am I the only one who found long term harder than the injections
am I the only one who found long term harder than the injections, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion. 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…
Careful — a dose reduction plan is a conversation with someone who knows your history, not a board consensus.
Not convinced. Interval stretching changes your exposure profile, not just the total, and the two are not equivalent.
appetite returns before the scale acknowledges anything
The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 21, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.
appetite returns before the scale acknowledges anything
Agreed — and appetite is the leading indicator. The scale is the lagging one.
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
the habits are the part that has to outlive the dose