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c/maintenancephase·posted 2 years ago by u/kasper_cabrera

genuine question about goal weight that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking maintenance against triglycerides for 9 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/anders_vermeulen553 points·2 years ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 6 is not maintenance

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u/ewan_marchand306 points·2 years ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/kasper_cabreraOP158 points·2 years ago

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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u/kasper_cabrera265 points·2 years ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is lowest effective dose. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/kasper_cabreraOP126 points·2 years ago

Maintenance for 9 months now. 0.5mg every 3 days, weight 42±9kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/neha_falk0 points·2 years ago

the long term question changes at maintenance

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u/dilara_nyberg1 point·2 years ago·edited

the long term question changes at maintenance

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 79 weeks to accept.

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u/enzo_danquah1 point·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.

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u/kasper_cabreraOP312 points·2 years ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 2.4mg worked for 19 weeks, then cravings returned. 1.0mg was the actual floor.

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u/arne_ndiaye99 points·2 years ago

Weight variance within what range?

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u/tomas_lokken236 points·2 years ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach.

Disagree on that part. 99.0% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/taper_off_tabitha111 points·2 years ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/hedda_ekstrom162 points·2 years ago

dose-stretching experiences welcome, dose-stretching instructions are not

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u/cesar_oyelaran87 points·2 years ago·edited

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with dose stretching, not with what you concluded.

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u/sanne_delgado250 points·2 years ago

Crossposting this to c/compounding because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/nhs_waitlist_nUK62 points·2 years ago

Crossposting this to c/compounding because the people who need it are not reading this community.

Disagree on that part. 95.1% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/sarcopenia_watch122 points·2 years ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/dilara_nyberg32 points·2 years ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/mei_serrano72 points·2 years ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/zeynep_mbeki127 points·2 years ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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The part nobody posts about: what happens at goal weight. Finding a lowest effective dose, dose-interval stretching, regain risk data, muscle retention, the psychology of not having a number to chase, and staying on indefinitely versus tapering.

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