im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing
#maintenance 2026-02-16
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Highlights from this day
- thirty_one_g — cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower 21:04
- quiet_head_qi — i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it 22:15
- thirty_one_g — did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to 22:36
- acetate_ash — i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me 23:44
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
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
quick one i dropped from 1 to 2 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
thats fluctuation
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regain is expected
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
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i put 40 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
went back up, no regrets
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
lift twice a week
no data on that
weekly not daily
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how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
ok so appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, your mileage will differ
i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly, someone check my working
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
for the archive nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
mine held
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
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resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
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still at maintenance
ok so food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
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same as a bp tablet
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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
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mine didnt hold
how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
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