UnusualLLama
GLP-1 Apprentice
And here we go..
So for a bit of context, I'm a relatively healthy guy in his 40's who's for well over a decade now been very active in terms of gym and all of that, but my whole life I've always struggled to get lean.
I can get strong and big, but I can't get lean. I think my genetics want me to be a bit fluffier than I'd like (currently around 20-22% bf) so I did my research into GLP's and when I saw Reta, my mind was pretty much made up.
My thinking - as small a dose as possible to tip the proverbial scales.
I've been maintaining my current weight/bf% for a while and it's manageable, but I'd really like to lean out and that's where I'm hoping reta will do some of the other heavy lifting so I figured I'd post my weekly observations here with some updates on how things are going, because having seen other similar posts, I found it quite helpful being able to see others experiences.
Basic stats
Male
Mid-40's
5'10/178cm
Weight as of this morning - 79kg/174.165lbs
Estimated body fat - 20-22% (I'm using a withings scale, I know it's not super accurate, but I'm watching trends)
Average resting heart rate - 44-46
Average blood pressure - 110/71
Starting with 1mg reta
Initial thoughts and observations
Phew, that first-time sure gets the pulse racing a bit. After watching far too many videos on how to recon reta and reading about injections and all of that good stuff, I finally managed to do it.
Stupidly, all of the syringes I have a 1ml and I wanted 2ml of BAC water in my reta vial, which has 20mg reta in it. So I had to do 2 injections of BAC into the reta vial, and I thought I'd messed up big time because there were a couple of small lumps of reta still in the vial after I'd rolled it around a bit but they eventually dissolved.
And then came measuring the correct dose. I'm starting at 1mg, and for some reason had convinced myself that this was probably going to fill the syringe and require me spending 2 minutes just to get all of it into me in 1 go but then when I actually pulled it to the desired amount it was tiny.
Like tiny tiny tiny, 10 units.
So part of me is thinking "Surely not, that can't really do anything, can it. That tiny little sliver of fluid?"
But away we go and I pinned it without issue.
I was kind of expecting some big fanfare of a reaction, maybe someone jumping out of a closet with a trumpet and some party poppers but nope, that's it. In and done.
No real sensation post-pinning either, maybe a tiny little bit of heat? But I think that's just my mind more than anything else.
And now comes the wait. I'm still trying to figure out what, exactly, this is going to feel like. I think that's the difficult part for me right now, not knowing what to expect in that regard. Maybe it's because feeling hungry and craving things is such a natural state half of the time that the idea of possibly not feeling that as much is a weird concept?
I dunno, we'll see how it goes, I'm mostly hoping that a combination of reduced snacking (especially at the weekends) and a slight boost to my metabolism (I spend most of my days in front of a computer, so the 2 hours in the morning when I'm working out is the majority of my daily activity) will help turn this perpetual state of maintenance into a steady deficit, but I know some people can react differently to others so time will tell.
But that's it for now, I'll probably update again on the next pin (doing once weekly), unless there are any other interesting observations I notice between now and then.
So for a bit of context, I'm a relatively healthy guy in his 40's who's for well over a decade now been very active in terms of gym and all of that, but my whole life I've always struggled to get lean.
I can get strong and big, but I can't get lean. I think my genetics want me to be a bit fluffier than I'd like (currently around 20-22% bf) so I did my research into GLP's and when I saw Reta, my mind was pretty much made up.
My thinking - as small a dose as possible to tip the proverbial scales.
I've been maintaining my current weight/bf% for a while and it's manageable, but I'd really like to lean out and that's where I'm hoping reta will do some of the other heavy lifting so I figured I'd post my weekly observations here with some updates on how things are going, because having seen other similar posts, I found it quite helpful being able to see others experiences.
Basic stats
Male
Mid-40's
5'10/178cm
Weight as of this morning - 79kg/174.165lbs
Estimated body fat - 20-22% (I'm using a withings scale, I know it's not super accurate, but I'm watching trends)
Average resting heart rate - 44-46
Average blood pressure - 110/71
Starting with 1mg reta
Initial thoughts and observations
Phew, that first-time sure gets the pulse racing a bit. After watching far too many videos on how to recon reta and reading about injections and all of that good stuff, I finally managed to do it.
Stupidly, all of the syringes I have a 1ml and I wanted 2ml of BAC water in my reta vial, which has 20mg reta in it. So I had to do 2 injections of BAC into the reta vial, and I thought I'd messed up big time because there were a couple of small lumps of reta still in the vial after I'd rolled it around a bit but they eventually dissolved.
And then came measuring the correct dose. I'm starting at 1mg, and for some reason had convinced myself that this was probably going to fill the syringe and require me spending 2 minutes just to get all of it into me in 1 go but then when I actually pulled it to the desired amount it was tiny.
Like tiny tiny tiny, 10 units.
So part of me is thinking "Surely not, that can't really do anything, can it. That tiny little sliver of fluid?"
But away we go and I pinned it without issue.
I was kind of expecting some big fanfare of a reaction, maybe someone jumping out of a closet with a trumpet and some party poppers but nope, that's it. In and done.
No real sensation post-pinning either, maybe a tiny little bit of heat? But I think that's just my mind more than anything else.
And now comes the wait. I'm still trying to figure out what, exactly, this is going to feel like. I think that's the difficult part for me right now, not knowing what to expect in that regard. Maybe it's because feeling hungry and craving things is such a natural state half of the time that the idea of possibly not feeling that as much is a weird concept?
I dunno, we'll see how it goes, I'm mostly hoping that a combination of reduced snacking (especially at the weekends) and a slight boost to my metabolism (I spend most of my days in front of a computer, so the 2 hours in the morning when I'm working out is the majority of my daily activity) will help turn this perpetual state of maintenance into a steady deficit, but I know some people can react differently to others so time will tell.
But that's it for now, I'll probably update again on the next pin (doing once weekly), unless there are any other interesting observations I notice between now and then.