harder than losing
#maintenance 2026-06-12
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no official dose
same as a bp tablet
right so food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
come down slower than that
sorry to jump in if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
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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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whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
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
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protein up not down
On this day 4 years ago this channel logged 68 messages.
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i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
rotate_the_siteregain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also…
i dropped from 5 to 10 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
is maintenance different between retatrutide and the others or is that all anecdote
i put 14 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
did anyone regret dropping the dose too fast
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coming back to this the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
went back up, no regrets
thats fluctuation
update from 24 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal, not advice obviously
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2follow up appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
how much regain did people get in the first 3 months after stopping
i came off for four months, put 62 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
stopped 15 months ago and put 37 back on, what did people do at that point
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the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
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
weekly not daily
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is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
regain is expected
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month, not advice obviously
how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
mine held
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
FLOW is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested