switched from 5mg to 12.5mg and food noise got better, not worse
switched from 5mg to 12.5mg and food noise got better, not worse. I have gone back and forth on this for months. The relevant figures are 5mg and 12.5mg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time. Drifted up 12kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently…
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 55, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.
What maintenance actually looks like, from the people on this board who have been in it longest.
You find a dose or an interval that holds the weight with side effects you barely notice, and then you stop optimising. Weigh monthly rather than daily. Expect a couple of kilos of range and do not act on it. Keep the habits that did the work in the losing phase, because they are the part that has to outlive the dose.
The most common mistake described here is treating arrival as a plateau and pushing the dose to chase a number chosen at week one by a person who did not yet know what maintenance felt like.
find the dose that holds, then stop optimising
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 55, before I needed it.
neha_falk is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.
neha_falk is right that stretching and reducing are different levers.
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.