[Question] how do you actually verify maintenance
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: how do you actually verify maintenance. 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. Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 8, before I needed it. Having decided in…
Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.
find the dose that holds, then stop optimising
stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose
This. The withdrawal data is not ambiguous and framing regain as a personal failure is both wrong and cruel.
This.
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point
boring is the objective now
boring is the objective now
food_noise_gone is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure
maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point
This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.
plan the maintenance phase before you need it