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c/maintenancephase·submitted 1 year ago by u/milos_vestergaard

why does nobody talk about maintenance

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Question in the title, detail here: why does nobody talk about maintenance. Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. That is a pharmacological finding about a chronic condition, not a statement about anyone’s discipline. Body weight varies by a couple of kilos over…

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u/usp_appendixcompendial56 points·1 year ago

None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.

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u/rasmus_petrescu36 points·1 year ago

None of this is a taper plan.

Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.

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u/kasper_cabrera15 points·1 year ago

the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it

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u/andres_dahlberg7 points·1 year ago

maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point

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u/hassan_ostergaard6 points·1 year ago

Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 78, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.

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u/hugo_norgaard13 points·1 year ago

None of this is a taper plan.

usp_appendix is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.

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u/nnt_nate4 points·1 year ago

find the dose that holds, then stop optimising

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u/omar_eriksen18 points·1 year ago

That is a range, not a trend. Two weigh-ins 6 days apart cannot distinguish them.

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u/andres_dahlberg5 points·1 year ago

I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.

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