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c/maintenancephase·posted 16 days ago by u/throwaway_9182

[Regain] 4kg back over a year and i am calling that a win

Regain Cold Box ×1

Check-in as promised in the title: 4kg back over a year and i am calling that a win.

4kg. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour.

None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.

Been at maintenance for 8 months on 2.4mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.

Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.

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u/sanne_delgado37 points·15 days ago

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.

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u/milos_vestergaard11 points·15 days ago

Drifted up 6kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.

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[removed]5 points·15 days ago

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u/fatima_yildiz6 points·15 days ago

Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance3 points·15 days ago

a few kilos of drift is not a relapse

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u/zeynep_mbeki37 points·15 days ago

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.

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u/kasper_cabrera-30 points·15 days ago·edited

maintenance is a phase, not a finish line

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u/zeynep_mbeki1 point·14 days ago·edited

maintenance is a phase, not a finish line

This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.

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