Recent content by SlimDown_Sloane

i eat pretty much everything still, just the craving for it has faded a lot. slow and steady beats rushing it every time. finally dropped under triple digits myself after 44 months at it.

Maybe something's off with me. The 1mg hit me within 2 hours, and my appetite control strengthens weekly on that dose. Weirdly I can still eat when I decide I have to, and I'm losing weight on Elora only, no other GLPs. Maybe it's because I'm just a human.

I see so many people, not aiming this at you, who don't get that your whole way of eating has to change. The med helps but it isn't magic. Whole foods, protein and fibre come first. My day: I start with a 300 cal shake packing 45g protein, lunch is an omelette of 3 eggs with protein cheese and a...

I like draws to stay within 10-50 units. The one exception is glutathione, which I dilute more. It dissolves better at 400mg/ml, so my 250mg dose comes out to 62.5 units.

Three weeks is early, so give it time and follow the recommended escalation schedule, you haven't reached a therapeutic dose yet. The trials show some low responders, but they're clearly a minority, and retatrutide looks like the strongest obesity drug so far for most people. I also think the...

Hit a healthy weight a year ago, came off for about a month and put on 5 pounds, panicked, and went right back on. Wish I hadn't. Even a few months back I was thinking about staying on this indefinitely since it helped so much with swelling throughout my body. Hard to imagine how much worse it...

Same thing happened to me once I hit 10mg. Steer clear of greasy or spicy food around your shot and you'll usually be fine within a couple days. That said, every single injection now knocks me out, I basically nap through the whole next day. Fatigue sticks around for about 24 hours.

Worth trying a split dose, twice weekly injections work for most people. If that's not enough, bump the total dose up from there.

the auto-injector cartridge reliability variance is the thing that keeps some people on manual syringes even when they prefer the auto format - the jam-and-restick cycle on a bad cartridge is more stressful than just completing the injection manually. keeping a manual backup for the occasions...

Only just beginning and finding this kind of post is actually the perfect timing - the people who started from the very high end and stuck with it for a year are exactly who you want to read about in month one. The maintenance in the face of having to stop is the part that gives the long-term...

The muscle loss piece is genuinely important and not talked about enough in the success stories. The protocol that seems to work is resistance training 2-3 times a week and keeping protein at 0.7-1g per lb of goal body weight. Without both of those, a significant chunk of what you lose ends up...

the general medication privacy framework is the cleanest way to think about it - you don't explain what blood pressure meds you're on to people who notice your reading improved, same principle applies here. making it about the results rather than the method is both honest and sufficient

71 to 56 in that window is a solid result. The fact that you held it for months before going back means the habits stuck longer than average. Going back now before a bigger regain is the right instinct - catching it early keeps the work you put in from getting away.

Started in February and 2 lbs on the second dose while eating clean and doing 8-10k steps daily is the beginning of the data. 0.25 to 0.5mg is where most people start seeing something more definitive. The first month is often more about adjustment than visible results. How long before the scale...

The PCOS timeline and the slow months between the highlights is exactly the honest version of these posts that actually helps people calibrate expectations. T2D on top of PCOS at 2.5mg and already seeing changes is a strong early signal - the hormonal picture often makes the response more...