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…
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.