reading goal weight threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
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 follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.
Been at maintenance for 22 months on 1.7mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.
Stretched from seven to ten days and then to twelve over about four months. Appetite told me where the limit was before the scale did.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation.
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.
Right — appetite returns before the scale moves, which is the early signal people miss.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of fatigue and no change in the number.
Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation.
Agreed — and appetite is the leading indicator. The scale is the lagging one.
Standing reminder that regain after stopping is a documented pharmacological outcome, and posts framing it as a moral failure get edited.
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.
Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.
Not convinced. Interval stretching changes your exposure profile, not just the total, and the two are not equivalent.
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.
Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth les
gradient_goblin is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.
a few kilos of drift is not a relapse
stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose
a few kilos of drift is not a relapse
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
Is the goal weight still the one you picked at the start?
Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing.
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