Those who have hit maintenance on GLP-1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been on maintenance for about 9 months now. I take 1 mg/week of tirzepatide. This is less than half of the 2.5 mg starting dose. It's working great. I still can't get over the miracle of GLP-1. I'm 48 years old and this is the first time in my life, since age 13, where I haven't been obsessing about food, counting calories, wrestling with myself over what I'm going to eat/trying not to eat, hating my body, being upset about my weight.

I'm at my dream weight and with one teeny weeny injection on Sundays, it's effortless.

Same. It's honestly life altering.

[Anonymous]

For people that are taking less than 2.5 mg of Zepbound, how frequently are you buying vials? I believe Lilyl charges more if you order more than 45 days apart (which seems like it should not be allowed, by the way). Are you just buying tons of extras or are you paying more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been on maintenance for about 9 months now. I take 1 mg/week of tirzepatide. This is less than half of the 2.5 mg starting dose. It's working great. I still can't get over the miracle of GLP-1. I'm 48 years old and this is the first time in my life, since age 13, where I haven't been obsessing about food, counting calories, wrestling with myself over what I'm going to eat/trying not to eat, hating my body, being upset about my weight.

I'm at my dream weight and with one teeny weeny injection on Sundays, it's effortless.

Nobody else worries this is just too easy and too good to be true sort of drug? I’m happy now, but I’m always thinking about what I might learn about this drug in 10 years. Will I regret it because I’m going to be hit with some awful life altering side effect?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been on maintenance for about 9 months now. I take 1 mg/week of tirzepatide. This is less than half of the 2.5 mg starting dose. It's working great. I still can't get over the miracle of GLP-1. I'm 48 years old and this is the first time in my life, since age 13, where I haven't been obsessing about food, counting calories, wrestling with myself over what I'm going to eat/trying not to eat, hating my body, being upset about my weight.

I'm at my dream weight and with one teeny weeny injection on Sundays, it's effortless.

Nobody else worries this is just too easy and too good to be true sort of drug? I’m happy now, but I’m always thinking about what I might learn about this drug in 10 years. Will I regret it because I’m going to be hit with some awful life altering side effect?

No, for two reasons.

1. Medicine is just medicine. Americans have this Puritan streak that tells us if something is nice, it must have a downside, but science isn't a morality play. Sometimes your body is lacking a hormone, so you add it in. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that.

2. Maybe it will cause a surprising and awful side effect. That will suck! But being a heart attack risk, taking statins, having joint pain, etc also suck. I might regret the medicine later, but I might have regretted not taking it now, and we don't get to know in advance.

[Anonymous]

Zepbound 10 mg once a month

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For people that are taking less than 2.5 mg of Zepbound, how frequently are you buying vials? I believe Lilyl charges more if you order more than 45 days apart (which seems like it should not be allowed, by the way). Are you just buying tons of extras or are you paying more?

I have not noticed a price increase from Lily. I take 2.5mg of Zep once a month. The highest dosage I reached was an actual full vial, so roughly 3.2mg. Lost 30 lbs over 8 months and have kept it off for nearly a year with this method. The only bummer is that my joint pain has returned (I assumed I had less joint pain because I'd lost weight, but now I'm thinking the GLP was helping address that issue as well).

I do have some food noise now, but just know that I need to be a bit more careful toward the second half of the month. When I was doing every other week, I continued to lose weight, and I didn't want to go lower, so I moved to the monthly shot. I tried doing a smaller injection every other week, but that really didn't do much vis-à-vis food noise.

[Anonymous]

I've been on zepbound 2.5 for about 6 months, lost weight really fast at first, and now have totally plateaued at my goal weight- which is my weight from pre-kids, and my old baseline weight in my 20s. I havent changed the dose, havent gained back, also havent lost any weight in the last 2 months. i do have food noise occasionally, and my diet isnt great anymore- calories in is the same i think (around 1200 if i count, which i only do out of curiosity at the end of the day sometimes) but ill just eat the type of food i feel like eating and some days thats a chocolate croissant for breakfast. but the difference is, i have zero guilt with eating it, and when i do, it makes me feel sort of full and bleh so i dont eat much for lunch other than some protein and fruit, because thats what im in the mood for.

assuming ill just stay on this dose for the forseable future and maybe try to wean down if im still stable in a few months, but i dont really see the point

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zepbound 10 mg once a month

Why wouldn’t you take 2.5 every week instead? That’s a big up once a months, any specific reason for doing so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For people that are taking less than 2.5 mg of Zepbound, how frequently are you buying vials? I believe Lilyl charges more if you order more than 45 days apart (which seems like it should not be allowed, by the way). Are you just buying tons of extras or are you paying more?

I have not noticed a price increase from Lily. I take 2.5mg of Zep once a month. The highest dosage I reached was an actual full vial, so roughly 3.2mg. Lost 30 lbs over 8 months and have kept it off for nearly a year with this method. The only bummer is that my joint pain has returned (I assumed I had less joint pain because I'd lost weight, but now I'm thinking the GLP was helping address that issue as well).

I do have some food noise now, but just know that I need to be a bit more careful toward the second half of the month. When I was doing every other week, I continued to lose weight, and I didn't want to go lower, so I moved to the monthly shot. I tried doing a smaller injection every other week, but that really didn't do much vis-à-vis food noise.

So how often do you order it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lost 60 pounds but my weight lost just slowed down naturally while on it and now my weight is pretty constant. I never got to the top dose but I have just stayed at my current dose. Food noise slowly came back a little but its not bad. Its been a little over 2 years. I don't want to gain anything back so I'm okay just staying where I am even though its a little expensive.

Similar experience here. Lost almost 100lbs and have been in maintenance for over a year. My weight just kind of plateaued around where I wanted it while on 10mg of Zepbound, so I’ve just stayed on 10mg weekly. My weight has been stable without me needing to track or obsess. I figure if it’s working, why change it? Food noise has come back but not nearly as bad, so sometimes I will take more of my vial, like 11-12mg, to try to have some more peace of mind. But even with the increased food noise, my weight remains stable.