It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you without a dope beat to step too….
After almost a year of staring at the same damn number on my scale, I had to face it—Ozempic and I had plateaued. My doctor confirmed what I already knew deep down: I’d probably lost all the weight I was going to lose on it. About 15% of my body weight, which for me was roughly 36 pounds. I started this journey at around 236, and for the past year, I’ve been camped between 202 and 207, doing everything right—eating decent, moving more, drinking water—and the scale refused to move.
Then, just to make it even more ridiculous, my insurance stopped covering Ozempic. So I was out here paying $750 a month for no results. That math wasn’t mathing. I was originally prescribed Ozempic for being prediabetic (wink wink), but let’s be honest—it was really for the weight loss. So after talking with my doctor, we decided it was time to move on.
The transition was smooth. I didn’t have any major side effects. I just finished my last 2.4mg dose of Ozempic one week and started Zepbound the next. There’s no exact conversion between them, so my doctor started me somewhere in the middle—not too low, not too high. I’m currently on 7.5mg, planning to work my way up to 15mg weekly. And I’m still taking Metformin, because my doctor swears it boosts weight loss results when combined with GLP-1s.
Honestly, the biggest hurdle for me in this whole Zepbound journey wasn’t the side effects or the adjustment period—it was the idea of giving myself the injection. With Ozempic, I was using a pen, and that felt easy and familiar. But Zepbound? It comes in a vial with a separate needle, and I was not about that life at first. I watched so many YouTube videos trying to psych myself up, but I still ended up making an appointment at Kaiser just to have a nurse walk me through it before I gave myself my first dose.
Turns out, I was freaking out over nothing. The needle is tiny—about the same size as the one on the Ozempic pen—and each bottle is a single dose, so there’s no measuring, no guessing, no stress. I just pinch my stomach fat, stick it in, and push. I barely even feel it. It’s honestly been easy peasy ever since. What I built up in my head as this big, scary moment ended up being no big deal at all. And this coming from a girly who doesn’t like needles at all.
I think I shed a tear when I saw this.
Halloween baddie dressed as my favorite non-alcoholic beverage.
Tried that viral SheCurve dress andI like it!
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I hit a wall with Ozempic--so I tried Zepbound and here's what happened.
And the cherry on top? Zepbound is $300 cheaper per month than Ozempic. So now my body, my bank account, and my mood are all in agreement for once.
So yeah—it’s official. I’m closing the chapter on The Ozempic Diaries and starting The Zepbound Chronicles. My goal weight is around 175, and for the first time in a long time, that actually feels possible. One injection, one tiny meal, and one day at a time.
