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goal weight — 16 things I got wrong before I got it right

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Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain114 points·1 year ago·edited

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/still_here_202679 points·1 year ago·edited

Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.

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u/nikhil_lindqvist28 points·1 year ago

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

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u/adnan_sandvik11 points·1 year ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/yara_antonsen11 points·1 year ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/kofi_ferreira15 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/lina_novak-21 points·1 year ago

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

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial56 points·1 year ago

What dose are you on?

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u/rasmus_petrescu20 points·1 year ago

the maintenance question changes at maintenance

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u/still_here_2026MOD32 points·1 year ago

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

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u/throwaway_918255 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/anders_osei62 points·1 year ago

What dose are you on?

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance51 points·1 year ago·edited

dose-stretching experiences welcome, dose-stretching instructions are not

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u/line_bergstrom57 points·1 year ago

What dose are you on?

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u/cesar_oyelaran11 points·1 year ago

the long term question changes at maintenance

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u/yara_antonsen29 points·1 year ago

the 2.4mg dose works fine for 55 weeks of the month

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u/kasper_cabrera15 points·1 year ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 3 is not maintenance

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u/erez_baptista10 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.

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u/rohan_cardoso7 points·1 year ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/priya_weiss14 points·1 year ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/aurel_mwangi17 points·1 year ago

lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher

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u/hedda_ekstrom5 points·1 year ago

dose-stretching experiences welcome, dose-stretching instructions are not

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u/milos_vestergaardOP7 points·1 year ago

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

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u/mei_serrano4 points·1 year ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/sofia_wikstrom1 point·1 year ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

Disagree on that part. 99.2% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/noor_vermeulen1 point·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 23 weeks, not 7. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/hub_opssite staff20 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/lina_novak23 points·1 year ago

the regain question changes at maintenance

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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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