Crazy first week

Could the heart-rate jump have come from taking more than your system was ready for?

Same heart-rate rise happened to me at the start; it settled after a week or two even though I kept raising the dose. The tricep-skin sensitivity hit hard when I moved from roughly 4.5 mg to 6 mg a week and I had to drop back. Glad the scale is already moving for you. Keep the fluids up.

Nothing you described is surprising for week one at 2 mg.

Day seven: 219.9 lbs, total loss 9.1 lbs. Face looks noticeably less bloated. Woke with a sore throat that disappeared after water, sweated heavily overnight even though the room was 60-62 degrees, and skin is still a bit touch-sensitive. Switched to every six days because hunger was creeping back in.

Nice drop. Pinning at bedtime can blunt the heart-rate and pain sides for me. Once you're past the first few doses you might try that, but stay awake the first time you change anything. Keep going.

Two-week check: 215.2 lbs, another 4.7 lbs gone. Moved to 4 mg after five days and the scale started moving again after stalling at 218. Only sides now are occasional dry mouth and sensitive skin. Total loss 13.8 lbs in fourteen days. Staying at 4 mg until progress slows.

Heart rate that high hours later plus feeling cold and miserable isn't typical. Could be the starting dose or maybe the peptide wasn't clean.

Month one: 229 to 208 lbs. Only dry mouth and sensitive skin remain. Dosing schedule so far was 2 mg, 2 mg, 4 mg, 4 mg, 4 mg, 6 mg, 6 mg.

Month two: 208 to 192 lbs. Cold at bedtime and occasional skin sensitivity are the only leftovers. Hit some plateaus. Totals: 21 lbs month one, 16 lbs month two, 37 lbs overall. Now on 8 mg every five days.

How do you like dosing every five days? I notice the effect dropping off in the last couple of days before my usual shot.

Almost 9 lbs in under a week is strong and the appetite control is real. Just remember the body can only pull so many calories from fat stores each day; going far beyond that tends to cost muscle instead. Might be worth checking what a sustainable deficit looks like at your current weight.

Split dosing might have helped the skin issue, but yours stayed manageable even with increases. 37 lbs in eight weeks is still very fast once you subtract water weight. At that rate you're running a big daily deficit even if you're not super active or restricting food much.

Energy expenditure varies more than the usual formulas suggest. Based on your loss rate you must be burning well over 3000 kcal a day despite not being very active or severely obese. After big weight loss I now need far fewer calories just to maintain.