#1159 Weight Loss Diary: Ten

March 27, 2024Scott Benner

The tenth installment of my weight loss series. I've now switched to Zepbound.

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Hello friends and welcome to episode 1159 of the Juicebox Podcast

Welcome back everyone who's following my weight loss journey I know we've been calling this week govi diary like number one number two etc last one was we go read up we go very last one was we go V diary number nine except I'm not on Weibo V anymore. So we're going to call it Zep bound diary. Now, where am I going to change it to weight loss diary GLP weight loss diary. I don't know, I'll figure it out. Nothing you here on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan. If you're a US resident who has type one diabetes, or is the caregiver of someone with type one, the T one D exchange is looking for you. And they would like you to fill out a survey, it is just a 10 minute survey. They want to ask you one question you don't already know the answer to T one D exchange.org/juicebox. Go do that you'll help other people living with type one diabetes, you might help yourself, you're definitely going to be supporting me. And you're going to be doing a good thing. T one D exchange.org/juicebox. If you all went and did it right now, you'd never have to hear about this again.

This episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by Dexcom dexcom.com/juicebox. Get the brand new Dexcom G seven with my link and get started today. Welcome back, everybody. It is January 13. This is my I think second Saturday injection check in. I've moved my injection date from Tuesdays to Saturdays. And of course, I've moved my medication from we go V 2.4 to zero bound. And I'm starting with the five milligram I think when we look Yep, five milligrams. Apparently it goes up, like seven and a half 10. I go up to 15. I'm not sure. But I got the five here. As you all know, if you don't know, I guess I should say, Go listen to the other nine diaries about my journey with weego V from March of 2023. Until January of 2024, where I've lost just about 38 3940 pounds, it was dancing around there, I was putting all along back and forth. I had, as they say in the business plateaued. And that plateau went on for quite some time. And so I asked my doctor about options, and she switched me to zap bound. Zap bound, of course, is the weight loss version of Manjaro. No. And they of course are the same exact drug just branded differently for insurance purposes, and dosing reasons. I am here to report that I have weighed in this morning. But before I tell you about that weigh in, let me tell you about this first week on zap bound now this is after being on bigoli for quite some time obviously. I didn't have a ton of like changes in my body. I did start going to the bathroom more frequently than I was in the last few weeks with we go up the bathroom being the number two poo you understand I'm saying and so that frequency I think helped keep things moving. And my stomach feels emptier than it did on egoriy I don't know exactly how to explain this yet. When I started we go V i got it started with this full feeling like it felt like food almost stopped like eight inches below my neck that went away eventually. And now with that bound when I wake up in the morning, I have an actual hunger in my stomach like my stomach's churning. Like it's empty and I can feel it. It's not like mentally dragging me to the kitchen or anything. But oh my god, I should eat for sure. But this is my first physical sign of hunger because Enrico via didn't have many physical signs of hunger. Today's episode of the podcast is sponsored by Dexcom and I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about the continuous glucose monitor that my daughter wears the Dexcom G seven the Dexcom G seven is small. It is accurate and it is easy to use. And where Arden has been wearing a Dexcom G seven since almost day one of when they came out and she's having a fantastic experience with it. We love the G six but man is the G seven small the profile so much closer to your body the weight, you can't really feel it and that's coming from me and I've worn one. I've worn a G six I've worn a G seven I found both of the experiences to be lovely. But my gosh is that G seven and tiny and the accuracy has been fantastic Arden's Awan C's are right where we expect them to be. And we actually use the Dexcom clarity app to keep track of those things. That app is built right in to Arden's Dexcom G seven app on her iPhone. Oh, did you not know about that, you can use an iPhone or an Android device to see your Dexcom data. If you have a compatible phone, your Dexcom goes right to the Dexcom app, you don't have to carry the receiver. But if you don't want to use the phone, that's fine. Use the Dexcom. receiver, it's up to you. Choice is yours with Dexcom dexcom.com/juicebox. Anyway, I weighed myself this morning. Now last week, on the sixth of January, I weighed 294.8 pounds. Today, on the 13th 192.6 pounds. Now I don't know how you guys are with the math 194.8 192.6. That's 2.2 pounds, my little friends. I don't know the last time I lost two pounds in a week. Let me go all the way back to the beginning. My first week of weego VI was to 33.4. And then I went down to 32.6. That is not quite two pounds. The following week, I went to to 29.4. So the following week, yeah, to 29 to 3031 32. I lost like 3.2 pounds that week. All right, fair enough. Well, geez, if I lose three pounds next week, that'd be crazy. Anyway, I was saying to a friend this morning who listens to this. So hey, Vicki, how are you? I was saying to her friend this morning, that the first 40 pounds are like life changing for me. But these last, what I expect to be 15 pounds, I think are going to be just mind numbing. I look really hard at myself in the mirror today. And I can see places where I am. I'm fat. Like it's not like, Oh, you could lose some weight Scott or blah blah, like there's, you know, deposits, bags of fat on the front of me still a bag, there's a bag of fat on my stomach. So I'm holding it in my hands right now. It's talking to you. Hello. I'm squeezing like Jim Carrey in that movie. What do you do with this, but I'm doing it with my belly. So I've got what I would consider to be four handfuls of fat on my stomach, like the equivalent of once that's gone. I don't have I don't I can't think of another place on my body where I'm going to be like, Oh my god, this is unhealthy. So then I think it's going to really turn into a maintenance and, you know, strengthening situation. But let's go through my other numbers, which I have not looked at yet. I'm gonna look at them with you right now. Let's see what the Renfro scale said happened to be this week. Well, obviously my weight dropped. My BMI went from 28.8 to 20.5. Body fat 26.4 to 25.8. My body water measurement went up significantly. About that. From 53 to 53.6 doesn't usually climb like that. That's so interesting over this last week, it's gone up really drastically. Same with skeletal muscle 47.5 47.9. I BMR dropped from 1778 to 1769. That free bodyweight. Wow. 140 3.6 to 140 2.8. That's like a half a pound there. subcutaneous fat 23.1 to 22.4 Ooh, my visceral fat dropped for the first time and for Hold on a second. Damn. Last time I visceral fat dropped it dropped from 13 to 12. On September 8, it has been riding at 12 that whole time. Now it's 11. We take that we like that. Muscle mass is holding 130 5.8 from 130 6.4 bone mass holding 7.2 protein rows 16.7 to 16.9 and metabolic age. Well, that's still 56 and I'm 52 Or we're getting there, right? Anyway, I still got a long way to go well on the main screen. I'm tracking all those things just easily color coded green, blue, yellow, red, you know, levels of okay adness I have, let's see of the 369 1213 things it's tracking. I am now in the green and seven of them. Yellow still in three, which you know, they're the big ones subcutaneous BMI and weight. And my body fat, of course is still in the red at 25.8%. All right. Well, there's a lot more green than yellow and in red, so that's good. But my weight, my BMI, my subcutaneous fat and my body fat are all you know, I'm obese still, I've lost 40.8 pounds. Since I started this thing. I've lost 9.2% body fat. My BMI has gone down. 6.1 and I'm still obese. Okay, well, I'll see you next Saturday. I'm zip bound and down, loaded up and trucking. We're going to do what they say can't be done. Hey, nobody steal that. And Eli Lilly, if you're listening, you go get the rights to that song. And don't cut me in your mother. That's right. You know east bound down from what does that is that the I have to shoot the bounce. So is that the what is that? The band? What goddamn movie? Am I thinking of what Burt Reynolds? How come I can't fit? Oh my god, hold on a second. Burt Reynolds is smoking the bandit. God dammit. I can't believe it. I typed it in and then I remembered it. Now you feel like I looked it up. spoke in the back. There's that song Eastbound and Down. Right. Well. Let's find the lyrics is found and lyrics. God bless Google unless they're stealing our souls. Jerry Reed Eastbound and Down loaded up in trucking. We're going to do what they say can't be done. We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.

