23 months in and interval stretching is still the thing I get wrong
Check-in as promised in the title: 23 months in and interval stretching is still the thing I get wrong.
The relevant figures are 23 months, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
Nothing on this board is a taper schedule, and no member can write one for another. What can be shared is what people watched and what they observed.
Stopped for cost reasons. Appetite came back at about week 12, well before the scale moved, exactly as this board said it would.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Left up. It is honest about the reason for stopping and about the timeline.
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.
The habits are what carried it for a while. When they slipped, everything else followed, in that order.
the withdrawal data is unambiguous and it is not about willpower
I would not treat appetite returning as a sign of doing it wrong. It is the expected sequence.
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.
Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably easier that way round.