coming back to this i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
#maintenance 2025-09-11
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Highlights from this day
- still_here_2024 — dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly 18:00
- vialkeeper — does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining 18:01
- vialkeeper — update on the earlier thing update from 25 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal 18:03
- gus_charts — im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing 18:35
- deamidation — a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved 20:30
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
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does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
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update on the earlier thing update from 25 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
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protein up not down
genuine question im holding at 1 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
come down slower than that
thats STEP 1
is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 20
the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing
i dropped from 0.25 to 2 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
for the archive anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
right so did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
for the archive i put 12 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
did anyone regret dropping the dose too fast
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went back up, no regrets
thats fluctuation
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the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
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
stopped 4 months ago and put 18 back on, what did people do at that point
same as a bp tablet
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
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how quickly did appetite come back going from 12 to 2
lift twice a week
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appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for, happy to be corrected
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled