40 and can’t lose weight!

[ShinyDiscoBallz]

I was wondering what took so long for someone to mention that his doctor mentioned Reta. Cool doctor, he’s with the times, but not FDA approved and definitely not gonna get it from doc. Reta is great though, speaking from persona experience. Although I was’t anywhere near 300lbs. I used it as a start to a recomp.

I start reta on Monday

What was your dosing protocol?

 

[Drizz]

I start reta on Monday

What was your dosing protocol?

I started low and slow. Went with 1mg (split .5mg) 2x week for 3 weeks then went up to 2 mg (split) , and kept titrating up every few weeks. I never went above 6mg. Dropped 25 pounds rather quickly.

 

[heavydutygorilla]

I start reta on Monday

What was your dosing protocol?

I started out .5mg every 3 days. After 3 weeks moved to .5mg m/w/f(1.5mg total). Ran that for 4 weeks, then bumped up to 1mg m/w/f(3 mg total). I started 8/4 at 255lbs, this morning 216lbs 11/8. I took the low and slow approach with constant caloric cuts. Currently consuming 1700 cals a day. Also on trt of 140mg weekly injected with 2iu hgh at night. Game changing stack for us 40 and up! Also morning fasted cardio and a 20-30 minute walk after my last meal every day.

 

[Drizz]

I start reta on Monday

What was your dosing protocol?

Make sure to drink a lot of water and take in enough fiber, either through supplements or diet, your “movements” will be few and far between otherwise.

 

[ShinyDiscoBallz]

Make sure to drink a lot of water and take in enough fiber, either through supplements or diet, your “movements” will be few and far between otherwise.

I've been on Mounjaro for 6 months and lost 30 kilos

Im switching to Reta as I'm starting TRT in a few weeks

 

[Drizz]

I've been on Mounjaro for 6 months and lost 30 kilos

Im switching to Reta as I'm starting TRT in a few weeks

Ok gotcha. Wasn't sure if it was your first time on a GLP, as it was mine. So if you are familiar with the much slower digestion and quieting of food noise and you are handling it well, then you should be fine. Just make sure that whatever dosage you are finishing up on Mounjaro, is NOT the same dosage you should start with Reta. Have you gotten your Reta tested for mass so you know how to recon properly? I've had 10mg Reta come back as high as 14mg, just so you know how to dose properly.
Good luck!

 

[ShinyDiscoBallz]

Ok gotcha. Wasn't sure if it was your first time on a GLP, as it was mine. So if you are familiar with the much slower digestion and quieting of food noise and you are handling it well, then you should be fine. Just make sure that whatever dosage you are finishing up on Mounjaro, is NOT the same dosage you should start with Reta. Have you gotten your Reta tested for mass so you know how to recon properly? I've had 10mg Reta come back as high as 14mg, just so you know how to dose properly.
Good luck!

I went all the way up to 15mg of MJ and my last dose was 7.5mg

I'll start on 2mg and see how I get on but I'll probably be up to 4mg pretty quickly

 

[Albertaboy73]

Im 51 and was finishing a bulk in July at 270lbs. I then started eating better and then Sept I ran.
5iu hgh
1mg,2mg,2mg,2mg,3mg,3mg retritutide for 6 weeks.
Test Prop
Mast prop.
Dropped 30lbs of fat and water. And still holding down. 230lbs. I also ran a 2000 cal diet and sti.eat clean. Age means nothing we can still get it dont.

 

[Mfras]

Get on trt and control your calories, lift heavy and often, liss too. If you are still stalled maybe try to eat at maintenance for a good while and get real busy weightlifting to fire up your metabolism, then try cutting again once you see your maintenance number turning into slow fat loss and recomp.

I was 355 at my fattest and used trt and myfitnesspal to give me energy, motivation, gym results, fat loss. Only went to a higher cruise after I’d lost about 100lbs fat and gained 20lbs lean mass (2-3 years of disciplined effort)

Lots of people here spending time typing to try and help you out- some good stuff too. Best of luck to ya

 

[just some dude]

FFS. Tens of thousands of people successfully lost substantial weight, and kept it off for years, by using Sema or Tirz according to the basic pharma protocol.

Here we have the most effective solution for durable weight loss and significant improvement to every aspect of health, basically as close to miracle drugs as was ever discovered, and you want to reinvent the wheel by jumping on then off a GLP and expecting that to work.