I'm eastbound just watch old bandit, Ron. Here's what you do. You change eastbound zip bound. It's genius. Right zip bound and download love and truck and we're going to do what they say can't be done. We've got a long way to go in a short time to get there. I'm zip bound just watch little Scottie run. Alright, let's shoot this thing. Seriously, Lily, spend the money. sell those AP round. Cut me in. That was genius, also by an ad. Alright, so this one's different than the GUI. You guys. I did it one time before I'm gonna do it again. Last time we got a little drop of blood at the end. But it was the teeniest tiniest little bit didn't hurt really. So you pop the cat

and then you put the little thing on the belly which of course we still have to get my glasses on because I don't want to hit alright, I can't believe I'm saying this. I don't want to hit a stretch mark they they can not feel good. All right, I got a spot. I'm gonna use the lucky spot from last week was worth 2.4 2.2 pounds. You hold that on there. Then there's a little lock on the end you click the lock lock is now unlocked. But the business on the Jimmy, some of you like send me like it doesn't hurt. And I'm like, No, but if it did, who cares? 40 pounds ready

let's go. A little bit of pressure. You don't feel the needle you feel the pressure the juice going in. But that's that life Givens that bound juice? Who cares? And I got no blood this time. I'm out. January 20. It's a Saturday I'm here. I have my little app in front of me. I go back to the sixth. Just to tell you that on the sixth of January. I was 190 4.8 then of course you heard from me on the 13th now on the 13th I was 190 2.6 That's a week ago today. I thought wow, this is great. Like motion, right? Do you want to guess how much I weighed today? Well, this morning, I was one 90.8 And two days ago hit a low of 190 but another guy ate enough the day before so I ate a little more you know had some more protein and everything and whatever anyway one 90.8 versus the 13th when I was 190 2.6 that is just about two pounds in a week on this EP bounder not bad at all. Not bad at all. Body fat fell. I think a significant amount point for body water rising skeletal muscle rising from last week. From 47.9 to 48.2. All right, what else we got here fat free body weight is down from 142 Eight to 142 to subcutaneous fat down from 22.4 to 22.1 visceral fat stayed the same. Doing well here. Okay, listen. Let me tell you what I know so far about this outbound from this week. Good job with my hunger was never hungry. I still experienced that empty or feeling when there's nothing in my stomach but it's not painful. It's not like oh no, you know, just I can lay down and feel like oh, there's not a lot going on in my stomach right Up, bathroom being consistent every day. That's good. And I've eaten a cup my wife's 50th birthday was this week. We had cake. I think I had sorbet two nights ago. Last night for dinner I had rice and like a concoction of rice, steak, shrimp and chicken that I sauteed up, made myself. What else have I been eating a lot of eggs. I eat a lot of eggs in the morning. I don't even scramble them. I whip them up and then I kind of put them in the pan flat and instead of fluffing them I fold them so almost like a fat omelet. I mixed in some sausage once this week with it had bacon once this week. I don't need a lot of vegetables had some salad. Shrimp. Fair amount of shrimp. coconut yogurt. What else did I eat this week. Trim coconut yogurt shrimp. Something out the freezer can't think of what I took it out of the freezer. Anyway, I'm not hungry. I look great. All the weight that I've lost over the last couple of weeks has come out of my midsection. I got no complaints. We're going to try zip bound again today of course. five milligrams pop off the cap. Cap is off. Look down at my ever shrinking belly. Choose a spot. I could use a glasses for this. My spectacles. Want to make sure I can see what I'm doing. Oh, I see a spot I like all right, turn off the lock. Cross your fingers and hope for two more pounds. If I get into the 180s That's gonna be insane. I genuinely don't know the last time I weighed 180 something pounds. I have no idea. I 20 years old maybe has to be I don't think I've ever been this low. You can see a real let me shoot this little tight. Hold on ready. That was a little pinchy. Whatever. I mean, up until the Zep bound where I've got motion again. And I mean, you know, five pounds lighter than I was like three weeks ago, may have lost weight everywhere. But I'm starting to see like, definition in my thighs. That's crazy. And