Geminidream
Full dose Contrave this week.
Jun 02, 2025
On Saturday it was time to follow dr's orders and step up to the full dose of Contrave which was 100 mg Naltrexone. It comes with some whopper side effects that aren't supposed to last too long. The first day I had to cancel family plans because I was the walking dead and acted like being drunk. By the first afternoon at least my head cleared somewhat but I was still dizzy and weak, wobbly on my pins. With each day the drunk phase is less and less but I'm still very weak and wobbly. This too shall pass but hopefully not the actual effect of this drug combo which is shutting off the food noise and addiction.
It is amazing not thinking about food every minute of the day and night, I love that! Damaged knees prevent most exercise, Dr said nothing weight bearing so that is undoubtedly slowing my weight loss. Doing seated exercises and also some seated band resistance. PT starts next week, looking forward to getting some strength back! At my 2nd weigh in I'd lost 12 pounds which brought me under one of those decade markers I really wanted to get past.
Because of the exercise issue it is pretty rare to be in a calorie deficit and most days I struggle to reach my calorie goal but still too easy blowing past my carb and fat goals. It is just going to take relearning good eating habits. And even now I'm still slightly mourning my old carby life habits. But they are what got me in this predicament of bad health so it's time to just buckle down and follow the rules.
