This piece of maintenance genuinely fascinates me. Hit a target number, then for three to five months I just drift a couple pounds either side of it before eventually landing three to five pounds under where I began. My theory is the body needs time getting comfortable at an unfamiliar weight before trusting it's safe there. Happened four separate times since reaching goal, similar pattern and rough timeframe each round. So I trimmed my maintenance dose, the one I'd held steady for eighteen months, hoping a small drop breaks this cycle.