Been or reta for 4 months down from 240 lb to 187 lb now . Started at 2mg titrated my way up to 5mg . Been locked in diet “ 1800cal” and lifting for the whole period. What should I do now do i still need to take more and cut more or do i start tapering off and start a lean bulk . Please advise
Following up on my post asking for experiences with retatrutide and ketosis (https://www.reddit.com/r/Retatrutide/comments/1k2l5ot/bohb_levels_on_retatrutide/) here is what I wrote.
Thank you for your contributions!
Technically started June 23 but 🤷🏾♂️
Weeks 1 to 4: 2mg (1mg every 3.5 days)
Weeks 5 to 10 4mg (2mg every 3.5 days)
Weeks 11 til present (3mg) (1.5mg every 3.5 days)
Cardio was 5 days a week with weights being 4 days a week then entire time. Now back to weights 5 days minimum with minimal cardio..god bless Reta 🙏🏾
started sept 13 so about 3 and a half weeks in. figured i'd post an update since i've been lurking here a while.
9/13: 191.7 lbs / 27.2% bf
10/7: 180.6 lbs / 24.4% bf
down about 11 lbs. biggest thing for me is the food noise is just gone. not fighting cravings all day, appetite is way down. still forcing myself to hit protein and get my workouts in.
dosing has been a little all over the place. started at 2mg and the nausea was rough, dropped to 1mg the second week and felt totally fine but the hunger came back, went back up to 2mg the third week and honestly feel great, zero symptoms.
gonna check back in around week 6 and see where i'm at.
Been meaning to post a progress update because I genuinely didn’t realize how much my body had changed until I went back and compared pictures. First picture was around my heaviest at 325 lbs, second is more recent at 266 lbs. 59 lbs down.
I’ve been using reta for 5 months at 3mgs every 5 days. I started at 325lbs and I’m currently at 266 lbs. My experience so far has been great with not a single side effect.
The biggest thing for me is that I haven’t treated reta as the entire strategy. I went from being pretty sedentary to regularly hiking and walking, and now I’m even working jogging into some of my walks. My eating habits and overall activity are dramatically different from where they were in the first picture.
Still have a long way to go, but seeing the pictures side by side finally made the progress register in my head.
Also before Reddit CSI gets here… yes, my shorts are sitting higher in the second picture 😂 I promise “pull shorts over stomach” was not the weight-loss protocol.
3 month check in
Coming at you again with a 3 month, slow-but-realistic progress update!
SW - 227.6lbs
CW - 208.0lbs
Dose: 1.5mg/week
Just about down 20lbs! My body composition has changed so much, I'm noticing it big time in my clothes. I had to retire my shirt in the left photo. My size mediums fit me again.
Experiencing so many strength gains in my lifts. I am shoulder pressing 80lbs which I haven't been able to do in yeeaarrss!
I am currently in the awkward time of getting ready to move into a new house while still trying to sell our current house 😅 i am hella stressed out. I felt the food noise creeping back full force at the start of the month so decided to titrate up to 1.5mg. Brought the food noise back under control enough to keep going.
I'm still eating high ptotein, but realistically probably more like 150g/day now.
I still believe slow and steady is the best way!
1st pic: SW 181lbs on 7/24/26
2nd pic: 172lbs on 8/16/26
3rd pic: 159lbs on 10/4/26
1mg since the start. Not stacking anything else.
I’ll never get over how much Reta has changed my life. I feel so much better in my body, I left a toxic relationship in June of this year and starting this journey has given me all of my confidence plus more back. My relationship with food and alcohol is the healthiest it’s ever been. I’m pouring all my energy into myself. I’ve been on 1mg the entire time. Gym 1-3x per week, at least 10k steps per day.
Does anyone else have 1 food they crave constantly??? The only thing I’ve wanted to eat in the last 3 months is beef. Ground beef, steak, pot roast, doesn’t matter, just beef.
I (31F) started wirh Mounjaro in May 2026 and lost a lot of weight quite quickly- mostly water but managed to get to a dietician and a personal trainer so cleaned up my habits.
Ended up coming off MJ (in my country it is expensive and progressively gets more expensive as you titrate up.
