nobody warned me about nausea and I would have liked the warning
nobody warned me about nausea and I would have liked the warning. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing.
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 44, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
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.
maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point
Yes. The habits have to outlive the dose or the maintenance phase is just a countdown.
What is the plan if the drift continues for another month?
do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase
That is a range, not a trend. Two weigh-ins 17 days apart cannot distinguish them.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.
Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lowers average exposure. That is why appetite return is often the first thing noticed.
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