Goal weight anxiety — need advice

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads.

Recovering from an eating disorder and using mental health: this is a complex situation and I want to be transparent about it.

I have a history of binge eating disorder. My psychiatrist, therapist, and prescribing doctor all collaborate on my care. The GLP-1 agonist has actually been therapeutic — it removes the biological urgency of binge impulses without relying on restriction.

This is NOT appropriate for all ED patients. Anorexia, bulimia, and restrictive EDs require different approaches. But for BED specifically, the evidence and my personal experience are positive. Always involve your mental health team.

JenPlateau said:

Recovering from an eating disorder and using mental health: this is a complex situation and I want to be transparent about it.

Mood changes on mental health: I want to be transparent — I went through a rough patch emotionally around month 2. Not depression exactly, but a weird flatness. Food was my main coping mechanism and without that, I had to develop new ones.

Therapy has been essential. I'd strongly recommend anyone starting GLP-1 therapy also invest in mental health support. The physical transformation is only half the journey.

JenPlateau said:

Recovering from an eating disorder and using mental health: this is a complex situation and I want to be transparent about it.

Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.

JenPlateau said:

Recovering from an eating disorder and using mental health: this is a complex situation and I want to be transparent about it.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.