[Results] 64 weeks, 11kg, and lowest effective dose was the hard part
64 weeks, 11kg, and lowest effective dose was the hard part. Full detail below, and I have tried to keep the editorialising out of it. Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 64 weeks and 11kg. The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened. Drifted up 24kg…
Yes. The habits have to outlive the dose or the maintenance phase is just a countdown.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.
the habits are the part that has to outlive the dose
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.
This. The withdrawal data is not ambiguous and framing regain as a personal failure is both wrong and cruel.
Yes.
This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.
do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 32, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.
stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose
monthly weigh-ins are enough at this stage
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 32, before I needed it.
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
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.