Anybody still doubting their success long term?

[RubbaDubba1]

I think it's fantastic that you've found a solution to lead a carefree life, at least when it comes to food. And it's also great that these options are now available.

Thank you🙂

 

[dobermom21]

I think about this a lot, actually.

My plan is to procure enough supplies to be on it at some level (a maintenance dose) long term, and truly allow the changes I'm making to become easily integrated into my lifestyle. I'm doing meal prep, and once my other hip is replaced, plan on being a lot more active.

For me, age and hormones are also a factor, in addition to Ehler's Danlos syndrome, arthritis, and hip dysplasia so addressing that to the extent that I can (can't do much about aging, but hips can be replaced) is in my immediate plans.

 

[Glenn]

I'm not even worried about re-gaining weight back. So much of my lifestyle has changed and I'm happy to stay on peptides for my remaining years. At 61 years old, I'm in the best shape of my life and feel great after losing more than 50% of my body weight. My only regret is that I didn't get into fitness when I was in my twenties, or thirties, or forties...

 

[HidingInPlainView]

Well... if you told me in January that I would be down 35lbs I'd have called you a liar... but here we are. I've hit my personal goal. I'm back to where I wanted to be, back to 6 years ago which is one of the lightest I've been in my adult life.

That said, If I can lose 35 more I'll be firmly in the medical "healthy weight" by BMI and at a weight I haven't seen since middle school. I might actually cry if I see the scale show me that number.

However, right now I'm planning for a joint repair surgery so I'm going to stop my GLP1 for a couple of weeks prior to anesthesia to avoid complications. I don't know what makes me more scared/nervous, the idea of learning to walk again or the idea that lack of mental discipline could cause me to regain weight.

I will resume my GLP1 after returning home from surgery, but 14 days without something that helped me so much, seems like an eternity to me right now.

Now down 42lbs, I'm 30days until surgery. I'm pausing A LOT of different things and fully anticipate to be a total menace for the next few weeks.

None of what I'm doing leading up to this is necessarily "required" more or less just a best practices type of deal.

Today I stop DSIP after 5 continuous weeks of various dosing.

Wednesday I'll be pausing KLOW and discontinuing smoking cigarettes (for who knows how long, sometimes I go years without).

Friday will be my last Retatrutide injection until after surgery.

As previously mentioned.... doubting myself greatly at this point.... but have reached PEAK " f$&% it" status...

Also I'm open to encouragement... if anyone feels like being kind.

 

[JuneBug1956]

Yup, I am 54 and thinking that there will always be some sort of a maitaining dose or a swith-a-roo like reta to tesamorelin.
I’m 5’8”, and went from 190 down to 168 in under two months on reta. Looking back, I realized I was dosing too high, considering the minor side effects, but I didn’t care much because the results were incredible.

I did lose quite a bit of muscle mass, but it was the middle of winter and I couldn’t lift weights anyway due to a shoulder injury. The plan now is to heal the shoulder with the help of BPC-157 and start lifting again (hopefully). If the shoulder doesn’t cooperate, I can still enjoy running, leg work, and core training.

Even after dropping that weight, I’m still carrying a residual belly, the dad bod survives! I’m planning to either stop reta or lower the dose significantly and try tesamorelin and ipamorelin to focus more on the midsection.

Overall, I’m very happy with the weight loss from reta, but has anyone else found a good strategy for targeting the midsection fat with tesamorelin, any suggestions, do’s or don’ts?

Swimming the crawl stroke. Find a pool and build up to a mile. Your waist will disappear.

 

[sheilarae74]

I have been at this off and on since I was 12 years old. I must have lost and gained 1000lbs in my life. I HAVE to keep it off this time, since I've given all of my fat clothes away. 🤣

 

[Grogu]

I have been at this off and on since I was 12 years old. I must have lost and gained 1000lbs in my life. I HAVE to keep it off this time, since I've given all of my fat clothes away. 🤣

Same on all accounts. I can't gain weight or I'll have nothing to wear 🤣😂, but also losing a ton of weight just to regain and also struggling my entire life.

