[Results] came off deliberately over four months, regained 4kg not 24
Reporting in. came off deliberately over four months, regained 4kg not 24.
The relevant figures are 4kg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
The habits are what carried it for a while. When they slipped, everything else followed, in that order.
What the evidence says about stopping, written plainly because the framing does real damage.
Withdrawal studies across this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. Appetite typically returns first, well before weight changes. This is a finding about the pharmacology of a chronic condition, in the same way that blood pressure rises again when an antihypertensive is stopped.
People on this board quit in shame over an entirely predictable result, and then avoid coming back because they have interpreted it as a personal failure. It is not. Knowing that in advance is the single most useful thing this board can offer anybody planning to stop.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
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.
What are you planning to watch for, and over what period?
Have you had the conversation with a clinician yet?
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appetite comes back before the weight does
Edited a comment framing regain as a moral failure. The documented outcome is not a character verdict.
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.
stretching to ten days then twelve is the pattern people report
stretching to ten days then twelve is the pattern people report
Agreed — and the exposure lag means the first fortnight tells you almost nothing.
Same. A quiet fortnight after stopping tells you very little; the interesting part starts later.
Went back on after eight months away. Nobody here made me feel bad about it, which mattered more than I expected.
Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?
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.
coming back later is allowed and it is common
regain is the expected outcome and framing it as failure helps nobody
Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably easier that way round.
nobody here can write you a taper schedule
This. Decide in advance what you are watching for. Deciding in the middle of it is much harder.
cost and supply are the two most common reasons and both are legitimate
Withdrawal studies across this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation, with appetite typically returning before weight changes. That is a description of the pharmacology of a chronic condition.
interval stretching is the most commonly described approach here
cost and supply are the two most common reasons and both are legitimate
lina_adebayo is right that regain is a documented outcome rather than a character verdict.
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