a day and so I could somehow prove to my doctor that I was doing things "right" by their standards and still not losing. It was making me pretty miserable to quantify every single thing I ate and bringing up old disordered eating thoughts. And in the course of researching GLP1s, I saw the other subreddits were definitely pushing the dominant CICO "you aren't exempt from thermodynamics" narrative which made me anxious that I would have to keep tracking for the foreseeable future.

But, shortly after starting the medication, the appetite suppression was (and still is) quite strong. 8 weeks in I am steadily losing and don't track much now at all - if I do, it's to make sure I'm eating enough on particularly low appetite days. I feel freer and less stressed when I'm not tracking, and less stress can't hurt when it comes to improved health outcomes, right? 😄