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c/maintenancephase·posted 1 year ago by u/arne_ndiaye

am I the only one who found goal weight harder than the injections

Regain Cold Box ×2 Well Actually ×3 Receipts ×1

Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/still_here_2026MOD626 points·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/lina_novak806 points·1 year ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/arne_ndiayeOP481 points·1 year ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/priya_weiss623 points·1 year ago

regain is not a moral failing

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/andres_dahlberg195 points·1 year ago

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

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u/arne_ndiayeOP107 points·1 year ago

Maintenance for 6 months now. 10mg every 17 days, weight 39±6kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/laila_almeida44 points·1 year ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/still_here_202665 points·1 year ago

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

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u/arne_ndiayeOP29 points·1 year ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/lina_novak128 points·1 year ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/nils_tulloch59 points·1 year ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/honest_syringe17 points·1 year ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/anders_vermeulen227 points·1 year ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/zeynep_mbeki590 points·1 year ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 10 is not maintenance

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u/usp_appendixcompendial130 points·1 year ago

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

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u/taper_off_tabitha106 points·1 year ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/zaid_eriksen59 points·1 year ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/honest_syringe42 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/anya_rautio43 points·1 year ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/crosspost_bot_no69 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/andres_dahlberg99 points·1 year ago

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

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u/throwaway_9182-37 points·1 year ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/sanne_delgado1 point·1 year ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting1 point·1 year ago

the 1.7mg dose works fine for 19 weeks of the month

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u/rohan_cardoso1 point·1 year ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 17 is not maintenance

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u/brigade_detector260 points·1 year ago

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

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u/laila_almeida146 points·1 year ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/throwaway_9182307 points·1 year ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/kenji_vasquez146 points·1 year ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 54 weeks to accept.

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