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c/maintenancephase·posted 6 months ago by u/anya_rautio

goal weight is the most under-discussed thing in c/coldchain

Question Long Haul ×8 Cold Box ×1 Slow Clap ×1

Week 15 update. 31kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 55.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/omar_eriksen286 points·6 months ago·edited

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/purity_pedantanalytical161 points·6 months ago

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

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u/salma_almeida113 points·6 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/kaplan_meier_kim60 points·6 months ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 13 is not maintenance

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u/sarcopenia_watch15 points·6 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/anya_rautioOP86 points·6 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/piotr_grimaldi192 points·6 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/salma_almeida79 points·6 months ago·edited

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/nnt_nate186 points·6 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/ferritin_low82 points·6 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/anya_rautioOP41 points·6 months ago

weight moves within 16kg and that is normal

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u/kaplan_meier_kim145 points·6 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/anya_rautioOP86 points·6 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

Adding to this: dose stretching is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/rasmus_petrescu164 points·6 months ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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u/usp_appendixcompendial37 points·6 months ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 1.7mg worked for 4 weeks, then cravings returned. 2.5mg was the actual floor.

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u/sofia_wikstrom123 points·6 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/hugo_norgaard-27 points·6 months ago

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

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u/constipation_clubside effects1 point·6 months ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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u/camila_sandvik-38 points·6 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/erez_baptista1 point·6 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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

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u/teodor_duarte72 points·6 months ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/rasmus_petrescu22 points·6 months ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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u/cesar_oyelaran15 points·6 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/hugo_norgaard24 points·6 months ago

Regain on a taper is expected. 14% back over 28 weeks, which matches the discontinuation data. Planned for it.

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u/priya_weiss6 points·6 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/rohan_cardoso2 points·6 months ago

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

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u/aleksi_lehtinen51 points·6 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/bastian_aalto26 points·6 months ago

Maintenance for 10 months now. 5mg every 17 days, weight 13±10kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/taper_off_tabithaMOD40 points·6 months ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/teodor_duarte25 points·6 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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