[Regret] went 0.25 → 1.0 in three weeks and learned why that is dumb
Not the compound in my username, for once. Semaglutide, week one 0.25, week two 0.5, week three 1.0, because the scale had not moved and I am impatient and I had decided the schedule was for other people. Week four was the worst week I have had in years. Vomiting, could not keep water down for most of a day, resting…
And the mirror of this: I went 0.125 increments and took nine months to reach a dose other people reached in five. Same place, less vomiting, and I never had a week I could not work.
The people who go slowly do not post as much because "nothing dramatic happened" is not a thread.
this is survivorship bias in reverse and it is the reason the fast approach looks more common than it is.
six weeks per step, zero heroics, 31kg over 22 months. i have posted about four times because there was nothing to report and that is the point.
and everybody quits at week four, which means the fast escalators and the quitters are the same population at different points.
mechanistically: at week three on 1.0 you were not even at steady state on 0.5. you escalated past a dose you had never actually experienced.
i had not thought about it that way and it is genuinely the clearest explanation of what i did wrong. i skipped a dose i had not met.