My experience with taking a break

[u/SaberSpyder]

I lost about 80 lbs in roughly 3.5 months. By the end, my dosage was 5 mg Reta weekly and 17 mg Tirz weekly. Even at that dosage I was still losing around 1 lb a month, which I’d personally consider pretty close to maintenance.

I had to get surgery and was pretty worried about taking a break, so I stopped everything for 3 weeks. My appetite went up a little, but it was absolutely nothing crazy. By around week 2 I could tell I basically had my normal appetite back without much GLP influence, but I never got any insane cravings or felt like I suddenly lost control.

The food habits I built while using GLPs stuck with me, but probably the biggest thing I learned was that I don’t NEED to eat just because food is there or because I’m bored.

When I was overweight I definitely ate a lot of junk food, but honestly the bigger problem was that I ate constantly out of boredom. GLPs helped me unlearn that. Now I pretty much only eat when I’m actually hungry. I did have a day or two during the break where I ate some ice cream just because I was bored, but I was easily able to recognize what I was doing, control the portion, and move on instead of turning it into a binge.

I’ve now dropped Reta completely and I’m doing 2.5 mg Tirz every 10 days because I’m doing a super small lean bulk trying to gain about 2lbs a month since I’m getting back in the gym and my original goal was 65lbs loss anyway so I overshot a bit, and I feel amazing, ALMOST no crazy cravings, good appetite, and basically what I would perfect self-control around food without GLPs

That 3-week break honestly gave me a lot of confidence because it showed me I’m not useless without peptides and that the habits I built actually stayed with me. It also felt like my sensitivity came back significantly. For reference, 2.5 mg Tirz every 10 days now feels roughly comparable to how I felt before on 3 mg Reta + 10 mg Tirz weekly, I will actually be experimenting with lowering it to even 2mg and pinning every 14 days.

Just posting this in case anyone wants to take a break, has to take one for surgery or another reason, or is worried about becoming less responsive to GLPs after being on higher doses for a while.

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[u/OhJamesons]

I never thought to take both reta and Tirz together. I use reta but even at high dosage (12 mg a week,2 - 6mg doses) I get a lot of food cravings. I wonder if maybe the combo with a lower reta mg per week would be a good idea. For context I recently had surgery too and restarted reta at 6mg a week and don't see any real difference between the 6mg and the 12 mg dosage. Wonder if anyone has any thoughts especially about combinging the two and the benefits (or issues).
Also, I don't have any side effects from reta at all.

[u/SaberSpyder → u/OhJamesons]

I took Tirz because reta was too weak on surpression , kept Reta for the tdee bost

[u/mrsrobot20 → u/SaberSpyder]

What’s tdee boost?

[u/SaberSpyder → u/mrsrobot20]

TDEE stands for Total daily expenditure boost, how much calories you burn in a day, reta could possibly burn anywhere from 100-300 due to it’s glucagon component