weight is still coming out of my midsection. And my um, what would you call this here? side boob? Yeah, that's almost completely gone. I almost don't have any side boob. Pretty impressive. I know. Fat on my back is going away. I still have a little love handle stuff here. But mostly it's love handle. I'm squeezing myself as I'm talking to you. So I can tell you love handles, belly from like, sternum down. I have more of like a hanging belly than like, turtle shell classic, like your belly. You know, I think I described it as like four handfuls the fat the other day. It still is but it's for smaller handfuls, the loose skin on the inside of my thighs is disappearing. And the loose skin under my arms and to Mike like, under my bicep. Like when you make the Popeye thing back into my armpit. There was a lot of hang there, but there's significantly less. I can't tell you how excited I am to like, I wish I could fast forward two months right now I'd love to see where I'm gonna be. Anyway, have a great weekend. Arms up bound and down. Saturday again, kids. Today is January 27. I am Scott. And this is my zip bound diary. I don't have a lot of deep thoughts this week. Other than Well, I went to get a pair of glasses today to you know, place I've been going forever actually happened to know the doctor. So I don't see him very often, but we're friendly. He knows who I am, you know more than just a little bit. And I walked in and the guy at the counter. He looks up he goes Hello. He looks again. He goes Scott Hello. And I said hey, how are you? And he said, have you lost weight? And I said yes. And he goes since I've seen you last and I said yeah. He said Oh you look great. Thank you very much. And we started having this conversation turns out the lady behind the counters using we go we've no ozempic for her type two diabetes. She's only been using it for about five weeks. We spoke for a while I gave her some pointers. Then the doctor comes out of the back. Oh my gosh, I haven't seen him in a little bit. He looks at me and he goes, Scott, you look like a completely different person. And he's not wrong. It was really nice to hear. Today is the 27th as I said I have lost points 6.8 almost a pound since last week. I was one 90.8 on the 20th Today I'm 180 9.4 You have no idea But yesterday I was 180 8.61 88.6 I couldn't believe when it went to 188. Anyway, I don't have a lot to say other than somebody said, I looked like a whole new person. I told them, I feel like a whole new person. I explained what I was doing. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed. It was nice to be able to educate people, instead of listening to them say the rather, ill informed stuff I hear about these GLP medications from people who just want to say stuff like you should try harder, have some willpower, stuff like that. People who don't get the big picture. Anyway, I got some Zep bound here. five milligrams. Got to put it in the belly right now. kept coming off. Unlocking the pen. Looking for that spot? Who calls out look? I just touched it with my dirty finger. Now I can't use it. Different spot. You're like what's on your finger? I'll tell you this. Right? On the spot looks good. But it's dark in here. I want to make sure there's no stretch marks. Don't like to shoot the needle through a stretch mark. That's not good. I don't have like crazy stretch marks. But you know, better safe than sorry. Okay, body still reshaping very nicely. I look terrific and close. I've had to start wearing like a little bit of a compression shirt to I don't know, I think that's vanity actually, because I don't actually have to, but I'm trying to train my body to you know what I mean? Tighten up. Anyway, is that bound five milligrams in 4321. All done, baby. All done. This week. There was a meal like a big meal. Other than that, I was pretty good. I don't think I eat enough food this week, if I'm being honest. So I'm going to try to rectify that get back on a good way. I think what happened was my wife's 50th came up, we went to a restaurant, and I ate some stuff. I was like, I shouldn't eat that. And then the next day I kind of like didn't need to make up for it, which wasn't the right thing to do. I should just get back on my schedule. So I'll do that tomorrow. I promise I will wake up. Have me a couple of eggs and get my day on the way. I will see you in a week. I'm set bound and down. February 3 I did what I said I was going to do I ate more eggs for breakfast. Add some protein with it a number of times this week. I did just eggs with shrimp like precooked shrimp. They were from another meal. I did eggs with

