Patient 023 💉

6 MONTHS AS A PHASE 3 RETATRUTIDE TRIAL PATIENT 🧪 SHOT DAY — SPECIAL EDITION entry//027 April 7 → October 7 332.8 lbs → 268.8 lbs 64 lbs down. 19.2% of my starting body weight gone. Class III severe obesity → Class I obesity. Here’s what the first 6 months looked like. 🧵 THREAD👇

As I was telling someone yesterday… If you make the proper lifestyle changes then those lean mass data points from the trial become way less relevant to your own outcome. High protein. Lift consistently. Fuel properly.

Them: you’re going to get on Reta and lose muscle mass!!! Me: hold my protein shake bro Incline bench 275lbs today. Ugly but getting there. Building brick by brick!

Things I learned from this comment section: • 0.5 is a placebo • 0.5 isn’t a placebo • there’s more in the vial than you think • only works if you’re lean • doesn’t work if you’re lean • 4mg hits softer than 1mg • it’s the BAC water • it’s the vendor • it’s science We’re all right. Somehow. I love this app.

When this trial ends I need to try grey market Reta just for science lol. I find it mind blowing that people really say 0.5 mg nuked their appetite. That’s 25% of the starter dose 😭

🧪 One thing I think people misunderstand about Reta: The dose isn’t supposed to feel identical forever. For me suppression was strongest in the first few weeks of a new dose, then slowly settled. That didn’t mean the dose “stopped working.” Hunger came back. The food noise/control benefits stayed. Those are two different things.

🛣️ Nobody really talks about the middle ground of weight loss. I feel like I’ve left a lot of my old life behind. • The bad habits • The drinking • The people I don’t really connect with anymore • The version of me that was just kind of existing But I haven’t fully built the new life yet either. • New friends • More confidence • A better social life I’m healthier. More disciplined. Moving in the right direction. But this middle part is weird as hell lol. But honestly this part can feel lonely as hell. You don’t want to go back to the people or habits you outgrew, but you haven’t built the next chapter yet either. That’s where I feel like I am right now. Too far removed from my old life to want it back. Not far enough into the new one to feel like I belong there yet.

I always find this interesting because Lilly has never told me “carbs are essential on Reta” and I haven’t seen it framed that way in my trial paperwork either. I’m more on the side of: Just eat lol. Don’t be scared of carbs. Don’t be scared of calories. Fuel yourself and see how you actually feel.

When I’m reading a feel good story and it turns into an affiliate post

💉 SHOT DAY — 70 DOWN, WHAT’S NEXT Phase 3 retatrutide trial participant entry//030 Quick reminder that I hit 70 lbs down last week. Took 6.5 months which is still kinda crazy to me lol. • Goal weight is probably 205–210 • Next target: 245 by Christmas • Meal planning is still locked in • New 5-day lifting split feels great • Really enjoying hitting legs 2x/week • No sides • 9 mg just feels normal now. I’ve definitely settled into it Honestly starting to think I might hit my end goal a lot sooner than I expected. This stuff is amazing.

I love opening up X and seeing people WIN!

This one means a little more to me. I had lost all the weight right before COVID, then spent lockdown gaining it all back. By the time lockdowns ended I was basically this exact weight, just heading the wrong way. That’s really when everything started going downhill for me. Now I’m back here again, but going the other direction. Couldn’t be happier.

Day 200 on Reta Down 70lbs!! 22.1% starting weight gone

🧪 Being 6.5 months into a Phase 3 Reta trial, I’m still a little weird about giving “advice” like I know everything. But one thing I do believe in now: Learn the dose before you increase it. The trial forced me to sit on each dose for 8 weeks. That taught me way more than constantly chasing the next dose ever would. Suppression changes. Hunger changes. Sides settle. Sleep changes. Training changes. Give the dose time to actually show you what it does for you.

For me 6mg was where everything kind of clicked at once. Suppression got noticeably stronger, but the bigger thing was energy/mood/training/recovery all improved together. I was eating around the same calories, training harder, recovering better, sleeping better and my waist started moving more. It was the first dose that felt noticeably different from the earlier ones.

People ask me what dose “worked.” Honestly: 2mg changed my head. 4mg increased suppression. 6mg changed the whole feel of the drug for me. 9mg has basically felt like a top-up of 6mg, very similar to how I felt when I first started 6, just stronger again. That’s why I hate when people reduce these meds to: “X mg is the good dose.”

Day 196 of trying to become a certified nail gun #DamnDaddy

💉 SHOT DAY — entry//029 Phase 3 clinical trial participant First clinic check-in on 9 mg and probably my slowest 4-week stretch yet lol. • 7 lbs down — 1 lb short of my goal • Waist: exactly the same as 4 weeks ago • No bloodwork • No mental eval • Pretty lackluster visit overall Still moving 💪