Get on one of the fucking GLPs. Titrate up according to the pharma protocol, and discard the notion you have that they're diet pills and not hormones that boost the level of what you're lacking, like insulin for a diabetic, and can be stopped without your dysfunctional appetite causing you to regain the weight sooner or later,

You're already in a great position because you know the importance of protein and resistance training. Just get your metabolic hormone deficiency corrected with a GLP, silencing the "food noise" so your conscious mind will be in charge of what you eat, and you'll be good to go.

i’m only days into my first time using glps since the release of sema years back, and i went with reta. well i can say that you were spot on with the “food noise” aspect of it. looking back, i remember thinking it was so weird to see someone had said they were willing to stay on glps for life, but now i understand it!

 

[nathenking]

The only thing that helped me was to start TRT, lifting heavy, counting calores and getting 10,000 steps in. Only after I did those things did the weight start coming off. After I got going I through in some Reta and was able to go from 280 down to 230 in about 2 years while putting on some decent lean muscle.

 

[thejumpingsheep]

I went all the way up to 15mg of MJ and my last dose was 7.5mg

I'll start on 2mg and see how I get on but I'll probably be up to 4mg pretty quickly

Im interested in seeing how much Reta you need before you feel anything.

I had a similar background, took Tirz about one year prior at full dose. I felt nothing on Reta for about 3 weeks. I felt nothing until I went over 30mg (total) within 3 weeks and I felt slight suppression. It was very mild. Nothing like Tirz when I had started on that. Mine is tested and came back good so I know its not bunk.

I havent pulled bloods yet but will soon. Im not taking it for suppression any way. I want the anti-inflammation especially after I read it helped knees.

 

[Dhtcoper123]

BLUF: I’m thinking about taking 20mg/day of anavar along with tirzepitide for 4-6 weeks. I’m basing this on this study. https://www.researchgate.net/public...ne_and_the_durability_of_effects_in_older_men

I’m looking for advice on getting a little boost to help lose weight. My intentions are not to gain and maintain lean mass or see bigger numbers in the gym, but I also don’t want to lose anymore lean mass or strength than I need to. I’m extremely overweight 6’ 315 lbs in spite of more than a year of strict dieting and intense exercise.

I pre package my meals for the week to make sure I stay around 2000 (usually more like 1800) calories per day and honestly don’t really get hungry. I’d eat less but it makes it hard to get enough protein when I do.

My workouts consist of cardio 6 days a week. I run a mile every Monday and am down to about 10 min which sucks, but at my weight it feels like my knees and ankles are going to explode. 3 days are variations of sprint or interval training on the rower or bike. 1 day I ruck 3-4 miles at about a 15 min pace. And 1 day is a long slow recovery walk.

After cardio I do 2 days a week of hypertrophy or strength training and 2 days a week of circuit training. I’m back to being as strong as I was 5 years ago before I let myself go to shit. For example I did 5 sets of 5 incline bench at 315 lbs yesterday. Which isn’t great for a 315lb man but is good for 230 which is what I should weigh.

I’ve also added some 6 hour orienteering courses the last couple of months to give me something to work towards. I’m not winning any prizes, but I’m not finishing last either.

I’ve done this consistently for a year and a half and have gone from 335-315. I can’t really push much harder because I already feel like I’m on the verge of injury all the time. If I lose some major fat I will be able to push the running longer and harder, but the last 3 months I’ve lost nothing.

My only experience with steroids is about a decade ago someone I worked with didn’t want to use the oral wynstrol they had purchased and told me “it’s pretty weak, I don’t want to add it to my stack and I don’t want to waste it” After doing no research I decided to half the dosage he told me and in eight weeks my bench press shot from 430 max to I don’t know because my joints hurt too bad to find out and I didn’t trust the 180 lb guy who gave me the pills to spot me for more than 5 reps at 460 lbs. My weight went from 230 to 265 in that time and I was still running 5 miles around 35 minutes although the extra weight made breathing harder. 6 months later I went through an intense 2 month training program that had me under 200 lbs and all of the gains were gone.

All of this is to say that before everyone responds that I’m a lazy fat fuck and I don’t know how to train and diet, that’s only partially true. I was that for about 5 years which let me get this fat, but should be getting better results from the work I’m putting in and don’t want to be 75 before I reach a healthy weight. Also the next guy that has never worked hard in his life and looks like a deflated balloon because he lost 80lbs on semaglutide by walking his dog every night might get punched in the face if he tells me I must not be counting my calories right. I don’t think those guys are on this forum.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Dude there’s no way you were on 1900 cals for a year straight and didn’t lose weight. There must have been something you were counting incorrectly or maybe you ate more calories some of the days. Tirzepatide will only help you in not becoming hungry, so if you already arent hungry while eating 1900 calories, you do not need it. Considering that you say you havent lost weight in a year however you haven’t been eating 1,9k cals (sorry) so tirzepatide could be great for you.