is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us
#maintenance 2026-03-11
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Highlights from this day
- appetite_back — if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room 15:33
- seizure_letter — appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for 15:52
- appetite_back — STEP 4 is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the actual numbers 18:16
- appetite_back — 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 18:31
the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
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went back up, no regrets
whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
mine didnt hold
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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
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lift twice a week
is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 14
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
im holding at 2.5 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
still at maintenance
come down slower than that
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
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same as a bp tablet
i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand, ymmv
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set a trigger weight
slightly off topic but coming back after 8 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation, from memory
regain is expected
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weekly not daily
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
no official dose
am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was
STEP 4 is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the actual numbers
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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
harder than losing
thats fluctuation
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
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how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
for the archive how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
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if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
mine held
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