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c/maintenancephase·posted 9 months ago by u/neha_falk

does regain actually matter or is it forum lore at this point

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does regain actually matter or is it forum lore at this point. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.

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

Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing.

Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 27, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.

Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.

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u/honest_syringe51 points·9 months ago

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.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD34 points·9 months ago

Left up. It is a maintenance report with a duration attached and those are rarer than they should be.

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u/tomas_lokken6 points·9 months ago

What does your weigh-in frequency look like at this point?

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u/neha_falkOP4 points·9 months ago

Has appetite changed, or only the scale?

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u/nils_tulloch40 points·9 months ago

find the dose that holds, then stop optimising

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance21 points·9 months ago·edited

That reads like a taper schedule and this board cannot hand those out.

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u/hugo_norgaard15 points·9 months ago

regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure

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u/neha_falkOP26 points·9 months ago

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

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u/brigade_detector18 points·9 months ago

Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.

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u/ilias_nakamura41 points·9 months ago

Push back: that is not a plateau, that is maintenance. You have arrived and you are describing it as a failure.

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u/elise_ramos21 points·9 months ago

Drifted up 11kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.

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u/taper_off_tabitha13 points·9 months ago·edited

I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.

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