I went all in when I first found this forum. After putting up with a year of nausea from low dose not that cheap prescribed ozempic just so I could be a little less hungry finding this place was a godsend. And being able to use whatever dose I wanted without it being stupidly expensive, as the legit version of tirz here was $690 aud/month, which I could not afford even though my doctor was happy to prescribe it. It seemed way too good to be true and I never really believed until I had my first dose of pirate tirz and it caused the same louder tinnitus as the real one.
Then I spent at least a month on google scholar looking up every single peptide on the price lists and making extensive notes, trying to work out what had good evidence it worked and what didn't and in general being a bit disappointed that so few of the most interesting sounding ones had good human trial data. And doing endless comparisons of the different vendors and their prices and peoples recommendations.
And then got to experiment with doses ( I had already kept the weight off for 2 years by this point, but had been hungry pretty much the whole time from 145kg to 75kg ) And found I was still a bit hungry on tirz 15mg but had almost zero side effects so added reta 5mg to it, which was very close to ideal, and I ended up very slowly losing weight down to 64kg over the next year without having to be hungry the whole time, eventually added in a bit of cagri as well. And collected 5 years worth of reta/tirz just in case.
But now I do not really need to lose any more weight, at a BMI of 23, pretty much middle of the normal range, being fitter with a bit more muscle and a bit less fat might be better, but considering the starting point, I am very happy, and even more so that it looks like it might be possible to keep the weight off forever, without having to be permanently hungry. As opposed to putting the weight back on like every other time I lost weight. Not much else to do now, other than keep going and not put weight back on.
The only new and exciting thing happening is eloralintide being available so I might try it instead of cagri, and might be able to use it to drop the reta/tirz dose a bit, but not quite the same novelty factor as when I first found this site and the whole cheap chinese peptides thing. And reading thousands of papers on all the GLPs and other peptides.
Staying on diets in the past always required a fairly extreme narrow obsessive focus to stick to it long enough to get results, but now that is just not really needed, just need to have a few injections every couple of days, and not eat large amounts of junk food.
