how much of what we believe about regain actually comes from discontinuation threads
how much of what we believe about regain actually comes from discontinuation threads. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.
Stopped for cost reasons. Appetite came back at about week 23, well before the scale moved, exactly as this board said it would.
There is very little published guidance on stopping specifically, which is exactly why board consensus here should carry less weight than usual and a clinician conversation should carry more.
Interval stretching lowers the trough concentration while keeping the dose; dose reduction lowers the level while keeping the rhythm. They are different interventions with different subjective profiles.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rather than a series of impressions.
Went back on after eight months away. Nobody here made me feel bad about it, which mattered more than I expected.
Regained most of it over a year and spent that year assuming it was my fault. It was not; it is what the literature describes.
decide what you are watching for before you stop
the habits are what has to carry it afterwards
Cosigning that cost and supply are legitimate reasons. Most of the stopping threads here are one of those two.
The habits are what carried it for a while. When they slipped, everything else followed, in that order.