[Results] 30 weeks on 1.7mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring
30 weeks on 1.7mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair.
The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 30 weeks and 1.7mg. Everything below is context for those.
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.
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.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Body weight varies by a couple of kilos over days in stable people through fluid, glycogen and gut content. A range is not a trend.
Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.
Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing.
Correction: that trial measured regain after withdrawal, not failure of the drug during treatment. Very different claim.
the trials that looked at withdrawal are unambiguous about what follows
The two levers, described properly, because this board mixes them up constantly.
Reducing the dose lowers average exposure while keeping the weekly rhythm. Stretching the interval keeps the dose but lowers the trough between injections, which — with a week-long half-life — is why people notice appetite returning towards the end of a stretched cycle before they see anything on the scale.
The reported pattern here is stretching in small steps, a week to ten days to twelve, with appetite as the signal rather than the scale. Some people find dose reduction more comfortable. Neither is a schedule anybody here can hand you, and the fact that this phase has the least published guidance is exactly why board consensus deserves less weight than usual.
Push back: that is not a plateau, that is maintenance. You have arrived and you are describing it as a failure.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.
the goal weight you picked at week 1 was a guess
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated out
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
a few kilos of drift is not a relapse
do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase
Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions. Halving the dose keeps the rhythm and lowers the level; stretching keeps the level and lowers the frequency, with a lower trough.
Yes — interval stretching and dose reduction are different levers and people use the words interchangeably.
None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
seven days to ten to twelve is the sequence people here describe
stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose
I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.
the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it
maintenance is a phase, not a finish line
Is the goal weight still the one you picked at the start?
boring is the objective now
Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of sulphur burps and no change in the number.
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