goal weight — my 23-week log, condensed into one table
goal weight — my 23-week log, condensed into one table, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.
Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of reflux and no change in the number.
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 38, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
That reads like a taper schedule and this board cannot hand those out.
Been at maintenance for 20 months on 2.5mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.
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.
the goal weight you picked at week 1 was a guess
the habits are the part that has to outlive the dose
Is the goal weight still the one you picked at the start?
stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose
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.
Retitled — this is maintenance, not a plateau, and the original framing was doing damage.
the lowest effective dose is a real target and nobody talks about it
Yes. The habits have to outlive the dose or the maintenance phase is just a countdown.
maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point
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.
Correction: that trial measured regain after withdrawal, not failure of the drug during treatment. Very different claim.
maintenance is a phase, not a finish line
Right — appetite returns before the scale moves, which is the early signal people miss.
Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.
Same.
hassan_ostergaard is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.
Push back: that is not a plateau, that is maintenance. You have arrived and you are describing it as a failure.
Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.
the trials that looked at withdrawal are unambiguous about what follows
Cosigning on planning it in advance. Deciding what maintenance looks like while still losing is much easier than deciding it in a panic.
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