update on the earlier thing im holding at 2 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
#maintenance 2025-11-11
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- pharmac_pen — does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining 21:14
- gus_charts — while im here i dropped from 7.5 to 2 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months 21:32
- dose_down_dara — is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 10 22:31
- nordic_price_nils — i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else 23:07
come down slower than that
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 was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
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does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
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harder than losing
how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
protein up not down
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the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
while im here i dropped from 7.5 to 2 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
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lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
regain is expected
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right so stopped 6 months ago and put 35 back on, what did people do at that point
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
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how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
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protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
FLOW is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
weekly not daily
still at maintenance
Reminder set. I will post here in 4 days.
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it, we shall see
coming back after 13 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers
did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
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whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
mine didnt hold
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lift twice a week
is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 10
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation
how much regain did people get in the first 21 months after stopping
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same as a bp tablet
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
went back up, no regrets
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
my range is 48 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
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whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing
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23:34ferrous_ash pinned a message
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
[edited]did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to