Weight Hasn't Moved in 2 Weeks

[drswole]

derekd419 said:

I'm a type 1 diabetic. My tirz journey began in November 2025 — that's 6.5 months back — and I've dropped from 269 lbs. down to 216, which is where I sit now. That's 53 lbs. gone from tirz alone. My diet is very low in calories and carbs, I use fiber supplements to keep intake high, drink plenty of water, and my blood sugars stay in range about 98% of the time (70-150).

Over the last 4 weeks I've seen my weight loss slow down a lot — a few pounds here, a few there. I'm at the gym 5 days a week, working out for an hour each time. Exactly 8 days ago I added a new stack:

reta - 30 units (3mg) (weekly)

tesamorelin - 10 units (mon-fri)

aod 9604 - 6 units (mon-fri)

5 amino 1q - 6 units (daily)

bpc 157 + tb 500 - 10 units (daily)

mots-c - 10 units (mon-fri)

& then ghk-cu for skin care - 10 units (daily)

Nothing else changed besides stacking all of these on top of my weekly 15mg tirz dose, and last week I didn't drop a single pound — still 216. Honestly, I was shocked and a bit disappointed, but I get that results take time; it's just frustrating given how much effort I feel like I'm pouring in. My goal is 165, and half a year in it feels impossibly far off, even though I'm pushing harder at the gym than ever. My routine is weight lifting first for 30 mins, then cardio for 30-45 mins — that's the order I've always understood works for real fat burning, lifting before cardio.

If anyone has been through something like this, please tell me what helped. Should I try a different peptide? Bump any of my doses up or down? Push harder at the gym? Eat more? I feel lost and I need to see some progress here like all of us do. Thanks to anyone who reads or replies, I really appreciate it.

I've seen way too many folks stack everything after only reading the upsides of each pep, skipping over the negatives and side effects. You wind up with a pile of compounds, and your system likely can't figure out what to do with them all. Throwing more in isn't necessarily the better move.

If dropping weight is what you're after, keep reta and tesa, and cut everything else. When there's an injury or a specific problem, then bpc and tb might make sense too. AOD falls into that "fat loss" pep category that barely does anything, if it does at all (people are still arguing about it).

Tesa can also support muscle growth, so even when the scale won't budge, body composition might be shifting (fat down, muscle up).

You could consider raising the reta to 4mg.

After this fat loss stretch wraps up, how about an inflammation-lowering and skin-repair phase? Run different peps in cycles instead of piling them all on at once

 

[lastresort]

Someone I know personally who sells research chemicals said AOD is fake...I'm not sure whether it does anything for you, and if it does, great! But you mentioned being stuck at a plateau...maybe consider dropping it?

What's your food intake like?

I went from 300g carbs down to 150g (since I do weight training, my PT wants me a bit above maintenance) and dropped a whopping 6 lb over 2 days.

derekd419 said:

I'm a type 1 diabetic. My tirz journey began in November 2025 — that's 6.5 months back — and I've dropped from 269 lbs. down to 216, which is where I sit now. That's 53 lbs. gone from tirz alone. My diet is very low in calories and carbs, I use fiber supplements to keep intake high, drink plenty of water, and my blood sugars stay in range about 98% of the time (70-150).

Over the last 4 weeks I've seen my weight loss slow down a lot — a few pounds here, a few there. I'm at the gym 5 days a week, working out for an hour each time. Exactly 8 days ago I added a new stack:

reta - 30 units (3mg) (weekly)

tesamorelin - 10 units (mon-fri)

aod 9604 - 6 units (mon-fri)

5 amino 1q - 6 units (daily)

bpc 157 + tb 500 - 10 units (daily)

mots-c - 10 units (mon-fri)

& then ghk-cu for skin care - 10 units (daily)

Nothing else changed besides stacking all of these on top of my weekly 15mg tirz dose, and last week I didn't drop a single pound — still 216. Honestly, I was shocked and a bit disappointed, but I get that results take time; it's just frustrating given how much effort I feel like I'm pouring in. My goal is 165, and half a year in it feels impossibly far off, even though I'm pushing harder at the gym than ever. My routine is weight lifting first for 30 mins, then cardio for 30-45 mins — that's the order I've always understood works for real fat burning, lifting before cardio.

