unrelated but i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
#maintenance 2026-05-13
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- pin29g — quick one the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again 21:37
- VialBot — Archive lookup: truncation_tru first appears in this channel on 2026-01-18. 22:19
- fasting_insulin — stopped 17 months ago and put 37 back on, what did people do at that point 22:34
- pharmac_pen — SELECT is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion, your mileage will differ 23:24
- forty_five_kg — dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly there is no trial on every ten days or every fortnight.… 23:42
set a trigger weight
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
mine held
is maintenance different between semaglutide and the others or is that all anecdote
quick one whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
lift twice a week
thats fluctuation
thats SURMOUNT-1
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
quick one the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
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if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
ok so i dropped from 1.7 to 15 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
slightly off topic but how much regain did people get in the first 22 months after stopping
im holding at 1.7 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
update from 19 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
same as a bp tablet
i put 17 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it, for what its worth
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
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does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
how quickly did appetite come back going from 2.4 to 2.5
how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing
the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
stopped 17 months ago and put 37 back on, what did people do at that point
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
come down slower than that
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there is no trial on every ten days or every fortnight. people here do it and report on it and that is all we have
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holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
truncation_trucoming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it…
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
[edited]right so how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
SELECT is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion, your mileage will differ
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
[edited]resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous, i could be wrong
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
there is no trial on every ten days or every fortnight. people here do it and report on it and that is all we have