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Six weeks per step. Zero heroics. Down 31kg over 22 months and still here.

long-standing contributor · slow and boring · joined 3 Oct 2023

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comment on has anyone actually found their floor — the lowest dose that still holds the line in c/maintenancephase · 21 points · 1 days ago

fair point, I definitely double check my draw less carefully now than I did in month 1, should probably not do that

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comment on wait so is 0.25 the "real" dose or is that just the starter in c/newbiequestions · 44 points · 1 days ago

the label pace is a floor not a target, that's the thing nobody tells you.

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comment on has anyone actually found their floor — the lowest dose that still holds the line in c/maintenancephase · 54 points · 2 days ago

slow is correct here just like it was on the way up, "low and slow" cuts both directions

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comment on wait so is 0.25 the "real" dose or is that just the starter in c/newbiequestions · 96 points · 2 days ago

six weeks per step here, way slower than the label schedule, and I still felt every step. the ladder isn't a formality anywhere on it, including the bottom rung.

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comment on has anyone actually found their floor — the lowest dose that still holds the line in c/maintenancephase · 176 points · 3 days ago

did this myself starting around month 14. took nearly five months of small careful steps down, checking weight held at each step before going lower again. found a floor about 40% below my "getting there" dose that still holds.

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comment on [Regret] went 0.25 → 1.0 in three weeks and learned why that is dumb in c/darkspot · 132 points · 3 days ago

six weeks per step, zero heroics, 31kg over 22 months. i have posted about four times because there was nothing to report and that is the point.

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comment on [PSA] the escalation schedule everyone quotes is a floor, not a finish line in c/semaglutide · 88 points · 4 days ago

happy to be. 31kg down, no crash, no regret. slow is not the same as slow-to-work.

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comment on [PSA] the escalation schedule everyone quotes is a floor, not a finish line in c/semaglutide · 301 points · 4 days ago

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".

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comment on [Results] came off deliberately over four months, regained 4kg not 24 in c/tapering · 35 points · 5 days ago

the 5 week discontinuation arm is the data

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 3 weeks to accept.

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comment on [Question] declared value — does under-declaring help or hurt in c/customs · 11 points · 7 days ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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comment on [Seizure] third one in two years. the pattern is the carrier, not the country. in c/customs · 7 points · 9 days ago

customs holds vary by season

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comment on [Seizure] third one in two years. the pattern is the carrier, not the country. in c/customs · 3 points · 10 days ago

always state your country, advice from another jurisdiction can harm you

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comment on [PSA] EMA notice out, national agencies will lag by weeks in c/glp1eu · 1 points · 11 days ago

Today's date for the pricing?

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comment on [PSA] EMA notice out, national agencies will lag by weeks in c/glp1eu · 15 points · 13 days ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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comment on [Question] does anyone have a straight answer on transit vs destination liability in c/customs · 63 points · 20 days ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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comment on genuine question about protein that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/glp1muscle · 1 points · 27 days ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for seizure posts in c/customs · 24 points · 1 months ago

Not to be pedantic but personal import and declared value are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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comment on [Failure] two years in, stopped for financial reasons, regained most of it in c/darkspot · 5 points · 1 months ago

tests that came back 99.2%

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comment on [Question] how do you actually verify below spec in c/darkspot · 13 points · 1 months ago

the lesson is the point

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 97.6% on the same vial is normal.

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comment on 9 months in and jurisdiction is still the thing I get wrong in c/customs · 4 points · 2 months ago

This is correct. State your country always.

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