does goal weight actually matter or is it forum lore at this point
does goal weight actually matter or is it forum lore at this point. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.
Been at maintenance for 15 months on 1.0mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.
Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing.
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 79, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
find the dose that holds, then stop optimising
Correction: that trial measured regain after withdrawal, not failure of the drug during treatment. Very different claim.
Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lowers average exposure. That is why appetite return is often the first thing noticed.
Removed the taper schedule aimed at another member. Describe your own; do not write theirs.
What is the plan if the drift continues for another month?
Body weight varies by a couple of kilos over days in stable people through fluid, glycogen and gut content. A range is not a trend.
Not convinced. Interval stretching changes your exposure profile, not just the total, and the two are not equivalent.
Yes. The habits have to outlive the dose or the maintenance phase is just a countdown.
Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.
Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth les
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
Cosigning on planning it in advance. Deciding what maintenance looks like while still losing is much easier than deciding it in a panic.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.