My Reta a TRT journey

RamCummins6.7

RamCummins6.7

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What’s up, everyone. I’ve been on TRT for about 3 years, and I’m glad I made the move. I bulked up through diet and training to around 270 lbs. I’ve always trained for powerlifting and Strongman. I had a position change at work, and with that came more hours, so I couldn’t keep the same pace and switched to a powerbuilding routine. I decided to drop weight and lean out by doing a recomp, so I lowered my calories from roughly 5k to 2500 calories and added in Reta. Once it kicked in, I actually love what it’s doing for me. The talk about the food noise and loss of cravings is no lie, which makes eating and dieting in a calorie deficit easy. It also killed cravings for things like alcohol. Now that my body is becoming more sensitive to insulin, I have more energy during the day and don’t crash or feel the need for coffee or pre-workout. I’ve been on Reta for about 2 months, and I’m down to 247 lbs, working up to 5mg.

My goal is to get to 235-240 around 10-12% BF and try and maintain that while still
lean muscle and my strength. This is a great board and I'm reading a lot of threads and getting valuable inforl from all over.
 
Sounds like a great goal, similar to what I am trying to do, but I'm currently at 300. I'm much newer to TRT, but the combo with the GLP meds is a clear winner. It will be interesting to see how another person, such as yourself, progresses along on this combo. All the best to you!
 
RamCummins6.7 said:
Thank you, and best of luck your journey. How long have you been on the combo?
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I have been on 120mg of test going into my third week. Really into the honeymoon of it, feeling good, energy, sleep, motivation, good stuff. Then, I have been running a combo of Reta and Tirz 8 weeks now, low doses of each, 2.5mg Tirz, 2mg Reta. I wanted a higher GLP-1/GIP ratio for really good food noise suppression. I could've probably done Reta and Cag, but I have the Tirz and it's working well. 30 lbs in a month and a half. Not too bad.
 
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I've been on TRT for several years, beginning at age 50. I am now researching to get on low dose Reta maintenance. TRT will increase your metabolism and in-turn make you hungry. I have some work to do to get some back water and learn Crypto and hope to be on Reta by July. I am a bit concerned about the increase in RHR on Reta since TRT already has me elevated.
 
msyntakz said:
I have been on 120mg of test going into my third week. Really into the honeymoon of it, feeling good, energy, sleep, motivation, good stuff. Then, I have been running a combo of Reta and Tirz 8 weeks now, low doses of each, 2.5mg Tirz, 2mg Reta. I wanted a higher GLP-1/GIP ratio for really good food noise suppression. I could've probably done Reta and Cag, but I have the Tirz and it's working well. 30 lbs in a month and a half. Not too bad.
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That’s an amazing transformation so far. What is your test at now with the 120g dose?
 
JimGainz said:
I've been on TRT for several years, beginning at age 50. I am now researching to get on low dose Reta maintenance. TRT will increase your metabolism and in-turn make you hungry. I have some work to do to get some back water and learn Crypto and hope to be on Reta by July. I am a bit concerned about the increase in RHR on Reta since TRT already has me elevated.
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If you do cardio regularly it shouldn’t affect your RHR, at least in my case it hasn't.
 
JimGainz said:
get some back water
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try my homeland, Kerala, the world's most famous backwaters.
RamCummins6.7 said:
My goal is to get to 235-240 around 10-12% BF and try and maintain that while still
lean muscle and my strength
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Monster alert!
msyntakz said:
Really into the honeymoon of it, feeling good, energy, sleep, motivation, good stuff.
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Operation: Evoke Envy successful.
msyntakz said:
30 lbs in a month and a half.
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Operation: Evoke Envy 2.0
 
Tbagger said:
Unless you are insanely tall, that is some IFBB pro level composition. I wish you the best of luck on your mass monster journey! Keep us posted on your progress
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Agree. That's like a moment in time goal physique. As soon as you come off that stack you're going to expand or contract depending whether you stop the peptides or anabolics, respectively.
 
Tbagger said:
Unless you are insanely tall, that is some IFBB pro level composition. I wish you the best of luck on your mass monster journey! Keep us posted on your progress.
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I've dieted to that low of BF before but at a much lower bw 189lbs. My training shifted and I started in strongman and powerlifting for years and ate in a surplus and go to the 268 to be exact at 5’10”. Now my goal is recomp and sit at a lower bf and keep put on lean tissue without much bf.

