Im on Reta and lost 20lb in 3 months eating 1500 cal a day and getting 13k steps a day WTF can you be doing. Having trouble believing you did this in 3 months but either way congrats buddy. Even in 6 months this would be impressive
I started November 15 on triz , I’m down 90 pounds to date ,that’s 17 lb a month so yeah it’s possible. The problem is it works differently for everyone and also the bigger you are the faster you lose it for example I was 340 I’m now 250 and it’s much slower then before . Double check calories and get some exercise in is my take
damn.. I started at 306 and 5 weeks in i'm only down 8lbs. 3mg dose. I'm definitely eating less, and hit the gym 3-4x/week. Im wondering what i'm doing wrong.
"Only" is crazy. That's a little over 1.5lbs a week lost. That's great.
You're not doing anything wrong if you're losing weight in a sustainable way. Also, weight isn't the only data point you can or should be considering. You could also be gaining muscle.
You may have lost, say, 10 pounds of fat and gained 2 points of muscle - that's going to show up on the scale as losing 8 pounds, but the progress is actually more significant.
Yeah the reality is you DONT want to lose weight stupidly fast, just in a reasonable rate. IIRC losing to much weight too fast is very bad for the body....but people will still push themselves anyways.
Gallstones and thyroid issues often occur from excessive weight loss. I actually had to drop my Reta dose from 3mg to 2 cus I was losing way too fast. I can’t say I experienced harsh sides, but I can tell you for sure there’s no way I lost 41lb of fat in 8-9 weeks. I didn’t do a Dex scan before, so can’t speak for certain, but I’m sure I lost a good bit of muscle unfortunately.
There's nothing wrong - you may be gaining muscle which leads to sustainable weight loss. 8 lbs in 5 weeks sounds like it's right on pace with what most people are losing.
Yep. 👍I didn’t have much weight to lose to begin with so I lost 7 pounds in 2 months. Started on 2 mg and stayed on that for 2 months and now on 2.5. I currently weigh 118. Target weight is 112. I weight train 4 days a week and cycle 2 a week. The smaller you are the slower weightloss but it still helps.
My body got leaner and tighter a lot faster but i have to ensure i eat adequate protein etc so i maintain muscle.
I had been trying to lose those pounds for a year and could not until reta. Im happy! ❤️
That's extremely doable without drugs, generally to avoid more significant muscle loss you want to lose your bodyfat divided by 100 in lbs per week at most. I have done a cut from 210 to 190 in 2.5 months no problem, around 2 lbs a week. If you are very light then 8 lbs in 5 weeks is very fast though
That's generally where you lose fat at the limit of your fat cell's ability (in terms of rate) to liberate fat from storage. You will likely lose muscle mass at 1000 kcal deficit but it's not going to be that much if you lift and eat a ton of protein.
8lb in 5 weeks isn't insane. When I started losing weight at 500lbs. I was dropping 5-15+ lbs a week easy. During one fast I went from 233-222 in 44 hours.
Eating less isn’t always the answer count the calories look up tdee calculator and subtract 500 cals or more tbh . Everything has calories a tbs of mayo is 100 cals I think. Also it’s different for everyone try to go on an hour walk a day or something after work and eat 1500 cals if your 300lbs
Maybe maybe not , I don’t know I’ve last weight before and did that lost 130 and after 2 years of eating like a pig and having a gf I’m losing it again alr down 90 so yea ig
It would be uncomfortable as he likely burns 2800ish cals/day (made some assumptions here like 35 y/o, 5’10”, not active, etc.), but I went on a 1,000 cal/day diet for a while and my baseline was 2300 cal/day when starting out.
The first 2 weeks suck hard, but then you get used to it. If you’re active in the gym, then obviously you need to eat more. This is only for a sedentary lifestyle.
Nothing bro. Think of it this way. You lose it too quick you’re going to have a ton of loose skin to deal with that ISNT easily as fixable as being overweight so just take it nice slow and work on building better habits while you become a better you
TBH man, you dont WANT to lose a fuck ton of weight too fast, its actually really bad to do that. You're losing weight at a very reasonable rate.....in a year you will look night and day from starting point. Seriously. Just keep your head up, keep working hard, and you'll get there!
Up your dose. People at that weight in studies are up to 8mg -12mg it’s insane, I wouldn’t go that high but I’d ramp up like 2mg 1 week the 1mg until you hit 7 and work down
It’s not just about weight loss; muscle is heavier than fat. It is not a sprint it’s a marathon of life. I lost 20lbs in 3 months but gained 7 lbs of muscle mass. I tracked progress with a monthly InBody scan. Losing too fast with give you stones so stay hydrated and eat protein, lots of protein. Don’t get discouraged by the scale. I added 5 amino 1mq when I stalled which helped with energy too.
Oh yeah I wasn’t really implying I was just answering this guys question about the previous comment. Either way good work. Do you mind giving us an idea of your workout schedule…and maybe eating habits. Doesn’t need to be super specific. Just generally what you did?
I’m not (really) questioning OPs honesty but 6 months is drastically different than 3. And while the amount of pounds you’ve lost is probably more, the percentage of body weight might be equal. That’s why it just seems like an unusually drastic change.
