Wouldn't maintaining the dose that helped you lose half your body weight continue to result in weight loss? It seems nuts that your provider thinks you need to continue that dose?

Did you change your overall eating and fitness habits while you were losing? If so, I'm not sure why you would need the meds to maintain unless your metabolism is messed up to the point where you need to only eat 1000 calories (I'm larger than you at 5'4 and 120, but I can maintain this weight at 2000 calories)

My simple answer to this post was to exercise hard on a regular basis. Somehow it was deleted.

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Anonymous wrote:109 is unhealthy range unless you’re 5 feet.

I'm 5'3" and I'm not considered under weight at 109. I'll be on this drug forever and I'm fine with that.

I hope you eat a lot of protein and lift weights. Yikes.

It's the same BMI as 5'6'' and 120 lbs: 19.5ish. I prefer 20-21 BMI for me but honestly, it's fine. You're reacting to a small #, not the # in context.

Anonymous wrote:Not to pile on, OP at 109 lbs, but I guarantee you don’t look well. And I’m not jealous. I have a relative who very proudly is showing off her new “figure” all while we gasp at her emaciated appearance. She’s gone from a cute, smiley 50 year old to a frail, positively elderly looking woman in one year.

Np. You’re so jealous!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm maintaining on the max dose (2.4 Wegovy for me) but I just space it out more. Usually every 10-14 days.
My doc considers this a lifetime drug and is not trying to wean me off of it.

Congrats on your weight loss! One thing to think about is landing at a set clothing size rather than between sizes - personally I prefer to be a couple pounds heavier and have most things fit off the rack, rather than have everything be either too loose or too tight when I try it on.

Is there a reason to do it every 10-14 days versus halving the dose and doing it weekly?

I take the brand name stuff that comes in a pen so I dont know how I would halve the dose.

I'm 5'3" and would never want to be 109lbs. I'm 124 now, and feel like that's a great weight on me.

But I'm active and lift weights. I have no desire to look emaciated.

Not to pile on, OP at 109 lbs, but I guarantee you don’t look well. And I’m not jealous. I have a relative who very proudly is showing off her new “figure” all while we gasp at her emaciated appearance. She’s gone from a cute, smiley 50 year old to a frail, positively elderly looking woman in one year.

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Anonymous wrote:109 is unhealthy range unless you’re 5 feet.

I'm 5'3" and I'm not considered under weight at 109. I'll be on this drug forever and I'm fine with that.

109 is borderline underweight for an adult who is 5’3”.

OP - presuming you’re female. What is your age?

Saying this out of concern, but I’m an inch taller and weighed 115 when I was a competitive cheerleader and gymnast IN HIGH SCHOOL at 16.

I’m PP in dcum thread, “activities you won’t allow” and I stated that I’m anti-dance/cheer/gymnastics/figure skating precisely because of the enormous pressure to maintain a certain ideal and weight.

So at my very skinniest, I was advised to follow a diet (which I did) and went to college with an eating disorder.

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Anonymous wrote:109 is unhealthy range unless you’re 5 feet.

I'm 5'3" and I'm not considered under weight at 109. I'll be on this drug forever and I'm fine with that.

109 is borderline underweight for an adult who is 5’3”.

I have an adult daughter who struggles with weight due to a medical illness and would be ecstatic if she could hit 105, the threshold for healthy, and maintain that. Most of the time she is in the high 90s and has gone as low as 93.

I cut my dose in half for a month, then half of that for a month, then moved to bi-weekly shots for 2 months, then one shot per month for 2 months - so a 6 month weaning phase. My weight fluctuates within a 4 pound range.

My husband went cold turkey because he had to skip a week for a scheduled medical procedure that was then delayed and suddenly it had been 6 weeks off. He gained back 10 pounds in about 2 months before he realized he really did have to work at the new lifestyle now that the shot didn’t do it for him.