[PSA] the escalation schedule everyone quotes is a floor, not a finish line
Getting asked this every single week so putting it in one place. The labelled schedule (roughly: 0.25 for a month, then step up every 4 weeks) is the fastest the trials tested, not the recommended pace. It's a minimum interval, not a target you should be racing to hit. Step Labelled interval Common "low and slow"…
this table is basically my last 22 months. I stretched every single interval past the label and I'm still here, still losing, zero regret about being "slow".
you're kind of the poster child for the right-hand column honestly
happy to be. 31kg down, no crash, no regret. slow is not the same as slow-to-work.
the number of people who think slow = not working is way too high in this community honestly
because the scale is noisy week to week and slow titration makes the noise louder relative to the trend. a 7-day average fixes most of that panic.
this comment should be pinned somewhere, it's the actual mechanism of the confusion