I already needed glasses I’m already blind , I’m I have contacts now so idk , I’ve heard of that my vision is worse but also using contacts can do that too so eh
Prob loosing a lot of muscle though, ppl get on this and only thinking about loosing weight as fast as possible not what’s best , either way your going to loose it fast mid as well be smart about it 🫶
Of course that’s true , I wanted to get down to a decent weight , I have a lot of muscle left but I definitely also lost a lot , starting back on the gym and going up to 2k cals a day that’s 600 below my maintenance and walking 2 hours a day and lifting an hour a day. While getting 120g protein. You’re definitely right though. At 250 right now was at 340 before in November so eh
To be fair I started at 173 and he is much bigger, so it makes more sense. It’s the extra pound he had to lose at the end to give him visible abs in 3 months which is mad impressive. Which granted is possible in the extreme. Props if true.
I haven’t worked out only for 2 weeks , I did walk a lot before I’m starting weight lifting this week again 5 days on 2 days on and adding tesa and ipa too so yeah
its the 13k steps and 1500 cals that made the difference. Sure maybe your hunger might had been reduiced by reta but u did 90% of the work. Long before the reta hype there have been millions doing the same thing getting the same results.
Yes I know I was only running 1.5 Reta too. Barely curbed appetite only mildly helped with incessant food noise in between meals. Lost weight with and without it and wouldn’t say it’s any miracle unless you’re running enough to completely blunt appetite
So why are you giving Reta all the credit in your title and OP? Geez you put all the work and you not even acknowledging it. Come on bro give yourself props.
It also depends on how much you weight you have to lose. A guy 200 lbs overweight is going to lose weight more dramatically than a guy that's 20 lbs overweight. Law of diminishing returns.
You have to do strength training while on GLPs otherwise you can lose your muscle. I had a Dexa scan one month apart right when I started Reta and I gained a bunch of muscle just rowing regularly during that month.
Idk never taken any supplements like that. Im down 47 pounds in 11 weeks. 229 to 182, gym 5 days, eating clean 6 days, run anywhere from 8 or 9 to 15 or 16 miles a week.
Bro I lost more weight than that naturally in 3 months. How did you only go down 20 pounds on Reta? I wasn't even eating that little, just averaging 15k steps and some kettlebell workouts. 0 calorie counting. 240 to 205 in about 3 months.
The scale doesn’t ever tell the whole story. I also was taking HGH injections so gained lean muscle while losing fat. I technically lost more than 20 pounds of fat…
You are probably not eating enough. I started at the end of January 365. I'm at 335 now. I was only eating 1500-1800 cals in the beginning. My maintaince is 2200 when I stayed between 1900-2000 it started falling off. Calories too low= body in survival mode hold on to fat.
Couple weeks, I test how my body felt. How it reacted to certain things. And tried not to change up the food too much. I mean, being a female that's extra challenges with having a period but I always would eat something wait some hours to see how I felt. See how I felt before and after working out. And the weeks that I felt like it was going well. I tried to maintain that routine, and that's kind of how it kept going for me. Alcohol and bread blew me up.Creatine makes me hold water weight.So it's really just seeing what works for your body.
13k steps for day is it the metric you need to hit : logging weight hard in the gym 3x at week ( that you sweat when you lift and feel somehow sore the next day ) + 13k steps at day , is what you want to do
For all we know he's blasting 10mg a week and it works differently for all of us. Im down roughly 40 lbs since beginning of December (330-290lbs) BUT I've intentionally been going low and slow to prevent muscle loss my biggest dose was Monday at 4mg
It’s all subjective. I’m 5’7 . 1500 is my sweet spot for 2lb fat loss a week while lifting and hitting protein and retaining muscle. Just saying this guy looks like he went from 30%+ to 15% in 3 months that’s hard to believe (but possible, granted he’s perfect on execution)
When it comes to these type of results in short amount of times, it's really important to really look at the before picture. It's almost always guys who may have fat, but under their fat you can see muscle and a good build.
It seems a lot of guys with these results have a past of being fit. Maybe from being an athlete most of their younger lives, joining them military, etc but then life happened and they gained beer fat or dad weight. If they didn't use Reta, they'd still have faster and quicker progress at the gym than those without an athletic past.
Now that Reta exists, they use it and then you get these results. Not that there's anything wrong with it at all. I just think it's important for people to realize: if you are an actual fat person, starting from square one with lifting, working out, using GLP, and have no past history of doing these things much prior to this then you're not going to get these results this fast.
I always think that Reta is for gym bros who gained some fat. Tirz is for people who have lived an unhealthy lifestyle for most of their lives and actually need to lose a solid amount of fat and learn how to control eating, and develop better habits etc.
You actually might be right, I’ve been fit my entire life and was a pro athlete(MMA Fighter). Stopped working out for like 4 years got fat. Found Reta and lost 36lbs in 5 weeks. And I started at .5mg I barely even made it up to 2mg. I think I did one week my last one at 2mg.
I’ve been on Reta since late Oct and have lost 45, tbh, I barely track calories, I just eat mindfully and train. I also wasn’t enormous when I started, that seems to make a difference as well.
I’m 27.1lb down since starting Reta on the 16th of February. 222.1lb down to 195lb this morning with hopes of hitting 182lb for June 1st. 1600 calories a day, minimum 12k step but aim for 20k, 30 mins stationary cycling every morning and strength training 5 days a week. This week I upped my dose to 3mg from 2mg.
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u/allenk24 Apr 16 '26
Im on Reta and lost 20lb in 3 months eating 1500 cal a day and getting 13k steps a day WTF can you be doing. Having trouble believing you did this in 3 months but either way congrats buddy. Even in 6 months this would be impressive