19 months at maintenance. the interesting part starts after the loss stops.
19 months at maintenance. the interesting part starts after the loss stops. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
The relevant figures are 19 months, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.
Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions. Halving the dose keeps the rhythm and lowers the level; stretching keeps the level and lowers the frequency, with a lower trough.
This. The withdrawal data is not ambiguous and framing regain as a personal failure is both wrong and cruel.
Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure