lessthanhalf said:
Since I don't have your height, age, weight history, past experience with other GLP's and so on, anything I say is partly guesswork. If we figure you're a reasonably tall average guy, say 1.8m tall, then at your current weight the BMI works out to 39. The 28 pounds, or 13 kilos, you've dropped, combined with how little time that took, probably isn't enough to trigger major metabolic adaptation. Your daily calorie burn will have come down somewhat because of the weight lost, but that alone shouldn't be enough to bring things to a halt.
Generally speaking, once someone's BMI sits in that kind of bracket, eating under 2000kcal/day should still produce at least some weight loss, even for a fairly sedentary person.
Another thing I can't tell is how long your weight has been sitting still. If it's under a month, random fluid shifts could easily explain it rather than a genuine stop in fat loss.
On top of that, you'll need to figure out both your intake and your expenditure to make sense of what's happening. The only way to get a real picture is to weigh absolutely everything you eat across a week or more. People's guesses are wildly off, and it's common for someone to fool themselves about portion sizes, then fool themselves about having fooled themselves.
In the most recent reta trial, average weight loss came out around 29%, so at roughly 9 to 10% you're well short of that. It's possible you're simply on the unlucky end, because for everyone above the average there has to be someone below it. The fact that you've had hardly any side effects hints your response may be weaker than typical.
Because you're on grey market peptides, mis-measuring doses is a real possibility. Even though it sounds silly, I'd urge you to check and re-check your calculations and dilutions two or three times over. Dose errors happen all the time. There's also a chance your reta is heavily underdosed, so unless you've seen testing on your batch, it's probably worth picking up another lot from a well known, popular supplier, ideally one that already has third party testing, or even paying to test your current batch or a fresh one so you actually know what you're injecting.
My advice is to work through all of that before jumping to higher doses or stacking. It does sound like you're in the higher risk weight category, where stronger dosing or extra compounds may justify the risks, but without sex, height, age and any other conditions, there's no way to even begin weighing it. Nothing has been scientifically proven both effective and safe beyond 12mg of reta, and even that isn't officially approved yet. A medical checkup with bloodwork would be sensible. In a perfect world you'd get proper medical guidance first, though that isn't always available.
Once those other issues are ruled out, one option is a bit more reta, which isn't unreasonable given how few side effects you've had. Another is adding cagrilintide at a low dose and titrating up slowly, starting from 0.25mg. Or you could add low dose semaglutide for extra GLP-1 agonism and more appetite suppression.
Four months in, I'm still at just 3mg, and food barely appeals to me at all — plus nausea still hits me in unpredictable waves.
Food noise isn't really a problem for me, so I'm hoping it's doing its job—I'll look at the scale in a week.
