Recent content by Sarah56

Current lineup includes reta plus tb, bpc, and the cjc/ipa combo, mots rounding it out. Been running a 1.5mg mots amount before weekday workouts for roughly a month now, but there's a thought of layering ss31 in for a couple months to help with mitochondrial repair. Question is whether the mots...

I love that you said this. Far too many think GLPs are magic: pin a shot and burn fat from a recliner while eating doritos. I read 'I eat clean' way too often, and it means nothing for weight loss. I'd add: weigh everything on a food scale until you know your portion sizes, since cups and spoons...

Same wall here!!! My Tirz start was 388lbs in early May, titrated on the usual schedule. Now 318lbs on 12.5 mg Tirz, with hardly any loss over the last 45 days. Severe sciatica stopped my workouts and nearly crippled me. ARA290 got me started on relief, and three weeks later the sciatica has...

No side effects for me until I moved to .5mg. This week I have had a ton of sulfur burps. Hope they fade!

This doesn't read as slow to me at all! If the pace does slow down further, just keep bumping the amount up.

Appreciate that. After years of trying every approach to shed weight, I've realized it doesn't have to be this exhausting. Nobody should be forced to fixate on the number on a scale day after day for their whole life. You only get one shot at this life. Make it count.

Yep! Dropped 7-8kg across four weeks running 1mg the whole time. Started at 90kg. My take is if you're not extremely overweight and haven't tried a GLP-1 before, 1mg tends to be a solid starting point for a lot of people.

15kg in three months is massive! Congrats on that, OP! Would you mind sharing what your calorie and macro targets look like, plus your workout routine? Just getting started myself and hoping to learn from people who've already had real success on this path!

Thanks for sharing that, though it's a bummer to hear it stopped working eventually. Appetite shifts showed up even on the smallest possible reta amounts personally.

Hey everyone, hope things are going well! New to ozempic, started at the lowest dose back in early June. Doctor moved me up to the next level after four weeks, which I've been running this week, and the nausea has honestly hit way harder than expected. Thrown up multiple times today and just...

We're basically twins! I'm down 90 lbs too! Just chasing those last 2 pounds before switching over to maintenance. You look incredible, seriously great work!!!

The 'why would now be different' point is exactly right and the medical literature backs it up completely. The body's weight-regaining mechanisms don't go away because you lost weight - they actually intensify at lower weights. A doctor who frames stopping as the natural endpoint hasn't been...

The Metformin-B12 interaction is one of the more well-established but under-monitored drug effects - the mechanism is reduced absorption in the terminal ileum from long-term use, and it's dose and duration dependent. Anyone on a GLP-1 plus Metformin combination should have B12 checked annually...

The pre-GLP history with binge eating and restrictive approaches is really relevant context for how the medication feels different. GLP-1s reduce the urgency that drives bingeing rather than just cutting access - that's a mechanistically different intervention. For people who've been through the...

The direct intervention preference over just managing symptoms is the right frame for the senolytic discussion. The mouse study data is compelling at the mechanism level and the extrapolation to human outcomes is where the uncertainty sits. Getting at the underlying cellular senescence rather...