I’ve never been “fat fat.” But I’ve absolutely battled: 🍪 Snacking 🍕 Overeating 🌙 Late-night food noise Last year I decided I wanted something different. I set a goal: 📸 Get into ridiculous shape and do a photo shoot. 🥗 Phase 1 — Hard Dieting (Before Reta) I dieted hard for 2 months. Lost about 10 lbs. But I was: 😩 Suffering 🍽 Constantly thinking about food 💭 Fighting cravings 📉 Nowhere near the shape I was chasing It felt like white-knuckling every day. 🧪 Phase 2 — Enter Retatrutide I had been deep into research on peptides and retatrutide specifically. So I said… Why not. ❌ Mistake #1 — Starting at 4mg Don’t do that. It felt like I had eaten two Thanksgiving dinners… And someone told me to eat again. For 3 straight days. It’s hard to describe — just extreme fullness. Food was the last thing I could imagine. 🔄 Week 2 — 2mg Much better. ✔️ Eating clean ✔️ Still getting 4 meals per day ✔️ ZERO food noise ✔️ Night snacking gone ✔️ Energy levels strong This was huge for me. The mental freedom was insane. 🔥 Week 3 — 2mg Again Easy week. Workouts strong. Meals on track. Down another 2 lbs. This is when I realized this wasn’t just appetite suppression — it was control. 🎯 Week 4 — Back to 4mg (Sweet Spot) This is where everything dialed in. 4mg became my perfect dose. I never went higher. I got: ✅ Full appetite control ✅ No side effects ✅ Stable energy ✅ Clear head And something weird happened… Food that used to feel bland? Suddenly tasted amazing. My diet became: 🍗 Chicken 🥩 Lean ground beef 🍚 Rice 🥦 Broccoli (And yes… mustard on everything 😂) I wasn’t forcing it anymore. 📸 8 Weeks — Photo Shoot Ready After 8 weeks, I hit the shape I was chasing. The shoot went amazing. But it felt… anti-climactic. So I did something wild. At 48 years old. One year removed from a heart attack. I entered my first bodybuilding show. 🏆 12 Weeks Total — Show Day Another 4 weeks at 4mg. Another 4 weeks of clean eating. I hit my all-time best condition.

Had a couple nagging injury’s, Wolverine stack (BPC 157 and TB500) cleared them right up. Reta has significantly increased my weight loss too

Hi there !!! I’m new to peptides! I started Reta about 5 weeks ago and I’m getting great results! I’ve always been pretty disciplined and dialed in with my food noise, however I really have noticed I have 0 food noise and legit it has helped me so much during my prep. Especially being lower calories that hunger or desire is completely gone and it’s helping me to lean out really nicely! I started at 136 and I’m down to 131 but also prioritizing my muscle so it’s been great/ I also heard and have researched that mots c works well in combo with it so I’m really excited to try it

I wanted to share my personal experience with retatrutide for anyone curious about real-world results. This is strictly my own experience — not dosage advice or cycle recommendations. - Starting Point I started on October 7th at 224.7 lbs, alongside a locked-in diet and a dialed-in training program. My progression looked like this: - 1 mg per week for 6 weeks - 2 mg per week for 2 weeks - 3 mg per week for 6 weeks - 4 mg per week as my maintenance level (this is where I felt best) I ran this from October 22nd to January 4th. Total loss during that time: 41 lbs I averaged roughly 4–6 lbs per week. * 1 mg Phase (Intro Stage) I started at 1 mg because I was honestly nervous. After about two weeks: - Food noise decreased slightly - Hunger was still present - Weight loss felt slow - Effects felt minimal Looking back, 1 mg is a good introductory amount for maybe the first 2–3 weeks just to see how your body reacts. Staying there longer didn’t personally do much for me. In hindsight, I probably stayed here too long. * 2 mg Phase This is where things started to click. What I noticed: - Much better appetite suppression - No snacking cravings - Eating meals normally and feeling satisfied - Consistent fullness - Gym energy stayed solid One downside I noticed: Mornings felt groggy / lower energy right after waking up That could be a dealbreaker for some, but once I later introduced other peptides, this improved. For this post though, I’m keeping it strictly about retatrutide. * 3 mg Phase At 3 mg, fat loss really accelerated. This is when I consistently saw: - Strong appetite control - Steady weekly weight drops - Much easier adherence to dieting - Less mental struggle around food I was deep into a cut at this point, and despite eating less and less, I maintained a surprisingly good amount of strength. Yes — lifts went down eventually, but I was also in photo shoot prep / aggressive fat loss, so that was expected. * 4 mg Maintenance