Been on reta for 4 months - haven't lost any weight - can anyone chime in
TL;DR: Lost a lot of weight from june 2024-Jan 2025 before starting reta by doing two 36 hour fasts per week until I reached the 190's in January 2025. Started reta in april 2025. worked up to 10mg/week slowly. have not lost any weight since then. Already lean when I started.
Throwaway account because family is on here but anyway i've been debating on making this post for a very long time just because i read a lot of the posts on here and I understand that patience is absolutely required when taking retatrutide. I just kept telling myself that maybe i would eventually start losing weight once i got to a high enough dose.
I increased my doses every 4 weeks.
I started in April at 1mg/week, and went up to 2mg after 4 weeks, then 4mg, 8mg, and now I have just started 10mg/week.
Up until 8mg, I was splitting up the doses and injecting every other day, so when i was on 4mg i would do 1.14mg every other day, and followed that same protocol until 8mg, where i did 4mg on monday and 4mg on thursday. I now do 5mg on monday and 5mg on thursday.
The thing is, I was already relatively lean when I started, and all i really wanted was to lose maybe 12 more lbs? My weight has been 190-197 the entire time I have been on retatrutide (the fluctuation is due to the fact that I already do two 36 hour fasts every single week, and have been doing that since June 2024).
I was very overweight in June 2024, my heaviest I was 248lbs and I did those two 36 hour fasts every single week (monday and thursday) until I got to the 190's in January 2025. Maintained that until I started reta in april, and have still maintained that range ever since having been on reta 4-5 months ago.
I will say that I have experienced some of the side effects from reta, specifically headaches, dry mouth, gerd (only when I ate high fat foods in the beginning from not knowing that you shouldn't do that on reddit), and some mild appetite suppression early on.
I also believe that my reta isn't bunk since I obtained it from a reputable vendor that I discovered on a glp1 forum outside of reddit. The vendor is quite popular and many people seem to use it and experience weight loss on it, and that vendor always posts their janoshik results.
I have seen people on here say that they didn't start losing any weight until they reached 10mg, and I am wondering if i may fall in that camp since I DID lose a lot of weight already, prior to starting retatrutide, and i was already lean when I started.
If anyone can chime in with some advice on whether I just need to keep waiting or if i really do need to start tracking calories despite the fact that I do those two 36 hour fasts per week which theoretically should give me a large enough calorie deficit to lose weight, or at least continue maintaining my weight at 190-197lbs (which, again, the weight fluctuation is due to the fasting).
I have attached a photo of me from April 2025 and one from within the last couple days. Genuinely appreciate any advice and thank you for taking the time to read this.
Posted Sep 3, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC