Documenting it as it happens · UK

One man's honest journey through the GLP-1 revolution

I'm 5'11", I started at 100kg, and I spent weeks researching before I injected anything. Now I'm writing down all of it — the costs, the kit, the side effects and the numbers on the scale. No sponsorship, no miracle claims, no before-and-afters from stock photo libraries.

Week 1
Current week
100kg
Starting weight
0.0kg
Lost so far
80kg
Goal weight

Who's writing this

I'm not a doctor. That's rather the point.

Every other page you'll find on this subject is either a clinic trying to sell you a subscription, a pharmaceutical press release, or a forum thread from 2023 written by someone in Ohio. None of it told me what I actually wanted to know: what does this cost in pounds, what do I have to buy, and what does it genuinely feel like week to week?

So I'm writing that down instead. I started on Retatrutide — a triple-agonist compound that isn't licensed in the UK yet — after weeks of reading trial data and working out the practicalities. I'm recording the whole thing publicly, including the parts that don't go well.

If it works, you'll see the numbers. If it doesn't, you'll see that too. I'd rather be useful than impressive.

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