reading regain threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading regain threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Preparing to stop, as described by people here who have done it. Write down where you are first: dose, date, weight, waist, and an honest note about how appetite feels. That page is what makes the…
Disagree with the framing. Regain is the documented outcome after discontinuation; calling it a personal failure is both wrong and corrosive.
Agreed. Appetite is the leading indicator and the scale is the lagging one. Watch the first, not the second.
Yes — have the conversation before rather than after. That is the one piece of process advice this board can give.
stretching to ten days then twelve is the pattern people report
stretching to ten days then twelve is the pattern people report
Adding the one process step — write down where you are before you change anything.
Agreed that returning later is common and it is treated here as ordinary rather than as a defeat.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a taper. The exposure profiles differ.
a fortnight of nothing is not evidence that you are fine
This. Decide in advance what you are watching for. Deciding in the middle of it is much harder.