[Question] long term — what am I missing here
long term — what am I missing here. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. What maintenance actually looks like, from the people on this board who have been in it longest. You find a dose or an interval that holds the weight with side effects you barely notice, and then you stop…
That reads like a taper schedule and this board cannot hand those out.
Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of food noise and no change in the number.
Disagree with chasing the last stretch by going up. You are trading a real side-effect cost for a number you chose arbitrarily.
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.
Is the goal weight still the one you picked at the start?
That is a range, not a trend. Two weigh-ins 8 days apart cannot distinguish them.
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.