I don’t think I get any suppression at all, I had my second injection last Friday and the only thing I’ve been feeling is stomach cramps and diarrhoea for a couple of days after each jab! But I was doing really well dieting for the previous three months, lost over 11/2 stone but decided to start using the injections to speed things up and stop me going of the rails as I usually do when dieting. So I think I’ve taught myself not to want as much to eat, to eat healthily, to think about what I am eating and not to eat between my two meals a day.
I am now more aware of actual calories in certain foods and picking low cal meals, with as much protein as possible and no hidden calories. So a typical day might be a small banana with my morning black coffee ( I take meds and painkillers in the morning which have to be taken with food), two hard boiled eggs on 2 slices of whole meal bread with a piece of fruit mid afternoon then my main meal around 8 pm might consist of a skinless chicken breast with a massive salad, possibly with cheese crumbled on top and a small helping of homemade potato salad or a Waldorf salad. I might then have two spoonfuls of Greek yogurt with fruit afterwards but often don’t bother.
With my weight, I can eat 1400 calories to lose the max daily weight recommended but I rarely eat more than 1200 calories.
So hopefully, when I finish taking the WLIs, I’ll be able to continue these eating habits.
Oh, and I’ve cut out all alcohol apart from one night a month when I go to one of my WI groups - the gin tasting group! I used to drink a couple of strong gins four or five nights a week but I decided it was an easy win to just give up.
I just need to stop being ill when I take the injections.