[Results] two years, weight stable within 3kg, dose at a quarter of peak
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. Everything below is context for those. Stretched from seven to ten days and then to twelve over about four months. Appetite told me where the limit was before…
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.
plan the maintenance phase before you need it
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure
a few kilos of drift is not a relapse
find the dose that holds, then stop optimising
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure
kaplan_meier_kim is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.