when did the weight loss really start for you?

[damy2604]

I’m in week 2 at 4 mg. My appetite during the day has dropped a lot — now I only eat lunch and dinner, in moderate amounts. But the hunger isn’t completely gone.

How long did it take for it to really start working for you? And did your hunger disappear completely or does some of it remain?”

 

[MFGamesta]

On Zepbound, it took about 3 weeks before I was blown away by the appetite suppression. I was on 2.5mg but everyone is different. Be patient.

 

[Maximus]

Pretty much immediately. I began to feel the appetite suppression and disappearing food noise withing a day of my first shot. Tirzepatide 2.5 was where I began. Down 1.8lb that first week. I followed tdee-500calories as a daily caloric goal.

 

[Estarossa19]

I’m in week 2 at 4 mg. My appetite during the day has dropped a lot — now I only eat lunch and dinner, in moderate amounts. But the hunger isn’t completely gone.

How long did it take for it to really start working for you? And did your hunger disappear completely or does some of it remain?”

I'm on 7.5mg of Tirzepatide currently and have been for about 2 months. This dose has allowed about 90% of the food noise to be shut out so I plan on being on it for quite a while. I stalled a bit the first month on this dose but began going to the gym this month and the extra movement has helped a lot. Down about 40 pounds in 5 months.

 

[BNLFL]

First week. Mind you, we also started a low carb eating plan. I don't really want to call it a diet. Started on 2mg Reta 10 weeks ago and slowly moved up to 5mg. Did the first 5mg this morning. At first I didn't want to eat anything, but that has come back to where we eat very small meals and usually only have a protein shake for lunch. Not sure we've (wife and I) had any major food noise.

 

[myopicmystic]

What type of hunger do you mean? Did you have a lot of food noise before?

I started at a microdose because I was worried about side effects, so my response may not be as helpful. There were subtle changes weeks early on, but they may have been placebo. The appetite suppression really kicked in around weeks 4-6. The weight loss started the first week.

I don't have a lot of hunger, almost zero food noise, and I definitely feel fuller faster. I am okay with some hunger remaining to keep me in line because I'd accidentally skip the whole day if I wasn't paying attention.

 

[retarequired]

I feel reta pretty much immediately and it works like a charm. I did start quite high at 2mg (on 2nd week, at 3mg now) because I have previous GLP1 experience. I have a vague impulse to eat sometimes, it's probably just habitual, it makes me a little sad when I realize I'm not actually hungry at all though lol

 

[FarmgirlRebel]

Everyone is so different in their response.

Me, 2.5mg of Tirz shut my appetite down on day 1. My sister's appetite suppression didn't really start in until she titrated up to 5mg

 

[nitrohyper]

For me it was apparent the very next day, I saw a drastic reduction in appetite and food noise and cravings, I finally felt at peace with food. Lost 19 pounds so far, extremely happy and I can’t wait to lose some more.

 

[miss-sanne]

For me, Tirz worked from day one on my appetite / craving / foodnoise.

I've been very consistently loosing 0,5 kg per week on average, the first 'whoosh' a bit more.

 

[lessthanhalf]

It is pretty hard to totally suppress hunger without feeling awful and generally unwell. Ideally what you want is for it to make you feel full with smaller meals and not be super hungry in between meals and think about food a bit less and have less cravings for unhealthy food. If you are eating when you are hungry and the amount you eat adds up to be the right amount to lose weight at a sensible rate, without constantly forcing yourself not to eat when feeling hungry, then it is working perfectly. What you are describing sounds reasonably close to that.

You might have to increase doses if still too hungry or not losing weight or even decrease doses if there are side effects to find what works for you best over time. It helps to eat healthy food and maintain a reasonable protein intake.

 

[Jerrydee]

For me first dose of 1mg , on reta , I lost 2 kg in first week , so far 8 weeks and down by 16 kg dose have been 2.5 so far just moved to 3 on Friday