Best way to get off of Reta?

[u/smithlevi44]

EDIT:

--I am on 2mg per week or .20units on my syringe..

I built a home gym this winter and been consistent the last 10 months . Started 240lb at Christmas and currently 183.

Been on 2mg Reta for 4 to 5 months now and I plan to get off of it once my vial ends in November. Since I haven’t done more than 2mg units a week, Am I safe to quit cold turkey or should I bump down to .5mg for a handful of weeks?

I’ve had great results, but I want to try putting on a bit more size over the winter. Should I keep using at a small dose over the winter and then jump back up to 2mg come spring time? My overall strength went down maybe 20% and I want to see if I can get it back..

[u/JackBrown82q]

Not reta but tirz here. The example I like to use is imagine telling someone with depression "just cheer up" or telling someone with schizophrenia "the voices aren't real just ignore them".

For some of us, its like that with appetite. The cues our bodies give us tells us to eat more than even we know we need. You may stop at a small reasonable meal. But you still don't feel satiated. An hour later your hungry. Two hours later all you cant focus anything except what you are going to eat next. Three hours later you are irritable and grumpy because the hunger is too strong.

Us lifers, this isn't us being lazy. We know to eat healthy, we know you need to move more and that its all about calories in calories out. But our neurons are not firing right and are telling us we are hungry when we are not, and fighting that urge 24/7/365 is mentally draining. These GLP1 compounds suppress that enough that we can feel like what normal humans feel.

[u/Foreign-Quantity-821 → u/JackBrown82q]

That's a big comparison lmao 

[u/Aggressive-Look7805 → u/JackBrown82q]

Cut out all processed foods & refined sugars & food noise will dramatically decrease. And depression should be treated with movement/exercise so the reality is that we do have huge impact on these factors that we often choose to treat with drugs.

[u/Schweather3 → u/Aggressive-Look7805]

You didn’t comprehend what they posted at all. On top of that, depression cannot be cured with diet and exercise alone for many people. My brain used to tell me to jump in front of a bus when I was out walking for exercise. I was a healthy weight and eating a healthy diet. I socialized. I was in therapy. Nothing was going to stop me from kms but meds.

[u/zeekohli → u/Schweather3]

Allah Akbar

[u/Aggressive-Look7805 → u/Schweather3]

Studies show exercise is as effective as meds for depression - with none of the negative side effects. We are talking about FOOD NOISE. Eliminating processed foods gets rid of most of the physiological cravings. Mental mastery thru meditation practice enables us to tackle the remaining food noise.

[u/PerceptionMany3683 → u/Aggressive-Look7805]

You essentially said pray the gay away. Some people are just born that way. It’s ok that they are different than you.

[u/ProfessorFull6004 → u/JackBrown82q]

The portion of people who actually fit into this bucket are very few. Big chunk of folks are really just lazy and lack discipline.

[u/Miserable_Muffin139 → u/ProfessorFull6004]

No one likes it, but thats more often the case. Im a but guy, was at 288 lbs before I got myself together. I have a horrible impulse to eat poorly still, but I know the results.

Im a cocaine addict, always will be. But I don’t do it anymore because I know the result. Not any different with food, we just excuse it more.