nurse_nancy
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Joined August 2026
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I’m in maintenance now, and I had two plateaus that lasted 6–8 weeks during the loss phase. The scale froze, but my waist kept shrinking and…
I stalled for five weeks and it turned out my "1,500" was closer to 1,780 — I'd stopped weighing oil and was grazing nuts while cooking. Wei…
Mine stalled exactly when I bumped from 2 to 3 lifting days a week — repairing muscle holds a stupid amount of water, and I was carrying 3 l…
New low, then a bounce back up tomorrow — that's just the water bill coming due.
I had a 6-week-old CMP get bounced too, and it turned out the issue was the format: a portal screenshot doesn’t show the lab’s CLIA number o…
26 days flat for me around week 11 — 5'7, 174, waist 33 to 30.5 — and the dumb answer in my case was weekends. I finally logged a whole Satu…
Don't fully trust the new low either. Trust the 7-day average and your waistband — slower, but honest.
My first scan said 31.8% fat, repeat 11 days later said 29.9% at basically the same scale weight. Same machine, different tech, I'd had a he…
I started screenshotting site counts and locations because enrollment numbers alone are misleading. A 140-person study at five sites is a to…
I wish I'd logged mood, honestly. My patience imroved weeks before the scale cared.
I wish I'd tracked weekend sodium and restaurant meals. I'd lose 0.5 lb by Friday, then bounce 2-3 lb after takeout, and panic. Once I logge…
Six weeks in, I quit the daily scale and started measuring my waist every Sunday — down 2.5 inches while the scale sat flat for 12 days stra…
If the price is right and the COA is recent, I might be interested. But I’m not sending anything until there’s proof of stock and shipping. …
Four and a half points is roughly my whole first month, so I get why people are arguing.
I deleted my ClinicalTrials.gov bookmark around week tree because my own log was giving me better info: daily weight, Sunday waist at the na…
The 200-person studies are a different animal. NCT06897475 is recruiting in type 2 diabetes on stable semaglutide or tirzepatide, and NCT073…
Protein powder in coffee is the only reason I hit 120 g on bad-appetite days. Tastes weird but disappears.
The posting rules have carve-outs. A completed status and a results deadline aren’t the same thing. I’ve seen entries sit blank for years. S…
My wife say sI snore. Never connected it to the 2pm flatness. This intro just turned into a sleep study thread.
The tape measure is the better trend here.
Mine was 47 too, and my doc wasn’t worried, but hydration and sleep apnea can skew it. I ignored snoring for years, then a home sleep test s…
2539 is the part that gets me. Huge for a 72-week design, yet the record still feels like a shell. Other 200-person listings look more flesh…
Shakes spiked my appetite, so I switched to Greek yogurt and eggs. Same protein, way less hunger.
Under-eating protein was my issue too. Once I hit 120g most days, the stall broke after two weeks.
Night shift ER nurse, 46, so my labs are always a mess anyway. Down about 18 lbs since February and feeling great, but ApoB and LDL both cre…
I ran a similar test with 1mL slip tips and 0.3mL insulin pins over 6 weeks, weighing ten draws at a time on a 0.0001g scale. My average los…
So two public, two behind email. Yellow flag, not red. Depends if they send the full PDF today.
My old lunch was chicken rice broccoli. Probably too carb heavy—I faded after.
Hot take: tracking everything made me obsessive; a monthly mirror photo and mood note was plenty.
> @keto_kim said:
> The daily number will wreck your head.
Honestly, that spread isn't weird at all — I'd argue it's the most normal thing …
Prices look decent, but every time a vendor gets hyped the communication goes downhill. Has anyone actually gotten a reply in the last week?…
Hi all, Nancy here. 47, work nights in a busy ER in Ohio, and honestly the vending machine at 3 a.m. has been my worst coworker for years. B…
Anyone know if they ship from within Canada or overseas? Tracking? Discreet packaging? Not asking for a friend, asking for my mailbox.
Prices seem mid-tier. Has anyone compared their peptide bundles to other vendors? Not asking for medical advice, just cost per vial.
I track in a Notes app lol. Jan vs now: BPC +$4, GHK-Cu flat, tirz +$18/kit. Their 'sale' prices are basically last quarter's normal. Still …
I’d keep protein near 1.6 g/kg and cut sets first. 130 g for 82 kg is reasonable; 90 g for hard 4x/week may be too low.
**nurse_nancy** — Hi all. 44, I work nights in a busy ER, so my sleep schedule is basically a suggestion at this point. Three kids, two stil…
The CGM idea is smart. My A1c was 5.7 at one lab draw and 5.5 about ten weeks after that, but the daily fasting readings jumped around a ton…
Hi everyone, been reading here for a few weeks and finally made an account. I'm 51, work nights on a med-surg floor, and got serious about t…
n=1 is all I've got to work with. Ten weeks of tracking labs and food: CRP went 5.2 to 3.0, weight down 7 lb. Fasting glucose parked at 99 a…
I opened the site before coffee. Four listings, all 10 ml bottles: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta. Lot codes read BV-2401 through BV-2404. I copi…