Day 13, is something happening?

I forgot to weigh myself this morning, but after drinking coffee and eating a little breakfast I weigh about the same. Yesterday afternoon and evening I had a small “halo” headache, meaning it was centered on top of my head, very mild, but it stuck around. It could be anything, but I made sure I was properly hydrated and nothing else was out of the ordinary, so….???

The other thing is, we took dinner to a friend who just had surgery and ate with them, and my appetite was minimal. I ate what most people would consider a normal portion. Other people ate a lot more, it might have been Wegovy-related. Or maybe not. It’s interesting. I am trying not to manifest anything, I am just taking the Wegovy and living my life and being observant.

Tomorrow is another low-dose day….25mg. Same as week 1 and week 2.

Day 11, golf was fun

Another day, another golf game. No change in appetite nor weight. I am assuming that the low dose I am at is just a primer for the real Wegovy experience. The way I started Wegovy was .25mg per injection. Each week opne injection, so at 28 days I bump the dosage up to .5mg for the following 4 weeks, then up again to 1mg, and possibly up to 1.7mg the following month. I understand that the dosage gets increased slowly because people have difficulty at higher dosages, and if a certain dosage is effective no further increases occur. Or something like that. I expect to have contact with my doctor at some point to monitor progress and side effects.

Now, golf. I have been playing once a week this summer and improvements are coming, slowly. It is an activity I enjoy regardless of my skill level, but who doesn’t want to be good at things? I bought a “chipper” club cheaply off Facebook, and it is kind of a little miracle. You strike the ball like a putter stroke, but it has a little loft to clear the taller grass just off the green, which is generally where I am. I had two putts for birdie, made neither, but it was fun to be on the green two strokes under regulation. See how I use golf words?

Day 8, more wegovy please

No appetite change, no weight change. No side effects. Basically, I cannot tell that I am on a GLP-1. I do spend a great deal of time cursing the damned cottonwood seed pods floating in the air and making it look like it has snowed in June. Even in Minnesota we don’t have snow in June, at least not south of Duluth. What goes on up there, I cannot explain nor do I try.

But, it is week 2 now and time for an injection. I thought you might want to see how we inject Wegovy. Video on injecting Wegovy and other SEO catchphrases like how to inject Wegovy or GLP-a administration. If I were a more expert blogger, or more accurately, not blogging like a 5th grader, I’d know how to hide those SEO terms. I doubt 5th graders know what SEO is so maybe I’m more like an 8th grader.

Watch me inject Wegovy

Day 5, nothing happening

I weighed in this morning at 222, no change. I have had normal appetites and feel completely unchanged. I am just moving through my normal daily life and waiting to see what gives. On Sunday evening we golfed with some friends and during an afetr-game snack I felt like I was full when I normally would have kept eating, but who knows what that was. Certainly no big changes here in Scott-land. I’ll continue to post progress and in 2 days have my next Wegovy injection.

DAY 3

I neglected to weigh myself this morning. I need to develop a new habit….routine. I awoke ready for breakfast, appetite normal. No headache, no nothing. Normal. Which is fine. I am going to try to drink a lot of water today. Not much of a post yet, but I am going to try to update every day and some days are going to be nothing burgers. Mmmmm, burgers.

my wegovy skepticism

Food, and booze. Such good friends.

If Wegovy can make me push away from the table after I’ve eaten a reasonable amount of food, or make me decide not to have another glass of wine…..well, that is a miracle. Let me explain. I love food. I love making food, I love eating food. Pizza, burgers, Indian, Thai, Mexican, Vietnamese, Italian…….the flavors. But behind all that is the reward aspect of food. I’m sure an eating disorder specialist reading this would just be nodding along. Yep, right out of the over-eaters playbook there Scott. You worked hard today, you deserve a nice meal and a bunch of wine. Oh, terrible day? yeah, let’s make it all better. Bored? Let’s have some wine. It is not good. It is where I live. This is MY street.

I feel like I am the test case. If taking a medication can make me WANT to not eat and drink more, then that is the case made. Novo Nordisk, and the makers of the other GLP1 drugs, will have a lot to be proud of. These things were designed for people with diabetes and Lord knows they deserve it. One of my motivations to lose weight is to avoid becoming diabetic, it is such an awful disease.

