New to Reta, saying hi
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Waterslither
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Hey everyone, glad to be here! I'm also just beginning Reta at 1mg. Right now I'm just taking it slow and hoping the food noise eventually quiets down. Looking forward to finding out how this journey unfolds!
40-50lbs, today I stepped on the scale and saw 172.
For roughly the past 1.5 years I hovered around 163, but once I stopped using nicotine the pounds came on fast. At 163 I felt okay, yet any attempt to go lower ended in a crash and burn.
As a 30 year old woman standing 5'4, I've never experienced feeling like the complete package was "hot", so I'd love to finally reach the 130s or 120s at some point in my adult life, lol.
What are you aiming for and how many pounds do you want to drop?
lziizs
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I'm new too, and I'd like to know what starting dose makes sense, plus whether it's taken once a week or every day.
Any prior GLP use on your end? When it's your first time, beginning with .5mg and giving it a week or two to see how you respond is the way to go — though if you trust yourself enough, week 2 is the point to move up to 1mg. Don't cut corners on BAC water, either. Just drop a reply here if you'd like, and I'll share what I went through along with the do's and dont's.
While using reta, fatty foods—especially fast food—are something you must avoid. Sulphur burps will hit you; it's a nasty eggy-tasting burp essentially. Never rush your dose upward assuming more mg means quicker results. Your body has to adjust gradually. Take my case: 2.5mg during week 1, then I doubled it to 5 the following week, and after that injection I couldn't eat for 3 days. I went too fast, but 2 weeks on I'm okay and the 5mg dose feels normal now. Make sure you aren't simply consuming anything and everything. Sticking with good foods gives the best outcome. Fast food is allowed, but you'll feel awful (weight will still come off slowly if you're in a deficit). Get to the gym and train whenever you can. Dehydration can also pile up because you lose the urge to drink water, so do what I do: chug protein shakes (mine come from costco, 30g protein, 160 kcal) and drink LOTS of Coconut Water. I'm down 13kg in a month. Any more questions—like my reply + send me another reply. Somehow I can only see when my post gets liked, idk where in my notifications the section for messages replying to me is.
BourbonJuice504
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8 weeks in at 2mg and the scale hasn't moved for me, yet my body composition has changed a lot. I'd guess I went from 20% bf down to 15%. This week I bumped it up to 3mg. I'll stick with it for another 4 weeks. My abs are beginning to appear.
My main tip would be to keep your fluids up. Even if appetite is gone, remember that hours can pass without eating anything. Have something reasonable… I prep chicken breast strips and nibble a few ounces between meals. Think of your metabolism as a fire that has to be fed. Starve yourself and that fire dies out, which means less weight comes off.
My main tip would be to keep your fluids up. Even if appetite is gone, remember that hours can pass without eating anything. Have something reasonable… I prep chicken breast strips and nibble a few ounces between meals. Think of your metabolism as a fire that has to be fed. Starve yourself and that fire dies out, which means less weight comes off.
Apologies first, Vondutch, if this is taking over your thread
Keto is what I follow, and it's the sole diet that has let me fully silence food noise. No hunger, no cravings at all. I've cycled through it several times, and by now I've got electrolytes down, I avoid processed foods, and I lean on tools such as ChatGPT and the like to monitor my macros. I can estimate my protein portions by sight, effortlessly, because I'm not hungry. OMAD is my approach (one meal a day), so on top of that I fast for 20+ hours. None of this involves glp1! Still, I can't summon the drive to begin working out
!! In the past I dropped 15kgr through keto by itself, but I wanted to speed things up with exercise and cut muscle loss and so on. I need a push to get going, since I know that once I begin, I'll stick with it. It's foolish and stupid that I already know the steps and yet some invisible force keeps me pinned down. So here I am instead, hunting for a shortcut lol. For 1 month I gave Mounjaro 2.5 a try, but the cost is absurd. My side effects were very mild to nearly nothing, aside from some constipation, which I anticipated and which wasn't really a problem. My hope is to start ret at 2mg and then, after a couple weeks, move to 4. I began at 130kg and, with keto alone, I'm down to 125kg in 10 days. I know the first kilos are water, so there's a long way left, but already my jeans feel loose and my face looks more defined. We'll see how consistent I can remain, because it's the long run that will make the difference.Thanks for your input and for sharing so everyone can read it. I can't wait to get past the trial period and start asking the community the hard questions.
If you end up starting Reta, I'd suggest moving away from Keto and going with a meat based diet instead. From my own experience, Reta hits hard, so it's smart to get ready ahead of time. Even at 2mg, it wipes out your food noise (that's just what happened to me). Carbs need to be a big part of your intake since training has to start. I get exactly what you mean about needing something to push you into the gym, that was me too. I kept telling myself I'd begin losing weight once I had reta, because then I'd know if I slacked off I'd just be throwing money away, you know? But look at it this way: get into working out before reta and build some muscle, then picture how much quicker things move once reta is added. Our situation is basically identical. About 3-4 weeks back I was 134kg when I began my consistent Reta cycle. Now I'm at 120 kilos. Even with eating badly (every few days I'd eat poorly, not from hunger but just habit), I still lost 13 kilos. Gym strength hasn't budged at all, yet the fat is coming off. Just take that first gym step and watch what happens without reta, then multiply it by roughly 5x, and that shows how powerful Reta is IF you stay consistent. Reta will likely push you into OMAD regardless lol, so make that single meal heavy on protein, then have some carbs as a snack before the gym so your energy doesn't crash, since reta can wear you out fast. Again, like my post so I can find it later. Let's keep talking, tell me if you want help figuring things out.Dumme said:
Apologies first, Vondutch, if this is taking over your thread
Keto is what I follow, and it's the sole diet that has let me fully silence food noise. No hunger, no cravings at all. I've cycled through it several times, and by now I've got electrolytes down, I avoid processed foods, and I lean on tools such as ChatGPT and the like to monitor my macros. I can estimate my protein portions by sight, effortlessly, because I'm not hungry. OMAD is my approach (one meal a day), so on top of that I fast for 20+ hours. None of this involves glp1! Still, I can't summon the drive to begin working out
Thanks for your input and for sharing so everyone can read it. I can't wait to get past the trial period and start asking the community the hard questions.
I wouldn't describe reta as a shortcut either — it's closer to a tool. If you keep up the same poor habits, reta won't get you to lose weight. Another thing: move from chat gpt over to claude, then tell claude to serve as a PT and to ask you questions so it can learn your habits and support you in the best way. Have it take some thinking time, and during that time review studies online and figure out how to use them to help and motivate you. Training is a MUST if you want to keep as much muscle as possible. My approach: I trained for roughly 1.5 months before I actually started reta, which let me build that foundation (I'd been training on and off for nearly a year before that). After a meal, reta WILL leave you tired, especially when carbs are involved — so if you don't build the foundation and the discipline of going to the gym before reta, then while you're on it you'll slack off in the gym because of how tired or how sick you feel (depending on what you eat). After that foundation is built, everything else turns into 2nd nature.Dumme said:
Apologies first, Vondutch, if this is taking over your thread
Keto is what I follow, and it's the sole diet that has let me fully silence food noise. No hunger, no cravings at all. I've cycled through it several times, and by now I've got electrolytes down, I avoid processed foods, and I lean on tools such as ChatGPT and the like to monitor my macros. I can estimate my protein portions by sight, effortlessly, because I'm not hungry. OMAD is my approach (one meal a day), so on top of that I fast for 20+ hours. None of this involves glp1! Still, I can't summon the drive to begin working out
Thanks for your input and for sharing so everyone can read it. I can't wait to get past the trial period and start asking the community the hard questions.