My workload and schedule has changed for my actual job and with my kids which made me change my training to more of a powerbuilding style with occasional strongman movement thrown in. The demand and amount of time spent in the gym I could not sustain and balance work and family.
 
JimGainz said:
I've been on TRT for several years, beginning at age 50. I am now researching to get on low dose Reta maintenance. TRT will increase your metabolism and in-turn make you hungry. I have some work to do to get some back water and learn Crypto and hope to be on Reta by July. I am a bit concerned about the increase in RHR on Reta since TRT already has me elevated.
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My experience is the RHR mostly levels out after an adjustment and saturation period. Most sides pretty much do, in my N1. I'm 45 and started 4 months ago (slowly working up to 4 mg /wk) and maybe the sides were lessened because I titrated slowly. I'm already (maybe 2-3 more weeks if I had to guess) looking at titrating down to maintenance because it's been so effective (down 45 lb. in a year, of which 25 or so has been with Reta after a long stall) and around 10 lbs. from my ultimate goal/bf%. I plan to keep at maintenance going forward because of the marked impacts I've experienced outside of fat loss.
 
RamCummins6.7 said:
Once it kicked in, I actually love what it’s doing for me.
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How long did it take for you? I have been on 200mg/week TRT for about 8 weeks. Been on 2mg Reta every 6 days. Don't really feel like the Reta has started working for me yet...
 
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How long did it take for you? I have been on 200mg/week TRT for about 8 weeks. Been on 2mg Reta every 6 days. Don't really feel like the Reta has started working for me yet...
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2mg was subtle for me, even making .5 increases. 4mg was a smack in the face and all cravings were gone and it was only what I had to eat and digestion was slower and the bf started to drop quick
 
So happy to see others seeing positive results, and getting their lives back on track!

Reta and TRT has been a game changer at 44. I just dropped to 100mg twice a week (down from 125mg twice a week) because my total was 1555 and free was a few hundred at the end of a cycle. I used to pump 300mg/week and was hovering around 300-400ng/dL. Cut a ton of body fat (down to 205, from nearly 300lbs), and got off of anastrazole, and have decreased my TRT dose gradually with body composition changes.

You'll feel like a whole new person near the end of the process, just trust it, and keep your head down, and working towards your goal!
 
RamCummins6.7 said:
What’s up, everyone. I’ve been on TRT for about 3 years, and I’m glad I made the move. I bulked up through diet and training to around 270 lbs. I’ve always trained for powerlifting and Strongman. I had a position change at work, and with that came more hours, so I couldn’t keep the same pace and switched to a powerbuilding routine. I decided to drop weight and lean out by doing a recomp, so I lowered my calories from roughly 5k to 2500 calories and added in Reta. Once it kicked in, I actually love what it’s doing for me. The talk about the food noise and loss of cravings is no lie, which makes eating and dieting in a calorie deficit easy. It also killed cravings for things like alcohol. Now that my body is becoming more sensitive to insulin, I have more energy during the day and don’t crash or feel the need for coffee or pre-workout. I’ve been on Reta for about 2 months, and I’m down to 247 lbs, working up to 5mg.

My goal is to get to 235-240 around 10-12% BF and try and maintain that while still
lean muscle and my strength. This is a great board and I'm reading a lot of threads and getting valuable inforl from all over.
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Did you go the medical pro route or did you find it around the forums? I am female but it's like pulling teeth to get help.
 
So the as far me 5mg I’m getting all the positive effects again without the negatives. My wife at 8mg 3 weeks in and it’s finally hitting just a bit of nausea still. Just have to make sure she hits her protein, but her waistline and legs have leaned out significantly.
 
Great job on all of your hard work!

TRT with a GLP is a game changer if your overweight and metabolicly broken like I was. 2 years ago 270 pounds at 5ft9. Between busting ass in the gym, trt and tirz i lost 70lbsand got my health back. I ran the tirz for about 8 months for the weight loss and have been maintaining at 200 for 8 months or so.

I recently switched to reta, lost 5 pounds in the last 2 weeks. Currently sitting at 195 and 15-16% body fat. Looking to drop to 185 or so, and 12% range.

Truly life changing to be 51 years old, more energy than I know what to do with and abs!

Current stack is 200mg of test a week, 3mg reta and a protein focused nutriention plan.
 
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