023 // PHASE III 🧪 RETATRUTIDE TRIAL PATIENT 332.8 → 262.5 ↓70.3 TRAINING • NUTRITION • BLOODWORK
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6 MONTHS AS A PHASE 3 RETATRUTIDE TRIAL PATIENT 🧪
SHOT DAY — SPECIAL EDITION
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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.
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💉 SHOT DAY — 70 DOWN, WHAT’S NEXT
Phase 3 retatrutide trial participant
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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.
Patient 023 💉 retweeted
1 complete month at only 0.5mg and my life has already turned 180
Went from around 204lbs to 191
Cardio or lifting everyday
Much more energy and a lot of pain in joints is gone
Feeling amazing and it’s just getting started
Motivated and doing things I should’ve started along time ago all thanks to a little bit of Reta and hard work
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.
🧪 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.”
💉 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 💪
Watched this and decided I’m doing a little potassium maxxing this week lol.
One easy add has been tomato paste and spinach.
Made Mexican rice with a bunch of tomato paste to pair with my chicken.
Then cooked my ground beef with tomato paste, garlic, salt and Italian seasoning that gets added to my potatoes.
Easy way to bump potassium without completely changing what I already eat.
Patient 023 💉 retweeted
The "honeymoon phase" transition is where 90% of researchers ask if their batch lost potency, when in reality their body just adjusted to steady state!
That quiet food noise + zero side effects baseline is the golden zone. 🫡
💭 For me those first 3–4 weeks on Reta had this crazy “great awakening” feeling lol.
The benefits didn’t disappear, but after a few months it stopped feeling so new and I settled into a different normal:
• Thirst cues came back
• I get hungry again
• That crazy stuffed feeling faded
• Food noise is still way quieter
• Focus is still there
• Sleep went from awful to great
• Sides are basically gone
Seeing people post their first few weeks takes me right back 😂
Patient 023 💉 retweeted
I’m sure this lady is nice, but fitness influencers should not be giving people GLP1 advice. I don’t know why it is that they are incapable of understanding what it’s like for people with severe metabolic issues. You should not take advice from me. What works for a person that is just optimizing is not going to work for someone who is really struggling.
🧠 Seeing all these COVID to now transformations
What actually kept you going?
Like on the weeks where the scale barely moved, motivation sucked, you felt fat as hell lol. What stopped you from saying fuck it?
