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c/maintenancephase·submitted 11 months ago by u/karim_hartmann

[Discussion] can we stop arguing about long term until somebody posts a number

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can we stop arguing about long term until somebody posts a number. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. 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. Appetite returning before the scale moves follows…

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u/mei_serrano26 points·11 months ago

seven days to ten to twelve is the sequence people here describe

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u/food_noise_goneMOD10 points·11 months ago·edited

Removed the taper schedule aimed at another member. Describe your own; do not write theirs.

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u/nils_tulloch-32 points·11 months ago

maintenance is a phase, not a finish line

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u/milos_vestergaard1 point·11 months ago

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

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u/still_here_20261 point·11 months ago

a few kilos of drift is not a relapse

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u/karim_hartmannOP1 point·11 months ago

the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it

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u/nadia_nascimento1 point·11 months ago

stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose

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u/rafael_krastev1 point·11 months ago·edited

the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it

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

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