[Discussion] we are measuring dose stretching at the wrong time and calling it noise
we are measuring dose stretching at the wrong time and calling it noise. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions. Halving the dose keeps the rhythm and lowers the level; stretching keeps the level and lowers the…
Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.
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.
Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing.
Cosigning on planning it in advance. Deciding what maintenance looks like while still losing is much easier than deciding it in a panic.
Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.
Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary.
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
Same.
Agreed — and appetite is the leading indicator. The scale is the lagging one.