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c/maintenancephase·submitted 1 year ago by u/teodor_duarte

the maintenance thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down

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the maintenance thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. I have gone back and forth on this for months. What maintenance actually looks like, from the people on this board who have been in it longest. You find a dose or an interval that holds the weight with side effects you barely notice, and then…

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u/food_noise_goneMOD57 points·1 year ago

Left up. It is a maintenance report with a duration attached and those are rarer than they should be.

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u/santiago_ndiaye14 points·1 year ago

maintenance is a phase, not a finish line

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u/constipation_clubside effects6 points·1 year ago

the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it

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u/marisol_frisk6 points·1 year ago

stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose

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u/brigade_detector2 points·1 year ago

plan the maintenance phase before you need it

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u/ewan_marchand3 points·1 year ago

Yes — interval stretching and dose reduction are different levers and people use the words interchangeably.

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u/paloma_stanescu2 points·1 year ago

a few kilos of drift is not a relapse

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