i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
#maintenance 2026-04-18
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Highlights from this day
- nhs_pathway_nell — follow up i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan 17:02
- maintenance_mo — update on the earlier thing the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve 17:04
- coa_or_cope — quick one the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel 17:29
- still_here_2024 — the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it, i think 17:40
- lean_mass_lex — update from 18 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal 18:23
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month, we shall see
follow up i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan
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update on the earlier thing the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
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follow up appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation
i came off for four months, put 78 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
quick one the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
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regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
still at maintenance
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it, i think
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thats fluctuation
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nhs_pathway_nelltwo or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation
SURMOUNT-OSA is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the actual numbers
thats SURPASS-2
update from 18 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
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protein up not down
mine held
weekly not daily
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
how quickly did appetite come back going from 2.4 to 2.5
no official dose
my range is 3 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain