Low and slow is the way with AI—start super small if you need it at all. A lot of conflicting stuff online about it. I'd rather dial up gradually than deal with the fallout. As for the hormone recheck, most say wait 8 weeks, so you're reading the signs till then.
5'7, started February, never above 1mg, averaging 1 pound a week across the run, high weight 245 but started at 200, now at 144 in maintenance - that is a remarkably clean low-dose trajectory. The OP's 7 months at similar starting demographics is a useful benchmark for someone who hasn't hit goal yet.
Staying at 5.0 while the scale slows is exactly the right call once you've hit goal. The slightly higher calorie intake for maintenance is the real adjustment now - the medication handles the hunger signal, you calibrate the intake. How's the hunger been since shifting to maintenance mode?
the portion habit that develops on semaglutide and then stays when the medication ends is the mechanism that gives weight maintenance a structural foundation - the medication is not just suppressing appetite but changing the learned relationship with portion size through repetition. the not-gained-back-a-single-pound outcome at goal weight is the evidence that the habit transfer actually happened rather than just the medication effect