If anyone has been through something like this, please tell me what helped. Should I try a different peptide? Bump any of my doses up or down? Push harder at the gym? Eat more? I feel lost and I need to see some progress here like all of us do. Thanks to anyone who reads or replies, I really appreciate it.

I've seen way too many folks stack everything after only reading the upsides of each pep, skipping over the negatives and side effects. You wind up with a pile of compounds, and your system likely can't figure out what to do with them all. Throwing more in isn't necessarily the better move.

If dropping weight is what you're after, keep reta and tesa, and cut everything else. When there's an injury or a specific problem, then bpc and tb might make sense too. AOD falls into that "fat loss" pep category that barely does anything, if it does at all (people are still arguing about it).

Tesa can also support muscle growth, so even when the scale won't budge, body composition might be shifting (fat down, muscle up).

You could consider raising the reta to 4mg.

After this fat loss stretch wraps up, how about an inflammation-lowering and skin-repair phase? Run different peps in cycles instead of piling them all on at once

I realize this is an experimental drug forum and I'll come off as a hypocrite given that I'm on reta, tesamorelin, cjc1295/ipamorelin and BAM 15, but I believe we ought to apply a "first line" approach, like eating fruits and good skincare.

 

[Brandon556]

Do you know for certain that your doses are right? The word units tells us nothing at all. It only shows that you lack experience and do not really grasp what quantity you are actually injecting.

 

[drswole]

lastresort said:

Someone I know personally who sells research chemicals said AOD is fake...I'm not sure whether it does anything for you, and if it does, great! But you mentioned being stuck at a plateau...maybe consider dropping it?

What's your food intake like?

I went from 300g carbs down to 150g (since I do weight training, my PT wants me a bit above maintenance) and dropped a whopping 6 lb over 2 days.

derekd419 said:

I'm a type 1 diabetic. My tirz journey began in November 2025 — that's 6.5 months back — and I've dropped from 269 lbs. down to 216, which is where I sit now. That's 53 lbs. gone from tirz alone. My diet is very low in calories and carbs, I use fiber supplements to keep intake high, drink plenty of water, and my blood sugars stay in range about 98% of the time (70-150).

Over the last 4 weeks I've seen my weight loss slow down a lot — a few pounds here, a few there. I'm at the gym 5 days a week, working out for an hour each time. Exactly 8 days ago I added a new stack:

reta - 30 units (3mg) (weekly)

tesamorelin - 10 units (mon-fri)

aod 9604 - 6 units (mon-fri)

5 amino 1q - 6 units (daily)

bpc 157 + tb 500 - 10 units (daily)

mots-c - 10 units (mon-fri)

& then ghk-cu for skin care - 10 units (daily)

Nothing else changed besides stacking all of these on top of my weekly 15mg tirz dose, and last week I didn't drop a single pound — still 216. Honestly, I was shocked and a bit disappointed, but I get that results take time; it's just frustrating given how much effort I feel like I'm pouring in. My goal is 165, and half a year in it feels impossibly far off, even though I'm pushing harder at the gym than ever. My routine is weight lifting first for 30 mins, then cardio for 30-45 mins — that's the order I've always understood works for real fat burning, lifting before cardio.

If anyone has been through something like this, please tell me what helped. Should I try a different peptide? Bump any of my doses up or down? Push harder at the gym? Eat more? I feel lost and I need to see some progress here like all of us do. Thanks to anyone who reads or replies, I really appreciate it.

I've seen way too many folks stack everything after only reading the upsides of each pep, skipping over the negatives and side effects. You wind up with a pile of compounds, and your system likely can't figure out what to do with them all. Throwing more in isn't necessarily the better move.

