WaybillVostro
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Hey everyone. Sorry in advance for rambling — once I get going on a story, I tend to run with it.
I'm 39, male, and eventually got to a stage where losing the extra fat wasn't optional anymore, yet it was far more of a fight than it had any right to be.
A number of years back, sitting around 90kg, I tried keto, and honestly it changed everything. Besides having steady energy all day with no crashes, I was dropping fat incredibly fast, and I barely changed how much I ate or how much I moved (cardio is really not my thing). The problem: that way of eating never held up long-term for me. I was on the road a lot for work, and I also wanted to actually enjoy meals with my wife.
So I drifted back to my usual diet. The trouble is I'm crazy about carbs and sugar, and with all those amazing desserts and drinks flooding the market (cookies, brown sugar bubble tea — yes please), self-control went out the window. On top of that, I never felt full or satisfied unless I'd eaten what most people would call a huge amount. A pint of Ben and Jerry's that's supposed to be 4 servings or more? Gone in about 5 minutes when it's me.
Long story short, the weight came back, and when I tried keto again it didn't work nearly as well. It still did something, but I'd have needed to stay on it much longer, and it was like my body had "learned" from last time and become more efficient somehow. Around then my first son was born, my eating and activity got even worse, and sticking to keto became basically impossible. There was also a lot of buzz at the time about Ozempic, and when I searched online for ways to get it, the prices alone convinced me that even thinking about it was a fantasy.
Now jump to a couple of months ago. The kids are a bit older, I'm at 100kg, and looking at photos and in the mirror I kept wondering how I'd ever turn this around. Life was more organized by then, so I went back to what I already knew worked without needing to train like I was preparing for a marathon. I ended up cutting down to one meal a day (which felt like enough, since I seemed to run on constant energy from my fat stores), and that got me to lose roughly 2kg over a month. Still, it felt like I'd need a very long keto stretch, which made me doubt whether it was sustainable.
Keto was helping with hunger and energy, but one persistent problem never went away: cravings. I didn't feel like I needed dessert (the sugar cravings were muted, not gone), yet one glance at something sweet and tasty made me want to try it. I was constantly fighting my own head to find a distraction, and if I managed to distract myself, I could move past it.
After a dinner out with some coworkers, I heard the name Retatrutide mentioned and told myself I'd look into it later. I didn't. Then the next week my sister, who's also trying to lose weight, brought it up too, and that's when I finally started reading about it. Neither of us knew anything about buying it in bulk, so we both just bought our first vials locally to see what it was about and whether it would actually help.
And yeah — all I can say is that to me, Reta is nothing short of magic. Within as little as a day after the first 1mg dose, the part of my brain that craved anything tasty in sight just seemed to switch off. I was already doing keto, so some of Reta's other effects may have been masked, but the biggest change I noticed was that the desire for sweets was simply gone.
I'm now 6 weeks into my Reta journey, currently at 89kg, heading downward steadily but not too quickly, and I've never felt better. Best of all, I no longer have to stress about staying keto, though I am cutting back on carbs overall since our home meals used to be pretty carb-heavy (rice and such).
My goal weight is 75kg (or maybe 70kg, depending on how I feel about myself) before I get back into the gym and start building some muscle.
I'm 39, male, and eventually got to a stage where losing the extra fat wasn't optional anymore, yet it was far more of a fight than it had any right to be.
A number of years back, sitting around 90kg, I tried keto, and honestly it changed everything. Besides having steady energy all day with no crashes, I was dropping fat incredibly fast, and I barely changed how much I ate or how much I moved (cardio is really not my thing). The problem: that way of eating never held up long-term for me. I was on the road a lot for work, and I also wanted to actually enjoy meals with my wife.
So I drifted back to my usual diet. The trouble is I'm crazy about carbs and sugar, and with all those amazing desserts and drinks flooding the market (cookies, brown sugar bubble tea — yes please), self-control went out the window. On top of that, I never felt full or satisfied unless I'd eaten what most people would call a huge amount. A pint of Ben and Jerry's that's supposed to be 4 servings or more? Gone in about 5 minutes when it's me.
Long story short, the weight came back, and when I tried keto again it didn't work nearly as well. It still did something, but I'd have needed to stay on it much longer, and it was like my body had "learned" from last time and become more efficient somehow. Around then my first son was born, my eating and activity got even worse, and sticking to keto became basically impossible. There was also a lot of buzz at the time about Ozempic, and when I searched online for ways to get it, the prices alone convinced me that even thinking about it was a fantasy.
Now jump to a couple of months ago. The kids are a bit older, I'm at 100kg, and looking at photos and in the mirror I kept wondering how I'd ever turn this around. Life was more organized by then, so I went back to what I already knew worked without needing to train like I was preparing for a marathon. I ended up cutting down to one meal a day (which felt like enough, since I seemed to run on constant energy from my fat stores), and that got me to lose roughly 2kg over a month. Still, it felt like I'd need a very long keto stretch, which made me doubt whether it was sustainable.
Keto was helping with hunger and energy, but one persistent problem never went away: cravings. I didn't feel like I needed dessert (the sugar cravings were muted, not gone), yet one glance at something sweet and tasty made me want to try it. I was constantly fighting my own head to find a distraction, and if I managed to distract myself, I could move past it.
After a dinner out with some coworkers, I heard the name Retatrutide mentioned and told myself I'd look into it later. I didn't. Then the next week my sister, who's also trying to lose weight, brought it up too, and that's when I finally started reading about it. Neither of us knew anything about buying it in bulk, so we both just bought our first vials locally to see what it was about and whether it would actually help.
And yeah — all I can say is that to me, Reta is nothing short of magic. Within as little as a day after the first 1mg dose, the part of my brain that craved anything tasty in sight just seemed to switch off. I was already doing keto, so some of Reta's other effects may have been masked, but the biggest change I noticed was that the desire for sweets was simply gone.
I'm now 6 weeks into my Reta journey, currently at 89kg, heading downward steadily but not too quickly, and I've never felt better. Best of all, I no longer have to stress about staying keto, though I am cutting back on carbs overall since our home meals used to be pretty carb-heavy (rice and such).
My goal weight is 75kg (or maybe 70kg, depending on how I feel about myself) before I get back into the gym and start building some muscle.
