appetite return — my 20-week log, condensed into one table
Thinking out loud about this: appetite return — my 20-week log, condensed into one table.
Went back on after eight months away. Nobody here made me feel bad about it, which mattered more than I expected.
Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably easier that way round.
Stopped abruptly once and gradually once. The gradual one was easier to interpret because I could see what was changing.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Why the first fortnight tells you nothing.
With a week-long half-life, exposure declines over several weeks after a final dose rather than ending with it. So the first two weeks after stopping are still a tail of the previous state, and the stability people report in that window is not evidence about the months after it.
The reports here are fairly consistent: appetite noticeably different somewhere in the second month, weight following later, and the trajectory strongly influenced by whether the habits from the losing phase survived. That is not a prediction for anybody in particular, and it is not a schedule — it is the shape of what members describe, which is the most this board can honestly offer.
Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?
Have you had the conversation with a clinician yet?
Have you had the conversation with a clinician yet?
Agreed — and the exposure lag means the first fortnight tells you almost nothing.
Agreed — and the exposure lag means the first fortnight tells you almost nothing.
Adding the one process step — write down where you are before you change anything.
Same. A quiet fortnight after stopping tells you very little; the interesting part starts later.
That reads as advice to stop, which is not something anyone here should be offering.
With a week-long half-life, exposure declines over several weeks after the last dose rather than stopping with it. The lag is why the first fortnight is uninformative.
I would not treat appetite returning as a sign of doing it wrong. It is the expected sequence.
What are you planning to watch for, and over what period?
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.
Left up. It is honest about the reason for stopping and about the timeline.
coming back later is allowed and it is common
Disagree with the framing. Regain is the documented outcome after discontinuation; calling it a personal failure is both wrong and corrosive.