lowest effective dose — my 7-week log, condensed into one table
lowest effective dose — my 7-week log, condensed into one table. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
Drifted up 3kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
find the dose that holds, then stop optimising
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.
monthly weigh-ins are enough at this stage
Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of constipation and no change in the number.
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.
maintenance is a phase, not a finish line
Not convinced. Interval stretching changes your exposure profile, not just the total, and the two are not equivalent.
Right — appetite returns before the scale moves, which is the early signal people miss.
appetite returns before the scale acknowledges anything
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 10, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.