Hey Everyone,
Like the title states, do you use the ECA stack or semaglutide while fasting?
I can’t touch ephedrine or pseudo ephedrine (gives me a scary rapid heartbeat). Everything I see about semaglutide is that the risk of regaining weight is high when you stop taking it, and I’m already on an expensive RA med. I don’t want to add another long term. What controlled my appetite best was eating low carb in my window (carbs make me hungrier after eating) and figuring out the time of day that worked best for me.
> ECA stack.
Never heard of it.
> Mixture of ephedrine caffeine and aspirin
may kinda help ?not sure about the aspirin BTH.
Looks like this has been researched:
Ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin: safety and efficacy for treatment of human obesityhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8384187/Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1993 Feb;17 Suppl 1:S73-8.
Daily totals: ephedrine (75-150mg), caffeine (150mg) and aspirin (330mg), Divide up and consume before meals.
> Overall weight loss over 8 weeks was 2.2kg for ECA vs. 0.7 kg for placebo (p < 0.05).
So that’s 3.3 lbs over placebo in 8 weeks. Not bad.
150mg of Ephedrine is expensive and over the counter sources are very low dose.
Aspirin can aggravate the gut.
Impression: not required, may help a lil.
My husband and I took ECA stack a couple of years ago to lose weight. We also fasted mostly 18:6 and some 20:4. He started at 340 lbs (6’1) and got down to 189 lbs within a year.He lifted weights 5 days out of the week. We were also doing a low-carb diet (35-50g). I got pregnant during our dieting, so there was no progress from me. Lol. The ECA definitely boosted the weight loss and stamina. We only took it during our eating window. Mainly because it felt like the stack lasted a little longer after we ate. So we would work out right after. We did substitute aspirin with fish oil. Once he hit his goal weight, he stopped the stack. He’s been around 192-195 lbs ever since.