Recent content by flax_zepfan

Totally valid concern. I'm only on it for diabetes management myself. Started right at the top edge of healthy for my BMI, doing at least half an hour of cardio most days of the week plus lifting three or four times. Took about two months to drop 30 pounds and land below the midpoint of that...

I began reta at 1mg and added 1mg each month. Side effects showed up once I went past 8mg. I weighed in before each pin weekly to track the week's change, and when I ran a statistical analysis of loss against dose, 6mg turned out best for me. 125lbs gone over 18 months now. Of course diet and...

Perfectly put, thank you. Strange how much Mounjaro alters the way our bodies run, honestly like magic. Every diet I tried went great for a couple weeks, then I'd end up insanely tired. I figured I wasn't eating enough, but the truth turned out to be the nonstop fight against the urge to eat...

I'm holding off on a proper new wardrobe until I reach goal, 11lbs to go. While losing I made a couple of thrift store runs because I won't spend much on clothes I'll outgrow. Yesterday I did need an outfit for my nephew's graduation, so I went to TJs and got a shirt, skirt and shoes for under...

I took oral minoxidil. I shed a huge amount of hair from illness and then from weight loss (there wasn't much to start), and it was looking pretty bad. Gather it all in a twist and it's about pencil width. After nearly 5 months I finally see results, tons of new growth, and if I put my hair up I...

Wegovy changed my mood a lot, and I had to quit around week 3 or 4. Not suicidal-level, but it clearly pushed me toward depression. My boss (I work remote, across the country) asked if I was ok, and my spouse and everyone at home said I seemed like a different person emotionally after I began...

Right. A bad diet can't be cancelled by exercise, it comes down to calories eaten. Exercise is excellent for the heart, and extra muscle burns more at rest, so it helps health and loss, but around 99% of weight loss happens through diet. Experts say so. After starting ozempic I got sent to a...

Some tiredness on reta, nothing major. The real problem is stomach cramps and constipation, sometimes it feels like the Hulk punched me in the gut :) I eat a healthy nutritious diet with a good mix of fibre, drink plenty of water and am slowly upping my exercise, and nothing has helped so far...

You're crushing it too! My first target was 150, yet the scale kept dropping, so now I'm working on adding some muscle.

Took it for just over a year and dropped 35lbs. Stopped last September and slowly regained about 5lbs, though I'm still sitting at a weight I'm comfortable with. Really just comes down to holding onto the routines that stuck from that period. Occasionally I slip up, but I don't want to depend on...

Made it back into a training session yesterday, finally. It's been a minute, running started back up roughly a fortnight ago and that's held up okay, but yesterday was the day to tackle actual weights too. Close to two years since any real strength training, so some rust made sense going in...

Fair point, and like I said my diet's already dialed in. Here's the thing though, at 15mg I just wasn't hungry and was clearly eating less without even tracking it. That effect wore off once I moved to Reta, whose appetite suppression feels middling, so mainly I'm asking whether I should keep...

Pretty sure the earlier reply nailed it, but I'm currently finishing off a blend vial mixed with standard pharmaceutical diluent, and this weekend I'm going to mix a separate healing-peptide vial with saline-based diluent instead just to compare results. That particular peptide plays a central...

Hi, also a woman, started around the same four months back, ran 2.5 for three months then bumped to 5 for the last one. Began at 117kg, sitting at 102kg now. Aiming for 1300-1700 calories max daily with a floor of 100g protein. Lift at home most days plus bodyweight training pulled from online...

Been on the first compound almost a year now and started a tiny dose of an anxiety medication about a month back, felt like a completely different person within a week. Kicked in remarkably fast. So my situation's the reverse of most, GLP first, but honestly neither one seems to have influenced...