week 95 check-in — 48kg down, nausea manageable, one thing confusing me
Here it is: week 95 check-in — 48kg down, nausea manageable, one thing confusing me. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly. The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: week 95 and 48kg. Everything below is context for those. On stopping, since it is the question…
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 optimising. Weigh monthly rather than daily. Expect a couple of kilos of range and do not act on it. Keep the habits that did the work in the losing phase, because they are the part that has to outlive the dose.
The most common mistake described here is treating arrival as a plateau and pushing the dose to chase a number chosen at week one by a person who did not yet know what maintenance felt like.
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.
the trials that looked at withdrawal are unambiguous about what follows
Is the goal weight still the one you picked at the start?
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.
the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it