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#maintenance 2026-04-28
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- comment_fatigue — sorry to jump in dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly 18:35
- amylin_amy — does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same £120 a month 18:41
- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot D-0718. Nothing logged either way. 21:10
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
i dropped from 2 to 2.4 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
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if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
*Medutest not the other one
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested, from memory
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
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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 just me
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan, ymmv
mine didnt hold
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the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
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lift twice a week
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
weekly not daily
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regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
update on the earlier thing i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
while im here i put 14 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
im holding at 5 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
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coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
*PeptideMeter not the other one
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
sorry to jump in dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
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is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 10
quick one two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation, thats one data point
coming back after 17 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
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harder than losing
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does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same £120 a month
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the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
went back up, no regrets
the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
come down slower than that
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
how much regain did people get in the first 3 months after stopping
whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
update from 21 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
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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i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
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my range is 19 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain, someone check my working
Purity check: no report on file for lot D-0718. Nothing logged either way.
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holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
right so a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved, anyway
while im here i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
i came off for four months, put 67 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers