I skipped my GLP-1 this week and I am not feeling bad about that decision/Weekly Check in/Vacation

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:01]So, if you are seeing this, today is Monday, um, April 20th. Wow. April 20th, and I am on vacation, and I wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about stopping my Zetbound. Yes, if you are watching this, that means that I am on vacation. I am in Washington DC and I have stopped my medication. But I wanted to talk to you guys about it because I know my beautiful friends how opinionated you are. So, welcome back my friends. I am Cheryl. This is my channel where I've been documenting my weight loss journey for over 2 years. I have successfully lost over 80 lbs. And over the course of that time, I have stopped my medication multiple times for like a week. So, I have gone on vacation three or four times and stopped my medication. So, I know I stopped July of both years and I stopped I I feel like I stopped for something medical related, but I didn't stop when I went to Disney last April and I didn't stop when I went on my girls trip.

[00:01:28]However, I have stopped twice before and I will be stopping again today um this week.

[00:01:36]So, I will normally I take my shot on Sunday. I will not be taking my shot yesterday. Um I'm going to hold off until I return from my trip. And I'm going to tell you guys why. First and foremost, um for me personally, it just works better this way. Um, number one reason being hopefully the air conditioner isn't too loud, but it is actually 83 and I'm sitting in my car at work today. Um, and it is toasty. It is really, really hot. I'm so excited. Like I went from like sweaters to like right into my nice hangy arms. That's This is my badge of honor from losing 83 lbs.

[00:02:19]But um, I went right from like one extreme to the other. So, typically I take my shot on Sunday evening.

[00:02:28]We are getting boarding a plane at 6:30 Sunday morning.

[00:02:35]I know I could take it in the morning. I could take it with me. There's a multiple amount of things that I could do, but for me, that's just not really going to work. Um, I don't want to take it with me. I don't want to take it on the plane. It's been a little warm and it's going to be a little warmer in DC and I don't know when my room's going to be ready, if I'm going to have a refrigerator available. So, I'm definitely not going to do that and take that chance. And I don't want to take it in the morning because I typically if I'm going to get side effects, my side effects seem to come on in the morning. The mornings can be um when I'm nauseous, when I'm dizzy, lightaded, I sometimes throw up and it's typically in the morning that that will happen. And I just don't want to take that chance. So, I don't want to take my shot Sunday morning either.

[00:03:38]And then I am prone to motion sickness really, really badly.

[00:03:45]So, I don't want to take any chances making that worse either. We have to take a car to the airport. That's typically not my favorite thing to do.

[00:03:58]Um, I'm one of those front seat drivers, so if we're driving more than 15, 20 minutes, I have to drive. Um, being in the passenger seat can be really, really hard for me.

[00:04:10]Being in the back seat is brutal. Um, so depending on the driver, I might sit in the front, but still we have to drive to the airport, so it's not like super close. So that right there is going to make me nauseous. Then I'm going to get on a plane. I'm not too too bad on a plane. Then we have to get another car from DC airport to the hotel. So I know right there my morning is going to be a little icky. I'll be okay. I'm not like super worried about it. I have zopran. I have lamelazine.

[00:04:44]I'll be fine, but I'm not going to do something to make that worse because I will make it worse. Um, so for those reasons, Sunday is not an option for me and I don't want to take it early. Like I don't want to take it on Saturday. But that's neither here nor there because I'm not taking it anyway. This was not my deciding factor. This was more reiterating to me that you're better off not taking it. Um cuz like I said when I went to Disney last year, I took it before we left and I was fine being in Disney. I had, you know, my hunger suppression. I was nauseous a couple of times. Um but I was able to control it.

[00:05:28]This time around, I just don't want to take that chance. And I've done it in the past where I've taken it. I gain a couple of pounds on vacation. It is what it is. I don't get upset about it. A lot of times it's like water retention. It's salt. It's It's definitely um fluid buildup. So, I'm fine. I'm not like overly stressed out over gaining weight.

[00:05:56]Not to mention the fact I'm going to be walking.

[00:06:00]I I'll be interested to see my husband wears a watch. I don't. um what are walking like as opposed to Disney World?

