Hey all,
I've spent quite a bit of time lurking on this forum, and honestly I regret not discovering it earlier (I fell for a scam once...).
A bit about me: I'm a 40-year-old man, fairly active. About five times per week I do weightlifting plus running. At 173 cm (5'8"), I'd gained a handful of kilos over the last year. The day I began retatrutide, my weight was 73.1 kg (161 lbs) and my body fat sat near 19%.
Back when I was doing marathons, I weighed roughly 62 kg (137 lbs), so getting close to that number again became my target.
My eating habits had slipped recently. Any spare moment turned into a snack. How I originally stumbled onto reta, I honestly can't recall, but once I'd read up on it, I chose to try it.
April was my start month, and I kept dosing conservative to keep side effects down:
Week 1: 0.5 mg
Week 2: 0.5 mg
Week 3: 1.0 mg
Week 4: 1.0 mg
Week 5: 1.5 mg
Week 6: 1.5 mg
Week 7: 2.0 mg
Since then, 2.0 mg has been my dose. Today's weigh-in showed 65.4 kg (144 lbs), so 7.9 kg (17.4 lbs) is gone. How effective reta has been for me genuinely surprises me.
The absence of food noise is what stands out most. The compulsion to snack or dig through the fridge at every opportunity has disappeared.
Of course, none of this happens by itself. I've kept my meals clean, trained without skipping, and I wasn't starting from a bad place physically. Still, staying consistent has become far less of a struggle.
Side effects barely registered. A handful of light headaches showed up, and drinking more water plus electrolytes cleared them up easily. For a stretch I was also waking during the night.
After coming across accounts like mine, I began eating a spoonful of peanut butter before sleep to keep blood sugar steadier through the night. Could be placebo, but the issue hasn't returned.
My performance in sports has held up well. Max lifts dropped slightly, though I figure shedding nearly 8 kg across two months would do that no matter what reta contributed.
There isn't much fat left to drop now (body fat is around 11.5% at the moment), so the aim is to locate the smallest maintenance dose that works and remain on it long-term. If the food noise stays silent, that's a massive win in my book.
As seems true for many people here, peptides have really captured my interest. An order is currently in transit (fingers crossed customs stays uninterested
), including a few I want to test: MOTS-c, CJC-1295 (no DAC) with IPA, and KLOW.
I don't see any of those becoming permanent fixtures. My approach is to run each one alone in short cycles, and possibly stack them later just to observe the effects.
Reta, on the other hand, is a different matter. That one isn't going anywhere.
So that's my introduction, my experience so far, and a thank you to everyone here for the knowledge I've picked up from this forum.
Translated with IA (if any wrong expression, im sorry)
I've spent quite a bit of time lurking on this forum, and honestly I regret not discovering it earlier (I fell for a scam once...).
A bit about me: I'm a 40-year-old man, fairly active. About five times per week I do weightlifting plus running. At 173 cm (5'8"), I'd gained a handful of kilos over the last year. The day I began retatrutide, my weight was 73.1 kg (161 lbs) and my body fat sat near 19%.
Back when I was doing marathons, I weighed roughly 62 kg (137 lbs), so getting close to that number again became my target.
My eating habits had slipped recently. Any spare moment turned into a snack. How I originally stumbled onto reta, I honestly can't recall, but once I'd read up on it, I chose to try it.
April was my start month, and I kept dosing conservative to keep side effects down:
Week 1: 0.5 mg
Week 2: 0.5 mg
Week 3: 1.0 mg
Week 4: 1.0 mg
Week 5: 1.5 mg
Week 6: 1.5 mg
Week 7: 2.0 mg
Since then, 2.0 mg has been my dose. Today's weigh-in showed 65.4 kg (144 lbs), so 7.9 kg (17.4 lbs) is gone. How effective reta has been for me genuinely surprises me.
The absence of food noise is what stands out most. The compulsion to snack or dig through the fridge at every opportunity has disappeared.
Of course, none of this happens by itself. I've kept my meals clean, trained without skipping, and I wasn't starting from a bad place physically. Still, staying consistent has become far less of a struggle.
Side effects barely registered. A handful of light headaches showed up, and drinking more water plus electrolytes cleared them up easily. For a stretch I was also waking during the night.
After coming across accounts like mine, I began eating a spoonful of peanut butter before sleep to keep blood sugar steadier through the night. Could be placebo, but the issue hasn't returned.
My performance in sports has held up well. Max lifts dropped slightly, though I figure shedding nearly 8 kg across two months would do that no matter what reta contributed.
There isn't much fat left to drop now (body fat is around 11.5% at the moment), so the aim is to locate the smallest maintenance dose that works and remain on it long-term. If the food noise stays silent, that's a massive win in my book.
As seems true for many people here, peptides have really captured my interest. An order is currently in transit (fingers crossed customs stays uninterested
), including a few I want to test: MOTS-c, CJC-1295 (no DAC) with IPA, and KLOW.I don't see any of those becoming permanent fixtures. My approach is to run each one alone in short cycles, and possibly stack them later just to observe the effects.
Reta, on the other hand, is a different matter. That one isn't going anywhere.
So that's my introduction, my experience so far, and a thank you to everyone here for the knowledge I've picked up from this forum.
Translated with IA (if any wrong expression, im sorry)
