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c/maintenancephase·posted 10 months ago by u/nnt_nate

goal weight — 17 things I got wrong before I got it right

Regain Clean Column ×9 Long Haul ×2

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/maintenance_mode_maxMOD480 points·10 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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[deleted]352 points·10 months ago

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u/hassan_ostergaard294 points·10 months ago

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

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u/aleksi_eriksen104 points·10 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/santiago_ndiaye-20 points·10 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting1 point·10 months ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting161 points·10 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/cold_chromatogram_only53 points·10 months ago

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

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u/nadia_trevino211 points·10 months ago

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

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u/sanne_delgado271 points·10 months ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/nikhil_lindqvist336 points·10 months ago

What dose are you on?

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u/rafael_krastev183 points·10 months ago

the maintenance question changes at maintenance

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u/mass_spec_maggieMS207 points·10 months ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 23 is not maintenance

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u/tomas_lokken123 points·10 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/nnt_nateOP91 points·10 months ago

Weight variance within what range?

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u/nnt_nateOP45 points·10 months ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/enzo_danquah43 points·10 months ago

Not to be pedantic but goal weight and maintenance are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/anders_osei144 points·10 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/kofi_ferreira92 points·10 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/taper_off_tabitha63 points·10 months ago

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

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u/nnt_nateOP34 points·10 months ago

Weight variance within what range?

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u/crosspost_bot_no40 points·10 months ago

the 1.7mg dose works fine for 84 weeks of the month

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u/kaplan_meier_kim17 points·10 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/sarcopenia_watch12 points·10 months ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting54 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.

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u/old_account_202323 points·10 months ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/anders_vermeulen13 points·10 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/britt_abubakar43 points·10 months ago
search before post, but also, welcome
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u/laila_almeida11 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.

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