[00:06:10]Like are we gonna be on the same caliber in the same ballpark like 10 to 15,000 steps a day because DC is walking and even once we're in DC we're going to like a ton of museums and touring things. Um so that's just walking walking walking walking. So I will be walking a lot. Um, so again, if I'm eating something, I'll walk it off. I'm not overly concerned. And then there's also the fact that I could be eating things that I don't typically eat. Um, if you've been to CC, I have not, but I know in my research and I have a cousin who lives out there, um, it is a very eclectic and a very diverse culturally culturally diverse area where there is like food from all over. So, I don't know like I may eat at like an Indian restaurant, which like I love me some butter or curry chicken.

[00:07:16]Um, but that's going to be a little flavor palette different than what my stomach might be used to and I don't know how I will react to that. So, having a little less medication um in me at that point I'm okay with just because, you know, I might try some different foods from different areas of the world and I don't know how my stomach may or may not react. So, I'm taking that into account as well.

[00:07:49]Um, but my decision really is about being able to feel good, stay present, and enjoy my trip without worrying about the side effects that I cannot control.

[00:08:05]That's huge for me is being able to control the side effects because for the most part we don't have a lot of control. So typically the side effects are going to be in the beginning days right after your shot. So if I took my shot on Saturday or Sunday and my vacation starts on Sunday, those first few days are going to be where it would be the worst for my side effects.

[00:08:32]and that's just not really something that I want to do. So, for me right now, um, that's what I'm going to do. And I have told you guys I can't even count how many times. At the end of the day, this journey for me isn't about the medication.

[00:08:54]It's about creating something that is what, my friends, that is sustainable.

[00:09:00]So, for me, I need to know that I can come off of this medication for a week and I can survive. I can be okay. I am not going to go ham. I'm not going to do anything crazy. Um, and I'm not going to lie, I trust me, I think I've done pretty okay. Actually, I think I've done pretty damn good for the past two years.

[00:09:23]Um, and I've told you guys multiple times. I don't say I messed up. I screwed up. I slipped up. Those aren't things that I say. Um, I mean, I might say it, but that's not how I mean it. I live my life. I don't diet. So, I'm not messing up my diet. I'm not cheating.

[00:09:43]I'm not doing any of those things. This is real life. And for me, real life is the trip of a lifetime that we literally have been planning forever.

[00:09:56]We planned this trip completely 6 years ago. Like completely had all of our tours booked, our flights, our hotel. We had um a family member who lives out there picking us up one day to take us out to the airport to the museum there.

[00:10:13]We were having dinner with her. We were meeting my cousin like we had the entire week planned out and then co hit and that wiped out those plans. So that was obviously 6 years ago and that trip got completely obliterated and it took 6 years for us to get to a place where we could plan this again.

[00:10:37]We've had other things going on. you know, I had um we tried to plan it a few years ago and then my son was getting married and then my son was having a baby. Um so we've we've had a lot of other things happening in life and we just weren't able to get this on the books. So, this trip has been a long time coming and I am certainly not going to ruin it for my son who is so excited about finally going. When I tell you this kid is a history nerd, he loves this country so very much. He loves everything about our armed forces and our military and he loves everything about our government. and he knows so much and I am so looking forward to learning from him and watching him take this all in um that I don't want to do anything to jeopardize that. So for me being able to control what I can stopping the medication for the week will give me some control. And I know many of you have had opinions on this in the past um and that's fine. We all live our own life. And I think one thing that you know of me if you have been here for a moment is I don't live my life or my YouTube presence to make other people happy or to make other people like me or to make other people click on my video.

[00:12:11]I bring you guys real life every single day. And for me, this is real life. This is not me giving up. This is not me wanting an excuse to go out and eat because that's really not going to happen. Um, I did find there's a Chick-fil-A near our hotel and I literally said to my coworker um the other day, I was like, "Oh, that's cool.

[00:12:35]Maybe I can just stop at Chick-fil-A and get some of my yogurt parfets to put in the refrigerator for my breakfasts." Um, and I'll bring some like protein bars.

[00:12:45]You guys know I'm not a huge breakfast.

[00:12:47]That's gonna probably be my biggest issue is my protein coffee because usually I'll take something with me that I'll have I I haven't really figured out what I'm going to do yet as far as that.

