Reta/GLPs Overall - Supplementation - Am I Missing Anything?

[sterlingschrute]

On week 3 of Reta and want to make sure I have my bases covered. Currently at .5mg E3D. Bumping to 1mg E3D here in a week.
Titrating lower and slower than most of you, because the GI sides always make themselves known to me [reason for E3D instead of E5/6D].

- Eating lots of red meat and chicken (200-250g protein),
- iron bisglycinate,
- [apo]lactoferrin,
- electrolytes (Liquid IV intraworkout),
- Supplementing with clear whey isolate and (occasionally) collagen protein [includes blend of probiotics] to hit protein goal and encourage gut health.

Mainly trying to combat fatigue. That is the only "effect" I have seen thus far. No real impact on appetite (/ability to eat), although food noise is silenced.

I have not experienced any of the GI sides yet, although I did see those (quite severely) back on Sema a few months ago.

Am I missing any supplements that will help lessen the blow of sides as it gets deeper into this Reta journey, and this cut, overall?

 

[Mr.Meat]

You could add in some psyllium husk...

I was doing a similar Reta protocol to yours. ie I slowly titrated my dosages, I started at 0.6mg MWF and built up to 1.0mg MWF over the course of 5 weeks. I didn't notice any appetite suppression during the duration of the 5 weeks, all I got was significant amount of fatigue. Ultimately, I dropped the Reta completely (a few days ago) since I was super hungry in the evenings and didn't want to up the dose and be a zombie.

I did drop a significant amount of weight during the 5 weeks but I'm not sure if it was the Reta or the diet, boat loads of cardio and other goodies I'm taking.

I have some triz on the way. I'm going to micro dose it as well and hopefully I can get a better appetites suppression to fatigue ratio.

 

[sterlingschrute]

You could add in some psyllium husk...

I was doing a similar Reta protocol to yours. ie I slowly titrated my dosages, I started at 0.6mg MWF and built up to 1.0mg MWF over the course of 5 weeks. I didn't notice any appetite suppression during the duration of the 5 weeks, all I got was significant amount of fatigue. Ultimately, I dropped the Reta completely (a few days ago) since I was super hungry in the evenings and didn't want to up the dose and be a zombie.

I did drop a significant amount of weight during the 5 weeks but I'm not sure if it was the Reta or the diet, boat loads of cardio and other goodies I'm taking.

I have some triz on the way. I'm going to micro dose it as well and hopefully I can get a better appetites suppression to fatigue ratio.

I will have to look into the psyllium husk. Haven't heard of that before.

Good point - the fatigue I'm experiencing could largely be attributable to the caloric deficit (started cut at same time as I started Reta) plus heavily increased cardio...to be fair. I'm using the iron supps just to be proactive, anyways.

Regardless, I am going to stick with it long-term (hopefully) as long as I can avoid the bad GI sides. I can tolerate a little, but Sema was an awful experience and I don't want to repeat that. I don't think Reta will be anywhere close to as bad as Sema was for me.

I have about 30lbs more to cut, then will maintain/recomp [still leveraging Reta] at 200lbs for a while. Excited to see the impact on visceral AT and abdominal subcutaneous AT.

 

[dallascowboys01]

I will have to look into the psyllium husk. Haven't heard of that before.

Good point - the fatigue I'm experiencing could largely be attributable to the caloric deficit (started cut at same time as I started Reta) plus heavily increased cardio...to be fair. I'm using the iron supps just to be proactive, anyways.

Regardless, I am going to stick with it long-term (hopefully) as long as I can avoid the bad GI sides. I can tolerate a little, but Sema was an awful experience and I don't want to repeat that. I don't think Reta will be anywhere close to as bad as Sema was for me.

I have about 30lbs more to cut, then will maintain/recomp [still leveraging Reta] at 200lbs for a while. Excited to see the impact on visceral AT and abdominal subcutaneous AT.

I just started zepbound around 3 weeks ago and every time I take it at 2.5mg I am tired as shit the next day.

 

[Photon]

On week 3 of Reta and want to make sure I have my bases covered. Currently at .5mg E3D. Bumping to 1mg E3D here in a week.
Titrating lower and slower than most of you, because the GI sides always make themselves known to me [reason for E3D instead of E5/6D].

- Eating lots of red meat and chicken (200-250g protein),
- iron bisglycinate,
- [apo]lactoferrin,
- electrolytes (Liquid IV intraworkout),
- Supplementing with clear whey isolate and (occasionally) collagen protein [includes blend of probiotics] to hit protein goal and encourage gut health.

Mainly trying to combat fatigue. That is the only "effect" I have seen thus far. No real impact on appetite (/ability to eat), although food noise is silenced.

I have not experienced any of the GI sides yet, although I did see those (quite severely) back on Sema a few months ago.

Am I missing any supplements that will help lessen the blow of sides as it gets deeper into this Reta journey, and this cut, overall?

Just a reference point, but i had no issues with iron and ferritin when going from 0mg all the way to 15mg over the course of months. I also did not need to supplement zinc or any sort of vitamin b.

I did test my blood levels, ferritin, magnesium, zinc etc and they were definitely not low.