whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
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unrelated but 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
the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
*Janoshik not the other one
protein up not down
thats fluctuation
im holding at 1.7 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
set a trigger weight
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
for the archive the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
*Janoshik not the other one
how quickly did appetite come back going from 2.5 to 2
mine held
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did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
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i dropped from 5 to 2.4 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
there is no trial on every ten days or every fortnight. people here do it and report on it and that is all we have
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
Purity check: no report on file for lot B-0114. Nothing logged either way.
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
same as a bp tablet
weekly not daily
mine didnt hold
is maintenance different between tirzepatide and the others or is that all anecdote
the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel, ask me again in a month
how much regain did people get in the first 25 months after stopping
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
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my range is 27 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
sorry to jump in coming back after 14 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers
if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
for the archive update from 2 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
i came off for four months, put 11 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers, n of 1 obviously
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
ok so nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did