What dose of reta are you at?

[BNLFL]

So that’s like nearly 10 wks, for an average loss of nearly 4lbs a week. At that rate I think you’re likely to be losing muscle weight as well.

Yeah, that's a bit to fast. I'm about 1-2lbs/week on 8mg. Due for pin #5 on Friday. We'll likely stay here if possible. I have like 5-10lbs to go. Then I'll figure something out for maintenance.

 

[Steve_Burns]

Bumped from 7mg to 8mg split 2x per week @ 4mg..will see how this goes.

 

[Kranky]

1.5 months in and at 4 every five days. I've lost 4 pounds. I'm a very slow at losing weight. Probably because I'm very short. It's just harder for me.

 

[Clavicular's Hammer]

Good luck

This is what I said week 1 because it worked so good out of the gate, but on weeks 2-3 the appetite suppression dropped pretty heavy for me.

I'm going up to 2mg now in a few days

Sounds like some people supplement with cagri for the hunger suppression with both tirz or Reta

Something to consider if you need more help

 

[Bird_of_Hermes]

I lost like 10 pounds and a pants size or two in my first month of Tirz, but that was mostly in the first two weeks. I bounced around after that, never really going lower, but definitely less body fat overall I’d say.

I’ve switched to Reta now and I’m doing 1mg split doses, 2mg a week. I just took my second dose of the week today.

I will say I woke up after the first night on 1mg and had an anxiety attack in the morning. I could feel my heart rate being higher than normal and not going down… which feels like the start of an anxiety attack and thus ended up becoming one, lol.

I can’t really feel the Reta as much as the Tirz besides that, though my energy seems better so far. I do feel like I’m easier to sweat though.

 

[Retarage]

Just titrated to 7mg this morning (week 12). Week 1-4 2mg. Week 5-8 4mg. Week 9-11 5 mg. 5’10 male starting weight 286 Feb 15th. Started Reta March 26th at 266 lbs. weighed in this morning at 238lbs. According to my run star scale I’m down 37.2 lbs body fat and up 9.5 lbs lean body mass since starting Reta at the end of March! I’m at 1600 calories per day, 200g protein. Lift 4 days a week and cardio 2-3 days a week.

 

[Laxfinity]

Wife and I started 6 weeks ago; she started with Tirz at 2.5/1wk. I started with Reta at 2.5mg/wk. She has lost about 18lbs and I have dropped 28lbs.

I definitely regret not starting at .5 and titrating up. I allowed my emotions to get the best of me when I made the choice to start on the larger scale of doses. It’s taken my body some time to recover from a 2.5mg start on Reta.

You guys dump weight faster than we do anyway...

 

[Donstofikus]

Maintenance with Reta since 5/25. Intially on Cagri stack in Reta Maintenance, but dropped the Cagri 11/25 due to inadvertently loosing 15lbs more than I wanted past my goal weight. Still on 3mg 1x weekly. Weight stable.

That seems like the cagri really helped.

 

[AngieHolmes 53745]

Story of a slow responder here…

My starting weight is 285lbs, with a BMI of about 36. I was at 300 at my heaviest in Oct-Nov of last year when I started OMAD fasting and getting more active, which got me down to my starting weight by Jan.

For the past 4 months on OMAD I’ve completely stalled out - no change at all in weight even with occasional 36 hr fasts and increased walking.

So I started reta 2 weeks ago and also started really ramping up my activity (rowing machine Mon-Fri week, and adding kettlebell workouts Mon, Wed, Fri))

Week 1: I took an initial 1mg shot waited 4 days to check for any immediate sides (no issues) and took another 1mg.

Week 2: I’m now doing 2mg every 7 days as my plan for the rest of the first month.

The scale has hardly moved (currently 284 thanks to lees food and more intense workouts). I do feel more immediately sated from OMAD eating time than before, and do occasionally have to keep hydrated, but otherwise I hardly notice any side effects.

I’m now just focusing on getting really into being active and (not so patiently) hoping to see some actual reta-results at the end of month 1 in a few weeks. Even if it’s still slow the mild appetite help and motivation to not lose muscle and bone while on reta really helps motivate a lifestyle change that I now want to upkeep.

I wish your post could be pinned to the top of the ones insisting CICO is the only variable, and that only if you consume less and move more can you lose. If that were true, you'd have lost weight when you cut back on eating and boosted movement.

That may be true for some, but others have complicated metabolic systems and they don't work that way lol. Thank goodness we have these drugs that help normalize our systems and allow us to lose weight doing the same things that didn't work without them.

 

[bogardbilla]

Your doses are really low in my opinion, and I wonder what a bump from 1 to 1.3 to 1.5 would do. You also get used to the effects/feelings of Reta overtime.

