[Discussion] we are measuring goal weight at the wrong time and calling it noise
we are measuring goal weight at the wrong time and calling it noise. I have gone back and forth on this for months. What maintenance actually looks like, from the people on this board who have been in it longest. You find a dose or an interval that holds the weight with side effects you barely notice, and then you…
Stretched from seven to ten days and then to twelve over about four months. Appetite told me where the limit was before the scale did.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
What is the plan if the drift continues for another month?
This. The withdrawal data is not ambiguous and framing regain as a personal failure is both wrong and cruel.
Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.
Push back: that is not a plateau, that is maintenance. You have arrived and you are describing it as a failure.
Has appetite changed, or only the scale?
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 85, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.