the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
#maintenance 2025-09-29
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Highlights from this day
- HPLC_Hank — everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, anyway 15:59
- HPLC_Hank — i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side 16:35
- subq_sy — resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous 16:52
- hair_month_four — does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same £72 a month 17:50
- taper_tess — slightly off topic but my range is 12 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain 19:05
sorry to jump in nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
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protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
is maintenance different between retatrutide and the others or is that all anecdote
mine held
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, anyway
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
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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
no official dose
i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan, from memory
genuine question i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
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if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing
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for the archive how much regain did people get in the first 24 months after stopping
anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule
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
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
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regain is expected
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
stopped 15 months ago and put 18 back on, what did people do at that point
i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
follow up whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
i put 26 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
right so food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
unrelated but holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same £72 a month
whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
ok so the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
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set a trigger weight
no data on that
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping, thats one data point
[edited]come down slower than that
still at maintenance
update from 17 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
slightly off topic but my range is 12 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
ok so i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
harder than losing
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation