genuine question about maintenance that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
genuine question about maintenance that I am slightly embarrassed to ask. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months.
Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lowers average exposure. That is why appetite return is often the first thing noticed.
Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions. Halving the dose keeps the rhythm and lowers the level; stretching keeps the level and lowers the frequency, with a lower trough.
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.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Standing reminder that regain after stopping is a documented pharmacological outcome, and posts framing it as a moral failure get edited.
Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.
Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. That is a pharmacological finding about a chronic condition, not a statement about anyone’s discipline.
maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated out
This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
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the trials that looked at withdrawal are unambiguous about what follows
None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.