three years of tapering threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
three years of tapering threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Stopped for cost reasons. Appetite came back at about week 21, well before the scale moved, exactly as this board said it would. Wrote down where I was before changing…
A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rather than a series of impressions.
Preparing to stop, as described by people here who have done it.
Write down where you are first: dose, date, weight, waist, and an honest note about how appetite feels. That page is what makes the following six months interpretable rather than a fog of impressions.
Decide in advance what you are watching for and over what period — appetite in the first month, weight over three, and a specific threshold at which you would want to revisit the decision. Have the conversation with a clinician before rather than after.
None of that is a schedule. It is a way of arriving at whatever happens next with information rather than with a vague sense of how it is going.
have the conversation with a clinician before, not after
Stretched from seven days to ten to twelve over four months. Appetite told me where the limit was each time.
Do you have a written baseline from before you started changing anything?
Stopped abruptly once and gradually once. The gradual one was easier to interpret because I could see what was changing.
Correcting myself upthread: appetite returned at week 6 for me, not the week I posted.
Have you had the conversation with a clinician yet?
I would not treat appetite returning as a sign of doing it wrong. It is the expected sequence.