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c/maintenancephase·posted 1 months ago by u/ferritin_low

[Question] do you tell new people how long this actually is

Question

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking maintenance against ApoB for 3 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/liv_kuipers12 points·1 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/food_noise_goneMOD6 points·1 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/sena_balogun12 points·1 months ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/osman_ferrari6 points·1 months ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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u/arne_ndiaye7 points·1 months ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/ferritin_lowOP4 points·1 months ago·edited

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 1.0mg worked for 24 weeks, then cravings returned. 7.5mg was the actual floor.

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u/kofi_ferreira5 points·1 months ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/fabio_kuipers2 points·1 months ago·edited

weight moves within 3kg and that is normal

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u/enzo_danquah1 point·1 months ago

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

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u/ferritin_lowOP-7 points·1 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/rasmus_petrescu1 point·1 months ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/kofi_ferreira1 point·1 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/elise_ramos3 points·1 months ago
wrong community but useful, so, shrug
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[deleted]1 point·1 months ago

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u/fabio_kuipers2 points·1 months ago

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

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u/noor_cardoso1 point·1 months ago

the long term question changes at maintenance

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u/zeynep_mbeki1 point·1 months ago

the long term question changes at maintenance

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 80 weeks to accept.

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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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