u/Sea_Swordfish2782

Ima še kdo zelo majhen apetit v eh dnevih, ko je tako vroče?

I have been looking into both Tirzepatide and Retatrutide lately, and it seems like almost everyone still prefers Tirzepatide even though Reta has way more weight loss potential. I know Tirze is fully FDA approved and has a ton of real-world data backing it up, but I am wondering if the preference is just about easy access or if the physical experience is actually that different. Because Reta is a triple agonist, I have read that it causes a much higher resting heart rate and more severe stomach issues compared to the dual agonist mechanism of Tirzepatide. For those of you who have researched or actually ran both of these compounds, do people genuinely just feel better on Tirze, or are they just avoiding Reta because it is still an unapproved investigational drug?

People really need to stop pretending that TRT is anything other than standard steroid use. Getting a prescription from a doctor does not change the actual compound you are putting into your body. The acronym itself is a joke because you are not replacing anything, you are just adding testosterone you wish you had to get the exact same benefits any other steroid user wants. It should just be called testosterone supplementation. You have all these guys running massive doses, holding completely unnatural amounts of muscle, and calling it therapy just because a medical professional signed off on it.

The whole thing is just a loophole for guys who want to run gear without feeling bad about it. Half of these guys blasted steroids starting in their early twenties, completely ruined their natural hormone production, and then ran to a clinic to get more drugs to fix the problem they created. Getting a doctor to write a prescription does not make it any different from buying gear on the street. You are still just a guy using anabolic steroids to look and feel better, so people should just own up to it instead of hiding behind a medical term.

I am just looking for a place to vent because I do not want to put all of this on my partner right now. I was so close to finally reaching my goal weight of 155. For the first time, my body actually felt calm. The food noise was basically gone and I could finally picture what maintenance would look like.

Then I found out last month that I am pregnant. I am very happy and grateful, but I am also secretly grieving something I worked incredibly hard for. I feel guilty even admitting that. Now that I am off the medication for the baby, the hunger is coming back. I am terrified of losing the progress I worked on for years. People keep telling me it is temporary and the child is a gift, but it just feels dismissive. I am going to love this child, but watching the progress get undone is really painful. I am scared of the metabolic issues, postpartum changes, and worrying if the medication will even work the same way when I can take it again.

How did pregnancy affect you if you were close to your goal? How did you mentally cope with stopping the medication and dealing with the fear of losing your progress?

I follow a few health and longevity subreddits because I am interested in how we can support our bodies as we get older. But the whole peptide trend is really starting to bother me.

I am sure there are women in the space, but I see so many posts from guys trying to optimize their masculinity with grey-market research chemicals. As a woman, there is nothing less attractive to me than the mental image of a guy standing in his bathroom drawing liquid from a vial and injecting it into his glutes just because he thinks it will make his balls look better.

What are we even doing here? I have never once looked at a pair of balls and thought they were especially nice. Nobody is looking at them that closely. This is not male botox.

These guys are performing this whole "look how hard I mascmaxxed" routine for other men and pretending they are doing it for us. I really wish they would just stop. They should just admit they want validation from the men they look up to and leave women out of the excuse.

Feeling bad about your body, wanting to feel powerful, and being scared of getting older are very real things that everyone deals with. But trying to frame it as "my girlfriend is going to love my chemically enhanced volume" is just weird and completely untrue.

It is incredibly unattractive and it seems to be getting way more common. I cannot tell if I am just being too harsh about all these research chemicals, or if there is actually a weird problem brewing here.