When I first started Zepbound with my pcp he said I could get rid of all my fat clothes as I lost weight this time.... I looked at him distrustingly and he said "seriously" donate them, you won't be needing them. Based on the tirzepatide clincials, I think he is correct.

 

[ronin365]

Im feeling pretty good and I am using my time on Reta to understand how I gained the weight in the first place and why it kept packing on even when I was eating clean. I think hormones have a lot to do with this as well as the constant under-eating. When I hit my target weight, I do plan to test if the dietary changes I made on Reta hold without Reta. That said, I am not opposed to continuing to use Reta whether my weight stays off or not. There are too many upsides to staying on it for maintaining metabolism and mitochondria, keeping inflammation low, reducing food noise, and potentially anti-cancer effects. It really is an amazing peptide that is way more than just another GLP1 that helps you lose weight.

 

[diplomat]

Im feeling pretty good and I am using my time on Reta to understand how I gained the weight in the first place and why it kept packing on even when I was eating clean. I think hormones have a lot to do with this as well as the constant under-eating. When I hit my target weight, I do plan to test if the dietary changes I made on Reta hold without Reta. That said, I am not opposed to continuing to use Reta whether my weight stays off or not. There are too many upsides to staying on it for maintaining metabolism and mitochondria, keeping inflammation low, reducing food noise, and potentially anti-cancer effects. It really is an amazing peptide that is way more than just another GLP1 that helps you lose weight.

Great plan! There's so little reliable information on maintaining the gains after Reta...
Keep us posted on what effect your dietary changes have!

 

[RJ760]

I am not at my goal weight yet, but I have lost already a substantial amount of weight - again?

So, as many may relate I have done numerous diets in the past, lost some weight, regained all back, with all the shame and blame.

What makes you believe this time it will be substantial and for good as long as you take the medication?

No doubts this will work for me, but I've had to be honest with myself about why I'm here. I've yo-yo'd since my early 20s, working out and eating right just long enough to hit a goal and then abandoning any long-term plan. A few years back I dropped from 280 to 210 and somewhere in that process realized that working out just has to be a permanent part of my life, not a temporary fix. That clicked and I haven't looked back.

Three years of consistent training later and that part feels solved. Where I kept falling short was diet. I genuinely believed for a long time that if I worked out hard enough I could just offset a bad one. It worked for a while but occasional indulging became more frequent and I ended up bouncing back up 20lbs in the last six months. Not owning a scale didn't help, I was going by how my clothes fit and it turns out you can stretch a pair of pants further than you'd think.

For me Reta is about addressing the one piece I never really tackled. I'm not expecting overnight results and I'm not trying to overhaul everything at once. I started by cutting out unnecessary sugar because that's where I was leaking the most. Massive sweet tooth, work from home, and a fully stocked pantry is a bad combination. One week in and the food noise is already quieter than it's been in a long time. That alone feels like progress.

 

[Glpsince2021]

What makes me have faith is the evidence of my own eyes. I’ve been at goal weight since 2022. Never before in my life - and I’m 61! - have I been able to maintain weight loss this long while not struggling.

In the past any weight loss attempt where I reached goal (or close to it) was never maintained. I was always slowly ounce by ounce regaining. I’ve never been weight stable in my life. I was either dieting or regaining while trying my hardest not to regain.

For four years that hasn’t been my reality. I’ll take these peptides til I die. They’ll have to pry them from my cold dead hands.

 

[FarmgirlRebel]

God willing, I have maybe 20 years left on this planet...I do not want to spend those years overweight (which would undoubtably shorten the years as well) and not active.
So yes, after decades of yo yo dieting, it is a concern...even after bariatric surgery, I knew I could start gaining again.
GLPs, along with some other peptide protocols, have given me real hope that this is going to be sustainable

 

[TxUt777]

I am not at my goal weight yet, but I have lost already a substantial amount of weight - again?

So, as many may relate I have done numerous diets in the past, lost some weight, regained all back, with all the shame and blame.

What makes you believe this time it will be substantial and for good as long as you take the medication?

I started building the good habits before the meds, but the progress is keeping me going and excited. Will it be forever? I hope so, but I'm only focusing on prioritizing myself more than I used to now.