u/Fabulous_Row_4218

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Hey everyone. I've been lurking here for a while and finally feel like it's time to share my own experience. Reading other people's posts genuinely helped me so much when I was starting out so I figured it's time to give back.

Quick Stats

Start weight: 87kg | Current weight: 70kg | Total lost: 17kg | Time on Reta: 3 months | Starting dose: 2mg | Current dose: 5mg | Source: Grey market, batch tested

I decided to try Reta after months of research. I was sitting at 87kg and had been spinning my wheels with diet and exercise alone. I won't pretend I wasn't nervous. This is a triple agonist, it's not something I took lightly, and because I source through the grey market I made a personal rule from day one that I would test every single batch before touching it. No exceptions. I know the grey market route isn't for everyone and I'm not here to push it on anyone. If you have access to a prescribing doctor please use that route. I'm just being transparent about my own experience.

Month 1

I started at 2mg deliberately to let my body adjust before pushing higher. Honestly the first few weeks were much smoother than I expected. The nausea stories I had read everywhere never really materialised for me. Around week two the appetite suppression kicked in and it was genuinely eye opening. I wasn't white knuckling my way through meals anymore. The food noise that used to be constant just got quiet. I dropped around 5kg that first month, some of it water weight for sure, but a great start regardless.

Month 2

Once I felt settled I moved up to 5mg and this is where things really started to move. The scale was dropping consistently, my clothes were fitting differently and I remember thinking around week six that this was actually working. Lost another 6kg this month. Energy was mostly good although I did have the odd week where I felt more drained than usual which I'll get to at the end.

Month 3

By month three everything felt dialled in. Hunger was low, I was eating well, moving my body more and the results kept coming. Another 6kg down bringing my total to 17kg lost in three months. I still find that number hard to believe when I type it out. More than the scale though, my relationship with food has completely changed. I eat when I'm hungry, I stop when I'm full and the obsession that used to follow me around all day is just gone.

Starting at 2mg and not rushing the titration was huge for me. I genuinely think this is why my side effects stayed so manageable. Beyond that, hitting my protein every day, staying on top of water, getting some walking in and trying not to live and die by the scale each morning all played a role.

The one thing I haven't fully cracked is the low energy weeks. Every few weeks I'll have a stretch of a few days where I just feel flat and drained. I've played around with electrolytes and making sure I'm eating enough but it still sneaks up on me. Has anyone found something that genuinely helps with this? Would love to hear what's worked for others.

Also I've been quietly researching GKU and I'm seriously thinking about incorporating it at some point. Has anyone here made that move or run it alongside Reta?

Thanks for reading and feel free to ask me anything. This community has been a huge part of my journey and I'm happy to pay it forward.

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Hey everyone. I've been lurking here for a while and finally feel like it's time to share my own experience. Reading other people's posts genuinely helped me so much when I was starting out so I figured it's time to give back.

Quick Stats

Start weight: 87kg | Current weight: 70kg | Total lost: 17kg | Time on Reta: 3 months | Starting dose: 2mg | Current dose: 5mg | Source: Grey market, batch tested

I decided to try Reta after months of research. I was sitting at 87kg and had been spinning my wheels with diet and exercise alone. I won't pretend I wasn't nervous. This is a triple agonist, it's not something I took lightly, and because I source through the grey market I made a personal rule from day one that I would test every single batch before touching it. No exceptions. I know the grey market route isn't for everyone and I'm not here to push it on anyone. If you have access to a prescribing doctor please use that route. I'm just being transparent about my own experience.

Month 1

I started at 2mg deliberately to let my body adjust before pushing higher. Honestly the first few weeks were much smoother than I expected. The nausea stories I had read everywhere never really materialised for me. Around week two the appetite suppression kicked in and it was genuinely eye opening. I wasn't white knuckling my way through meals anymore. The food noise that used to be constant just got quiet. I dropped around 5kg that first month, some of it water weight for sure, but a great start regardless.

Month 2

Once I felt settled I moved up to 5mg and this is where things really started to move. The scale was dropping consistently, my clothes were fitting differently and I remember thinking around week six that this was actually working. Lost another 6kg this month. Energy was mostly good although I did have the odd week where I felt more drained than usual which I'll get to at the end.

Month 3

By month three everything felt dialled in. Hunger was low, I was eating well, moving my body more and the results kept coming. Another 6kg down bringing my total to 17kg lost in three months. I still find that number hard to believe when I type it out. More than the scale though, my relationship with food has completely changed. I eat when I'm hungry, I stop when I'm full and the obsession that used to follow me around all day is just gone.

Starting at 2mg and not rushing the titration was huge for me. I genuinely think this is why my side effects stayed so manageable. Beyond that, hitting my protein every day, staying on top of water, getting some walking in and trying not to live and die by the scale each morning all played a role.

The one thing I haven't fully cracked is the low energy weeks. Every few weeks I'll have a stretch of a few days where I just feel flat and drained. I've played around with electrolytes and making sure I'm eating enough but it still sneaks up on me. Has anyone found something that genuinely helps with this? Would love to hear what's worked for others.

Also I've been quietly researching GKU and I'm seriously thinking about incorporating it at some point. Has anyone here made that move or run it alongside Reta?

Thanks for reading and feel free to ask me anything. This community has been a huge part of my journey and I'm happy to pay it forward.

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