switched from 1.0mg to 2.5mg and the reflux got better, not worse
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking maintenance against triglycerides for 25 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…
Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.
Strongly agree.
Adding to this: goal weight is doing more work than the comment implies.
Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.
the plateau is where the learning happens
This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.
lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher
the long term question changes at maintenance
Not to be pedantic but goal weight and dose stretching are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.
Tried the lowest-effective approach. 0.5mg worked for 6 weeks, then cravings returned. 1.7mg was the actual floor.
regain after taper is expected, plan for it
Not to be pedantic but regain and lowest effective dose are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.
Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.
the plateau is where the learning happens