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c/maintenancephase·posted 1 months ago by u/fatima_yildiz

[Meta] the regain rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining

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Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 7.5mg to 2.4mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 12 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 76 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/neha_falk55 points·1 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/milos_vestergaard44 points·1 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/andres_dahlberg20 points·1 months ago

weight moves within 21kg and that is normal

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