Reta newbie here - anyone else?

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Kicked off MJ back in July 2020. Because supply was so tight, my doctor ramped my dose fast just so I'd stay on whatever I could actually source. Reached 15mg within roughly eight months. Needed to shed over 100 pounds at that point. Lost 40 the first year, then absolutely nothing for over a year. Picked intermittent fasting back up after that and dropped another 20. Now stuck again. Just found out about Reta and I've got an appointment lined up to look into the compounded route. Hoping it kicks things loose again. Still have at least 40 to go. Fingers crossed it breaks through this MJ wall.
 
Hit 8lb gone by week 3, and just wrapped week 5 sitting at 15lb total. Pretty consistent trajectory for me so far, though I started super conservative at 1mg and climbed half a milligram every couple weeks. Everyone's path looks different though, and honestly I credit a lot of my results to overhauling what I actually eat. Reta's definitely handling the hunger side well at this point too.
 
Five weeks into reta at a small weekly amount and just crossed into the normal BMI range. Dealing with a disability and a mostly sedentary lifestyle, so there's still real progress needed. Belly fat's the main concern right now. Just joined a local recreation center and starting resistance training plus pool sessions going forward.
 
Do you all suggest or have you tried microdosing? Say 0.25mg weekly. I dont have much to lose (about 15 lbs) but Ive heard reta has other benefits and that microdosing is the approach. Apologies if thats a silly question, Im brand new to this topic.
 
A video by a physician explains Reta dosing, grounded in what the trials showed, really well. Your mileage will vary with body and goals, naturally. Not started myself; my plan is to climb to 8mg across 4-6 months. 80 lbs is my target loss.
 
My reta start was 01/26, bloodwork in Feb and June. Up to roughly May I microdosed, until it dawned on me that there was more to this than shedding weight, and escalated from 1.5mg weekly. Currently at 6mg a week, keen to see how the next labs look. Fingers crossed.
 
47M, 5-10. Before reta: 258 down to 218 across about a year. On reta: 218 to 195 in eleven weeks. Aiming for 175-180, maybe even chasing abs in the upper 160s (I've reached that weight before). I'm at the fun part where each few pounds looks different. Wonderful stage. Four mg weekly, shouldn't need more at this rate.
 
Started reta in December at 0.5mg given how hypersensitive my body runs to strong medication, bumping just 0.5mg every four weeks, partly to keep sides down. Loss stayed conservative, 1-2 pounds weekly, which suited me since I didn't want people noticing. No sides until 3.5mg weekly, where nausea and poor sleep crept in, so I dropped to 3mg a couple weeks before returning to 3.5mg fine. Bumping to 4mg brought nausea, exhaustion, and sleeplessness hard, so I backed off again. Then I read here about splitting the dose twice weekly and tried that with 4mg, 2mg Sunday morning and 2mg Wednesday night, worked fine while still losing. Over 25 pounds down, loving it, zero anhedonia. Last thing - encourage her to tune into her own body rather than bumping dose just because a study says so.
 
tirzgang-again Reta's been great for me too. Makes me wonder if people who jumped straight to reta end up liking it more than those who switched in from sema or tirzepatide. I'm 23 weeks of weekly shots in now, started at 2mg and I'm up to 5mg. Down 74.2 pounds and a bunch of inches, feeling noticeably better, almost hard to believe some days. Still have about 48 pounds left before I hit my first goal, which happens to be the weight printed on my license. 56 years old, 5'8, and my body genetics clearly think we're still in famine times, holding onto every spare pound like it's precious.
 
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