| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | On TRT and retatrutide, training 5 days a week. What's the realistic ceiling on how much lean mass I could gain on a 15 week cycle?
27M. My last DEXA showed 103.7 lb of lean mass at 26.9% body fat, down from 116.7 lb of lean mass at 22.6% body fat back in November.
***Photo attached is from today.***
I've been training consistently at least 3-4 days a week for about 2 years now, and honestly | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-20 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | 5 months on Retatrutide (GLP-1/GIP): Hitting plateau at 3–3.5mg — recomp isn't moving scale, anhedonia/paresthesias still present, unsure if dose bump is the answer | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-20 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | 5 months on Retatrutide (GLP-1/GIP): Hitting plateau at 3–3.5mg — recomp isn't moving scale, anhedonia/paresthesias still present, unsure if dose bump is the answer
Started Retatrutide on Feb 25th. Currently sitting at 3–3.5mg. Here's where I'm at:
**Progress:**
* Weight: 104kg (peak inflamed) → 95kg current. Lost \~10kg total, but most of that was *before* I started — Retatrutide has mainly | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-20 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Isn't retatrutide overkill when you are active and athletic, runs marathons, and just became inactive and now have a BMI of 30? Aside from that there are lots of fat burners in the market where you don't have to inject yourself
Seems to me this is for those who don't have time to exercise? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-20 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | A Real Look At Retatrutide Over 12 Weeks- Need Feedback and Support
24 yo female using Retatrutide for the first time
Current weight is 156 lbs hoping to go down to 130 lbs (fingers crossed)
Starting dose is 1 mg once per week
Instead of progress pics I'm documenting each week in detail- weigh ins, side affects, mood swings, diet, etc
Check out Week | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-19 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide 6 months 41 y/o
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Poland retatrutide
Where can I order proven retatrutide in Poland? I've previously ordered from slaviclabs, but their prices are a bit high. Do you have a reliable source? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-19 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Anyone else feel like this on retatrutide?
I’m mainly posting to see if anyone has had a similar experience.
I know my dosing wasn’t the most consistent, so please don’t flame me—I realize that may have contributed.
My dosing looked like this:
Week 1: 1 mg
Week 2: 0.75 mg
Week 3: 1.5 mg
Before increasing the dose, I actually felt really good. After going up, I started experiencing: | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-19 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Does retatrutide make you "fall out of love" and lose interest in sex?
I keep seeing this one in comments and DMs: "reta killed my sex drive," or "I got on a triple agonist and stopped caring about my partner." Here is where the idea comes from and what the evidence actually says, because it is more split than either the alarmist or the dismissive takes suggest.
First, the caveat that shapes | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-19 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide leg pain, soar and heavy. Tried every protocol possible please help!
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide, 1 week
I just started about a week ago, I started out with 15 units from a 10mg/3ml. I don’t really feel anything at all. Am I being impatient? Or did I not take a high enough dose? I’m a F, 5’1 and 150 lbs | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | 13 Weeks on Retatrutide – Down 35+ lbs, but new vendor feels much weaker. Anyone else?
Looking for some feedback from people who’ve been on retatrutide for a while.
**Titration**
**4/16:** 2 mg
**5/15:** 2.5 mg
**7/2:** 4 mg
When I started on **2 mg** from my original source, it was incredible. Appetite suppression was strong, food noise was basically gone, and I had to remind myself to | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Started Retatrutide 5 Months Ago… Down 35 lbs and Just Started TRT
Figured I’d share my progress because reading everyone else’s posts really helped me when I started.
I started Retatrutide at the end of February at 212 lbs. My goal was to lose fat, improve my health, and eventually get back into the gym consistently.
Fast forward to today and I’m sitting around 177–179 lbs, so I’m down about | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | 355 lbs ➝ 290 lbs (-65 lbs) | 9-month progress | Retatrutide + lifting + calorie deficit
October 2025 (top) vs. July 2026 (bottom).
I’m officially down 65 pounds, going from 355 lbs to 290 lbs.
I’ve been using Retatrutide throughout most of my weight loss. For the first 5–6 months, I slowly titrated my dose from 1 mg up to 4 mg per week. I took the entire month of May off, and since July I’ve | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | TYPE 1 DIABETIC JUST STARTED RETATRUTIDE
Hello everyone! Firstly, many thanks to the community for helping me understand Reta, dosing and reconstitution with BAC!
