maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
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#maintenance 2025-05-10
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Highlights from this day
- taper_or_not — maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested 11:59
- fasting_insulin — protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive 12:43
- VialBot — Recon calculator: 40mg in 2ml = 4mg/ml. 15:17
- taper_or_not — holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it 15:44
quick one there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month, ask me again in a month
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
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sorry to jump in regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
my range is 22 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
no official dose
my range is 39 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
for the archive the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
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, thats one data point
Recon calculator: 40mg in 2ml = 4mg/ml.
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up, anyway
i put 4 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
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i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side