Actually my wife's own interest is what got me started. "Get me o*mpic!" was her insistence about a year ago. A few pounds were what she wanted to drop and the other methods have been a struggle for her. Against it is where I stood at the time, swayed by, well, influencers, going on about nausea, gastric emptying slowing down, and how compliance falls away late in year one. Nothing needs changing - she's perfect as she is - so our assumption was that no doctor would write it, insurance would refuse it, and affording it would be out of the question either way.
A year later, and discovery by some of those same influencers has happened: appetite suppression is far from the only thing GLP-1 agonists do. Changed is my own assessment. These days the metabolic improvements are what I believe sit front-center stage, with weight loss being nothing more than a consequence of getting healthier, and appetite, as ever, is simply energy needs at the cellular level expressed sincerely.
Low-carb eating has been my own method of weight control. When it works, it works. Adherent is what I stay, hunger never arrives, and lean is what I become and remain. Food noise is not exactly what I have, but carb noise is. Constant low-level effort is what avoiding those carbs takes, even at my peak of fat adaptation. Especially difficult is it since the house I live in has walls that are virtually held up by processed carb boxes and cartons. (Caution: teenagers present.)
Cruising now on 2 mg of reta, dosed once weekly. Lost since starting is a few pounds, but nothing more than a linear extension of where the keto diet was already heading, reinstated a few months before reta got added. With reta in the mix, that shallow BF% decline now happens minus the carb noise. Meeting my daily protein goal is the biggest challenge for me. Gate-keeping any temptation to increase the reta dose is what that goal does. The rule I keep for myself: no consideration of a reta dose bump is allowed until the protein goal is met without struggle. Also part of it is resistance training in my garage 5 days/wk, plus 5 miles walked a few times per week.
My wife, as for her, is on a slower on-ramp to reta because of nausea. Where she hangs on at the moment is 0.4 mg dosed 2-3 times per week. Nausea for a few days, brought on by overeager escalation, came her way, but control over that has since been got and proceeding more cautiously is what we now do, an app showing the estimated accumulated level helping us. Whether the results she came here for are arriving is hard to tell as of yet, but in my view the current goal is nothing more than tolerance being built until a therapeutic dose can be stomached by her.
The pen mechanic in the family is me. Shared is the kit, but always our own pens, and of course, our own needles.
A year later, and discovery by some of those same influencers has happened: appetite suppression is far from the only thing GLP-1 agonists do. Changed is my own assessment. These days the metabolic improvements are what I believe sit front-center stage, with weight loss being nothing more than a consequence of getting healthier, and appetite, as ever, is simply energy needs at the cellular level expressed sincerely.
Low-carb eating has been my own method of weight control. When it works, it works. Adherent is what I stay, hunger never arrives, and lean is what I become and remain. Food noise is not exactly what I have, but carb noise is. Constant low-level effort is what avoiding those carbs takes, even at my peak of fat adaptation. Especially difficult is it since the house I live in has walls that are virtually held up by processed carb boxes and cartons. (Caution: teenagers present.)
Cruising now on 2 mg of reta, dosed once weekly. Lost since starting is a few pounds, but nothing more than a linear extension of where the keto diet was already heading, reinstated a few months before reta got added. With reta in the mix, that shallow BF% decline now happens minus the carb noise. Meeting my daily protein goal is the biggest challenge for me. Gate-keeping any temptation to increase the reta dose is what that goal does. The rule I keep for myself: no consideration of a reta dose bump is allowed until the protein goal is met without struggle. Also part of it is resistance training in my garage 5 days/wk, plus 5 miles walked a few times per week.
My wife, as for her, is on a slower on-ramp to reta because of nausea. Where she hangs on at the moment is 0.4 mg dosed 2-3 times per week. Nausea for a few days, brought on by overeager escalation, came her way, but control over that has since been got and proceeding more cautiously is what we now do, an app showing the estimated accumulated level helping us. Whether the results she came here for are arriving is hard to tell as of yet, but in my view the current goal is nothing more than tolerance being built until a therapeutic dose can be stomached by her.
The pen mechanic in the family is me. Shared is the kit, but always our own pens, and of course, our own needles.
