#maintenance 2026-03-18

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vial_ledger — i came off for four months, put 80 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers 15:42
gus_charts — protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive, take that with a pinch of salt 16:18
gus_charts — i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand 16:34
private_script_pri — STEP 4 is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion 17:03

no data on that

appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for

dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly

lift twice a week

mine didnt hold

i came off for four months, put 80 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers

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thats fluctuation

ok so the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel

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everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here

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protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive, take that with a pinch of salt

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regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says, i think

im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing

went back up, no regrets

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i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand

m0  118.4
m1  113.9
m2  110.2
m3  108.8
m4  108.1  <- the stall
m5  105.0
m6  101.6
m7   99.2

weekly not daily

how quickly did appetite come back going from 1.7 to 15

update on the earlier thing two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation

STEP 4 is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion

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nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did

i dropped from 0.5 to 5 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months

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there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping