how much of what we believe about tapering actually comes from discontinuation threads
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: how much of what we believe about tapering actually comes from discontinuation threads. A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rather than a…
Agreed. Appetite is the leading indicator and the scale is the lagging one. Watch the first, not the second.
How long were you at the dose you are coming off?
How long were you at the dose you are coming off?
Disagreeing with this bit: stretching and reducing are different things and the post treats them as one.
Preparing to stop, as described by people here who have done it.
Write down where you are first: dose, date, weight, waist, and an honest note about how appetite feels. That page is what makes the following six months interpretable rather than a fog of impressions.
Decide in advance what you are watching for and over what period — appetite in the first month, weight over three, and a specific threshold at which you would want to revisit the decision. Have the conversation with a clinician before rather than after.
None of that is a schedule. It is a way of arriving at whatever happens next with information rather than with a vague sense of how it is going.
stopping abruptly and stopping gradually are different experiences
That reads as advice to stop, which is not something anyone here should be offering.
write down where you are before you change anything
Yes — have the conversation before rather than after. That is the one piece of process advice this board can give.
decide what you are watching for before you stop