July 2026 Tablet Starters

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Has anyone taken the step to order the tablets and wish to share their journey?

Day 1 today. Took the tablet at about 6 this morning. I feel a little spaced out, which is not unpleasant actually. Usually I have 3 cups of tea in the morning with 2 sugars and by this point (or earlier) I’m feeling really hungry. I’ve had 2 cups of tea with one sugar and don’t even feel peckish.

Wow day 1 and wondering what I can eat to get over 1000 calories. Craving random foods like watermelon and Thai curry which I wouldn't usually eat. No cravings at all for cakes or biscuits. I feel like a different person today after a very difficult dew weeks addicted to sugar.

having had my dinner (salmon fillet and broccoli) I’m at 950 calories for the day, and I’m not hungry/denying myself a “treat”

Day 5

No side effects but dont seem to be experiencing the fullness in the mornings that I have done since day 1.
Getting hunger pangs mid morning and having to try hard to wait until lunchtime to eat. Really hungry by 4pm and ate a normal portion for tea. I wonder if my body is tollerating the pill now and I need to move up?
Im eating good and not snacking and oddly enough, dont fancy a glass of wine at all but I feel like Im getting hungrier than I was at the start.

No breakfast
Tuna salad for lunch
Chicken breast and veg with a homemade honey & mustard sauce for tea
Bag of cheese Cheetos as a snack

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My pills have been approved. Excited and nervous for them to arrive.

Current BMI 28.7 with a couple of related health issues

My main goal is to lose about 12kg to get into the healthy BMI range. Assuming I achieve that, I will then set a new goal within the healthy range, but I'm finding it hard to even imagine that at the minute.

I have ordered pills from Asda to be collected in store. Like others I have lost weight with slimming world, but have started to
really struggle to stay in control and have put on a stone over the past couple of months, so have 3 stone to loose, I feel so disgusted with my lack of will power I have not told my family.

They say to weigh yourself once a week as daily is too fluctuating. You may have had less water weight to lose, plus everyone reacts differently.

Good luck! Tomorrow will be 2 weeks for me… I am down to 70.5kg so 3.5kg lost so far.

I’ve not felt too bad though sometimes forget to eat so Huel is a good shout.

I track on my fitness pal to make sure I don’t miss meals. Tonight was a very quick scrambled egg with ham as I needed something very quick. This is my calorie intake now when before it was 2000- 2500 per day.

I haven’t either. But please don’t feel disgusted. I genuinely feel like some of us have something in our brain that won’t switch off food noise like other people. This drug has revolutionised my mindset towards food. It is something that will get researched and proven I’m sure.

Morning all, agree with others about the ‘disgusting’ view of yourself. If it was as simple as ‘willpower’, none of us would be here in the first place. You are not disgusting!!

So day 2, there is definitely some kind of effect, even if it is placebo. Possibly very mild side effects - but whether I’d notice if I wasn’t paying close attention to everything I don’t know. Definitely feeling fuller and had zero desire to snack last night. Still got a very dry mouth which is encouraging me to drink lots.

B- egg waffles either raspberries & sired cream (not first choice - needed to do a food shop so used up what I could find)
L - mushrooms omlet with salad
T- jacket potato with home made coronation chicken

DH and I are going to get the Fast800/Blood Sugar Diet books out and get back into proper meal planning at the weekend. I don’t plan to do such low calories as I think it would be detrimental to lifting but I enjoy the food and the diet is higher protein/lower carbs so should be good.

Yes, I need to keep away from the scales!
No side effects that are noticeable here. The only thing is that I'm very tired but I often am!
Trying to eat lots of protein & I'm going to the gym.

Well done! I dusted off my myfitnesspal account yesterday. I estimate that over the past 6 months when I’ve not really been looking after myself that I’ve been doing 3000 calories a day easily. I’m so cross with myself.

I haven’t told my family either, I’m embarrassed to have got to a point where I need weight loss meds. But, we’re all taking positive steps here and I’m looking on this as the first step in me actually taking care of myself and putting my health first. And the prospect of not looking like a potato anymore is exciting.

I took my first pill this morning at about 6am when I woke briefly , I feel so so so tired ! Almost like I’ve taken a sleeping tablet last night and struggling to feel awake and start my day ! Is this normal ?

I want to lose 2 stone to feel better but probably need 4 to be really slim.

i lost 2 stone a few years ago and felt great but have gained it back , as usual! Hopefully I can make some more permanenrt changes with these tablets x

I felt like that yesterday (my day 1) but not today.

Ive felt very tired since starting them (day 5 now) just keep telling myself that Id rather be tired than on the loo or feeling sick. I also want to lose 2 stone and keeping it quiet from friends and family but the fact that Im eating healthy and cut out wine should provide a good cover up 😁

Weighing daily is actually better so you can see your fluctuations and know where you are. You could weight tomorrow and be, say, 100kg, weigh next week and be 101kg and all you’ll see is the 1kg gain. If you weight daily you’ll see that yesterday you weighed 109kg, the day before that 109.2kg etc. it’s really helpful to help you figure out what helps you and what doesn’t x

A weird one so interested if anyone else has had this happen...
A neighbour popped round with some ice cream they'd made for me and my child to have. Wanted our verdict on it. I had some and was promptly nauseous then threw up! Just tried it a 2nd time in case it was psychological.... happened again!
Now panicking that im going to a pizza restaurant with my exercise class tomorrow night and the same will happen!
Has anyone else had this happen?

Not yet because I haven’t fancied anything like that yet but it’s DC1’s birthday this weekend so booze, snacks and cake will be offered - I’ll post if they have negative effects!

day 3 - very tired, didn’t relate that to the tablets until reading everyone else’s posts. Was in bed and asleep very early so that my middle of the night wee was actually at 23:10 😳🤣

Definitely have moments of feeling ‘odd’ but can’t really say how. Didn’t have the motivation to go to the gym in the evening due to how tired I feel. Felt snackish/hungry last night but cba to go to find anything! Still got a dry mouth despite drinking water almost constantly. No nausea, headache or indigestion.

In the office all day so had to plan pack ups that I could take with me for breakfast & lunch which was good actually.

B- granola pot
D- melon & halloumi salad
T- DH barbecued some Lidl marinated chicken steaks and served them with boiled new pots & green salad. Really tasty and easy!

On weighing, I’ve weighed daily to track fluctuations for a long time and look at the general trend rather than stressing about actual gains/losses iyswim?

I had two glasses of wine last night. No effect at the time but I felt really tired this morning! And a bit puffier than normal. I won’t cut alcohol completely but I will think twice next time 😅

Day 2 today and can feel some really mild nausea. Also still feeling full from lunch (halloumi and red pepper flat bread , I left a quarter of it)

Hi, signed up today and have been appoved

currently binge eating. I need to change my attitude to food/eating behaviour

has anyone else done this?

Day 4 today. Last night I decided to have a wee bit of Prosecco. I drank far less of it than I would normally and drank it far more slowly. This morning I decided to have boiled eggs on ryvita for breakfast. Normally I’d have had 2 eggs on 2 ryvita, felt deprived and topped up with a bag of crisps or something. This morning I could barely manage 1 egg on 1 ryvita and I feel full 😮

Signed up yesterday and pills arrived already so starting tomorrow