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Hello,

9 months ago I started on glps, after years of doing everything the diet-and-exercise advice asked for with nothing to show for it. Every time I asked a doctor why the weight had crept on and wouldn't shift, the answer was to focus on diet and exercise. So I logged everything. My daily eating came back with top marks. My activity tracker showed more movement than I'd managed in a decade. I showed both to the doctor, and got told to keep it up.

:-/

My fsh and lh came back off the charts, which pointed to perimenopause or past it. Nobody bothered much with the weight side of things, even once my blood pressure and cholesterol had reached unsafe territory. Red rice yeast was suggested, and if that failed, medication for the cholesterol. They did find cancer. I had the surgery, but wasn't happy with how my body looked afterwards. That's when I went to compounded glp1. Going that route worked out well, since telehealth was available and they prescribed zofran. Headaches came with it, but the weight did come off. I was running glow at the same time, so skin and hair held up nicely. At one point I paused the klow and dropped the collagen peptides, and lost roughly half my hair inside a month. Hair I couldn't afford to lose. Back on both now, and the hair is slowly recovering.

Since June I'm down 60 pounds, mostly on sema. On a few occasions I deliberately slowed the doses, because losing too fast worried me. What I've noticed is that the most recent 10 pounds cost more in appearance than the first 50 did. There's extra skin, plus a bit of oz face and neck. So the doses are lower now (they were low anyway) and red light therapy for face and neck has become part of the routine. I'd hoped for another 10 before easing off, so I could buy clothes in my final size rather than interim ones, but I think my skin needs the time to catch up.

Early on, nobody noticed anything until 35 pounds were gone. These days they spot 5. Which makes sense, I suppose — and explains why slow loss at the start is such a grind.
 
rokowho said:

Hello,

9 months ago I started on glps, after years of doing everything the diet-and-exercise advice asked for with nothing to show for it. Every time I asked a doctor why the weight had crept on and wouldn't shift, the answer was to focus on diet and exercise. So I logged everything. My daily eating came back with top marks. My activity tracker showed more movement than I'd managed in a decade. I showed both to the doctor, and got told to keep it up.

:-/

My fsh and lh came back off the charts, which pointed to perimenopause or past it. Nobody bothered much with the weight side of things, even once my blood pressure and cholesterol had reached unsafe territory. Red rice yeast was suggested, and if that failed, medication for the cholesterol. They did find cancer. I had the surgery, but wasn't happy with how my body looked afterwards. That's when I went to compounded glp1. Going that route worked out well, since telehealth was available and they prescribed zofran. Headaches came with it, but the weight did come off. I was running glow at the same time, so skin and hair held up nicely. At one point I paused the klow and dropped the collagen peptides, and lost roughly half my hair inside a month. Hair I couldn't afford to lose. Back on both now, and the hair is slowly recovering.

Since June I'm down 60 pounds, mostly on sema. On a few occasions I deliberately slowed the doses, because losing too fast worried me. What I've noticed is that the most recent 10 pounds cost more in appearance than the first 50 did. There's extra skin, plus a bit of oz face and neck. So the doses are lower now (they were low anyway) and red light therapy for face and neck has become part of the routine. I'd hoped for another 10 before easing off, so I could buy clothes in my final size rather than interim ones, but I think my skin needs the time to catch up.

Early on, nobody noticed anything until 35 pounds were gone. These days they spot 5. Which makes sense, I suppose — and explains why slow loss at the start is such a grind.
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That's great to hear. It's a shame you had to go through the earlier part of this without anyone in your corner. GLP-1s have a way of shifting how you feel about eating, and later on, about working out too. I was extremely heavy at one point, and these days I'm at the gym all the time. Lifting to preserve muscle while you're dropping weight matters a lot. If you skip that, you can wind up skinny fat, which comes with its own health problems.

You might look into ipamorelin + CJC-1295 nodac for holding onto muscle while burning fat. Mots-c is worth considering if you're dragging at the gym. For healing and collagen, GLOW or ghk-cu could be options.

Proud of you. Congratulations.
 
Ever wonder what makes red yeast rice effective in the cases where it actually is (and plenty of times it isn't)? The answer: it has a statin in it! Choosing it over a statin pill means you're gambling on the dose you get, assuming there's any statin in there at all. It infuriates me that some doctors keep recommending something with that kind of risk.

Still, great job on the weight loss, and good that the cancer is gone.
 
Hello there — and truly, you've navigated this entire process quite impressively.

Dropping 60 lbs after having done everything "by the book" and seeing zero progress beforehand… that's massive. And that irritation when doctors dismiss you is something many folks in this community understand.

What you're experiencing right now is genuinely quite typical:

  • those final 10 lbs appearing worse
  • a bit of loose skin / changes to the face
  • hair shedding
None of that signals something is going wrong — it's simply the "late stage" of weight loss, where things become a little strange before they level out.

Reducing your dose somewhat and easing off the pace is a genuinely wise decision. During this phase, allowing your body time to adapt tends to be more beneficial than forcing things further.

Also — the hair situation you mentioned occurs for many individuals following weight loss or stress. The fact that it's getting better now is encouraging.

And you're completely correct about others noticing:

  • early weight loss → hardly anyone notices
  • later small shifts → all at once apparent
Totally normal, even when it feels annoying.

You're in a genuinely strong position at this point. This stage isn't so much about speed as it is about letting everything catch up and stabilize.

