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

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

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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…

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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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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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