Compounded Tirzepatide really works for me!
I have been on this journey for two months. I started at 2mg and moved up to 4.5mg weekly for month two. On February 10, I weighed 294.8 pounds. After 60 days, I weigh 261.9 for a drop of 32.9 pounds thus far.
For those on the fence or wondering what tirzepatide does, let me share my perspective, and then I'll get into my macros. If you've read about this before, you've probably seen the phrase "food noise" or something similar. I was the person who was always appetitive. It wasn't all junk food. I was overeating healthy food too. I just ate too much of everything because I never felt satiated, only hungry or in physical discomfort from overeating. Tirzepatide has given me the feeling of satiety. I eat what I should eat, and then I feel satisfied without discomfort.
For my macros, I'm hitting 150+ grams of protein daily, but I'm also emphasizing fiber, hitting about 35 grams per day now. I'm between 1700-1800 calories per day. Here's what I eat daily:
Twice daily, I add fiber to my water. I use the supermarket brand.
Breakfast: 2 eggs over medium cooked in a quick spray of avocado oil and a Greek yogurt. I now get Ratio pro fiber yogurt from Target/Walmart. The macros are nuts at 20g protein and 10g of fiber for 180 calories.
Late morning snack: 1 cup of berries, usually blueberries. I do measure it, as do I measure everything else.
Lunch: Chicken with vegetables, always meal prepped. It might be cut up in a salad. It might be cooked in broth with carrots and celery. It might be chicken teriyaki with broccoli. You get the idea.
Early afternoon snack: Barebell protein bar
Late afternoon snack: Air popped popcorn with salt and a spray of avocado oil. For some reason, there's much more fiber when you pop it yourself than the already popped popcorn at the store, plus it's tastier. I also have an Oikos protein shake. I used to do Fairlife, which is sweeter, but Oikos has 6g of fiber. I put 5g of creatine in my protein shake.
Dinner: Same as lunch
Dessert: Almost every day, I have a Yasso Greek froyo bar. Sometimes I also eat a single fun size piece of candy.
Now technically, you can lose weight just via diet, but I highly recommend exercise. Many people lose muscle while on a GLP-1. Muscle directly drives your metabolism, so part of why people put weight on at the end of their journey is that their metabolism is shot. I have done walking and resistance workouts, in my case rowing, which combined with my protein intake, has led to an increase in muscle mass, not a decrease. The best exercise advice I got was to do the exercise you're actually going to do. I for one do not want to drive to the gym every day. It restricts when I can exercise and is inefficient for my schedule, so instead, I put some cheap equipment in my home. For me, that was a walking pad and rowing machine. For you, that might be dumbbells and an exercise bike, or maybe you'll really like the gym.
What I'm doing has really been working, so I'm going to continue on this path. To be blunt, I never would have anticipated this rate of progress. My official goal is 205, but I have a ton of milestones along the way and will challenge myself to get leaner beyond my goal.