5 months on Reta update
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I'm mainly posting this to brag about my results, but also hopeful that maybe it could help someone. I took my first ever dose of Reta exactly 5 months ago and today I've officially lost 100 pounds. Yay! Stats 6'3" male healthy starting weight 345 current weight 244. It's been 22 weeks so I'm averaging a little over 4 pounds a week. That average has come down considerably, my first 10 weeks I was losing over 7 pounds a week.
If you need to lose a lot of weight like me, don't be scared to not eat. That's the only secret. Don't freaking eat. Anyone telling you to lose weight and build muscle at the same time is selling you something. Stop eating. Shoving protein down your throat will not help you lose weight. I only got sick one time on the medication and it was when I was trying to hit protein and it just came right back out. I knew right then, pick one. Lose weight or build muscle.
I've done a lot of research and I'm not a newbie in the health and fitness world. I'm acting as my own doctor and own physical therapist. I feel way better than 100 pounds ago, and I don't regret losing the weight at all. Did I lose muscle? Yes. A little. Not a lot. I went to the gym at least once every week during the past 5 months and did the same routine every time. My strength has not gone down at all. Not at all.
My recommendation for someone with a lot of weight to lose, who wants to lose it sooner rather than later. Get on a glp and get the dose up to where you're eating less than 4000 calories a week. I was much lower than that. Walk as much as possible, but do at least 1 long walk a week and try to stay at a minimum of 5000 steps a day. More is better. Go to the gym a little bit. Once or twice a week is fine.
And educate yourself. No one is going to do this for you. Everyone and their brother has a different opinion. Everyone will tell you about how you're doing it wrong. Anyone telling you to slow down is either selling you something or doesn't have weight to lose themselves.
Until you start losing noticable weight then friends and family will also be asking how you did it and for your help.
If you have over 50 pounds to lose, losing over a pound a day is quite possible, and not dangerous for most people, especially if done though fully and responsibly.
What's dangerous is living obese, and over consumption of the products that cause obesity.
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Congrats on your accomplishment but I cant with the rest of this. Literally dont have time to explain all the bad advice in this post.
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I'm mainly posting this to brag about my results, but also hopeful that maybe it could help someone. I took my first ever dose of Reta exactly 5 months ago and today I've officially lost 100 pounds. Yay! Stats 6'3" male healthy starting weight 345 current weight 244. It's been 22 weeks so I'm averaging a little over 4 pounds a week. That average has come down considerably, my first 10 weeks I was losing over 7 pounds a week.
If you need to lose a lot of weight like me, don't be scared to not eat. That's the only secret. Don't freaking eat. Anyone telling you to lose weight and build muscle at the same time is selling you something. Stop eating. Shoving protein down your throat will not help you lose weight. I only got sick one time on the medication and it was when I was trying to hit protein and it just came right back out. I knew right then, pick one. Lose weight or build muscle.
I've done a lot of research and I'm not a newbie in the health and fitness world. I'm acting as my own doctor and own physical therapist. I feel way better than 100 pounds ago, and I don't regret losing the weight at all. Did I lose muscle? Yes. A little. Not a lot. I went to the gym at least once every week during the past 5 months and did the same routine every time. My strength has not gone down at all. Not at all.
My recommendation for someone with a lot of weight to lose, who wants to lose it sooner rather than later. Get on a glp and get the dose up to where you're eating less than 4000 calories a week. I was much lower than that. Walk as much as possible, but do at least 1 long walk a week and try to stay at a minimum of 5000 steps a day. More is better. Go to the gym a little bit. Once or twice a week is fine.
And educate yourself. No one is going to do this for you. Everyone and their brother has a different opinion. Everyone will tell you about how you're doing it wrong. Anyone telling you to slow down is either selling you something or doesn't have weight to lose themselves.
Until you start losing noticable weight then friends and family will also be asking how you did it and for your help.
If you have over 50 pounds to lose, losing over a pound a day is quite possible, and not dangerous for most people, especially if done though fully and responsibly.
What's dangerous is living obese, and over consumption of the products that cause obesity.
@danny2 food should suppliment what you need not hurt you.
"The aggressive, corporate-scale "push" of highly refined, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) into the standard American diet occurred in waves, but it reached its modern, hyper-engineered peak beginning in the early 1960s and accelerating through the 1980s. During this period, major tobacco conglomerates bought up food brands and applied their highly addictive product formulas and aggressive marketing playbooks to grocery stores.""Most epidemiologists and public health data point to the late 1970s (specifically between 1976 and 1980) as the exact turning point when the obesity epidemic officially began in America."
That's when it all went down hill in America. The FDA did not explicitly approve the marketing push of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), but its regulatory structure effectively allowed it to happen. And till this day they haven't do e anything to reverse it.
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@danny2 food should suppliment what you need not hurt you.
"The aggressive, corporate-scale "push" of highly refined, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) into the standard American diet occurred in waves, but it reached its modern, hyper-engineered peak beginning in the early 1960s and accelerating through the 1980s. During this period, major tobacco conglomerates bought up food brands and applied their highly addictive product formulas and aggressive marketing playbooks to grocery stores.""Most epidemiologists and public health data point to the late 1970s (specifically between 1976 and 1980) as the exact turning point when the obesity epidemic officially began in America."
That's when it all went down hill in America. The FDA did not explicitly approve the marketing push of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), but its regulatory structure effectively allowed it to happen. And till this day they haven't do e anything to reverse it.
