Hello everyone! I am new to the women peptide collective and I wanted to share my experience with retatutride. I started to have perimenopause symptoms 2 years ago and one of them was accumulating fat mostly in my mid section. I started to work with a hormone experts who sent me out for some tests and based on the results I started to use supplements and work more on my diet to help my liver and my gut. This was supposed to help me release some weight. That didn’t work for the weight part. We checked my thyroid and I discovered I have Hashimoto. I went on another journey to try to reverse Hashimoto with supplements, red light therapy and tuning my diet even more (no gluten, rarely any inflammatory foods- added sugars, alcohol, dairy). I spent some months doing that but the weight didn't budge. I have always been active but I have to modify my workout routine not to add too much stress in my body so focusing on weight training. For my diet I also focus on enough protein and fiber. I also started meditation to work on my stress. After 2 years of trying everything I knew of, in January 2026 my husband introduced me to peptides. I never thought of using anything "artificial" nevermind injectable (i am afraid of needles), and after a lot of research I decided to try retatutride. Like Tara always mentions, I started with the lowest dose and incresed little by little (0.5 every week monitoring symptoms). Within the first month I lost 10 pounds. In 3 months I have lost all the way I wanted to lose and I fit in most of my clothes!! I am starting to decrease my dose, and my plan is to keep it at a lower dose (I am on 4 and I want to slowly bring it to 2 as a maintenance for some months and wine off of it by the Fall. I do want to try other peptides to build muscle and for mitochondria health, and maybe the glow blend? I hope this is helpful to you. Thank you Tara for providing this space for us!