come down slower than that
[edited]Thread · #maintenance · 2026-01-24
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a
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- baseline_drift — there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping 16:38
mine didnt hold
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i went to every ten days at a low dose and it held for me. n of 1, and i keep saying that out loud
is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us
same as a bp tablet
the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
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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set a trigger weight
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
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the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
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cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
mine didnt hold