[Discussion] restarting is not failing and we should say that louder
restarting is not failing and we should say that louder. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
Wrote down where I was before changing anything. That single page made the following six months interpretable.
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 9, well before the scale moved, exactly as this board said it would.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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 following six months interpretable rather than a fog of impressions.
Decide in advance what you are watching for and over what period — appetite in the first month, weight over three, and a specific threshold at which you would want to revisit the decision. Have the conversation with a clinician before rather than after.
None of that is a schedule. It is a way of arriving at whatever happens next with information rather than with a vague sense of how it is going.
Agreed. Appetite is the leading indicator and the scale is the lagging one. Watch the first, not the second.
Preparing to stop, as described by people here who have done it.
Agreed — and the exposure lag means the first fortnight tells you almost nothing.
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.
Appetite is the proximal effect and weight is the lagging integrated outcome, which is why watching appetite gives you an earlier and more honest signal.
Removed the taper schedule written for another member. Describe your own experience instead.
This. Decide in advance what you are watching for. Deciding in the middle of it is much harder.
Yes — have the conversation before rather than after. That is the one piece of process advice this board can give.
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decide what you are watching for before you stop
have the conversation with a clinician before, not after
Removed the taper schedule written for another member.
Disagreeing with this bit: stretching and reducing are different things and the post treats them as one.
Has appetite changed yet, independent of the scale?
nobody here can write you a taper schedule
nobody here can write you a taper schedule
This is the sentence that reframes the whole board. Appetite first, scale later.
Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably easier that way round.
Has appetite changed yet, independent of the scale?
ilias_nakamura is right that regain is a documented outcome rather than a character verdict.
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