there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
#maintenance 2025-04-13
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- impersonator_ip — did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to 21:07
- impersonator_ip — update from 18 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once,… 21:19
- lean_mass_lex — i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose 21:54
- sulphur_burp — whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about 23:58
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
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the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
regain is expected
slightly off topic but is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
unrelated but regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
update from 18 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
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appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
follow up protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
how much regain did people get in the first 21 months after stopping
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
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how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
set a trigger weight
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
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unrelated but i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
i put 38 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round, for what its worth
does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same $185 a month
protein up not down
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mine didnt hold
no official dose
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved, take that with a pinch of salt
STEP 4 is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule
thats SURPASS-2
i came off for four months, put 83 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 1
whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
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