Retatrutide weight loss stall after major progress with peptides and low hormones

That was my thought too. I try to eat between 4:30 and 6, keeping that in mind because TESSA is fasted at night. Really curious about switching and any benefit of TIRZ over RETA plus the other add-ons like sema and cagri since I haven't tried them. Trying to lose body fat and reach 240-250 seems like the goal.

nice seeing your headway so far ... thinking i might give fasting a try over five days just to switch my routine around

Hearing this is quite pleasing... It looks like an external process is stopping my weight reduction in ways I can't figure out yet... Things were going well for me earlier, and my meals stayed pretty much the same. I should check into this process more.

They're separate, not combined. The first one at two milligrams on an empty stomach before sleep, cycling five days active and two rest. The other at two hundred fifty micrograms in the morning and again at night under the same cycle. Approaching the eighth week soon, yet I'll take a break for four weeks to measure my baseline igf-1. Grateful, fingers crossed this does the trick.

It looks like the lack of appetite for meals disappeared around the holidays while taking five milligrams. Now that I've gone up to the top level of twelve milligrams, the thoughts about eating haven't quieted down nearly as much as before.

I don't know. 2000 kcals for a 280 lb male isn't really reaching maintenance even for a sedentary one, more like 2600 to 3000 a day.

Cravings for food aren't bothering me anymore, which seems strange. By evening I'd usually be looking around for desserts and end up grabbing frozen treats from the fridge. There are still a couple of containers sitting there untouched. And then there's the holiday sweets scattered around the place. My spouse would try to conceal them but I always managed to locate the stash. 😊

Having been that size, 2600 cal I could agree with. Without quantifying calories in and out it's all relatively pointless to speculate. It's not just that simple but also not rocket science with mysterious variables. DEXA scans are good for quantifying composition baseline and changes.

It's nice knowing others also lack appetite while on this medication. Nighttime desires for sugary treats persist yet rather than frozen dairy I opt for an apple pear or some small sweets in fruit tastes from Germany that measure tinier than a coin half. Regarding the original poster's experience I encountered a comparable pause in progress after dropping about eighty pounds. That plateau lasted quite some time until progress resumed. At present I'm combining Reta at four milligrams with Tirz at the same dose and sit just short of my initial target. I'm considering establishing another target since I never anticipated hitting this mark.

Want to hear a funny story? About a fortnight back I visited my doctor to check on some lab results. All the numbers looked fine except the salt level came in a bit under where it should be. So I asked what that meant and he told me to add a pinch of salt to my food without going overboard since it could push up my blood pressure.

Losing eighty pounds sounds fantastic. How long did that take, if you're okay sharing? Otherwise, it's fine. Truthfully, I have no appetite once evening comes.

It's a rapid straightforward approach because experts advise those suffering from low blood pressure to raise their salt consumption and avoid fainting along with head injuries from falling.

I'm a slow responder so it's been over a year. I'm not sure but thinking it was over about 18 months.

The waiting period has zero impact since the end result feels excellent anyway.

No complaints here at all. I've shed a hundred pounds so far and sit twenty short of my original target. Considering an even smaller target now strikes me as pretty astonishing.

A few orders later and this stuff always leaves me feeling awful the next day. My meals have stayed quite wholesome lately yet thoughts about eating seem stronger than they did at the beginning.

Although I lack experience with DEXA scans, my food intake hovers around 1800-2200 calories daily without doubt.

Like to hear more about why stacking TIRZ with RETA makes the difference. Doesn't RETA have similar mechanism already?

I had testosterone checked three separate times over recent months while fasting in the morning each time. The numbers came back 503 then 382 then 550. Thyroid markers all sat in range with T3 at three, T4 at point nine and TSH near three point nine. Fasting insulin registered five point three and A1c sat at five point two. Only the lipids looked slightly off with LDL at one forty nine, total cholesterol two hundred seven, triglycerides ninety four, HDL forty one, VLDL nineteen and the ratio at five. My partner tried the same compound and reports it performs well for her. I am also pausing the two peptides for thirty days to establish a starting IGF-1 level. The rest of the panel showed estradiol under fifteen, morning cortisol at seven point four, B12 at two fifteen on the lower side and DHEA at one thirty seven. I had skipped labs for years but figured it made sense while chasing body recomposition. I carry plenty of muscle and hit two hundred sixty five pounds of solid weight during double training sessions without ever using any substances.

What method are you using to log your daily energy intake? Plenty of folks misjudge the amounts they actually eat. I've learned that lesson firsthand.

It's surprising how aware you are that estradiol helps guys out, since plenty try keeping theirs super minimal and end up worse off. I suspect elevated SHBG paired with reduced unbound testosterone accounts for the minimal estradiol levels. Did you check those other blood markers? Current recommendations suggest keeping LDL under 100 except when facing additional problems. Recently I got a bone density test and it turned out way more useful than expected.

Every day my morning meal stays identical along with the drinks and my midday shake. It is always five eggs with a bit of cheese for four hundred calories in all. The pair of coffees mixed with coconut powder comes to one hundred eighty calories. The shake adds two hundred forty. Dinner follows after.

Free test was 80. SHBG 49.

I'm aware that cutting intake happens with dropping pounds yet I figure a shortfall should remain anyway. On top of that progress didn't ease off gradually it just halted abruptly like slamming the brakes which feels odd. Following some suggestions I'm going to pause those aids for thirty days then check my growth factors and switch to a stricter intake cut. Maybe skipping meals entirely for a stretch to break the pattern. What combines with this med to manage cravings? I've noticed mentions of several alternatives or whatever. Need to alter the approach now.

My progress halted suddenly too and I added five pounds over four days. Intake stayed steady while exercise increased along with a small bump in reta but I had just begun creatine plus cjc/ipa. Water retention on that scale had never shown up for me before though at thirty pounds heavier I tracked nothing so it might have slipped by unnoticed. This lines up with my own reta experience so far since we both began around October. I fell from two twenty down to one seventy one at the lowest point then rose to one seventy seven and now sit at one seventy three. The scale quit moving the moment training and creatine both went up. I remain on the same batch from October without switching. Really curious what my numbers do after I drop the ghrp items.

I don't intend to hope others fail to move forward but it's reassuring to learn another person went through something comparable. The daily energy total doesn't strike me as the main obstacle though I could easily be mistaken. Eating near two thousand ought to allow at least gradual reduction even after the rate dropped for eight weeks before halting altogether. The final dose happened on the seventeenth of February. I'll look at the markers again around the middle of March once the advised waiting period has passed including growth factor one and a few other unusual results from earlier. That should show whether my strict routine produced any shift. It feels as if the body's burning mechanism has turned off altogether.

Toss in a milligram of sema. It's inexpensive.

I'm finishing two weeks on tesa at 2 mg Monday through Friday. First week I gained three pounds and I'll check the scale tomorrow to see where things stand. The same thing happens when you add test or hgh. With test I put on about ten pounds the first month then started dropping it around month three.

I gained three pounds overnight fifteen days after starting TRT. It took nine days to hit a new low. I got an Oura Ring on day eleven of TRT and it didn't fit five days later. Sixteen days after the jump it still doesn't fit that finger but I'm four pounds lighter than before the jump. I'm hoping that three pounds comes off in the next month or two. I'd be happy if it turned out to be a sneaky ten pounds of water weight.

I do some machine cardio for half an hour five days each week but nothing too intense. My aim is to reduce swelling and shed extra pounds so old aches don't flare up again. That's why I keep things easy on the body while waiting for these special compounds to sort it all out. I make sure to drink plenty of water and hit one hundred fifty grams of protein even though that part isn't easy. My rest routine is consistent now thanks in part to glycine along with other aids. Every day I use ghk-cu and recently added bp 157 with tb 500. Might need an extra boost so I'll give something else a shot.

I stick to this routine for protein every day up until midday. I eat five eggs first which gives me thirty grams of protein and three hundred calories. Then prior to noon I mix a protein drink using two scoops blended with sixteen ounces of water and ice cubes adding sixty grams of protein and two hundred forty calories. Later in the afternoon I have another identical shake for the same amounts. Around four thirty to five thirty in the evening I eat a meal centered on meat aiming for over twenty grams of protein. This brings my daily total to one hundred seventy grams of protein and sixteen hundred calories though it might reach two thousand if I indulge a bit. Should I crave something different I go ahead and eat it yet I end up satisfied anyway. I also consume glycine sometime during the night.

I expect those added pounds will fall off later on. Toward the middle of May I'm starting a run with the two compounds at 250 each and I'm sure the scale will climb by fifteen pounds before it drops again afterward. Someone criticized me claiming bad eating habits caused the increase while on tren yet the testosterone is what actually drives it. My normal replacement amount sits at one hundred twenty milligrams so going well past double that brings the weight along.

Soon I could start testosterone replacement therapy. The notion of lifelong dependence really puts me off though.

Twice I went through that whole thing lasting twelve to eighteen months each time then stayed away for about a year afterward. It wasn't the smartest move but I still got everything back to normal in my fifties. After three weeks without the testosterone I began fifty milligrams daily of that medication for six weeks and brought my readings up near four hundred fifty.