[00:13:03]Um, but my protein coffee, sorry, it's been a day, is pretty important for me and I don't know if I'm going to be able to figure out a way to do that, but I'm trying. Um, maybe I'll grab some Fair Life anyway.

[00:13:20]And then lunch will probably be on the go somewhere. Um, so I can pick up like a a a wrap or a salad or even a piece of pizza or something like that and whatever we end up with. And then dinner will be normal. We will probably go and sit down. Um, we do have, thank you guys for your recommendations. Many of you said Old Ebbit Grill. Is it Old Eb Grill or Old Ebbit House? Whatever it is, um we have reservations there. Sunday night, I think our first night. It's either Sunday or Monday, but we do have res reservations there. And the menu looks awesome. There was a bunch of different things that I um already like the looks of. There is a really good-looking chicken rice bowl that I know my son will almost positively will get. Um but that looked really good. Um, so I will be doing like sit down dinners, but even that sometimes I order off the kids menu if I can, which is awesome when restaurants let you do that because it is very hard to eat a meal. I don't I never eat like a full meal at a restaurant that I don't take home. And that obviously will be a little bit trickier in a hotel. Like, yeah, I can still take it back with me, but when am I going to eat it? So um yeah that is the plan. So this morning so today is Thursday. You guys will be seeing this on Monday. This morning I was 138. I my stomach's been a little funky. I'm a little I I don't know what's going on. I'm taking my Mirax every day and I've been taking Mera fast at night like every other day and I'm still like I don't know what's happening. Maybe the extra walking will be good while we're in DC to get things moving. Um, so I don't know if it's been that or really what's been going on. I'm very achy. My joints really hurt lately and I don't really know why. Um, like walking up and down the stairs like I'm just I'm not feeling fantastic like bodywise, which is weird because I had been feeling so good for so long.

[00:15:39]Um, but I will tell you, I cannot wait until I can open up the pool. I know I said this like continuously last year, like I just could not wait. I could not wait, but I really can't wait to be able to get back in the pool and it be warm enough to actually go in. That's a whole other thing. But, um, yeah, I'm just feeling like my body is very achy and my joints and everything really hurt. And I even noticed um my rings are not as loose as they have been. So I'm a little swollen.

[00:16:12]Um I am now taking the or taking I'm using the um estrogen patch. So I am have my second patch now. I just changed to my second patch Tuesday. So, I'm on my second estrogen patch for hormone replacement for menopause. So, I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but yeah, I felt like a little swollen and my joints have been achy. So, I don't know if that's related or what, but we shall see. So, starting at like 137 13 technically I was 138 lbs today, which is a little frustrating because I'm up and I'm not like eating anything terrible or anything different lately than I've normally been eating, but I do feel puffy and I do feel inflamed and my like I said, everything hurts. So, I don't know if something there is happening, but we shall see. Maybe it's just the heat all of a sudden. Like, it's been hot the last couple of days, like hot. It's 83° and FYI, there's a chance of snow on Monday. So, I won't be here, but there is a chance of snow on Monday. So, you got to love New England.

[00:17:38]So, let me know if you are a New England Galler guy and you're watching this video, especially Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut friends, if you're watching this video, look out your window. Let me know if it's snowing or what the temperature is because I will not be here. I will be in Washington DC where it's a little bit warmer and hopefully no chance of snow. But I'm curious if we um if the temperature does get that low this time, not even next week, but a little bit a little bit later. But anyway, again, I printed out a bunch of stuff. I wrote up a bunch of stuff. And um I didn't even tell you guys half of my bullet points about why I am stopping the medication, but such is life. I never really follow the rules or the script or the bullet points or anything else. But I think that's going to do it for today. Thank you guys so much for being here. Um, I will see you guys when I get back from Vive Vacation.

[00:18:38]I will check in with you guys as soon as I can. I will be doing my best to check in on comments and such, but if um I don't get to your comments, I will get to them next week at some point. So, thank you guys so much for being here. I love and adore each and every one of you. If you haven't yet, guys, go hit that subscribe button right now. Please hit that subscribe right there. The one over there. Go grab that subscribe button. Hit that. Make sure that you stick around for all future videos.

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