c/maintenancephase · created 11 Dec 2023
After the loss stops. Lowest effective dose, regain, and the long game.
For over a year, "losing weight" was a structuring project. Tracked, planned, celebrated milestones, had a clear direction. Hit goal, and there's genuinely a weird flat…
19 months in, at goal for about seven of those. Been slowly working with my prescriber to see how low I can go and still hold steady rather than just staying on…
Half-serious, half-not. "Maintenance phase" as a name kind of implies it's the boring bit after the real thing happened. Reading enough threads here has convinced me…
Following up on my six-week-stall post from a while back. Went up. Two rough weeks of side effects. Scale moved... and then it turned out a chunk of the "movement" was…
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Reference standardsComing off deliberately after 22 months, worked with my prescriber on a gradual step-down over about four months rather than just stopping. One year post-taper:…
Everyone's well drilled on "week 4 is normal, don't panic". Fewer people talk about the week 8-ish stall, which in my experience and a bunch of others I've compared…
19 months at maintenance. the interesting part starts after the loss stops. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here. The relevant figures are…
found my lowest effective dose by going down, not up — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from…
does anyone actually feel "done" or is that not a thing — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. The two levers, described properly, because…
Check-in as promised in the title: 4kg back over a year and i am calling that a win. 4kg. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour. None of…
Something I keep coming back to: we have no vocabulary for success that is not a number going down. Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions.…
Reporting in. two years, weight stable within 3kg, dose at a quarter of peak. The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 3kg.…
stretching to 10 days instead of 7 — anyone doing this long term. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Figures up front so nobody has…
what my labs look like three years in — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. The two levers, described properly, because this board mixes…
appetite came back over about five weeks, not overnight, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Drifted up 5kg over a winter and panicked. It…
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Thinking out loud about this: clothes fit the same for 14 months and it is genuinely strange. The relevant figures are 14 months, and they come from the same log I have…
reading goal weight threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Appetite returning before the scale moves…
the goal weight rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining, and here is what changes in practice if it goes ahead. Stretched from seven to ten days and…
regain: what the trials say vs what this community says, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. Body weight varies by a couple of kilos over days in…
unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about lowest effective dose is guesswork. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.…
maintenance is the most under-discussed thing on this board. I have gone back and forth on this for months. Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a…
dose stretching: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1. Numbers below. Ask me the boring questions, they are the useful ones. Withdrawal studies in this…
am I the only one who found long term harder than the injections, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion. What maintenance…
the long term thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Drifted up 10kg over a winter…
The part nobody posts about: what happens at goal weight. Finding a lowest effective dose, dose-interval stretching, regain risk data, muscle retention, the psychology of not having a number to chase, and staying on indefinitely versus tapering.
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