If dropping weight is what you're after, keep reta and tesa, and cut everything else. When there's an injury or a specific problem, then bpc and tb might make sense too. AOD falls into that "fat loss" pep category that barely does anything, if it does at all (people are still arguing about it).

Tesa can also support muscle growth, so even when the scale won't budge, body composition might be shifting (fat down, muscle up).

You could consider raising the reta to 4mg.

After this fat loss stretch wraps up, how about an inflammation-lowering and skin-repair phase? Run different peps in cycles instead of piling them all on at once

I realize this is an experimental drug forum and I'll come off as a hypocrite given that I'm on reta, tesamorelin, cjc1295/ipamorelin and BAM 15, but I believe we ought to apply a "first line" approach, like eating fruits and good skincare.

What's wrong nowadays is that people want the fast solution, and they refuse to handle what's right in front of them... remove seed oils and junk, eat clean, increase collagen-supporting and inflammation-lowering foods... yet nobody will simply do that, and even when they do, they'll throw in the peps regardless, so the reason I say to run them apart is that I already know they're going to use the peps no matter what lol

 

[lastresort]

drswole said:

lastresort said:

Someone I know personally who sells research chemicals said AOD is fake...I'm not sure whether it does anything for you, and if it does, great! But you mentioned being stuck at a plateau...maybe consider dropping it?

What's your food intake like?

I went from 300g carbs down to 150g (since I do weight training, my PT wants me a bit above maintenance) and dropped a whopping 6 lb over 2 days.

derekd419 said:

I'm a type 1 diabetic. My tirz journey began in November 2025 — that's 6.5 months back — and I've dropped from 269 lbs. down to 216, which is where I sit now. That's 53 lbs. gone from tirz alone. My diet is very low in calories and carbs, I use fiber supplements to keep intake high, drink plenty of water, and my blood sugars stay in range about 98% of the time (70-150).

Over the last 4 weeks I've seen my weight loss slow down a lot — a few pounds here, a few there. I'm at the gym 5 days a week, working out for an hour each time. Exactly 8 days ago I added a new stack:

reta - 30 units (3mg) (weekly)

tesamorelin - 10 units (mon-fri)

aod 9604 - 6 units (mon-fri)

5 amino 1q - 6 units (daily)

bpc 157 + tb 500 - 10 units (daily)

mots-c - 10 units (mon-fri)

& then ghk-cu for skin care - 10 units (daily)

Nothing else changed besides stacking all of these on top of my weekly 15mg tirz dose, and last week I didn't drop a single pound — still 216. Honestly, I was shocked and a bit disappointed, but I get that results take time; it's just frustrating given how much effort I feel like I'm pouring in. My goal is 165, and half a year in it feels impossibly far off, even though I'm pushing harder at the gym than ever. My routine is weight lifting first for 30 mins, then cardio for 30-45 mins — that's the order I've always understood works for real fat burning, lifting before cardio.

If anyone has been through something like this, please tell me what helped. Should I try a different peptide? Bump any of my doses up or down? Push harder at the gym? Eat more? I feel lost and I need to see some progress here like all of us do. Thanks to anyone who reads or replies, I really appreciate it.

I've seen way too many folks stack everything after only reading the upsides of each pep, skipping over the negatives and side effects. You wind up with a pile of compounds, and your system likely can't figure out what to do with them all. Throwing more in isn't necessarily the better move.

If dropping weight is what you're after, keep reta and tesa, and cut everything else. When there's an injury or a specific problem, then bpc and tb might make sense too. AOD falls into that "fat loss" pep category that barely does anything, if it does at all (people are still arguing about it).

Tesa can also support muscle growth, so even when the scale won't budge, body composition might be shifting (fat down, muscle up).

You could consider raising the reta to 4mg.

After this fat loss stretch wraps up, how about an inflammation-lowering and skin-repair phase? Run different peps in cycles instead of piling them all on at once

I realize this is an experimental drug forum and I'll come off as a hypocrite given that I'm on reta, tesamorelin, cjc1295/ipamorelin and BAM 15, but I believe we ought to apply a "first line" approach, like eating fruits and good skincare.