Started 2.5mg per week and no detrimental side effects thus far. Just diminished appetite, lower Blood Glucose and finally, normal Blood Pressure! 122/72. (Was consistently 165/85)
I am also currently taking Testosterone | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Max dose of retatrutide - should I add tirzepatide?
Background:
6ft male.
Started at 104 kg and got down to 74 kg through OMAD, eating around 1,200 calories**/**day, with no exercise.
I lost a lot of weight, but unfortunately a lot of it was muscle because I was very sedentary.
I’m insulin resistant (and still am).
I didn’t use any weight-loss drugs during that initial weight | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Question about Retatrutide
I have already ordered some and plan to start but I can’t help but keep asking myself. If two identical people with identical bodies got on an identical diet, one on Reta and one wasn’t, would the individual taking Reta lose more weight? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | 20F. 4 months on retatrutide. Down 10 kg, with 6 kg lost in the first 45 days.
it saved my life | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide Beyond Fat Loss: One Molecule, Twelve Body Systems (Here's the Full Mechanism Map) | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-18 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | For how long can I store reconstituted retatrutide?
Different sources have different information, will my reconstituted reta be affected if it will spend around 12-16 hours without fridge? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide messed up my mental health
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Maintenance after Retatrutide
I’ve taken Reta for the past \~ 6-7 months to lean out while maintaining/gaining muscle and lost about 10 pounds, intentionally taking it as slow as possible. I have about 6mg left of my remaining vial and I’m almost at my goal weight hoping to drop another 2-3 pounds to get me around 18-20% BF.
The most helpful thing Reta has done for me (aside from boosting | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Has anyone experienced this with retatrutide (Reta)?
I’ve been on Wegovy for about 3 years. I was originally on 2.4 mg but titrated down to 1 mg last year. I started gaining some weight back a few weeks ago, so I decided to switch to Reta. I’m also allergic to tirzepatide (I broke out in hives and ended up in the ER), so I started Reta at a low dose to see how I tolerated it.
Here’s my dosing | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Rate my stack and give suggestions what i can add or remove. I am 29 male 6ft wt 89kg on retatrutide 6mg and tesamorelin n ipamorelin 1mg daily. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide or Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) which should I need to choose
I'm looking for advice from people who have actually used **Retatrutide** or **Tirzepatide (Mounjaro)**.
My current weight is **100 kg**, and my goal is to get down to around **70–75 kg**, so I need to lose approximately **25–30 kg**.
I'm trying to decide which medication would be the better option to start with.
A few | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | My Journey with Retatrutide: How a Peptide Therapist in Plano, TX Turned My Metabolism Around
Hey everyone,
I wanted to hop on here and share a quick update on my weight loss journey because I know a lot of people in this community are looking into the next generation of GLP-1 peptides. I’ve been running a protocol with Retatrutide for a bit now, and the results have been nothing short of | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | My Journey with Retatrutide: How a Peptide Therapist in Plano, TX Turned My Metabolism Around | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide Dosing Question
Going from Trizepitide to Retatrutide with a 2 week rest period. Where should the Retatrutide dose amount start? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-17 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide Symptoms
Hey guys back at it with another question if it’s normal or not. I’ve been on Reta for almost 7 months and the last 2 weeks I went up to 3 and then 3.2mg. I was at a steady 2.5-2.75 for a couple months. Recently, I was driving and my heart rate went CRAZY like up to 150 bpm for no reason. I was in the middle of no where and had an hour left in the drive and I couldn’t get it | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-16 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Safe to stack Retatrutide + Adderall XR + Mots-C? (For heart or otherwise) | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-16 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Anyone get lower left abdominal tightness/pressure while on GHK-CU, BPC-157/TB-500, or Retatrutide?
I’ve been taking **GHK-CU, BPC-157/TB-500, and Retatrutide** for about 3 months now. Around a month ago, I started getting this weird feeling in the lower left side of my abdomen. I don’t know if it’s related to the peptides or just a coincidence, but it’s been bothering me ever since.
The best | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-16 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | My Rats 60 days of Retatrutide
My Rats Retatrutide journey.
What I have noticed on Retatrutide, I started as a chunky with good muscle mass sitting around 90-95 kgs.
