[Discussion] can we stop arguing about plateau until somebody posts a number
can we stop arguing about plateau until somebody posts a number. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. My stall was eleven weeks. Eleven. Then it moved again without me changing anything at all. The appetite thing was the surprise. I expected to feel full. What I got was simply not…
Retitled to match the body. The original promised a comparison the post does not make.
if 0.5mg is working there is no prize for going up
What did week 87 look like compared with this one? The month either side is the useful comparison.
The mental model that finally made this click for me: there are two curves, and people watch the wrong one.
The first is exposure, which is set by the dose and smoothed by a week-long half-life. It changes when you change the dose and then settles over about a month. The second is body weight, which is exposure filtered through appetite, food, water, sleep, training and the scale itself, and which moves in steps rather than a line.
Almost every "it stopped working" post is somebody watching curve two over a fortnight and drawing conclusions about curve one. If the appetite effect is still there, exposure is fine. Wait the month.
Careful. A four-week stall is inside normal variation and treating it as failure is how people escalate for no reason.
sema is weekly for a reason, the half-life does the smoothing