I don't think I had bacon this week. No, but I feel like I had something else at one point. Maybe in a wrap. Might have put it in a wrap with mushrooms one time shrimp. Anyway, it was doing that for breakfast. Throughout the week. I had last night I had Chinese food. Not a ton of it. But I did. I had some generals chicken fried rice. And I had sorbet last night as well. Two days ago I had a cookie. And this week I also had chocolate at some point this week like a half of a

handful of like chocolate chips. They were good. I don't remember when dinners this week. We did pasta with sausage, meatballs. We did a shrimp thing like stir fry.

What else we do this week I cold sandwiches in one place at one point deli deli sandwiches. I ate them a couple of days this week because I like had one and I saved the rest of it. And I think I had pudding this week. Like when I was having a sweet moment. Think that's it. Anyway, wait, do you hear how much weight I lost? It's crazy. Let's not stretch it out. I weighed 188 pounds today that is 1.4 pounds less than last week. That's like a pound and a half almost. It's binoculars. I was gonna say redonkulous I don't know what happened there. March 28. I weighed myself for the first time came on here. And since then, that's 2023 Today's February 3 2024. I am 45.4 pounds less than I was on March 28. My BMI is down 6.8 and my body fat is down 10.2%. My visceral fat is an 11 now, which is like acceptable, acceptable, like it may be an acceptable fat free body weight. Now acceptable at 141 and a half. Got some other things here still getting a lot more green on this scale. Body water bone mass protein BMR muscle mass all green visceral fat, green fat free body weight green. still a ways to go on weight BMI subcutaneous fat body fat. My skeletal mass is climbing still just a little low. The next time it moves I'll be in a standard range. My metabolic Age Of course is still three years older than I am, which I don't love. Not for nothing. Another great week bumped into some more people I haven't seen in over a year, five minutes after they asked me how I was they were like, how do I get that? What is that? Exactly? They had type two diabetes, we're all interested in it. I'm going to go out today, I have to buy new pants again, I'm gonna go to a waist size that I don't think I've ever worn as an adult. That's incredible. Like, really crazy. Large T shirts that three weeks ago I thought oh, I shouldn't bought these too soon. And now they fit. This is just my own theory. But I've been wearing kind of restrictive undergarment like almost like a spandex, almost like as like a spandex shirt to hold my like midsection in I'm hoping that helps with like, you know, shrinkage and tightening. I really think I'm prepared to do some exercise. Finally, I've done a number of things around the house recently that have not resulted in any wind deadness no sore knees, no coughing, like really, my feet haven't hurt in a while. So I feel like I can get into that slowly. Eating was fine this week. Like I said, kind of a boring week here working. I don't think I was out this week. Besides the takeout last night that we had. Yeah, I didn't I don't think I was in a restaurant this week. Pretty much it really other than to say, I'm still a little put off by people saying you're gonna lose too much you have to stop, you know, then I have to point out to them. I am not healthy. Still, my body is not at a healthy size. I'm just thinner than you're used to seeing me. My face I think is holding up which is good. I don't have droopy skin on my face, which I guess I was a little concerned about when this all started but it hasn't been a problem. I'm seeing more tightening under my arms have loose skin inside of my thighs is tightening up more. All in all, it's going amazing. And I've lost. I mean, the Jumpstart from the switch from we go V TOS up bound is is hard to put into words but I think over seven pounds in what is it been six weeks now. That's beautiful. I have a lot of episodes coming up in the podcast with people with diabetes using GLP medications, type twos and type ones, they'll be spread out over the year. I really hope you catch them teasing out for you. One of them is a teenage girl who has had type one diabetes for three years and is down to now only injecting Basal insulin and the significant drop and even the Basal insulin is insane. Definitely a type one really, really cool story she'll be on well her mom will be on to tell us about it soon enough. I hope you check that out. If you're finding this and you don't normally listen to the podcast, you should probably try the Facebook group to Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes great conversations going on there about as epic and Manjaro No, we go visa bound GLP is etc. It's pretty much it kids. I'm going to shoot this and go live my life. Got some Zep bound here five Milly's. Take off the cap. Unlock the pen. Find a place. I don't want to move from the place I've been doing. Feels like it's good luck, though. I don't believe in that. though. I don't believe in that. I'm absolutely going to do that. All right, I'm set bound and down. Here I go. That was easy, wasn't it? Little blood that time. Little drop a dot? Boop. Boop. I gotta get a tissue. A tissue. You're not from Philly. You don't know that. But tissue. Oprah is Oprah. Bill Cosby, but I guess we don't talk about him anymore. Angles, water, Bagel, Wawa. Alright, there's another set bound in the trash. And another week on my way, hopefully of losing another pound and a half. I have adjusted my goals. Again, in my app, I've put my goal weight to 169. I don't know if I actually get there or not. But I had my goal previously set at 180. And I'm 188. Now figure well, pounds. Maybe I can get the 180 in a couple of months. Right? Maybe I'll be down this stuff's might be magic. You know, I want to mention, and I'll get out of here quick. I know it's not gonna work for everybody. And I hear people online like I saw somebody had a bowel obstruction and I saw and I'm like, I get it like everything's not going to work for everybody. If it's you tried it, it didn't work for you. I'm sorry, I really am. But to say you're gonna get a bowel obstruction. You know, because you heard it on the news once is a little ridiculous. We can't take into account Everything we don't know when people tell stories like that. That's why I'm trying to tell you everything I'm doing here, you know, what my situation was prior. If you already had gastroparesis, and you tried to use one of these drugs, I mean, I could see where you might end up with some real digestive issues, because your digestion is already, you know, very slow from the gastroparesis, and the medication slows it down more, you know, I can see where you could end up with, with a problem. You also don't know if people are supplementing correctly, if they're drinking enough water moving around enough. You don't get people's honest, sometimes you don't get their honest evaluation of what they were doing just I use this thing and then I had a problem doesn't work. See that all walks of life. But you know, before you go running around telling people not to do something or not even to look into it, you might want to have some real, either personal experience or, or listen to somebody who does. I've been using this now for a month shy of maybe two months shy of a year. Different GLP meds started with the we go V switch to zap bound about six weeks ago. Like I said, I'm 45 pounds down. The changes to my actual life are amazing. And I don't just mean like that I look better. I feel better. It's psychologically It's freeing. There's a lot going into this, my body's working better, my elimination works better. I'm retaining my nutrients more efficiently. But I'm also you know, I'm taking vitamins that drink at one I'm not just I didn't just inject the stuff and then head off to eat the way I you know, have a cheeseburger and go I can't believe this didn't work. I just did along with it. If you're interested in finding out more, I would if I was you and pressure your doctor, if they don't seem interested send them this if you like, you know don't sit idly by if you think this can help you give it a whirl. Okay, this is the last entry for this episode. And I have a surprise. Not a great surprise but an interesting one. So today should be February 10. Saturday, but I forgot to take my injection yesterday. So instead today is February 11. Sunday. Now yesterday I got up I was on the right path to jump on the scale. So I'd have my number. So when I recorded I know how much I weighed, weighed 187.8 pounds, which was just point two pounds fewer than the week prior on the third. I had a moment during the week where I was 187. But you know a pretty uneventful week as far as weight loss goes. I did start adding in bodyweight squats into my my routine this week. But other than that, not a lot. didn't really do much. I missed my breakfast a couple of times this week because I had to record early. So I was eating like twice a day instead of three times a day. probably drank more of most like carbonated water I have once in a while instead of regular water. Anyway, that's not where the surprises yesterday. Saturday I got up. My whole family kind of slept in and I did things i replanted

