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As a recovering alcoholic sober for four years, take it. I'd have loved to have something like this when I got sober. Drinking is far riskier than anything semaglutide does to you. You may get some nausea & stomach upset that fades, or nothing at all. What you get is quiet where your brain used...

Reta only, here's my story. I'm 66 and was 215, aiming for 170-175. I crept up from about 185 after I retired. I began in early January, 2mg for four weeks, then 4mg for four weeks, and last Friday I started 5mg. I'm averaging 2.5lbs weekly and I'm down 25lbs. Like others said: lean meat...

Steady resistance training does the most for holding onto lean mass while dropping weight, muscle and bone density both. Protein matters, but it isnt everything. I was a protein fanatic before my GLP1, and now it turns my stomach a lot more. I'm giving myself grace and listening to what I feel...

Yes. Last week I took my 24th dose, my first at 5mg. A rash showed up on my outer thigh, though I inject in the belly. It was still there this past Friday but I took another 5mg anyway, not sure they were linked. Nine days and two doses later, it's neither better nor worse.

I'm stacking cagri onto my tirz right now. I added it as prep for my Reta experiment. Five weeks in now and still climbing. Four of those weeks were at 1mg and I lost a grand total of half a pound, so maybe it's time to bump the dose a bit.

Clearly been putting in real effort building that muscle! Bonus points for the adorable cat too!

The auto-injector mechanism clarification is worth having before traveling - most devices in community use are auto-injectors in the sense that they deliver the dose automatically when the button is pressed, but they still require the user to manually place the needle at the skin surface first...

4 weeks at 0.25 with cravings returning is exactly the signal to move up. The .5 dose is usually where people first feel the medication doing something consistent rather than just the initial week-of-dosing effect. What did the cravings feel like when they came back - food noise or actual hunger?

70 kg at 176cm and 15% body fat with a goal of 10-12% is a recomposition target rather than weight loss. Reta at that starting point is a different use case than the weight loss goals most people here are working toward. How are you using it - what protocol and dose?

3 weeks at 2.5mg and the initial experience settling in is right where you would expect to be. 198 as a starting point is a number a lot of people here started at too. How much were you hoping to lose and what does the appetite feel like so far?

Being open about it is a valid choice and the stigma framing is worth pushing back on. These medications have the same evidence base as blood pressure or cholesterol medication - the selectivity about which chronic conditions deserve treatment is worth questioning.

The 503b shutdowns signaling what follows for 503a is a reasonable read. The regulatory pattern tends to move in steps and the compounding question affects a lot of people managing cost and access. Branded Tirz is the stable path if the compounding situation continues to tighten.

11 months on Wegovy through 1.7 losing slowly and then 2.4 making you sick before switching to Mounjaro in February is a path the OP might be heading toward if 1.7 keeps working for now. The OP dropping fast on 1.7 is the better version of that story - when the higher dose is working without...

the six-month check-in is the right time to assess what the next phase looks like - whether that is continuing the current protocol, adjusting dose, or adding complementary compounds. the shift in how people perceive you socially is real at this kind of result

2mg weekly and the sweet craving pattern alongside diminished overall food noise is exactly the split experience some people have - the hunger goes down but the sweet specificity stays or increases. For someone in week 5 at much lower doses, the comparison is useful but the mechanisms may be...