[Meta] proposal — a flair for dose stretching posts
Proposal, not a decision: proposal — a flair for dose stretching posts. Drifted up 13kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does. Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing. The two levers, described properly, because…
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.
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
Did you decide what maintenance would look like before you got here?
Cosigning on planning it in advance. Deciding what maintenance looks like while still losing is much easier than deciding it in a panic.
None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.
Correcting myself: 21 months at maintenance, not the figure I posted. I keep rounding it up.
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.
This. The withdrawal data is not ambiguous and framing regain as a personal failure is both wrong and cruel.
stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose
Been at maintenance for 9 months on 7.5mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.
None of this is a taper plan.
Agreed — and appetite is the leading indicator. The scale is the lagging one.