Anonymous
11/09/2025 17:49
Subject: Almost to goal weight on GLP-1 — maintenance?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have about 8 more pounds until I hit my goal weight (which will be about 40 pounds lost). I’m currently on compounded from Willow at $300 a month. Semaglutide is the only thing that has ever worked for me and I don’t think I can go cold turkey. But, I’m not sure I want to spend $300 a month on this the rest of my life especially if I just go down to a maintenance dose. How have others approached maintenance once down to goal?
You pay and stay on it even if spreading out the doses to save some money. If GLP 1 is the only thing that has ever worked for you you will gain the weight back when you go off. people think weight loss is the hard part, but in reality maintaining the weigh loss is the really hard part.
+1000
Anonymous
11/09/2025 17:11
Subject: Almost to goal weight on GLP-1 — maintenance?
I lost 18lb (going from slightly overweight to 22.5 BMI) which took me 4 months of lowest dose Zepbound. I stretched the doses for the last month out so that they were 10-12 days instead of 7. And then when they finished I stopped, and I feel exactly as I did while on them, same appetite, same eating habits and I have maintained the weight.
Anonymous
11/07/2025 13:44
Subject: Almost to goal weight on GLP-1 — maintenance?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have about 8 more pounds until I hit my goal weight (which will be about 40 pounds lost). I’m currently on compounded from Willow at $300 a month. Semaglutide is the only thing that has ever worked for me and I don’t think I can go cold turkey. But, I’m not sure I want to spend $300 a month on this the rest of my life especially if I just go down to a maintenance dose. How have others approached maintenance once down to goal?
Doctor said two things when I raised concerns about maintenance before starting that I think were really key: 1. If you've landed in the obese category and needed to lose 30+ pounds, you are more likely to need to be on the medication for life because that correlates to a capacity for overeating, questionable diet/exercise choices, and/or your body's metabolism isn't functioning properly. If you are in "the need to lose 10-25ish range" and have good habits, you likely will be able to do step-down maintenance and then cease taking the medication altogether. 2. It is a myth that GLPs do not work if you stop and try to start again later. So, if you stepped down to injections 2x month and then decided to take a break for 6 months, you could pick up and start taking the medication again because you were seeing weight gain, it would work.
Thank you for this! I’m in the “need to lose 10 lbs” category and may not ever increase my dose. I’m losing 1lb a week (2 weeks in). Of course the holidays are around the corner…