i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
#maintenance 2025-03-31
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- quiet.hours — appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it, from memory 19:22
- alt_ast_ali — lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day… 19:27
- amsterdam_aliquot — unrelated but i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose 20:15
- amsterdam_aliquot — cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower 20:49
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
sorry to jump in holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it, from memory
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regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
mine held
unrelated but i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
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how quickly did appetite come back going from 5 to 0.25
regain is expected
the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
no official dose
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
20:50quiet.hours pinned a message
i went to every ten days at a low dose and it held for me. n of 1, and i keep saying that out loud
harder than losing
while im here im holding at 10 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
come down slower than that
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation