am I the only one who found maintenance harder than the injections
Genuine question, and the title is the question: am I the only one who found maintenance harder than the injections. 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.…
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.
I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.
maintenance is a phase, not a finish line
Cosigning on planning it in advance. Deciding what maintenance looks like while still losing is much easier than deciding it in a panic.
Did you decide what maintenance would look like before you got here?
Body weight varies by a couple of kilos over days in stable people through fluid, glycogen and gut content.
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
find the dose that holds, then stop optimising
Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of muscle cramps and no change in the number.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
seven days to ten to twelve is the sequence people here describe
seven days to ten to twelve is the sequence people here describe
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
Push back: that is not a plateau, that is maintenance. You have arrived and you are describing it as a failure.