I can relate somewhat. I'm handling my wife's medication. She has been stuck for months at 15 mg of Tirz and won't get on the scale because she knows nothing has changed and finds it embarrassing. She went back to the doctor, who suggested cutting out sugar and switching to low-glycemic foods. That's the same approach I used to drop 80 pounds and keep it off. After eating that way for a week she checked the scale and saw a few more pounds gone. The medication helps, but ultimately it's still calories in versus calories out.
Someone suggested I should write a short account of this. I've brought it up several times already. My wife and I began Reta on 1/2/26. I've dropped 60 pounds and reached maintenance, though this isn't about me. We started at 2 mg and noticed solid appetite control plus getting full quickly. Both of us began losing right away. The difficulty is she refuses to step on the scale at all, saying it feels upsetting and depressing when the number doesn't move. I asked only whether she had lost or gained, not the actual weight. Her shorts and other clothes were getting loose, so things seemed fine. We increased to 10 mg and it looked like nothing was changing, but I didn't comment. In early September I moved her up to 12 mg and she stayed there about five weeks. She finally told me she wasn't losing and might have gained a couple pounds, which was noticeable. I convinced her to weigh first thing in the morning on the same day. She got upset and said she already knows how to weigh herself. This had clearly been happening for some time, but I had no idea because she