Considering the quite big variations in actual milligrams packaged in vials compared to the advertised amount (R10 having from 8mg to 12mg,) these 0.2mg or 0.3mg bumps are completely meaningless.

 

[BNLFL]

Considering the quite big variations in actual milligrams packaged in vials compared to the advertised amount (R10 having from 8mg to 12mg,) these 0.2mg or 0.3mg bumps are completely meaningless.

I know that and I mix for that. I'm just curious the reasoning and not trying to be an ass.

 

[bogardbilla]

I know that and I mix for that. I'm just curious the reasoning and not trying to be an ass.

We're all experimenting with this stuff after all, and 99% of experiment attempts end up looking silly in hindsight.

 

[BNLFL]

Started the 9mg ride this morning on 2 BFF R60's I reconstituted on Thursday with 3ml Hospira.Getting caught up on Friday shots. We went away last Thursday, so missed the last Friday 8mg, but pinned Monday morning. Next week will be Saturday, then the following back to Friday mornings. So a 6 day shot deal. My wife was confused, but that's to be expected.

In other news, got tracking on the WW R140 and on Zeus 3-R30.

 

[BNLFL]

Saw that popping off, ought to be exciting for the buyers.

I'm 15betting there's going to be some really good reta going stale in the next 90 days in some cases.

Fact on the R140 taking a shit. I'm going to do 1 vial at a time. 6ml BAC, 3ml reconstituted into a 10ml vial, then another 3ml BAC into that. 9mg pins will be 15 doses out of the vial at 9mg. Two of us pulling 9mg which is 8 weeks for both, acceptable. I heard they're overfilled like mad, so I'll need that test info before I don anything with it,

 

[Nate2plate]

Never went above 2mgs and with working out and eating right I became the leanest I've ever been at 56 yrs old. I've been a gym rat for 40 yrs and always ate clean.

This is the way. If it’s working keep going! Nice job.

 

[jpru2001]

4 weeks at 2mg

4 weeks at 4mg

Just did first week at 5mg. First time I have had the don't-want-to-even-look-at-food feeling since the first couple days of the first week. Goal is to stay around 4-6 indefinitely, then back down to 2mg as I approach goal weight. We will see.

 

[BNLFL]

4 weeks at 2mg

4 weeks at 4mg

Just did first week at 5mg. First time I have had the don't-want-to-even-look-at-food feeling since the first couple days of the first week. Goal is to stay around 4-6 indefinitely, then back down to 2mg as I approach goal weight. We will see.

5mg sucked ass. We did one 5mg shot after 6-4mgs. Did 6-6mgs and was good till the last two then nothing. Last 2-6mg it where the sleep issues started and the weight loss stopped. One pin at 7mg, nope. Went to 8mg, did 5-8mg. That was a good one, but OMG, my sleep was brutally bad and stalled a little. Just started 9mg Sunday, and I can tell already, we should've gone to 10mg. These 1mg increased just aren't working in my wives or my plan. I'll do 1 more 9mg, and likely go to 10mg.

 

[AngieHolmes 53745]

Makes sense. I also started at 1mg but am about 100 pounds overweight and personally should have started higher.

It's so much easier to add than subtract on the dosage. We can't really predict how sensitive we'll be to the meds. Taking more than we can comfortably handle, at least right away, can create a real bummer of a few days.

 

[miameow]

Wow, that's gotta be disappointing. How did switching to cag go? Have you thought of trying tirz for food noise suppression? I wish you luck (and patience!) finding the right formula for you.

Thank you. All I have is patience, as you can see; I stayed on reta for six months despite severe daily gastrointestinal side effects and no benefit at all.

I already had a feeling it wasn’t going to work for me because my family has a history of severe insulin resistance leading to serious complications and early death. That’s why I chose to try a GLP-1 and stuck with it, even though I wasn’t losing any weight. I really had nothing to lose.

I didn’t pin reta again after that post. I also stopped cagri after one pin because it couldn’t override the food noise reta was creating, even at 1 mg.

Over the next few weeks, I lost 12 lbs. Some of it was probably water, but definitely not all of it.

I waited for everything to wash out of my system and pinned 250 mcg of cagri today. I can actually feel it working now that the reta is almost gone from my system.

Not only that, but a lot of other peptides that weren’t working before are now performing well. I’m also no longer experiencing ISR from GHK-Cu.

I’m happy to be off reta, and I won’t be considering any GLP-1s in the future.

 

[bluewater]

10 weeks in and 45 pounds down.

Started at 0.5mg and slowly worked up to 5mg which seems to be about right for me. Combined with MOTS-C. I have been astonished at how effective it has been at cutting the craving and constant thoughts about food.