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c/maintenancephase·posted 1 year ago by u/column_dead_volume

unpopular opinion: regain is massively overrated

Long Term Well Actually ×3

Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/customs repeats that goal weight is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 19 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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u/milos_vestergaard14 points·1 year ago

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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u/still_here_2026MOD8 points·1 year ago·edited

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/nikhil_lindqvist3 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 99.3, not 93.7. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/teodor_duarte10 points·1 year ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/liv_kuipers9 points·1 year ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/throwaway_91823 points·1 year ago

Maintenance for 11 months now. 7.5mg every 3 days, weight 45±11kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/hub_opssite staff1 point·1 year ago

the long term question changes at maintenance

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u/laila_almeida13 points·1 year ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 93 weeks to accept.

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u/column_dead_volumeOP3 points·1 year ago

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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u/sena_balogun6 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxmaintenance5 points·1 year ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/santiago_lindqvist0 points·1 year ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 0.5mg worked for 12 weeks, then cravings returned. 15mg was the actual floor.

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u/santiago_ndiaye1 point·1 year ago·edited

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 17 is not maintenance

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u/aleksi_eriksen1 point·1 year ago

the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works

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u/paloma_stanescu1 point·1 year ago

the 15mg dose works fine for 61 weeks of the month

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The part nobody posts about: what happens at goal weight. Finding a lowest effective dose, dose-interval stretching, regain risk data, muscle retention, the psychology of not having a number to chase, and staying on indefinitely versus tapering.

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