The first dose, the effects of the first dose was almost instant instant, I loved food especially breakfast. The next morning he looked at this breakfast and it tasted bland, I struggled to chew it and to swallow it.
The nausea | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-16 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | For those on retatrutide, how did you get through a plateau?
I’ve hit a plateau and don’t want to increase my dose too quickly.
Did you wait it out, increase your dose, or change your diet/exercise? How long did your plateau last? I’d love to hear your experience. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-16 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | I accidentally ordered the wrong vial and got 12mg of Retatrutide with 2.5mg of cagrilintide. Instead of just 12mg of Retatrutide. I’m putting it in the freezer until I can get some information on it. Anyone use this blend?
I know I’m an idiot and how did I not notice. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-15 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide 3 weeks only 2kgs
Hi all
I've been on 6mg reta per week for 3 weeks now (just begining) and I have great appetite suppression, im about 1000 cal in deficit but im getting my 200g protene, I go to the gym 6 days a week, 10min on bike - then weight lift for 40mins then 10mins inclined walk. Now so far I've gone from 95kgs to 93.6kg in 3 weeks. This is so confusing, by this stage the | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-15 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | 12 mg Retatrutide and all I want to do is sleep 😴
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide problem
What is this and is it save to use? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-15 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | 180 cm, 116 kg male, will 150 mg of Retatrutide be enough to reach 85–90 kg and maintain long-term?
30M, 180 cm, 116 kg.
Planning to run Retatrutide with a standard slow titration starting low and increasing as tolerated.
My goal is **85–90 kg**, ideally around **85 kg**.
I currently have **10 × 15 mg vials (150 mg total)**.
Would that realistically be enough to get me from 116 kg to | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-15 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Thinking about Retatrutide + CJC no DAC+ topical GHK-Cu
Completely new to the peptides space, and been training for about 3 years now. Curious if people have run this combo and what their results were like? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-15 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide sources. ISO
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Female 3 Month Retatrutide Journey!
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide and muscle: the DXA numbers from the trials
Retatrutide took off about 24% of body weight at the top dose in phase 2, and the phase 3 TRIUMPH readouts are running higher than that. More than any other obesity drug in trials so far. So people want to know how much of it is muscle.
The lean share looks ordinary. About a quarter. Same split you get from plain dieting.
Retatrutide's | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-14 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | How much of retatrutide's weight loss is lean mass
Retatrutide took off about 24% of body weight at the top dose in phase 2, and the phase 3 TRIUMPH readouts are running higher than that. More than any other obesity drug in trials so far. So people want to know how much of it is muscle.
The lean share looks ordinary. About a quarter. Same split you get from plain dieting.
Retatrutide's phase 2 | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-14 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Would retatrutide cause this?
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Early 50s female – Retatrutide + Tesa/Ipa/MOTS-c?
Early 50s female currently taking **2 mg retatrutide per week** with a goal of losing another **25-30 lbs**. I was just given **tesamorelin, ipamorelin, and MOTS-c** by the anti-aging clinic and am looking for recommendations on a good starting dose and protocol for adding the three.
I lift weights **3 days a week** and do walking/active | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-14 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Has anyone seen string-like particles in a prefilled retatrutide pen after room temperature storage?
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | I accidentally injected about 2mg's of GHK-CU into a retatrutide vial.
Stupid as hell, don't ask my what I was doing lol. Paying no attention.
The Reta looks clear still, just a lil blue.
Anyone ever experienced the same thing?
Can I use it still or throw it out? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-14 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Fiz o uso de retatrutide e estou com ansiedade
Fiz o uso de retatrutide, durante 1 mês, doses baixas, 1mg até 1,5mg. Deixei de tomar devido às crises de ansiedade e quadro de pânico. Estou exatamente a 60 dias sem uso, as crise de pânico não tive mais, mas a de ansiedade continuar em picos menores.
Alguém passou por isso ? Teve alguma melhora com tempo ? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-14 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | I’ve been on retatrutide for almost 2 weeks and honestly..
Hello everyone! I shared almost 2 weeks ago that I’ll be starting retatrutide and I have to be honest with yall. This shit has changed my life. My start weight was 260 and as of now I’m currently 243!!! 😭 I thought for the longest amount of time I’d never be able to lose any weight and this has proven otherwise. I work out 3 times a week | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-07-14 |