6 weeks on Reta, and surprising result.

Two things worth checking are total daily calories actually eaten and whether any muscle was added. Daily weighing catches problems early enough to fix them quickly.

Morning weigh-ins every day make trends visible across recent meals and drinks without overreacting to single jumps. A weekly average smooths things out. Weighing only once a week makes it harder to separate real change from normal daily swings caused by carbs or salt.

Calories must be lowered again as weight comes off to keep a deficit going. More frequent measurements and a longer trend line give a clearer picture than a single weekly number.

Day-to-day and week-to-week fluid shifts of a kilo or two are normal and do not mean energy balance has changed. Early weight loss often includes extra fluid that later stabilizes. Longer tracking shows that apparent stalls or small gains average out to the same fat-loss rate.

Losing more than three pounds a week can include water. Occasional upward weeks happen and are not a problem. No need to increase yet after just starting 8 mg.

Daily morning weigh-ins logged in an app show the real trend and avoid reacting to a single abnormal reading. Taking three readings each time and averaging them reduces scale error.

Daily weigh-ins reveal that a hard leg session the day before can add half a kilo from muscle water retention once soreness sets in. A seven-day rolling average removes most of these single-day spikes.

Weighing Tuesday and Friday mornings with an app and a personal spreadsheet that also records BMI and body-fat percentage gives enough data points.

Pauses are common and 3.3 lb weekly loss is probably too rapid. Inflammation from training, water, or glycogen can all raise the scale without changing fat loss. Use the pause to verify the nutrition plan supports a slower 1-1.5 lb weekly target instead of rushing a dose increase.

Give any stall at least two full weeks before raising the dose. The added protein brings roughly 150 extra calories daily, which might pause progress briefly while the body adjusts. The same vial used for six weeks may have lost potency, as degradation becomes noticeable after about a month.

All the shared experiences help clarify the situation. A gym scale reading tomorrow will show body-composition details, and the Monday dose decision can wait until then.

The medication often produces steady loss with little tracking required. Weekly scale checks are kept but other metrics are ignored; dose increases are considered only when appetite clearly rises again.

The earlier loss without this class of medication is impressive. Plans are to finish a couple more weeks at 2 mg then move to 3 mg for four weeks; the idea of a strict 4 mg minimum is not being followed. The shoulder improvement from one compound is noted and alternatives are being considered.

Older methods of estimating body composition involved calipers or simply pinching fat and checking muscle feel by hand.

A similar pattern occurred: steady drop on 2 mg, then a stall, modest further loss on 3 mg, and renewed drop only after moving to 4 mg. Side effects such as heartburn appeared at the higher dose, especially with late or greasy meals. Taking the intermediate step felt worthwhile.

Gym-scale readings six days apart showed a small fat loss and slight muscle gain. The earlier home-scale reading that started the thread was taken before using the bathroom, likely inflating the number. Net loss over the six days was 0.9 kg. The home scale reads 0.4 kg higher than the gym unit. The medication appears to support simultaneous fat loss and muscle gain when diet, training, and sleep are consistent.