[Update] month 9 of maintenance, the boring table nobody asks to see but everyone should keep
78 weeks of public logging total, this update is just the maintenance-phase slice. Posting the plain table because "here's my dose and weight over 9 months, basically unchanged" is a genuinely useful data point that almost nobody bothers logging once the exciting part of losing is over.
| Month | Dose | Weight (kg) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step-down begun | 68.2 | first reduction |
| 3 | lower, stable | 68.0 | held through a stressful month |
| 6 | same | 67.6 | slight continued drift down, unplanned |
| 9 | same | 67.9 | holiday season, held within noise |
Nine months, roughly flat within about half a kilo the whole time even through a holiday season, on a meaningfully lower dose than what I titrated up to originally. Posting mostly because I wish more maintenance logs existed when I was looking for them.
best — the order this archive was captured in
this is exactly the kind of unglamorous table that should exist ten times more than it does. "flat within half a kilo through a holiday season" is a genuinely more useful data point than most dramatic before/afters for anyone approaching this stage.
the holiday season row is honestly the one I'm proudest of, expected it to be much worse
a 7-day rolling average through the holidays would probably show even less movement than the monthly snapshot table suggests, worth checking if you kept the daily numbers
I did, will pull that together for the next update, good idea
the "lower dose than what I titrated up to" detail matters a lot here and I think gets buried under the weight numbers, that's the actual lowest-effective-dose story hiding inside a maintenance log.
Flairing Update. Good table format, this is exactly the kind of low-drama long-term data this community should have more of. edit: originally said "Log" flair, corrected to "Update" since it's a continuation of an existing series.
fwiw the "unplanned slight drift down" note at month 6 is a nice honest detail, most people would've either not mentioned it or overexplained it
saving this table format for my own maintenance phase whenever I get there
my own maintenance table looks embarrassingly similar to yours, boring in the best way
fwiw the phrase "basically unchanged" is doing more work in this post than any dramatic before/after caption ever could
could've written 900 words explaining why this table matters, glad you just posted the table instead
tl;dr — nine months, half a kilo of noise, holiday season included, lower dose than titration peak
the notes column is the most useful part honestly, context makes the numbers mean something
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