u/santiago_lindqvist

Correction: that trial measured regain after withdrawal, not failure of the drug during treatment. Very different claim.

Is the goal weight still the one you picked at the start?

Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth les

Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.

Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions.

Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.

I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.

maintenance is a phase, not a finish line

Same.

hassan_ostergaard is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.

Is the goal weight still the one you picked at the start?

Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.

Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. That is a pharmacological finding about a chronic condition, not a statement about anyone’s discipline.