14 lb down in 19 weeks of retatrutide

What moved

• Weight fell 14.1 lb, 210.4 → 196.3 lb.
• Body fat fell 2.2 points, 29.8 → 27.6%.
• Muscle mass fell 3.5 lb, 80.5 → 77.1 lb.
• Resting heart rate: no real change, 67 → 68 bpm. It rose to a typical 76 bpm by the week of Aug 24, 2026 before coming back.

Put together, weight and body fat say about 8.5 lb of the change was fat and about 5.6 lb was everything else (muscle, water, bone). Scale body fat is an estimate from a current through the feet, so read that split as rough.

“Before” is the typical week of the eight before the first dose; “now” is the typical of the latest three. A movement inside the measure’s normal week-to-week wobble is called no real change.

The dose steps

Injections are weekly. 9 have been ticked off in the app since Aug 20, 2026, when Ellis started logging them; a week with no tick may be a dose taken and not logged.

What else changed

Since the first dose, Ellis's regimen changed on 13 other days: other supplements and medications started, stopped or changed dose. They are the small grey marks under the dose lane. This page does not name them, and it cannot separate them: no line here is retatrutide alone.

Weight loss on its own moves resting heart rate, body fat and muscle. Which of these is the drug, and which is everything else in a life, is a question this page leaves open.

How this page is made

Every night Selfsense rebuilds a snapshot of this diary from Ellis’s record: the weekly typical of each measure from one device per measure, the dose steps, and the dates of other changes. The page reads only that snapshot, and the record itself is never public. Every sentence about the numbers is worked out by code from the numbers themselves; no AI reads the record to write them.