Admittedly I made a mistake with MJ, in that I titrated up way too quickly, jumped up dose every 4 weeks(ended up stopping at 12.5mg)
Fortunately I am one of those people who don't suffer with many side effects (mild constipation, always had it, now just a bit worse) and stupidly believed no side effects = move up.
Started Reta as I had almost maxed out on Mounjaro and wanted to try focus on preserving and growing muscle mass.
Couple of issues I'm still working on
- I have lost 24kgs but my brain hasn't fully caught up, I still feel as big as I was at the start (I've been overweight my whole life, this is the lowest I've been as an adult)
- My stomach is shrinking but I'm still feeling a bit chunky
- As mentioned above the side effects are few but mainly constipation and some fatigue
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy. I have better posture, I'm still figuring out clothing, my body feels stronger. Have a bit to go but primary focus is prioritizing muscle mass, and getting my body fat % down. Tall order but we keep working on it.
SW: 92kgs CW: 67kgs GW: 60kgs Heigjt: 164cm Age: 31, PCOS/POTs - currently losing between 0.6kg and 0.8kgs a week on 6mg reta a week
Request: Any recommendations not listen to the titrate up goblin and just trust the process. Also how did you settle on your final goal - was it a particular weight, body fat % etc?
TLDR: Come a long way, long way to go, need some encouragement or suggestions to stay the course and keep pushing on or just any tips or tricks for recomp for where I am now.
Yes I know Reta takes time. My first week I started at 0.8. I felt a bit less food noise but my appetite was still strong. That weekend I overate a ton and ended up bloated, completely ruining that weeks deficet. The second week I took 1.6, and still that weekend I binged on the weekend. Again ruining that weeks deficet.
Anyone else taking Reta for BED? When did you notice your binges go away or lessen?
I just feel a bit defeated. I’m scared I’ll overeat the whole time on Reta
As the title says, one month in, and I am 25 lbs down so far. Really surprised how steady it has been, no big drops. Super happy with that! Currently on 6mg a week.
I realize most GLPs would require a maintenance dose but I really, really don’t want to be on a maintenance dose of anything.
I’m curious if anyone has been able to drop the weight ans keep it off with fully stopping Reta?
I’m debating if it’s even worth going on if I drop the weight, get off it and it all comes back. I’m hopeful to change a lot of my eating habits (help of dietician) during Reta, and I was hoping it would help my sleep apnea and I’d be able to actually sleep well and therefore I won’t be trying to not listen to the food noise from that as well.
Reta was a life saver for me.
Three years ago, I was 280lbs.
I lost a bunch of weight through diet and exercise. But I was stuck at 190-200.
So I started Reta, alongside cjc/ipa, glow & mots c. In April of 2026.
I continued with my healthy eating, exercise regiment as I had already been doing.
Today, I’m down to 155lbs. I’ve gone from a size 24+ to a size 28 regular. I’ve never been so confident, I’ve never been so happy. I’m stronger then ever, I have significantly less fatigue.
I’m Hypermobile (diagnosed hEDS) with a spinal fusion, (and two other spinal surgeries) and chronic subluxations of my shoulder, hip, and knee.
My body is recovering for the first time ever.
It’s not a choice I’ll ever regret. And I hope this motivates you too.
Has anyone noticed strange cravings or fixations on certain foods?
I am week 2 2.5mg and found I have no real interest in foods other than peanut butter and jam sandwiches! Like I could eat them all day and think about them often… it’s weird because I used to hate peanut butter with a passion! Any tips 😅
I (30yom)have been on Reta since late May, slowly worked up from 0.5mg to 9mg. I only did 9mg a week and I felt horrible, so I went back down to 7mg. I have lost about 30lbs (255lbs to 227lbs). I’m a prior competitive bodybuilder and dieting isn’t new to me. But due to work stress and everything I had really let myself go for a couple years up until this point. I do believe I damaged my metabolism through extreme dieting I used to do.
I felt like 6-7mg is working at this point, but the side effects are enough of an issue that it isn’t sustainable. My primary issues with Reta are the extreme skin sensitivity all over, irritated eyes, and libido problems.
I want to try Tirz, but I was thinking as I transition it may make the most sense to start at 4mg Reta and 2.5mg tirz. As I progressively increase the tirz, I could decrease the Reta. OR if the the combo of the two was working while mitigating side effects I wouldn’t be opposed to staying there.