I have plenty of reasons to lose weight, but I think the biggest reason isn’t physical, it is mental. My mental health, my ability to accept myself, could be improved if I were able to conquer eating and drinking. There is no telling what lies ahead. My optimistic half sees that future, but my optimistic self has never been weaker. In my 30s, 40s and 50s, that was how I classified myself. As I crossed the line into 60 I found myself becoming more skeptical, less hopeful. I spend a great deal of time working in the political realm, and as I watch America slip away from me, and become replaced by a hateful, selfish and cruel world it is increasingly difficult to find reasons to be optimistic. I know, we were just talking about pizza and Pinot Noir (must be capitalized, it is royal) and now we’re talking about ICE and assault rifles. Sorry

invisible hurdles

So, I’m putting a ton on Wegovy, and how weight loss might allow me to clear some invisible hurdles. Runners to the blocks……….

you know that swimmy feeling?

Next day, May 30. Friday morning. Slept well. Weight 223.

I am working at the computer setting up showings for a new real estate client, planning to show a bunch of houses this weekend. I had 2 pieces of toast with butter and peanut butter, as the usual. Then around 10am I get a little chill. Then my head feels a little swimmy. You know that feeling? It is neither bad nor good, and not at all uncomfortable or impairing, but definitely something is going on.

The swimmy head stuck around for a few hours and was replaced by a minor “halo” headache. Mild and on top of my head. I also got very drowsy. Appetite is normal. Had dinner and a couple glasses of wine. TV, bed.

SHALL WE begin?

After the big birthday party on Sunday May 25th, and the attendant hangover on May 26th, I started looking at the Wegovy package. Four little pens. Each one contains a week’s worth of liquid miracle. I guess I was waiting for the perfect moment to start. The idea of poking myself with a needle, and the larger idea of embarking on whatever this journey was going to be was giving me pause…….

Thursday May 29, 2025 10am Central Time

You take the cap off and push the rubber end cap against your skin. As you push the little needle pokes you, there is a click sound and in a small window you watch a yellow line move toward you as the medication flows into your body. Another click tells you it is done as the yellow line stops moving. Super easy, not at all painful. The anticipation of pain is 142% worse than the actual pinch. You put the cap back on and toss the used pen. Its life is over, like a butterfly that came and brought you a tiny upcoming marvel and dies.

SCORING DRUGS……

I went to my doctor a couple of weeks ago for a physical, and I brought up the idea of going on a GLP1 drug to lose weight. Doc was receptive, asked me a bunch of questions and recommended Wegovy, which is what a friend, also a doc, said she thought was the preferred option. She had reasons, but I don’t remember them. I asked my doctor about insurance and he said he didn’t know, that he would submit a prescription to the pharmacy and they would see if the insurance would cover it. Great. He explained about starting with a low .25mg dose and ramping up through .5mg, 1mg and maybe all the way to 1.7mg, depending on how things went. He also prescribed an anti-nausea med telling me I might want it. OK, cool.

The pharmacy started sending me daily texts informing me that they had contacted the doctor’s office for authorization to fill the prescription. I wanted patiently. I was also receiving texts telling me the anti-nausea med was ready, and as days passed the texts turned into warnings that the anti-nausea would be re-shelved at 15 days. So when I was T-minus 2 for the expiration of the anti-nausea drug I got on the phone and chats and started poking around to see if I could clear the log jam. After about two hours I ended up with Mary Anne at the doctor’s office. She said she had heard nothing from the pharmacy, but that she would initiate a “prior authorization” for the Wegovy. The very next day the pharmacy texted to say that my prescription had been approved, but they were out of the drug. They would be in touch shortly. No word on insurance coverage.

Three days later they texted that the Wegovy was ready. The anti-nausea had been re-shelved. I went to pick up our new wonder-friend Wegovy, and while they re-filled the anti-nausea I went to the back of the store and found some cool outdoor lights for our back yard on close out for $9 each. Score. Wonder drug and discount yard lights.

I had Wegovy. And an anti-nausea drug.

Today is Saturday May 24th. My wife turns 60 tomorrow. Big party. Wegovy will have to wait.