stalled for 22 weeks at 0.5mg and I refuse to panic this time
stalled for 22 weeks at 0.5mg and I refuse to panic this time, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.
22 weeks and 0.5mg. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour.
The appetite thing was the surprise. I expected to feel full. What I got was simply not thinking about food between meals.
First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts.
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.
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.
Sceptical of the mechanism you are proposing. Gastric emptying slows, it does not stop, and the timings you describe do not follow from it.
STEP-1 averaged just under 15% at 68 weeks, so a 10% year is not a failure
stalling at 2.4mg is information, not a verdict
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What did week 83 look like compared with this one? The month either side is the useful comparison.
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