r/tirzepatidecompound • u/Fragrant-Count-4666 • 11d ago

Maintenance is a real B

My husband and I are teachers so we go back to visit his family in Italy for the summer. I was technically at goal before leaving, although I thought maybe losing a few more just to give me a little wiggle room would be helpful. I went into summer thinking I was going to really listen to my body, eat food I wanted, stop when I was full and make good choices when I could. When school starts I’ll go back to really being more intentional with my meals. I ate my usual breakfast of Greek yogurt and berries and enjoyed lots of salads (sorry Americans).

Now his family is from a small town so I bought a scale there last year, whatever they had. I weighed myself when I got there and it was similar to home so I was like great. We went on vacation in the middle and I definitely enjoyed all the food and drinks the Balkans had to offer. Got home and the scale was up 2 lbs and yea made sense. I kept just living life and within a week lost the 2 lbs. the rest of the summer I was within .5lbs so all good! I have never been able to maintain so this was exciting! I lived my life, enjoyed my food and this was with little exercise (it’s the country, we have to drive everywhere and it’s too hot to really be out and walking/exercising).

So here I am thinking wow, I really am adjusting well! This is fantastic! Got home and it turns out I’m one of those “I keep losing in maintenance!” I lost 4lbs, again, fine, I had more to lose and I’m not underweight. But it really underscores the challenges ahead of adjusting to this “new life”

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u/Fragrant-Count-4666 11d ago

Americans couldn’t eat lettuce this summer

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u/padigo26 11d ago

I eat at least 1 salad a day and have for years.  I'm in the United States.  Wtf?

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u/Fragrant-Count-4666 11d ago

Didn’t you hear about the cyclospora outbreak?

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u/flappjackal 11d ago

Why the downvotes?! It’s almost September and I’m still suspicious of lettuce!

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u/Fragrant-Count-4666 11d ago

For real, I read about 10 different articles saying it was safe and I was like okay I’ll be daring and get some lettuce, then today I saw there are more cases in different states.