Microdosing for maintenance - your schedule?

The "leave results on the table" worry got me too, but staying put longer worked fine - I sat at my step for like three months before hunger came back consistently. Loss didn't stall until it actually stopped working for me. No regrets about the slow pace.

I had the same fear of stalling but my best stretch of loss came at a dose I was sure was too weak. I ended up waiting until hunger stuck around for a good week plus before moving, and honestly most of my 40 lbs happened on steps I almost skipped past. Slow pace cost me nothing.

I rushed early on and paid for it with a miserable couple weeks, so with my last 43 lbs I've been lingering way longer per step. Turns out the "too weak" doses did most of the work once I gave them time. Hunger creeping back for a week straight became my only signal to consider moving.

The pattern in this thread matches mine - I kept a written log of hunger and appetite and it showed the lower steps kept working way past when I expected to need a bump. Only moved after a full week of steady hunger, and my loss rate never dropped off at the lower doses.

Only 10 lbs in myself so far but I already noticed my second step felt stronger than I expected, so I'm in no hurry to climb. Hearing that most of you lost the bulk of it on the weakest doses makes me feel better about camping where I am. Appetite returning for a week straight seems like the common trigger here, so that's what I'll watch for too.

Camping early seems to be the winning move - I'm only 5 down myself and every single pound has come at the very bottom step, so I'm in no rush either. My plan is to treat hunger coming back for a week straight as my green light and just accept that slow-looking progress might actually be the fast lane.

I stalled out mentally at the same spot - kept feeling like I should climb just because I could. What settled it for me was realizing my appetite stayed quiet for six straight weeks at a dose I thought was too weak. Slower pace ended up being the least stressful maintenance experiment I've run.