[Results] 37 weeks, 17kg, and appetite return was the hard part
Six-word version is the title — 37 weeks, 17kg, and appetite return was the hard part — and the rest is context.
37 weeks and 17kg — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend.
The habits are what carried it for a while. When they slipped, everything else followed, in that order.
What the evidence says about stopping, written plainly because the framing does real damage.
Withdrawal studies across this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. Appetite typically returns first, well before weight changes. This is a finding about the pharmacology of a chronic condition, in the same way that blood pressure rises again when an antihypertensive is stopped.
People on this board quit in shame over an entirely predictable result, and then avoid coming back because they have interpreted it as a personal failure. It is not. Knowing that in advance is the single most useful thing this board can offer anybody planning to stop.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Withdrawal studies across this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation, with appetite typically returning before weight changes. That is a description of the pharmacology of a chronic condition.
Do you have a written baseline from before you started changing anything?