I know some people have strong opinions on mixing these. But please don’t suggest cagri, even at 100mcg a week it eventually starting making me feel very unwell. I’m mainly looking for experience on those who have added tirz and lowered their Reta to attempt to mitigate side effects. I am in a calorie deficit right now and my diet is continuing to be effectively allowing me to drop about a pound a week. I lift 4 times a week and am pretty good about doing cardio. I am just over the skin sensitivity and other listed side effects. Lower doses of Reta alone had lost effectiveness for me, and these side effects were still present.
Thanks!
Hi everyone I have a random question I need help with sorry in advance if it’s dumb. This has been my schedule so far and I planned it so that my last 2 shots on this vial would be 1.5 mg each (7 weeks on 1 mg and 2 weeks on 1.5 mg should’ve added up to 10 mg total that were in my vial). However today when I went to take my last 1.5mg shot from this vial I was only able to get 0.4 mg out of the vial. I saw there was still a little bit in the vial but i couldn’t get it out no matter how I angled the needle. I think this might partly be because I measured each dose slightly off, causing there to be not enough in my last one and if so is this a problem? I was also wondering if it’s going to be an issue that I only took 0.4 mg today, am I still able to continue at 1.5 mg next week? Sorry again if this is dumb I appreciate any help!
So, after the full release of the TRIUMPH-1 & 2 data after EASD last week. I've painstakingly updated the beginner's guide with lots of key points and data to pore over, and I even hit on more of the 'common' questions being asked here.
And before you ask, yes, I used Claude (easier to say this than Hermes, which isn't as widely known, but Opus was the agent used) because fuck no, I wasn't gonna design all those updated slides after writing the points and then auditing them for scientific backing. Also used it to summarize a freaking 800+ page protocols document? Because MEGA fuck that. (Although I did go back and skim through half of the protocol stuff; pretty fun read if you have the time)
As always, still open to constructive criticism. Yes, you actually need to have something other than "ew, it's AI-generated; I don't wanna read it." as a response because one thing you shouldn't be able to do is find a peer-reviewed rebuttal.
Trash online from random anecdotes? I almost guarantee it, but the guide lives in a world of documented goodness meant for harm reduction. So deal with it.
ANYWHO with that out of the way.
The Mod team quietly updated the rules a bit after much deliberation. Like alot of things, it's give and take here:
Don't name, abbreviate, hint at, or link any seller of retatrutide or other peptides, including "research peptide" sites, compounders, Telegram/Discord/WhatsApp groups, group buys, and vendor-linked test results. No "DM me", "check my profile", or asking where to buy.
Relatively unchanged.
No bullying, harassment, or shaming of anyone's body, weight, dose, progress, or choices.
Personally, not my choice on wording, as this can/will lead to folks trying to justify poor titration schedules, then coming back about heavy sides (it has happened) but like I said 'give and take'
Your own experience is welcome. Don't tell others what dose to take, to follow a protocol you made up, or to severely restrict calories. Asking "is this normal?" is fine. Retatrutide is not FDA-approved - talk to a doctor about your health.
Note: This is largely still in debate, as it touches more on the stuff I said after 'Be kind,' but giving it a trial run first. Above all. it's the whole "please add your Reta use" when people post pictures/updates/etc. part that should be added.
Claims presented as fact about safety, effects, or studies need a credible source: published trial results, ClinicalTrials.gov, Eli Lilly, the FDA, or a reputable news outlet. Miracle claims, fearmongering and conspiracy theories will be removed.
This was a give I was not budging from. Misinformation will NOT be tolerated.
No reposts, screen recordings, or links from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook influencers. Links to reputable news outlets and journals are fine.
This was largely an anti-bot thing; luckily, we've only had like...maybe 3-4 hard social media reposts here.
Posts must be about retatrutide: trial news and results, research, experiences and side effects, and comparisons with tirzepatide, semaglutide and other incretin drugs.
This one's a middle ground. Lemme address the big sore point here: being 'another GLP-1 drug to Reta', there isn't any official transition dosing, and the best community one is a picture someone drew up on a notepad (For the LIFE of me I cannot find that Pic tho, someone be a mensch and find it for me)
Reddit's sitewide rules apply here too.
And I mean this goes w/o saying so, yeah, no change here.
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So yeah, have fun with that.