[Results] 81 weeks, 20kg, and weekly dosing was the hard part
81 weeks, 20kg, and weekly dosing was the hard part, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. 81 weeks and 20kg — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend. The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve…
The mental model that finally made this click for me: there are two curves, and people watch the wrong one.
The first is exposure, which is set by the dose and smoothed by a week-long half-life. It changes when you change the dose and then settles over about a month. The second is body weight, which is exposure filtered through appetite, food, water, sleep, training and the scale itself, and which moves in steps rather than a line.
Almost every "it stopped working" post is somebody watching curve two over a fortnight and drawing conclusions about curve one. If the appetite effect is still there, exposure is fine. Wait the month.
Retitled to match the body. The original promised a comparison the post does not make.
I would push back gently. Going up because the scale paused is the single most common mistake described on this board.
Retitled to match the body.
This is the part I would underline for anyone skimming. Everything else in the thread is downstream of it.
dose day drift of a day either way is fine, the curve barely notices
Strongly agree on protein. It did more for my sulphur burps than any of the things I bought to fix my sulphur burps.
Careful. A four-week stall is inside normal variation and treating it as failure is how people escalate for no reason.
Small correction: 2.4mg is the maintenance ceiling on the label, not the starting maintenance dose. The distinction matters for anyone reading this later.