#maintenance 2025-10-22

coming back after 6 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers

*Janoshik not the other one

anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully

food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me

i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me, not advice obviously

protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive, i think

coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month

the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again

regain is expected

how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing

did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were

anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule

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
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month

i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else

holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it

i came off for four months, put 57 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers

the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
i put 48 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round

i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side

mine didnt hold

dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly

protein up not down

regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says

quick one update from 15 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal

sorry to jump in i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan

how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled

if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room

everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, for what its worth

there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping, ill dig out the number

no official dose

is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule

if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve

whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain

is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 23

mine held

appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it