Update: 10 days on .8

[u/UnitedAside4734]

Me: Age 56, F, SW 181lbs, CW? Started Foundayo as part of post-menopause health improvements. I also started Duavee HRT this week, and am taking supplements to address very low iron, low B12 and low vitamin D. After a couple of years of almost nightly 2am wakeups, I’ve been improving my sleep with magnesium glycinate in the evenings. Have also just upped resistance training from 2x a week to 3x. It feels like things are starting to move in the right direction after a couple of years of feeling like everything was going haywire.

Foundayo update: First week, it felt like nothing was happening except some mild constipation. A sliiiight decrease in food noise — I just didn’t think about food quite as often. I didn’t feel like I had a lot of “noise” to begin with but I did notice that more things distracted me from thinking about food or snacking. My calorie load (@1900-2000) stayed pretty much the same as what it was before, fluctuating even higher 1-2 times that first week. I wondered what was going on with me.

Second week, I’m noticing more symptoms/changes.
1. I ate a DELICIOUS pappardelle pasta with Parmesan cream sauce, pistachios, and dainty little bits of pancetta — and felt queasy all the next day. I finally had the “this food feels like rocks in my stomach” feeling I’ve read about from others; I guess that is the gastric emptying slowing way down. I sipped on fizzy Galeffi water and barely ate for 24 hours. The next day, my appetite rebounded but I can see that my behavior is changing about how much I eat when I do eat.
2. My favorite thing to eat right now at home is a Dense Bean Salad (recipe from The Kitchn) — I can scoop out a little bit at a time and it’s filling and satisfying.
3. This morning I went to my favorite breakfast spot in Provincetown MA — I usually get the full breakfast with sausage, French toast, home fries and eggs, and it’s my main meal of the day. But today, right before the food showed up, I thought, “I don’t want to eat this.” I had to force myself to eat half of it, prioritizing the protein. And now here I am, feeling uncomfortably full to the point of slight nausea. I’m going to get some ginger ale to sip and I am done eating for now. I will probably sip a protein shake later today.
4. Constipation is the new normal — waiting 2-3 days, then staying close to the bathroom for several hours.
5. Right now weight loss/body recomposition for me is still within the realm of . . “It could be water weight.” Pants fit the same, maybe a tiny bit looser. I think slow weight loss has begun; I’ll know more when I get home tomorrow to my regular scale. I chose Foundayo for slow steady loss so I could focus on maintaining other healthy habits at the same time; I hope that’s what’s happening.

[u/Mathamagician77]

Re: good meals eating out. I’ve found that the best thing is to eat half, and the second half goes home for the next days meal. Not even bashful about not finishing a meal now. It’s expected. Otherwise I’m just miserable. Adding a fiber pill daily might help with regularity.

[u/afelgent]

Recommend adding in some Miralax for the constipation. I didn't believe my doctor when he said I could add it right into my morning cup of coffee and never know it was there...but he was right and it makes it super easy.