2.5mg do you have to up dose?

First week done at the starting strength, day five here, and food noise has already vanished completely. Hunger shows up maybe once daily at most, and portions have shrunk considerably whenever eating happens. Food choices feel driven by logic now rather than uncontrollable craving. Heard the typical protocol is doubling this amount after the first month, treating this stretch purely as a tolerance check, but curious whether anyone's landed on a response this strong right out the gate and had it genuinely stick around. Would honestly prefer staying at whatever the smallest workable amount is, feels like appetite would basically vanish entirely if it dropped any lower.

Was wondering that exact thing myself. Seen comments from people bumping up significantly with zero side effects reported. Planning to move up slightly myself and see how it goes.

Appreciate it, do you think holding steady at the mid-range dose through the second month would work out better?

Started at 2.5mg a month back, moved up to 5mg as of yesterday. The food noise and my hunger both shifted hard the first couple weeks, but I seemed to adjust by the two weeks after that. Feeling the good effects kick back in now on the 5mg.

Genuinely uncommon to feel much at the lowest dose. Don't get discouraged, it just means an average response rather than a strong one, but there's still solid odds of responding well once reaching the clinically effective level.

What counts as reaching the full dose here? Been on this roughly half a year now, still sitting at a smaller volume, with the next step up doubling that amount if increasing gets chosen.

Dealing with this exact thing right now. Took 2.5 for well over twelve months, lost 30 pounds, but the noise started creeping back in. Just moved to 5mg two weeks ago and haven't felt much shift yet. Get full sometimes, but food's still on my mind a lot. Going to give it a full month before deciding anything.

Eighth week in now (ninth shot lands Sunday), continuing another four weeks at 0.5. Food noise hasn't shifted much though. If it does ramp up noticeably over the next month, I'll move to 1.0 after that. Feels like if extra hunger just means slower progress or a plateau, that's not something to stress over immediately. But once it starts pointing toward genuine regain, bumping the dose clearly becomes the bigger priority.

Just hit my first week on 0.25. Completely forgot about food for almost the whole first day after that initial shot. Had to actually remind myself to eat over the two days after. By day four some hunger and thoughts about eating crept back in, still pretty minimal though. As the week wound down it felt like a touch more hunger and mental chatter about food showed up daily, but still nowhere near normal for me. Might go up to the higher strength next month, though maybe dose two works even better with some of the first still in my system. Overall the suppression's held up well, and the noise in my head has mostly quieted. Down 8 lbs so far, I'm a guy starting at 242, only 5'5 though.

Dropped about 6kg in the first three weeks, then absolutely nothing at weeks four through six. Still on 2.5mg, appetite's a non-issue, food noise is completely gone. Did the jump to 5mg happen because 2.5 wasn't touching your hunger and food noise, or purely for the weight loss numbers? Kind of stuck in this weird spot because honestly the 2.5 is still doing exactly what it's supposed to...

Day 5 is early. Feeling full usually shows up after the hunger noise quiets, and the two don't always land together. Many people get the quiet first and the full signal builds across several weeks while the dose settles. Lean on the quiet you have, eat slowly, and wait longer before deciding it's a dud.

This happens way more than people let on, especially on the lowest starting dose and just after the first bump up. Those starter doses mostly exist to let your stomach adjust, not to drive big drops on the scale. Plenty of us barely felt anything those first weeks. Quieter mental chatter about food, real appetite drop, scale actually moving - that all showed up later for me, once I settled into a higher amount. Also, gaining a couple kilos while lifting doesn't automatically mean it's failing. Strength training holds onto water, glycogen, sore muscle tissue. The number can climb even though your shape's actually improving. Still frustrating to see though. Five weeks along now, only your second week at this next dose level - that's still early days. Hold off judging this dose until you've had a longer run at it. If the hunger and mental food chatter are still full blast well after that, or once you move up again, then it's worth a doctor conversation. Right now none of this means something's wrong with you. Hang in there, that first month fools plenty of people.

Hey! Good question. My doctor had me increase right from the start, and the prescription itself was set up like that over the first two months. Two weeks from now Ill contact him again to see what he recommends next. So Im just following his advice. Honestly I would have chosen the increase anyway, since within a few days the food noise begins creeping back at certain moments. I dont lose control, but I get that same struggle of obsessing over the next meal. Hopefully 5mg fixes that!