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c/maintenancephase·posted 23 days ago by u/piotr_grimaldi

[Results] two years, weight stable within 3kg, dose at a quarter of peak

Results Long Haul ×6

Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles.

The claim: regain matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 6 months without either producing anything.

What would actually settle it is 15 people measuring the same thing the same way. I have started; my numbers are below. They lean one way but not strongly enough for me to declare victory.

If you have data, post the data. If you have an opinion, flair it as an opinion.

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u/mass_spec_maggieMS91 points·22 days ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/anders_osei80 points·22 days ago

weight moves within 7kg and that is normal

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u/kasper_cabrera53 points·21 days ago

the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works

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u/aurel_mwangi-7 points·20 days ago

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

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u/nikhil_lindqvist40 points·22 days ago

Maintenance for 10 months now. 15mg every 29 days, weight 17±10kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/hugo_norgaard20 points·22 days ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/piotr_grimaldiOP10 points·22 days ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/brigade_detector27 points·22 days ago

Weight variance within what range?

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u/osman_ferrari16 points·22 days ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 2 is not maintenance

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u/piotr_grimaldiOP17 points·22 days ago

weight moves within 8kg and that is normal

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u/piotr_grimaldiOP4 points·22 days ago

the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works

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u/copay_card_cc3 points·22 days ago

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

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u/kaplan_meier_kim18 points·22 days ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/ewan_marchand19 points·22 days ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/draw_up_dizzy6 points·21 days ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

Adding to this: long term is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/ferritin_low4 points·21 days ago

lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD13 points·21 days ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting9 points·21 days ago

Maintenance for 13 months now. 10mg every 34 days, weight 20±13kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/vitamin_d_void6 points·20 days ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/teodor_duarte3 points·20 days ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

Adding to this: lowest effective dose is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/kaplan_meier_kim2 points·19 days ago

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

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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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