the maintenance thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
the maintenance thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. 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…
How long have you been at goal?
monthly weigh-ins are enough at this stage
Cosigning on planning it in advance. Deciding what maintenance looks like while still losing is much easier than deciding it in a panic.
monthly weigh-ins are enough at this stage
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lowers average exposure. That is why appetite return is often the first thing noticed.
Yes. The habits have to outlive the dose or the maintenance phase is just a countdown.
Been at maintenance for 20 months on 0.25mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.
Been at maintenance for 20 months on 0.25mg.
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.