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Hi there! I'm a 54 year old female from Germany, and I never used a peptide in my life before. I fight with quite a bit of fat that won't go away (maybe 15 kg or a little more), especially since post-menopause, which I'm in since a while (I guess, there is no diagnosis, just observation and assumption). I try to lose this stubborn weight, but refused to use weight loss drugs until now, because I fear side effects like muscle loss. Now I'm reading and watching stuff about Reta and it made me a little hopeful for my case, but of course you cannot go to the pharmacy or the doctor to try this, so I hope I can get as much information as possible here.
 
Welcome!

Muscle loss can be prevented or largely mitigated by eating enough protein and practicing some form of resistance training. If you skip these, Reta is not going to save your muscle.

Once you've spent some time digging through the available data, you'll see there's a ton of options out there. Where you want to go with it is up to you. Good luck on the journey.
 
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Hi there! I'm a 54 year old female from Germany, and I never used a peptide in my life before. I fight with quite a bit of fat that won't go away (maybe 15 kg or a little more), especially since post-menopause, which I'm in since a while (I guess, there is no diagnosis, just observation and assumption). I try to lose this stubborn weight, but refused to use weight loss drugs until now, because I fear side effects like muscle loss. Now I'm reading and watching stuff about Reta and it made me a little hopeful for my case, but of course you cannot go to the pharmacy or the doctor to try this, so I hope I can get as much information as possible here.

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Avid gym goer here and I’ll tell you that muscle loss is gonna be directly determined by your choices while taking a glp-1. If you hit your protein goal and workout with a purpose while also not starving yourself, you’ll be just fine. I learned this hard way with some strength loss when I first started but now that I’ve got my diet down to a tee I’ve actually gained some muscle while on Reta. Good Luck!
 
Welcome fellow newbie! It’s nice to know I’m not the only person trying to learn as much as possible in hopes of bettering themself.

Have you had success with any other GLP1 in the past?
 
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Welcome fellow newbie! It’s nice to know I’m not the only person trying to learn as much as possible in hopes of bettering themself.

Have you had success with any other GLP1 in the past?

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Thank you. No, I never tried a GLP-1. First, I don't meet the required BMI, so no doctor would prescribe it to me here in Germany. I could try online and lie about my weight, but I had doubts what these things will do to my health in the long run. "Ozempic face" was one of the things that turned me off of the idea, but I guess those people just overdid it, I don't know. I just saw a video on Youtube (Nick Norwitz) where he tried Reta and it sounded different to me, but I'm still on the fence, so I gather information now and decide when I think I know enough. 😉
 
Thanks, all! I do weight training (if my back/knees/... let me, so this is a bit spotty) and watch my calories and my protein, but since post-meno nothing seems to work anymore. I'm not a heavyweight, but my natural build is rather lanky and I gather solely around the pouch, the waist, back and upper arms, so even a bit of overweight is already a problem. Not so much for my health, I guess, but for my overall wellbeing. I had (and sometimes still have) an issue with sleep and cortisol, so I shouldn't go too low with the calories, because it causes even more stress. I don't know if a GLP-1 or Reta is the right answer for me, but I'm not ready to simply give up, yet.
 
Omg the sag is real in perimenopause and after losing weight, I’m hitting protein goals and just rejoined the gym. Any advice for building muscle seems so much harder in my 50s
 
Unfortunately I'm not of much use in this regard. I often skip training because of pain these days and I don't have a long history of any kind of workout, since I started relatively late in life with doing any. I was very skinny until around 30 and stayed quite slim until I hit 39 and stopped smoking. After this I tried and abandoned a few kinds of workouts, but try to do strength now with more consistency, but I'm far away from the recommended 3-4 times a week.
 
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