week 6: down 10.56% from my starting weight!! keep going or not?

[fuchufuchu]

just popping in to share my progress here's how my dosing has gone:

weeks 1-2: 1mg

weeks 3-5: 1.5mg

week 6: 2mg (and i'll stay at this through week 10)

i'm feeling torn — i genuinely like the way i look at this weight, yet my original goal was to drop about 20% of where i started. no idea what to do!

i picked up a single 20mg vial of reta (like any newbie would) and i've kept doses low so it stretches as far as possible until i sort out the grey market, lol

the thought of gaining it all back once i stop reta scares me, so i'm planning to stay on reta for maintenance too; the quieting of food noise has been unreal. if i hold at 1mg/week for maintenance, and factor in testing, a 20mg kit would stretch 3.5 years, whereas a 50mg kit would stretch 8.7 years! since i'm still young, maybe i'll save the 50mg for down the road. love this stuff

 

[HereKittyKitty]

That one vial of product — how many weeks do you intend to make it last? Going 6 weeks is quite a bit longer than the 4 weeks that are recommended.

Did you run it through a filter?

If your current state pleases you, you could pause there for a while. Or you could continue.

 

[fuchufuchu]

MeedzMoar said:

That one vial of product — how many weeks do you intend to make it last? Going 6 weeks is quite a bit longer than the 4 weeks that are recommended.

Did you run it through a filter?

If your current state pleases you, you could pause there for a while. Or you could continue.

wait, the 4-week guideline is news to me! my plan is to finish the whole vial, and that lines up with about week 12.

filtering? i haven’t done that - honestly i don’t know where to start with it!

i’m leaning toward staying on lower doses and continuing. next time i’ll pick up a 10-15mg kit, that way my doses can stay small and i won’t go beyond the recommended window you mentioned. thanks so much

 

[woundcarping]

The 4 weeks figure is not carved in stone. Personally I usually go to ~3 months, provided nothing visibly degrades and it stays in the fridge.

 

[HereKittyKitty]

fuchufuchu said:

MeedzMoar said:

That one vial of product — how many weeks do you intend to make it last? Going 6 weeks is quite a bit longer than the 4 weeks that are recommended.

Did you run it through a filter?

If your current state pleases you, you could pause there for a while. Or you could continue.

wait, the 4-week guideline is news to me! my plan is to finish the whole vial, and that lines up with about week 12.

filtering? i haven’t done that - honestly i don’t know where to start with it!

i’m leaning toward staying on lower doses and continuing. next time i’ll pick up a 10-15mg kit, that way my doses can stay small and i won’t go beyond the recommended window you mentioned. thanks so much

My own style tends to lean cautious. Plenty of people handle it another way. No rule says you have to do it like me. What I'm going on is guidance I've come across, plus what others report about stretching their supply further.

Right now I've landed on a dose where the product I have definitely can't be finished off within 4 weeks. So I'm weighing my options. Tossing it wouldn't cost much, but wasting it bothers me. On this particular one, I might dip a toe into deeper water. I still haven't settled on an answer for myself.

There are lots of folks around here who know more than I do!

 

[byefatlicia]

MeedzMoar said:


I tend to be pretty conservative in my approach.

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Your approach is fine. I aim for the same thing. 30 days after recon. Opinions vary a lot, and some people stretch it out longer—that's up to them