did anyone regret dropping the dose too fast
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#maintenance 2026-05-16
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- ollie_orders — how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled 21:49
- still_here_2024 — is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us 22:08
- pia_plateaus — how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose 22:14
- cat_on_the_tray — food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me 22:40
- amsterdam_aliquot — STEP 1 is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion 23:07
how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
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does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, thats one data point
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule
coming back to this if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
regain is expected
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
*that should say weekly
still at maintenance
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2stopped 19 months ago and put 41 back on, what did people do at that point
i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
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set a trigger weight
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
update from 2 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal, i could be wrong
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive, i could be wrong
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whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
how much regain did people get in the first 6 months after stopping
went back up, no regrets
same as a bp tablet
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
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the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
New independent result logged — TFC, lot F-1330, purity 96.8% (VendorInvestigate).
is maintenance different between semaglutide and the others or is that all anecdote
unrelated but i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was
slightly off topic but the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
thats FLOW
no official dose
i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
STEP 1 is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
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the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
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coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
coming back after 11 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
i came off for four months, put 61 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
while im here how quickly did appetite come back going from 5 to 2.4
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
thats fluctuation
appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for