[Meta] proposal — a flair for maintenance posts
proposal — a flair for maintenance posts, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it.
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.
Drifted up 8kg 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.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.
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.
the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it
None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.