u/No-Manufacturer-1611

I helped my friend (who’s not on Reddit) sign up for the starter pack with Rift. I’m an experienced tirzer, but I’d never used Rift before. I told her to go with them because so many people here recommend them, and she wanted the 3-vial / 3-month starter pack, which my current provider doesn’t offer for lower doses (I'm with one of those companies tht make you use one vial for 3 months, if you're on a lower dose)

After a two week wait she received her Apothecary vials, and did her first injection yesterday following the directions that came with it. I only then looked at a photo of her vials and asked her to confirm how much she had injected. It was 28 units, which works out to 5mg. All 3 of her starter vials say to inject 0.28mL / 28 units, and the concentration is 18mg/mL.

I honestly freaked out a little when I realized she injected 5mg for her very first dose, especially because this wasn’t a measuring mistake, that’s how Rift prescribed it.

I checked in with her today and she’s having a lot of abdominal discomfort and is in the bathroom all morning. I’m really hoping this is the worst of it for her!! At this point, I’ll definitely be advising her to do 2.5mg next week regardless of what the prescription instructions say. I feel so bad I didn't catch this before she poked.

Is this something providers are doing now? We definitely marked her as brand new and purchasing the starter pack when filling out the forms.

Lately I keep noticing older women in this and the glp-1 communities with goal weights that seem really low for their age, and it's been sitting with me.

The research is pretty clear that after 65, a BMI of 25-27 is actually the sweet spot for health and longevity. Yet here we are, watching women in their late 60s, 70s, and beyond setting goal weights that would put them well below that.

And I'll be honest, I'm 45 and still catch myself chasing my 20s body while telling everyone it's about health. which makes me wonder, at what point do we stop optimizing for skinny and start actually optimizing for healthy? Is it vanity that never fully goes away? Or have we spent so many decades tying our worth to a number on the scale that we literally don't know how to stop?

Not judging anyone, just genuinely curious when, or if, that shift will ever happen to me. It depresses me to think that it never will.