jimbothigpen
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Noob here -- both in the forums and with GLP-1 medications in general -- just barely getting started with Reta + Tirz. Started the 16th of January @ 1mg Reta, bumped up to 2mg Reta + 1mg Tirz after 5 days, then 2mg Reta + 2mg Tirz after another 5 days, and finally yesterday 3mg Reta + 2mg Tirz. So far, feeling pretty good about this, considering I've dropped a pound/day on average, from 242# to 226#. I *know* this is the honeymoon period, and it's likely mostly water weight -- but still, that kind of crazy progress really makes me want to keep it up.
Last "diet" I was on was one of my own making, and I had similar results (10 years ago when I was in my 40s): 3 corn dogs every day with whatever condiments I wanted, and a pint of beer (Imperial, not those little US 16oz thimbles). Coincidentally, I lost a pound a day on that one as well -- kept it up for 19 days before I broke. Wife doesn't think the old "Corn Dog Diet" is *actually healthy* for some reason, so she's talked me into the GLP-1 route. She's probably right, as usual.
I do have some concerns about losing muscle mass. I've really never been a gym guy, or even an "exercise" guy, for that matter. I've always considered exercise for the sake of exercise to be a bourgeois aberration -- like, why the hell would I lift weights and run in circles when there's always a ditch that needs to be dug somewhere? Fact is, though, I haven't exactly been grabbing the shovel and scouring the neighborhood for potential excavation sites...
So, in my mid-50s, pretty fat still but shedding pounds quickly. Would simple body-weight exercises be good enough to keep my muscle mass intact? Pushups, squats, leg lifts in the AM? Or do y'all recon I might need to actually use those weight machines I keep hearing so much about? Any quick routines recommended for beginners?
Last "diet" I was on was one of my own making, and I had similar results (10 years ago when I was in my 40s): 3 corn dogs every day with whatever condiments I wanted, and a pint of beer (Imperial, not those little US 16oz thimbles). Coincidentally, I lost a pound a day on that one as well -- kept it up for 19 days before I broke. Wife doesn't think the old "Corn Dog Diet" is *actually healthy* for some reason, so she's talked me into the GLP-1 route. She's probably right, as usual.
I do have some concerns about losing muscle mass. I've really never been a gym guy, or even an "exercise" guy, for that matter. I've always considered exercise for the sake of exercise to be a bourgeois aberration -- like, why the hell would I lift weights and run in circles when there's always a ditch that needs to be dug somewhere? Fact is, though, I haven't exactly been grabbing the shovel and scouring the neighborhood for potential excavation sites...
So, in my mid-50s, pretty fat still but shedding pounds quickly. Would simple body-weight exercises be good enough to keep my muscle mass intact? Pushups, squats, leg lifts in the AM? Or do y'all recon I might need to actually use those weight machines I keep hearing so much about? Any quick routines recommended for beginners?