Glad you posted — plenty of people will connect with this. 💛
 
Researcher6076 said:

rokowho said:

Hello,

9 months ago I started on glps, after years of doing everything the diet-and-exercise advice asked for with nothing to show for it. Every time I asked a doctor why the weight had crept on and wouldn't shift, the answer was to focus on diet and exercise. So I logged everything. My daily eating came back with top marks. My activity tracker showed more movement than I'd managed in a decade. I showed both to the doctor, and got told to keep it up.

:-/

My fsh and lh came back off the charts, which pointed to perimenopause or past it. Nobody bothered much with the weight side of things, even once my blood pressure and cholesterol had reached unsafe territory. Red rice yeast was suggested, and if that failed, medication for the cholesterol. They did find cancer. I had the surgery, but wasn't happy with how my body looked afterwards. That's when I went to compounded glp1. Going that route worked out well, since telehealth was available and they prescribed zofran. Headaches came with it, but the weight did come off. I was running glow at the same time, so skin and hair held up nicely. At one point I paused the klow and dropped the collagen peptides, and lost roughly half my hair inside a month. Hair I couldn't afford to lose. Back on both now, and the hair is slowly recovering.

Since June I'm down 60 pounds, mostly on sema. On a few occasions I deliberately slowed the doses, because losing too fast worried me. What I've noticed is that the most recent 10 pounds cost more in appearance than the first 50 did. There's extra skin, plus a bit of oz face and neck. So the doses are lower now (they were low anyway) and red light therapy for face and neck has become part of the routine. I'd hoped for another 10 before easing off, so I could buy clothes in my final size rather than interim ones, but I think my skin needs the time to catch up.

Early on, nobody noticed anything until 35 pounds were gone. These days they spot 5. Which makes sense, I suppose — and explains why slow loss at the start is such a grind.
Click to expand...
That's great to hear. It's a shame you had to go through the earlier part of this without anyone in your corner. GLP-1s have a way of shifting how you feel about eating, and later on, about working out too. I was extremely heavy at one point, and these days I'm at the gym all the time. Lifting to preserve muscle while you're dropping weight matters a lot. If you skip that, you can wind up skinny fat, which comes with its own health problems.

You might look into ipamorelin + CJC-1295 nodac for holding onto muscle while burning fat. Mots-c is worth considering if you're dragging at the gym. For healing and collagen, GLOW or ghk-cu could be options.

Proud of you. Congratulations.
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Thanks so much!

It blows my mind how small an amount of food does the job for me now — no surprise the scale wouldn't budge before.

Someone mentioned they switched things up among Glow/klow and ghk-cu (on its own), and I might give that a go. Or maybe a ghk-cu plus kpv pairing. Klow gets really expensive if you're pinning it every day! 😫
 
CathyGoesFar said:

Ever wonder what makes red yeast rice effective in the cases where it actually is (and plenty of times it isn't)? The answer: it has a statin in it! Choosing it over a statin pill means you're gambling on the dose you get, assuming there's any statin in there at all. It infuriates me that some doctors keep recommending something with that kind of risk.

Still, great job on the weight loss, and good that the cancer is gone.
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Red yeast rice did nothing for me. Yet my cholesterol plummeted from the glp1 before I'd even shed 8 pounds!
 
rokowho said:

CathyGoesFar said:

Ever wonder what makes red yeast rice effective in the cases where it actually is (and plenty of times it isn't)? The answer: it has a statin in it! Choosing it over a statin pill means you're gambling on the dose you get, assuming there's any statin in there at all. It infuriates me that some doctors keep recommending something with that kind of risk.

Still, great job on the weight loss, and good that the cancer is gone.
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Red yeast rice did nothing for me. Yet my cholesterol plummeted from the glp1 before I'd even shed 8 pounds!
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These days, the statin component is gone from nearly all red yeast rice sold on the market, since the FDA views selling a supplement containing inconsistent quantities of a lovastatin equivalent as something of a problem. Plenty of other choices exist now, yet the majority of doctors keep pushing the same ineffective steps they did 20 years ago. Some have even served up that "avoid red meat" nonsense, never mind that red meat, chicken, and fish each drive cholesterol up at roughly the same rate. Chicken may in fact be the worst of the three.
 
vande250 said:

Hello there — and truly, you've navigated this entire process quite impressively.

Dropping 60 lbs after having done everything "by the book" and seeing zero progress beforehand… that's massive. And that irritation when doctors dismiss you is something many folks in this community understand.

What you're experiencing right now is genuinely quite typical:

  • those final 10 lbs appearing worse
  • a bit of loose skin / changes to the face
  • hair shedding
None of that signals something is going wrong — it's simply the "late stage" of weight loss, where things become a little strange before they level out.

Reducing your dose somewhat and easing off the pace is a genuinely wise decision. During this phase, allowing your body time to adapt tends to be more beneficial than forcing things further.

Also — the hair situation you mentioned occurs for many individuals following weight loss or stress. The fact that it's getting better now is encouraging.

And you're completely correct about others noticing:

  • early weight loss → hardly anyone notices
  • later small shifts → all at once apparent
Totally normal, even when it feels annoying.

You're in a genuinely strong position at this point. This stage isn't so much about speed as it is about letting everything catch up and stabilize.

Glad you posted — plenty of people will connect with this. 💛
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It's a relief to hear that this isn't just in my head!
 
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