[Question] do you tell new people how long this actually is
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.
I have been tracking maintenance against ApoB for 3 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.
best — the order this archive was captured in
regain after taper is expected, plan for it
Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.
The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.
Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.
Tried the lowest-effective approach. 1.0mg worked for 24 weeks, then cravings returned. 7.5mg was the actual floor.
Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.
weight moves within 3kg and that is normal
the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works
food noise returns but not always immediately
the plateau is where the learning happens
lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher
the long term question changes at maintenance
the long term question changes at maintenance
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 80 weeks to accept.
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