When your watching live data why not add a log in there too.
Watch Afr, Boost Air Temps, Boost Pressure, Maf G/S, Long term Fuel Trims, RPM, Timing, Knock Retard... and the most important of all is fuel pressure. there are some other pretty ones but they dont really matter much for tuning ie: actual pedal position, voltage, speed, etc...
In your situation that sounds about right, the stockish maps run really rich if at high load values or seeing some knock conditions.
but thats a ton of boost for a stage 1 map. For reference i hold 17-18psi of boost with an 11.8 - 11.9 afr (stage 1 map modified by me), but have sick fuel pressure drop offs. Im seeing anything under 1400psi, my worst dip was to around 900. i think the only thing saving my motor is the fact that it has not been above 0 degrees C in Canada land for the last little while. And this could also be the other contributing cause of my fuel pressure dips is the weather.
I have been told by a very all knowing user here that drops in fuel pressure under about 1400psi are really bad because to compensate the injector pulse widths become longer, so the car is adding fuel but not a well atomized as it does with high pressures. This could lead to some knock conditions and possibly a failure of my motor if any detonation was to occur.
Because i cant afford a hpfp to hold better fuel pressure i need to turn the boost down

sadness.
COLES NOTES: you should log your fuel pressure too just to make sure its not dipping really badly.