@EXTROPIAN actually it’s related to the food pyramid that was pushed by the sugar industry who paid off a scientist at Harvard who letter led the department of Ag and led the push on fat is bad, sugars and carbs are good. Remember the ads twizzlers are good for you, no fat. The sugar industry did that
“In the 1960s, the sugar industry secretly paid Harvard scientists to blame saturated fat instead of sugar for heart disease, laying the groundwork for decades of low-fat dietary policies and the eventual creation of the 1992 USDA Food Pyramid”
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Congrats on your accomplishment but I cant with the rest of this. Literally dont have time to explain all the bad advice in this post.
Thanks for the kind words. Some of the advice is perfect for the right people. Some people are terrified at the thought of even skipping a meal. A lot of people, especially fat people, poison themselves all day everyday. Food is not medicine for them.
And I'm not sure if you read the part where I said that you need education to do what I did. I didn't accidentally lose 100 pounds in 5 months, with zero guidance, and not a single doctor visit or lab.
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@danny2 food should suppliment what you need not hurt you.
"The aggressive, corporate-scale "push" of highly refined, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) into the standard American diet occurred in waves, but it reached its modern, hyper-engineered peak beginning in the early 1960s and accelerating through the 1980s. During this period, major tobacco conglomerates bought up food brands and applied their highly addictive product formulas and aggressive marketing playbooks to grocery stores.""Most epidemiologists and public health data point to the late 1970s (specifically between 1976 and 1980) as the exact turning point when the obesity epidemic officially began in America."
That's when it all went down hill in America. The FDA did not explicitly approve the marketing push of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), but its regulatory structure effectively allowed it to happen. And till this day they haven't do e anything to reverse it.
@EXTROPIAN totally agree, but most fat people have an unhealthy relationship with what they consume, so it doesn't compliment at all, just hinders
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@EXTROPIAN actually it’s related to the food pyramid that was pushed by the sugar industry who paid off a scientist at Harvard who letter led the department of Ag and led the push on fat is bad, sugars and carbs are good. Remember the ads twizzlers are good for you, no fat. The sugar industry did that
“In the 1960s, the sugar industry secretly paid Harvard scientists to blame saturated fat instead of sugar for heart disease, laying the groundwork for decades of low-fat dietary policies and the eventual creation of the 1992 USDA Food Pyramid”
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I'm mainly posting this to brag about my results, but also hopeful that maybe it could help someone. I took my first ever dose of Reta exactly 5 months ago and today I've officially lost 100 pounds. Yay! Stats 6'3" male healthy starting weight 345 current weight 244. It's been 22 weeks so I'm averaging a little over 4 pounds a week. That average has come down considerably, my first 10 weeks I was losing over 7 pounds a week.
If you need to lose a lot of weight like me, don't be scared to not eat. That's the only secret. Don't freaking eat. Anyone telling you to lose weight and build muscle at the same time is selling you something. Stop eating. Shoving protein down your throat will not help you lose weight. I only got sick one time on the medication and it was when I was trying to hit protein and it just came right back out. I knew right then, pick one. Lose weight or build muscle.
I've done a lot of research and I'm not a newbie in the health and fitness world. I'm acting as my own doctor and own physical therapist. I feel way better than 100 pounds ago, and I don't regret losing the weight at all. Did I lose muscle? Yes. A little. Not a lot. I went to the gym at least once every week during the past 5 months and did the same routine every time. My strength has not gone down at all. Not at all.
My recommendation for someone with a lot of weight to lose, who wants to lose it sooner rather than later. Get on a glp and get the dose up to where you're eating less than 4000 calories a week. I was much lower than that. Walk as much as possible, but do at least 1 long walk a week and try to stay at a minimum of 5000 steps a day. More is better. Go to the gym a little bit. Once or twice a week is fine.
And educate yourself. No one is going to do this for you. Everyone and their brother has a different opinion. Everyone will tell you about how you're doing it wrong. Anyone telling you to slow down is either selling you something or doesn't have weight to lose themselves.
Until you start losing noticable weight then friends and family will also be asking how you did it and for your help.
If you have over 50 pounds to lose, losing over a pound a day is quite possible, and not dangerous for most people, especially if done though fully and responsibly.
What's dangerous is living obese, and over consumption of the products that cause obesity.
@danny2
Damn motivating danny2, way to go.
Got to be careful with as fast as you're taking it off though, I know you want it now, but gallbladder stones can be created when it can't empty out the excess cholesterol fast enough.
That's why they recommend 2 lb's a week.That would had took you twice as long though!
Did you take before pics?
Not for us, for yourself.
I know it's embarrassing but it will motivate you to finish this out and it's fun to show people and have them not even be able to recognize you.
Now-a-days you can get AI to give you a bodyfat estimation too. -
@danny2
Damn motivating danny2, way to go.
Got to be careful with as fast as you're taking it off though, I know you want it now, but gallbladder stones can be created when it can't empty out the excess cholesterol fast enough.
That's why they recommend 2 lb's a week.That would had took you twice as long though!
Did you take before pics?
Not for us, for yourself.
I know it's embarrassing but it will motivate you to finish this out and it's fun to show people and have them not even be able to recognize you.
Now-a-days you can get AI to give you a bodyfat estimation too.@Stan-Douglas thanks for the encouragement! I'm being as safe and efficient as I can be. I dropped 69 pounds in the first 9 weeks and I went completely off the medication for 3 weeks, during which time I ate a lot more calories and put 10 pounds back on. I then flipped back on and the weight has just kept pouring off. Eating very little again. I don't believe there is a one size fits all approach with these medications. And I don't believe losing 5 pounds a week is any riskier than losing 2 pounds if it is done thoughtful, especially when there is more than 50 pounds to lose
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