What's wrong nowadays is that people want the fast solution, and they refuse to handle what's right in front of them... remove seed oils and junk, eat clean, increase collagen-supporting and inflammation-lowering foods... yet nobody will simply do that, and even when they do, they'll throw in the peps regardless, so the reason I say to run them apart is that I already know they're going to use the peps no matter what lol

I'm hardly the person to preach to anyone, but I showed up here only once I'd run out of every "clean" route that could be obtained legally. Honestly, my self-respect plummeted the moment I chose to start ozempic, and afterward zepbound, after 30 lb had come off through diet and exercise yet the scale sat still for 5 months. Hashimoto, insulin insensitivity, and low T are total scourges.

That said, seed oils don't warrant panic...they're merely the latest clickbait ammunition for mom bloggers.

 

[lessthanhalf]

Posting the numbers and verifying them twice gets my support.

Speaking only from what I've been through myself: I went from 120kg down to 65kg during 2012-14, then 145 to 75 across 2022-23, and 75 to 65 in 2025-26. Based on that, a scale that sits still for 2 weeks tells you basically nothing. Day-to-day fluid shifts alone can swing things by as much as 2kg in either direction, and that variation sits on top of the real trend - it could be even larger if you aren't weighing yourself at a consistent time of day and so on. I also know from experience that the number can hold steady or even climb for a month or more while calorie intake stays exactly the same and the longer-term rate of loss doesn't budge.

When a GLP stall is genuine, what you see is the rate of loss tapering down toward zero before it flatlines, and you really need 4-6 weeks before you can be reasonably confident it isn't just fluid-driven fluctuation. If loss halts abruptly with no change in calories, and you've been on GLP's for under a year at sensible doses, a real stall is highly improbable.

 

[drswole]

lastresort said:

drswole said:

lastresort said:

Someone I know personally who sells research chemicals said AOD is fake...I'm not sure whether it does anything for you, and if it does, great! But you mentioned being stuck at a plateau...maybe consider dropping it?

What's your food intake like?

I went from 300g carbs down to 150g (since I do weight training, my PT wants me a bit above maintenance) and dropped a whopping 6 lb over 2 days.

derekd419 said:

I'm a type 1 diabetic. My tirz journey began in November 2025 — that's 6.5 months back — and I've dropped from 269 lbs. down to 216, which is where I sit now. That's 53 lbs. gone from tirz alone. My diet is very low in calories and carbs, I use fiber supplements to keep intake high, drink plenty of water, and my blood sugars stay in range about 98% of the time (70-150).

Over the last 4 weeks I've seen my weight loss slow down a lot — a few pounds here, a few there. I'm at the gym 5 days a week, working out for an hour each time. Exactly 8 days ago I added a new stack:

reta - 30 units (3mg) (weekly)

tesamorelin - 10 units (mon-fri)

aod 9604 - 6 units (mon-fri)

5 amino 1q - 6 units (daily)

bpc 157 + tb 500 - 10 units (daily)

mots-c - 10 units (mon-fri)

& then ghk-cu for skin care - 10 units (daily)

Nothing else changed besides stacking all of these on top of my weekly 15mg tirz dose, and last week I didn't drop a single pound — still 216. Honestly, I was shocked and a bit disappointed, but I get that results take time; it's just frustrating given how much effort I feel like I'm pouring in. My goal is 165, and half a year in it feels impossibly far off, even though I'm pushing harder at the gym than ever. My routine is weight lifting first for 30 mins, then cardio for 30-45 mins — that's the order I've always understood works for real fat burning, lifting before cardio.

If anyone has been through something like this, please tell me what helped. Should I try a different peptide? Bump any of my doses up or down? Push harder at the gym? Eat more? I feel lost and I need to see some progress here like all of us do. Thanks to anyone who reads or replies, I really appreciate it.

