#maintenance 2025-09-06

thats fluctuation

the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel

still at maintenance

how quickly did appetite come back going from 1 to 2.4

update from 20 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room

appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for, ymmv

i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me

appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it

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lift twice a week

weekly not daily

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sorry to jump in two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation

the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it, thats one data point

slightly off topic but food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me, n of 1 obviously

nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did

everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, not advice obviously

genuine question is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule

FLOW is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion

i went to every ten days at a low dose and it held for me. n of 1, and i keep saying that out loud, ill dig out the number

im holding at 0.5 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower

same as a bp tablet

set a trigger weight

the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve

whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about

protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive

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cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower

right so is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 10

did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to

regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says, your mileage will differ

im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing

a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved

dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly

if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
my range is 46 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain

i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose

i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it

i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else

went back up, no regrets

thats STEP 1