whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
#maintenance 2026-04-19
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- VialBot — Reminder set. I will post here in 4 days. 19:54
- swirl_not_shake — holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it 20:11
- birch_bloods — i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand 21:08
- VialBot — Verification log updated: FGP — evidence added, status unchanged. 22:08
if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
regain is expected
i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
unrelated but how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
[edited]my range is 33 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
mine held
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coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
no official dose
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else, n of 1 obviously
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
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everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
come down slower than that
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
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i put 38 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
still at maintenance
coming back to this the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
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no data on that
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
im holding at 0.5 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up, anyway
follow up resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
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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, anyway
harder than losing
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the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for