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c/maintenancephase·posted 25 days ago by u/nils_tulloch

stretching to 10 days instead of 7 — anyone doing this long term

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stretching to 10 days instead of 7 — anyone doing this long term. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.

Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 10 days.

The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.

Drifted up 14kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.

That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.

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u/kasper_cabrera-22 points·24 days ago

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.

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u/liv_kuipers1 point·24 days ago

Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.

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u/anders_vermeulen124 points·24 days ago

Agreed. Lowest effective dose is the actual maintenance question and it gets almost no airtime next to the escalation threads.

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u/aurel_mwangi65 points·24 days ago

Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.

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u/nils_tullochOP37 points·24 days ago

That is a range, not a trend. Two weigh-ins 22 days apart cannot distinguish them.

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u/fabio_kuipers11 points·24 days ago

stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose

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