thats fluctuation
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#maintenance 2026-04-02
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Highlights from this day
- plus_sixteen — protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive 09:22
- gorse_gains — how quickly did appetite come back going from 5 to 1 11:00
- impersonator_ip — i dropped from 10 to 2.4 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months, still working it out 12:40
- gorse_gains — i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side 13:33
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
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regain is expected
does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same $185 a month
SURPASS-2 is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
[edited]i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
[edited]the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
im holding at 10 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
how quickly did appetite come back going from 5 to 1
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everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, still working it out
how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
mine didnt hold
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
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weekly not daily
my range is 30 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
did anyone regret dropping the dose too fast
update on the earlier thing a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved, ymmv
i dropped from 10 to 2.4 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months, still working it out
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follow up holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it, still working it out
am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
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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
no official dose
im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
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the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
set a trigger weight
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mine held
[edited]no data on that
thats SURPASS-2
[edited]is maintenance different between semaglutide and the others or is that all anecdote
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
i put 39 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
same as a bp tablet