When do you all decide its time to titrate up your tirzepatide? I've been losing consistently and never stalled, but the past few weeks I have had some cravings and some binge's because I'm an idiot which makes me lose 0 each week, so I figure its time to go up at least 1mg.
How do you all decide when to titrate up and by how much? Wait until you hit a stall? When cravings come back a bit?
I can only tell you my experience on Tirz (brand since 12/27/24, compoundeded since 4/26/24), and I'm currently at 10mg. I have been cognizant of not wanting to increase too quickly and reach the max dose of 15mg. I'm not interested yet in trying to do any stacking with other peptides, so I'm trying to hit that balance of taking just enough that I need.
I think it may look different for those experiencing side effects in that they may need to be more cautious so they can mitigate any increase in any side effects they're already experiencing if they titrate up. Very luckily for me, I've had none so I didn't have to take that into account.
I have moved up in the tirz dose based on: 1) food noise (priority for me), 2) abnormal hunger signals, and 3) weight loss progress (aiming for around 1-2 lbs per week). I'm much more conservative in what I consider to be a stall for myself so unless my weight hasn't changed (or if increased) over a 4 week timeframe, I don't consider myself to be stalled. I also look at my water intake over that timeframe, my sleep habits, exercise, and food tracking. One of those could also be a contributing factor and I may need to make adjustments to keep making progress.
I have a tracking spreadsheet that I keep which includes how I'm feeling that week (for #1 & #2 above), and I use that to guide me, along with everything else. This may seem like overkill and overthinking for many, but I'm a data analyst and I don't know how else to be
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