Please help me for the next steps

[BLASIUS]

Hi all,
I started using Tirz 6 weeks ago with the 2,5mg weekly dosage.
In the first 4 weeks I had a very high fat loss (6Kg in 4 week), in the last 2 week my weight is stalled (initial weight 119Kg current is 113Kg).
During all the 6 weeks I experienced food noise significant reduction, reduced appetite and almost no side effect.
Do you think it is time to move to a 5mg dosage or continue to use 2,5mg but every 6 days? Or maybe I could continue with the starting dosage (2,5mg/w) waiting for fat loss increase?

I bought a box of reta (10mg/vials), so I am thinking to switch to reta, but I am still a little bit undecided.

Thanks in advance to everyone will share his opinion or his esperience.

 

[lessthanhalf]

When you start losing weight , you will nearly always lose a significant amount of water with it over the first few weeks, eventually it will even out but is quite possibly the reason for the initial rapid weight loss then it slows down or stops for a while, then restarts more slowly. If how much you are eating has not changed, then this is almost certainly the explanation. You may have scales that measure fat percentage but as far as I understand they are not especially accurate anyway.
There is no reason not to increase the dose of tirzepatide to 5mg, unless you are having side effects, increasing more often than every 4 weeks can be a bad idea as blood levels take 4 weeks to get to the new maximum level, so side effects can be very delayed from dose increases, but you have already been on 2.5mg for 6 weeks. The standard recipe for starting tirzepatide is to increase the dose by 2.5mg every 4 weeks until you get to 15mg. Many people on this forum would recommend staying at as low a dose as possible for as long as possible, I would go with the official recommendations for doses as that has the best scientific evidence supporting it. How important it is to increase the dose depends a bit on your age, other health problems, and how overweight you are, and possibly how long you have been overweight. Without age and height I cannot tell.

 

[latviantower]

My tirz experience started with compounded product supervised by an MD. The monthly questionnaire asked multiple questions designed to determine if you needed the next higher dose. So mainstream medicine is obviously designed to keep you on as low a dose that is effective for you. It took me eight months to get to 15 mg. Stalls were inevitable and temporary.

I would step it up, side effects permitting.