Coming off
Nobody in my life understood why I would stop
Something I have been sitting with: Nobody in my life understood why I would stop Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience. Long…
Gabe4 Jul 2026 · 14 replies
The part nobody writes about is the part we write about.
The GLP Circle is a peer support community for people on GLP-1 medications and peptide protocols. Small circles, personal journals, a question a day, and somebody to send four lines to on a Sunday. Practical information sits beside the person, never instead of them.
Today’s check-in
What have you noticed about how you talk to yourself?
Asked by Jonah — Just noticed. No fixing today.
15 people have answered
What this is
Four things, and a set of choices about what we deliberately do not do.
Circles
Small named groups that meet on a rhythm and keep talking in between. A facilitator holds each one.
Journals
Personal, dated, written for themselves and for whoever arrives six months behind them.
Check-ins
One facilitator question a day. Answer it in a sentence or read what other people said.
Buddies
Two people, a standing evening, a few lines each. No algorithm, and about a third do not take.
Written this week
The most recent journal entries, exactly as they were written.
No project
Minasettled energy 5turning point
Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this journal. Steady,…
Two years, no news
Annikaflat energy 3turning point
Late, and writing anyway. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me.…
Just Wednesdays
Izzyflat energy 1turning point
Right. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady. The strange…
No project
Kaiflat energy 1turning point
A gentle week, mostly. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me.…
Just Wednesdays
Ronansettled energy 5turning point
This week: Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Steady. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back…
Two years, read back
Fengrateful energy 2turning point
This week: Two years today. I have read this journal back from the start this evening and the person in March 2024 was so frightened, and nobody told her it would…
Two years, no news
Theaflat energy 1turning point
Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this journal. Steady. Two…
Nothing happened again
Junocontent energy 1turning point
Right. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady, still…
Talking now
Recent conversations across the circles.
Sleep and fatigue
Sleep apnoea assessment while on treatment
Sleep apnoea assessment while on treatment Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think. Something is going on with my body and I would…
Tycho3 Jul 2026 · 10 replies
Asia
Access exists here if you know where — what I know
A question rather than an update: Access exists here if you know where — what I know Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to…
Omar2 Jul 2026 · 10 replies
Shift workers
My occupational health department was surprisingly helpful
Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: My occupational health department was surprisingly helpful Practical…
Bethan30 Jun 2026 · 8 replies
Carers
My husband's side effects and my exhaustion
Something I have been sitting with: My husband's side effects and my exhaustion Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience. Anyone…
Lando28 Jun 2026 · 14 replies
Hair shedding
Protein intake and hair — what is actually known
Protein intake and hair — what is actually known — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in. Before anyone says it: yes,…
Ephraim26 Jun 2026 · 11 replies
Milestones
Non-scale, or confirmed by a clinician. There is not a weight on this page and there never will be.
Time served · 22 Jun 2026
Two years of eight minutes and a chair
Time served · 20 Jun 2026
Two years of eight minutes and a chair
Restarts · 22 Mar 2026
Came back after eight months away
Time served · 25 Feb 2026
One year on maintenance and it is simply a Wednesday
Guides, with the gaps marked
Every guide carries a “what is not established” section, because that is the section that keeps people out of trouble.
clinicalhow-to
Reading your bloodwork without panic
How to open a set of results without your stomach dropping — what a reference range actually means, which numbers move for dull reasons, and when to ring somebody today.
clinical
A1c, and what it is not
What glycated haemoglobin actually measures, the units confusion nobody warns you about, the things that make it lie, and why it is a poor scoreboard for a fortnight.
clinical
Cardiovascular outcomes: what SELECT showed
The trial that changed how clinicians talk about these drugs — who was in it, what it actually found, how big the effect was in plain terms, and the claims stacked on top of it.
clinical
Kidney numbers, and what FLOW showed
eGFR, creatinine and albumin explained without jargon, what the FLOW trial found in people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, and the everyday kidney risk that matters more.
clinical
Thyroid and GLP-1: what is known
The rodent finding behind the warning label, what human data has and has not shown since, what it means if you already take levothyroxine, and where the honest uncertainty sits.
clinical
Type 2 and GLP-1: a plain summary
What these medicines do for type 2 diabetes, what the outcome trials found, the hypoglycaemia and retinopathy questions, and the practical things that change in ordinary care.