like plants into different pots. And then I got it into my head to make homemade potato chips for the Super Bowl today. So I spent a few hours cutting up you know, potatoes, soaking them salting, frying the whole thing like you know, it's, I find it relaxing. I'll probably have a handful of potato chips tonight. But I found it relaxing. I enjoy. This is not the point. The point is that I didn't eat breakfast. And then, you know, maybe two o'clock my wife and my son like we went out to lunch. And I had a half of a sandwich a half a Cubana sandwich. So what does that ham ham pork, right pork pickle piece of cheese, mustard. Bout peppers about like that right? At half of it. I couldn't eat the whole thing. It came with french fries. I had three French fries. And I had a bowl of lobster bisque. Not a big bowl. Came home. I had about 20 jelly beans in the afternoon. Somebody had jelly beans as their habit I jelly beans in law. And I had a little bit of sorbet at night. This was not a great eating day. This is not my point of telling the story. It's also not a bad eating day. He drank iced tea unsweetened during the day and might have had a can of diet soda at some point, because we were out thirsty and that's all that was available at this place. Again, this is not the point. You want to know what the point is. I woke up this morning I said oh I gotta do my injection. I want to record the episode I've gained. If you've been listening to this for a while you've heard me talk about that. I feel like I might have a GLP deficiency or something is being replaced by something in this GLP I haven't been able to explain it my entire Life I just eat like a normal person and I gained weight, right? So I didn't inject it on Saturday like I should have. So I'm at the end of a seven day like this meds basically out of my body now. And although I guess I shouldn't just say that I don't really know what the half life is, of the Med, maybe I should check before I say that out loud. Half Life bound. But I'm gonna guess. Yeah, here we go. This is from Lily. Time and body after discontinuation because the half life of desert Repatha, whatever they want to call it. It's a medical word is approximately five days. If you stop using it, it should be gone from your alone. It should be gone from your No, I'm not a healthcare professional. Can I just get on the page, please? Is it not going to give me the information because I'm not a healthcare professional? Come on, slowly. All right. So I had to go from the blurb on Google, but it looks like yeah, HalfLife, Manzano. Again, I'm here and five, it says five days here. So I'm shooting it every seven days, which probably means that the last two days are less efficacious to begin with. But by the seventh day, it's, I guess it's gone. Anyway. 180 7.8 Saturday morning, even though I didn't shoot the medication. This morning, I got up, went to the bathroom. So you know, offloaded anything I could 180 9.4 I weigh almost two pounds more today than I did yesterday. I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist. But that is something I saw my whole life. And this is the first time I've missed this medication. Since I began in March of 2023. Missed it, meaning didn't shoot it seven days, like I was supposed to. So this is the eighth day. And I know that was I just thought that was amazing. And you guys would enjoy this. This is gonna be the last entry into this episode. So I'm gonna put it up soon for you. And start a new one where you'll find out, I guess what happens seven days from now. So I'm gonna uncap the pen. Unlock the pen. By that little spot that I like to shoot Lynn on the other side today, I think there we go. In 321 Ooh, let's go that bound. Get in there do the good work. Anyway, the maze, not quite two pounds was a 1.6 pounds. But I just say that's a lot. I mean, I just didn't, I didn't eat as far as calories or quality of food goes or anything like that any, you know, anything that I haven't eaten while I was on the medication. So anyway, I'm set bounded up today. But I imagine the next time I talk to you, I will weigh probably three pounds less than this today. I guess we'll find out. Thanks so much for listening. I'll be back soon with another episode of The Juicebox Podcast.

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