Ozempic and restricton

I have a history of restrictive eating since I was a teenager. I am now in menopause so yeah its been a lifetime. There has been a lot of emotional trauma in the last few years and combined with menopause (and some genetics 😆) I put on weight. I am currently taking Ozempic and am losing weight at a decent pace nothing crazy. The thing is I am eating under what me TDEE recommends. But getting anywhere close to what they recommend I get really uncomfortable. Like I am eating too much. I do have protein drinks and add plenty of berries and spinach. My partner constantly aske if I am hungry because I haven't eaten. I will say "no but I DO need to eat" so I will have a small portion which is still filling. I weigh it out and track it in MyFitnessPal. Food noise has always been an issue and Oz helps with that.

Looking at high protein recipes and seeing the calorie count makes me stop in my tracks. Terrifying. I am not using the Ozempic to look a certain way, but to help me get to a healthy weight. I just don't know if its causing me to slide back into somewhat disordered eating? Is it even disordered eating?

TW: PURGING. My 14 year old sister has over the past few months lost a considerable amount of weight. At first my parents didn’t see anything too wrong with it because my sister used to be bullied for her weight and they thought she just decided to start working on herself. I quickly noticed within just 3 weeks of her starting to workout she would weigh herself multiple times a day. So I took the scale away (I’m an adult not just an annoying sister). My parent gave it back to her but only in the mornings she was allowed to weigh herself. I thought it was stupid that they even allowed it. Fast forward to now. She is unrecognizable. She is gaunt. Her doctor even told her that she is done losing weight or else they will have to have a serious talk about counseling or therapy. My sister barely eats and works out for 2 hours every single day and on top of that goes on extremely long walks. Her camera roll is all body checking pictures and pictures of her so called “meals” that aren’t nourishing at all. She hasn’t gotten her period in 4 months and yes I know periods are irregular in the first few years but she was getting it consistently maybe a few weeks late here and there but ever since she lost all her weight she hasn’t gotten a period. Just yesterday my parents caught her making herself throw up her food. She says this is only the second time she’s done it but I don’t believe her. I want to help her and my mom is looking into therapies but this feels like a race against time and I have a feeling we are running out. What is the next best step?

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i’ve had my fair share with food problems in the past and had an ed during covid. i’ve healthily gained back the weight throughout the years and learned that fueling yourself is really important. i also love exercising! i’m actually very proud of myself and how far i’ve come because i used to eat out then come home and just eat even if i was stuffed because i had the all or nothing mindset. i’ve now fully thrown away the all or nothing because it did more harm than good.. and right now i don’t have food noise BUT there’s just some days where the food noise comes back and stays for the whole day. i saw someone on tiktok saying once you have an ed then recovered, the food noise never really goes away. and i just need advice on if anyone else has had or has a similar situation.

I don’t have much else to say other than that I feel like I (20F) either have to never lose weight or never recover. I’m normal in all regards, never have been diagnosed anorexic or bulimic, but have struggled with terrible thoughts about my weight and body for as long as I can remember. I often develop bad habits when losing weight, like constantly weighing myself, measuring myself, over-restricting, body checking, and shaming old photos where I’m heavier. However, when I’m not trying to lose weight, I feel like I can’t even moderate without this terrible shameful feeling that I’m not trying hard enough. Or I find myself feeling like I’m giving into bad habits. I guess I just feel like I can’t win? When I lose weight I feel bad and when I don’t I feel worse. Some days I feel like I can’t ever lose weight without going way too far and making myself miserable, but my current size makes me miserable. How do I even start to fix this? Is it fixable? Please give me any advice you can think of, and please be kind because I’m new to discussing this. I hope everyone is having a great day!

Hey guys. I’m (21F) been having some trouble with my eating habits and being underweight for the past six years. I’ve never been diagnosed with any eating disorder or any mental health issues, but my appetite and eating habits have created a lot of challenges for me to gain more weight. I weigh less than I did when I was 14, and I haven’t weighed more than that since then. I struggle a lot with eating three meals a day, and when I do, I get full very very fast and I feel like throwing up. I lack interest in eating until I’m very hungry and I absolutely need to, I’ve never done this and starved myself on purpose, I always just lack an appetite. I don’t do any sports and I haven’t been working out recently, but I’ve tried doing an exercise schedule and I feel like still that didn’t work for me. I’m very insecure and I hate the way I look whenever I look in the mirror or see pics of myself. I don’t wanna just jump to the conclusion that “there’s smth wrong with me and i have a disorder” but there’s a possibility. I feel like I can get some tips by figuring out my position w/ my eating a little more and create steps to get out of this. Idk, Im just asking for advice on how to get through this and what this problem may be because it’s been difficult for me to get through on my own. Where should I start with figuring this out?

edit: I want to clarify, whenever I lack an appetite is because I’m very anxious or it can be for no reason at all.

i just dont know what to do anymore. i just want to feel confident in my body. every single day its just constant noise about food and exercising since i was 12. and this entire time, i havent even really lost weight. i starve for days and i binge and every single time i think its going to be different but it never is. i tried doing things the healthy, sustainable way and i would still overeat every single day. I have adhd and it makes it really hard to ignore cravings and once i start i just cant stop. my body is all that i think about. i am constantly comparing myself and i always feel so disgusting. and i know i would feel so beautiful if i could just be skinnier. even just a little bit. but i dont know what to do anymore because i know this will never work and everything i try ends up the same so i just go back to starving because it feels safer for some reason. i feel like im reaching a breaking point. i just want to feel good about myself but when i try to lose weight or body recomp in a healthy way i end up relapsing.

