New to Reta: Early weight loss questions

We need more details first. Have you actually begun reta and at what weekly amount? We went low-carb with meat, fresh vegetables mostly steamed, cottage cheese, protein shakes at lunch, and cut back sharply on beer. We skipped calorie counting entirely and had no side effects at all. Just be sure electrolytes stay topped up.

Grab the loseit app, set activity to sedentary, and do not eat back any exercise calories. Pick a dose that lets you stay in a deficit without discomfort. If the scale moves, visceral fat will come down with it.

Five hundred calories a day will not last unless you want thinning hair, poor sleep, muscle loss, and worse health. Add rice and other carbs. That 500-calorie mark is basically what I get from two scoops of protein mixed with Greek yogurt and a banana. You probably need at least three times that much food.

I had already titrated tirz from 2.5 mg up to 7.5 mg across three months. I began reta last Saturday and this post is from Monday. Current schedule is 1 mg on Tuesday and again on Saturday for a 2 mg weekly total. I intend to increase to 6 mg and possibly 8 mg later if needed. I am also using KLOW, Mots-c, and NAD+. Later I plan to cycle Tesa/ipa with KLOW using four weeks on and six weeks off.

When I cannot manage solid food I fall back on nutritional shakes. Protein comes first before carbs or anything else. That approach has worked fine for me through twenty-two weeks on reta.

All these extra injections are confusing to me. I do not mind what others choose, but I simply used reta once a week and dropped sixty pounds since January. I have been on maintenance for a couple of months now.

I do not know how much you have to lose, but the main way to cut visceral fat is simply to lose fat overall; the visceral stores shrink along with everything else. Tirz or reta will therefore outperform the secretagogues, which realistically only move a few kilos. If you are already gaining muscle while losing fat, the extra growth-hormone stimulators may not be necessary. From what you have shared you are on 7.5 mg tirz plus 1 mg reta, have lost 18 lb fat and added 1.4 lb muscle since starting three months ago, yet we still lack age, height, starting weight, or goal weight. That background would help when offering advice. Your worry about needing more calories suggests the glp dose is currently too high, so lowering it is the direct fix. In the short term richer, higher-fat foods can help, but I am not convinced you must force intake that high.