Friday, June 13, 2025

124.8. Feeling hungry today! Trying to keep calories at bay. Will for sure increase to 2.5 mg on Sunday.

Happy Retirement DD! A whole new life begins!

Cold yucky weather. Worked out on the treadmill, made a Costco run and will also go to the local grocery soon. Also picked up replacement hot tub cover!

Tonight we are having the viral meal of taco meat, roasted sweet potato, cottage cheese and sliced avocado all drizzled in hot honey! I'll let you know the verdict!

Enjoy your last few days on Aruba Liz!

Never heard of that meal. Sounds a little odd? I looked it up - still sounds like a weird combination to me

It did to me as well. I do like all the different components though and have been seeing it posted a lot. Since we have leftover taco meat from taco salad last night, I'm going to give it a try!

Report back!

Posted a pic and my review on TT

That sound very intriguing. I love sweet potatoes!!

Well my work email address no longer exists, and my Google docs connected to that account are now just mist in the online world. So very official.

Rainy, cold temperatures in the high 50s. Knowing I can drive to the major airport 20 minutes from my house and fly somewhere warm on a bargain airline anytime I want takes some of the sting away.

The staff meeting was fun. Each department head says a few words about the retiree. It was very sweet. A few tears, some hugs, and then I was on my way.

I was home by 10:15am. I hope I didn't alarm DH by sitting on the family room sofa, eating chips and dip, swilling diet coke, and watching The Jason Show, a local talk show. My son said it was a Victory Meal. :)

I had some time before my appointment, so I went shopping. To further celebrate my retirement I bought 2 nice swimsuits. Most of my suits are $30-40 from JC Pennys. I decided as much as I like to be in the water, I should have some better constructed suits. They were definitely more than $40, but a good investment in my future plans. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Most of my WLS visit was strategizing what I will do when I inevitably loss my coverage to Wegovy. I'm going to bump up to the highest dose, so I can continue to stretch out the time between doses, and keep stockpiling. She said some of her patients move to metformin as a maintenance medication, but of course it's not as effective as Wegovy and Zepbound. Zepbound is now approved as a treatment for moderate to severe sleep apnea, so if people have that diagnosis, they are going that route.My doctor expects an oral GLp medication to be available in the next year. If people have to pay out of pocket, it should be much cheaper than the injectables, and therefore more affordable. It's a brave new world. Competition amount pharmaceutical companies can only help us.

Going out to dinner this evening, where I will eat some good protein to off set the complete lack of nutrition in my chip/dip splurge.

I found the lack of connection after I left to be both disconcerting and freeing. And weird.

There is an oral one now: Rybelsus (semaglutide). Doesn't work great (I tried it). Some of the compounders were compounding both semaglutide annd tirzepatide and people didn't seem to think they worked very well, but maybe there will be one developed that does.

You can get Zepbound from Lilly Direct in vials (no pen) for self-pay:

$500/month for a GLP-1 "on sale" still sounds cray cray expensive to me.