how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
#maintenance 2026-06-28
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- maple_maths — is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 15 14:45
- factory_direct_fi — is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us 16:58
- baseline_drift — slightly off topic but im holding at 0.25 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower 19:50
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous, not advice obviously
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is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 15
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whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
mine held
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same $185 a month
for the archive protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
[edited]coming back after 21 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers
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appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing
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quick one if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
slightly off topic but everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
SELECT is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it, thats one data point
is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us
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my range is 3 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
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lift twice a week
is maintenance different between tirzepatide and the others or is that all anecdote
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2i put 8 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
slightly off topic but im holding at 0.25 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
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