clothes fit the same for 14 months and it is genuinely strange
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 kept the whole time. Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. That is a pharmacological finding…
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.
Drifted up 6kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.
the habits are the part that has to outlive the dose
appetite returns before the scale acknowledges anything
the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it
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.