This is my second new years on my 18 month GLP1 journey. I came off a months long stall with mounjaro. Went grey in 2025 and commenced Reta in September.
Three months on Reta, now at 7mg and I’ve dropped 14lbs. Hardly melting away. That’s because the smaller doses of Reta didn’t work for me and 6mg is where weight loss started happening again. As many here suggested and I am delighted with it.
Until…. I hit another stall. This is my third week of staying the same and I increased to 7mg. I was not prepared for how I’d feel hitting a 3 week stall not knowing when or if it will ending, how much that’s challenged my feelings about the journey ahead, and while I know it’s the long game I still have 50lbs to lose. It hits me right in the hope. Hard. Because even then I will still be classed by BMI as obese.
In this stall… I know something is up in my body, I feel it. I have pcos, a metabolic disorder, and I know from the appearance of odd symptoms something is out of whack in my hormones (erm hello 👋 is that you perimenopause 👀?). Make sense it would affect all my systems. But it will pass.
Long way of saying …. I think I know I will be on some form of this long term and I feel good and reassured about my 2 years of peptide freezer supplies.
I knew I would probably have to keep taking it to feel normal and keep the weight stable: I have accepted now there is something wrong with me that cannot be cured and will worsen again without helping myself using this treatment, combined with diet and ongoing exercise for health and self care.
Sending 💜love to
@Laxfinity because as bad as I’m feeling, I’d be really depressed if I put 7lbs back on over the festive when it took me 7 dang months to lose it. Reading your story I thank you for sharing it because I feel for you! You will drop it again. Onwards we go!
