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#maintenance 2025-11-10

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  • lean_mass_lex — whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain 12:31
  • plus_sixteen — while im here whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about 13:58
  • cagri_curious — i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan 14:11
DE

i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand

LM

nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did

LM

i put 47 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round

LM

whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain

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LM

did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to

weekly not daily

slightly off topic but cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower

DE

coming back after 2 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers

GG

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

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the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it

PS

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

Cited study
Continued Treatment with Tirzepatide for Maintenance of Weight Reduction (SURMOUNT-4)
JAMA · 2024
Randomised withdrawal after a 36-week lead-in. Pairs with STEP 4.

while im here whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about

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maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested

CC

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

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

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RR

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

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