the food noise going quiet is the part nobody warned me about
Thinking out loud about this: the food noise going quiet is the part nobody warned me about. On the "everybody ends up at 2.4" claim, which comes up every few weeks. The escalation schedule in the trials was designed to get people to a fixed study dose. Real use is not a trial. The dose that keeps your appetite quiet…
The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve rather than a series of spikes. That is also why moving your day slightly does very little.
Cosigning. The appetite change and the scale change ran about three weeks apart for me too.
Cosigning.
Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost. Judge a step at a month, not at a weekend.
Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost.
Disagree with this specific line. A pause at 1.0mg is not evidence that 1.0mg has stopped working.
What dose and how many weeks at it before this started?
Genuine question — is the appetite effect still there, or is it just the scale that has paused?
Disagree. 2.4 is the top of the label, not the goal, and "everyone ends up there" is just survivorship in the posts you read.
Yes — and the honest version is that most of the "it stopped working" posts turn out to be a normal fortnight of water weight.
This matches me almost exactly, right down to the reflux showing up on the second day and being gone by the fourth.