Since I was 18, I've dropped and regained the same 60-80 pounds 3 times. The latest stretch: 70 pounds gone starting in late 2023. Every time it was some combination of restriction, keto, vegan, or another named diet, plus forcing myself through the misery — and every time, once I couldn't sustain it, the weight came right back.
Last year I took a trip with no rules, after holding around 160 lbs for a year, and that set off a binge cycle. Then in January of this year I stopped nicotine completely, and over the past few months I've climbed to 177lbs. Getting down to 160 had been painfully slow, yet I kept it there for a year with little effort, so I figured I'd conquered obesity, at least partly — but it's been a fight ever since.
Now I feel like things are slipping away from me, and I think I need outside help both to reach a healthy weight and to get my binging under control.
My titration upward from .5 mg starting doses is happening very gradually. Last Wednesday I took .5mg, and today I've just taken another .5mg. Next week the plan is 1mg, then I'll judge how things go and keep raising by .5 increments. Yesterday I think there was some appetite suppression, and in the past week I've already gone from 177 to 173 — though I figure that's mostly water weight at the beginning.
It was my maid of honor who brought up Retatrutide, during one of our planning lunches. I was complaining about how hard losing weight had been and saying I wanted to be in the 130s for my wedding. That was several months back, though, before the real spiral and the active gaining started.
I want the kind of success I keep seeing posted here and on reddit, and reading about everyone's different doses and experiences has been really fascinating. Eventually, when I move into more strength training, I'm strongly considering adding MOTS-C, and possibly Cagrillintide if hunger becomes a problem, because breaking my binging habits matters a lot to me.
I'm eager to keep talking with all of you!
Last year I took a trip with no rules, after holding around 160 lbs for a year, and that set off a binge cycle. Then in January of this year I stopped nicotine completely, and over the past few months I've climbed to 177lbs. Getting down to 160 had been painfully slow, yet I kept it there for a year with little effort, so I figured I'd conquered obesity, at least partly — but it's been a fight ever since.
Now I feel like things are slipping away from me, and I think I need outside help both to reach a healthy weight and to get my binging under control.
My titration upward from .5 mg starting doses is happening very gradually. Last Wednesday I took .5mg, and today I've just taken another .5mg. Next week the plan is 1mg, then I'll judge how things go and keep raising by .5 increments. Yesterday I think there was some appetite suppression, and in the past week I've already gone from 177 to 173 — though I figure that's mostly water weight at the beginning.
It was my maid of honor who brought up Retatrutide, during one of our planning lunches. I was complaining about how hard losing weight had been and saying I wanted to be in the 130s for my wedding. That was several months back, though, before the real spiral and the active gaining started.
I want the kind of success I keep seeing posted here and on reddit, and reading about everyone's different doses and experiences has been really fascinating. Eventually, when I move into more strength training, I'm strongly considering adding MOTS-C, and possibly Cagrillintide if hunger becomes a problem, because breaking my binging habits matters a lot to me.
I'm eager to keep talking with all of you!