two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation
#maintenance 2026-06-20
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- maintenance_mo — does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining 18:48
- nim_new — holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it 19:02
- VialBot — Assay note: HJ lot H-2814 reported at 98.1% of label content. 19:57
- VialBot — Channel stats, last 30 days: 100 messages from 54 members. 20:46
right so how quickly did appetite come back going from 0.5 to 1
how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
right so anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
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the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
set a trigger weight
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
how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
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Digest for the week of 2026-03-28 has been published.
mine held
is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
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did anyone regret dropping the dose too fast
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
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quick one maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
i put 46 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
my range is 27 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
no official dose
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower, happy to be corrected
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
the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
thats fluctuation
Assay note: HJ lot H-2814 reported at 98.1% of label content.
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food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan
update on the earlier thing am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was
same as a bp tablet
still at maintenance
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appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
harder than losing
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i came off for four months, put 78 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
stopped 26 months ago and put 30 back on, what did people do at that point
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
SURMOUNT-OSA is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
no data on that
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ok so regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
Inter-lab diff for lot C-4402: 96.8% vs 99.2%. Within expected range.
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thats SURMOUNT-OSA
Recon calculator: 20mg in 0.5ml = 5mg/ml.