I've seen way too many folks stack everything after only reading the upsides of each pep, skipping over the negatives and side effects. You wind up with a pile of compounds, and your system likely can't figure out what to do with them all. Throwing more in isn't necessarily the better move.

If dropping weight is what you're after, keep reta and tesa, and cut everything else. When there's an injury or a specific problem, then bpc and tb might make sense too. AOD falls into that "fat loss" pep category that barely does anything, if it does at all (people are still arguing about it).

Tesa can also support muscle growth, so even when the scale won't budge, body composition might be shifting (fat down, muscle up).

You could consider raising the reta to 4mg.

After this fat loss stretch wraps up, how about an inflammation-lowering and skin-repair phase? Run different peps in cycles instead of piling them all on at once

I realize this is an experimental drug forum and I'll come off as a hypocrite given that I'm on reta, tesamorelin, cjc1295/ipamorelin and BAM 15, but I believe we ought to apply a "first line" approach, like eating fruits and good skincare.

What's wrong nowadays is that people want the fast solution, and they refuse to handle what's right in front of them... remove seed oils and junk, eat clean, increase collagen-supporting and inflammation-lowering foods... yet nobody will simply do that, and even when they do, they'll throw in the peps regardless, so the reason I say to run them apart is that I already know they're going to use the peps no matter what lol

I'm hardly the person to preach to anyone, but I showed up here only once I'd run out of every "clean" route that could be obtained legally. Honestly, my self-respect plummeted the moment I chose to start ozempic, and afterward zepbound, after 30 lb had come off through diet and exercise yet the scale sat still for 5 months. Hashimoto, insulin insensitivity, and low T are total scourges.

That said, seed oils don't warrant panic...they're merely the latest clickbait ammunition for mom bloggers.

There's no shame in getting a bit of assistance! The real issue is that a lot of folks are after a quick-fix tablet instead of a helping hand to do things properly.

Getting low T sorted out benefits plenty of areas — I take roughly 175mg of TRT each week to preserve my muscle mass, and it keeps me sitting at the top end of the reference ranges, but it also keeps my head clear, no brain fog, and pushing forward feels less of a struggle when I need to.

Regarding seed oils, they genuinely aren't great when it comes to arterial plaque and calcification — omega 6's instead of the beneficial omega 3's. And when foods are drenched in the stuff, calories stack up really quickly.

That said, as a rule, having everything in moderation tends to be fine.

 

[chonkkk]

26 weeks equals 6.5 months. The standard advice is to diet for 16 weeks, then spend a few weeks at maintenance calories, and only after that resume the cut — this helps avoid hitting a plateau. Spend a few weeks eating at your maintenance level and things should work out.

 

[woundcarping]

chonkkk said:

26 weeks equals 6.5 months. The standard advice is to diet for 16 weeks, then spend a few weeks at maintenance calories, and only after that resume the cut — this helps avoid hitting a plateau. Spend a few weeks eating at your maintenance level and things should work out.

A typical month averages 4.33 weeks, so 26 weeks equals 6 months, or half of a 52-week year.

The 16-week cut theory is new to me, but spending a few weeks at maintenance is a surefire way to stall for those weeks.

 

[5byfive]

chonkkk said:

26 weeks equals 6.5 months. The standard advice is to diet for 16 weeks, then spend a few weeks at maintenance calories, and only after that resume the cut — this helps avoid hitting a plateau. Spend a few weeks eating at your maintenance level and things should work out.

Managing cuts that way is really something bodybuilders do when they're chasing extreme leanness and trying to hold onto muscle — it isn't the approach someone with a large amount of weight to lose should take.

Over roughly 18 months I shed about 90lbs of fat (no GLP was involved, they were only just starting to appear), and several times along the way my weightloss stalled out for a couple of weeks. That is maddening, but it's a normal piece of the process. The body resists dropping that much weight, yet it can only defy thermodynamics for so long. I'm with the people pushing back on the aggressive stack, but when it comes to the weightloss itself, I don't think you have a problem. Stay the course.