resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
#maintenance 2026-01-28
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- marrow.mod — sorry to jump in appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for 18:12
- ghk_gia — i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can… 19:02
- lean_mass_lex — i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me 20:56
right so is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
sorry to jump in 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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set a trigger weight
same as a bp tablet
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
SURMOUNT-OSA is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion, ymmv
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
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i came off for four months, put 94 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
mine didnt hold
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2mine held
how quickly did appetite come back going from 7.5 to 10
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
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the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
i put 35 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
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how much regain did people get in the first 26 months after stopping
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
[edited]no data on that
lift twice a week
follow up i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
*week 16 not week 4