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[PREMIUM] Size 28 to size 8 — need advice

traveltech_sara Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM 12 replies 1,530 viewsPage 1 of 3
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traveltech_sara
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Jun 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM#1

Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several times.

What I am after is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.

Practical detail welcome, however dull — the duller the better.

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Jun 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM#2
traveltech_sara said:
Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several…

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 212 lbs for 5 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.

What finally broke the plateau: switching from evening to morning injection. Lost 11 lbs in the next 2 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.

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Jun 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM#3
CarlaRPh_TPA said:
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 212 lbs for 5 weeks.

Agreeing with CarlaRPh_TPA, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body. A body 20kg lighter needs meaningfully fewer calories at rest and less to move, so the deficit that produced the first phase is arithmetically smaller now. The options are the honest ones — increase the deficit slightly, increase activity, or accept the new plateau — and escalating the dose is only one of them.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

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Jun 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM#4
traveltech_sara said:
Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several…

Mine went the same way, slower.

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Jun 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM#5

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.

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