the long term thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
the long term thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
Drifted up 10kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of reflux and no change in the number.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
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Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. That is a pharmacological finding about a chronic condition, not a statement about anyone’s discipline.
Removed the taper schedule aimed at another member. Describe your own; do not write theirs.
monthly weigh-ins are enough at this stage
Did you decide what maintenance would look like before you got here?
What dose are you holding, and for how long now?
maintenance is a phase, not a finish line
Stretching the interval, reducing the dose, or both?
Stretching the interval, reducing the dose, or both?
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.
Stretched from seven to ten days and then to twelve over about four months. Appetite told me where the limit was before the scale did.
Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
Disagree with chasing the last stretch by going up. You are trading a real side-effect cost for a number you chose arbitrarily.
the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it
Body weight varies by a couple of kilos over days in stable people through fluid, glycogen and gut content. A range is not a trend.
the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
Cosigning on planning it in advance. Deciding what maintenance looks like while still losing is much easier than deciding it in a panic.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.
What is the plan if the drift continues for another month?
the habits are the part that has to outlive the dose
Careful — a dose reduction plan is a conversation with someone who knows your history, not a board consensus.
What maintenance actually looks like, from the people on this board who have been in it longest.
You find a dose or an interval that holds the weight with side effects you barely notice, and then you stop optimising. Weigh monthly rather than daily. Expect a couple of kilos of range and do not act on it. Keep the habits that did the work in the losing phase, because they are the part that has to outlive the dose.
The most common mistake described here is treating arrival as a plateau and pushing the dose to chase a number chosen at week one by a person who did not yet know what maintenance felt like.
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.
That is a range, not a trend. Two weigh-ins 23 days apart cannot distinguish them.
maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point
maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point
This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.
Correcting myself: 13 months at maintenance, not the figure I posted. I keep rounding it up.
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