titration: what the trials say vs what this community says
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: titration: what the trials say vs what this community says. Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts. Delayed gastric emptying is most pronounced early and…
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.
This is the part I would underline for anyone skimming. Everything else in the thread is downstream of it.
nausea that arrives on day two and fades by day four is the standard shape
I would push back gently. Going up because the scale paused is the single most common mistake described on this board.
do not chase somebody else’s titration schedule, they are not you