Hitting maintenance dose?! Update!

[pewterer]

Appreciate you telling your story! Plenty of variables at play, but I think I'll step down to the minimum dose that still works, once I reach maintenance. Such a wild ride!

 

[miso-steppedup69]

I only spent a few weeks on .5 before dropping back down, since I was losing too fast. In maintenance now, I stay near .3/.35 each 7-10 days. You might well hold .5.

 

[DerekwilliamsC]

Im definitely someone who does best on the smallest working dose. Even so, during my first month or two i fought the urge to increase. Now i hope i dont need to. First, my stash lasts much longer, and second, i worry that once i start increasing, where does it stop? My current dose is a maintenance one, and the plan is staying on it for good, so the longer i hold a dose the better.

 

[plateau_again]

Started this post-menopause with metabolic syndrome plus PCOS, and didn't see real movement until the top couple doses. Took my BMI down from 36 to roughly 20 over about two years, then lost another 15 slower during maintenance after. Lately I've bounced between 15 and either 7.5 or 10, going by click counting. Started back in December 2023. Maintenance has always been my weak spot, so I held off on titrating down and ran 15 longer to feel solid, that dose genuinely suited me best. Put a few pounds back on at 7.5 weekly. Also tried spacing the 15 dose out, adding a week then two or three between shots, hated the rollercoaster, fatigue and nausea after a longer gap hit way harder than weekly ever did. Everyone's mileage varies a lot with this stuff.