Hey everyone! Throwaway account hence no karma yet lol.

I’m a twin (both girls) and my sister struggled with anorexia in the past.. I want to say 20-22 years old, we are now both 31. She is currently pregnant and I can’t help but be concerned especially with her history you know.. like is she going to suffer while her belly grows? She’s been doing really great since recovering but I’m still concerned at the back of my mind, I understand how much of a slippery slope this could be.

I’m soon to be 18 and have struggled with weight and developed an eating disorder when I was 11/12.

Firstly will give a bit of a backstory on my eating disorder.

Pretty much immediately after joining secondary school I developed an eating disorder, I was never big to start off with, but just had baby fat. Looking back I don’t know what started it, whether it was being around a mum that talked a lot about diets, being insecure or just trying to have something consistent in my life.
So I would say 2020-2024 was the “worst part” of it for me, as over those years most days I’d be eating either one meal or none, but with a few binge eating episodes in between that, so I did get very skinny, it wasn’t healthy but luckily it wasn’t life threatening due to the binge eating adding weight back on.

Unfortunately my household wasn’t a nice place, so I feel I should’ve seen doctors etc during this time but my parents never noticed/cared enough to “look out for me”.

2024-now has been a lot smoother I guess you could say, I actually wanted to recover and went into therapy (without my parents knowing) to help with it.
I was sick of being sick basically, constant headaches, the bloating which made me feel even more insecure, it made my mental health awful alongside living in my home, my school work was progressively getting worse, and I was just an easily irritated teenager and I’m still happy I helped myself.

2025 I was an ideal weight, healthy but also still had a flat stomach and definition, had a bigger butt and boobs than I had ever had, my confidence was definitely a lot better also, as I stopped wearing baggy clothes everywhere, and would wear just sports bras and shorts to dance which I would’ve never done before. Despite me being bigger than I ever was.

But ever since starting college in late 2025-now I am constantly gaining weight and can’t seem to get rid of it. I’m studying musical theatre and I thought due to the amount of dance I’d be doing I’d loose weight, but I actually keep on getting fatter and I seem to not do anything about it.

I have very bad ADHD and if I don’t have college or dance I will lay in bed and that’s it.
I’m not exaggerating.
I don’t see friends unless I have a party or have been asked to go out, which is rare as if there are plans it’s me making them.
So due to my ADHD I never work out ever. It’s so frustrating to try and explain ADHD to people because I literally cannot get up and do anything.
Or if I do go to the gym it’s because I’ve had a mental breakdown about getting fatter and gone to the gym once and then never again after.
And similar with the diet, I can’t keep consistent to a diet and every time I try to, I always fall back into Eating disorder habits and can’t seem to have a diet without not eating enough or restricting too much.

And unfortunately during recovery I never seemed to get rid of the binge eating habit, I binge eat all the time and I think that may have been one of the may reasons I’ve gained so much weight.

Don’t get me wrong most days I’m happy I’ve gained weight. I still have a slight hour glass figure and have even bigger boobs and a butt lol and also it’s helped me become stronger in dance. (Being insecure with my weight at dance is a whole other story)
It’s weird how much more confident I am despite the fact I’m a lot bigger, I wear whatever I want to wear and eat whatever I want (to a certain extent). I think it’s because my college friends are amazing, and always compliment me and they’ve really brought me out of a dark place. (It’s also a huge fake it till you make it situation when it comes to confidence)
But I do believe if old me woke up the weight I am now she wouldn’t have even left the house.

I have such a fear I will never be able to loss weight without going full blown anorexic again because of my
-messed up metabolism
-messed up brain
-unmedicated adhd
-and straight up laziness and bad mental health

I’m sorry that this ended up turning into a big trauma dump and mental breakdown
I’m still feel so young sometimes and it sucks growing up without proper support so please help a girl out.
Any tips and slapping sense into me is much appreciated.

Also one more thing, I also have no clue whether it’s body dysmorphia because if I tell myself that I have body dysmorphia then do I even have it because I’m aware???

I saw a comment and just wondering what your experiences have been with this. I have severe CPTSD and lifelong revictimizations, contamination and rumination OCD (among other predominant types), medical trauma, and adult abuse and trauma (ongoing), chronic illnesses, and suspected ARFID/anorexia/OSFED presentation. I find therapy really difficult and it took me six therapists to find one suitable for trauma alone. Struggling with eating on top of it all and wondering if this will be another insurmountable mountain I'll have to climb.

I’ve been in recovery for a solid 4 years of good intuitive eating. I expected the intense hunger cues to last for a while and they’ve certainly gotten better but I still don’t feel ‘normal’. I usually sense hunger in my head and it often comes on suddenly after feeling completely full for a couple hours after I’ve eaten. I tend to feel a little light headed, out of it, struggle to think clearly, and the need to eat feels urgent. If I’m exercising at all (including just a walk) when this comes on I also feel sweaty and like I might pass out. If I exercise too soon (within 30 minutes) after eating this also happens. I started taking inositol and it has maybe helped a little bit?

I’m curious if anyone else who has been in recovery for years still has problems like this and any advice in managing it? I’ve looked into insulin resistance and reactive hypoglycemia and the advice all seems to be eat balanced meals with protein and fat, lose weight, exercise. I’m not trying to lose weight but I feel like I do everything else so feeling a little stuck. I’m gonna work with a dietitian and my doctor on this but wanted to hear from the community to see if I wasn’t alone in this. Also I wasn’t acutely restricting for that long, only about a year or so so I’m just surprised that 4 years out I still feel so impacted by these symptoms.