Mounjaro / Wegovy with > 5st / 30kg to lose - Alumni Maintenance Thread

[WeAllHaveWings]

Trying the new Community groups feature for a maintenance focussed thread for our Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose alumni 👩‍🎓

All Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose posters and lurkers who enjoyed the supportive weight loss thread welcome whether you have graduated to maintenance already or getting close and pondering what happens next!

I expect this thread will be much quieter than our main Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose thread (which has been running for almost 2 years now!) as it feels intensity drops when in maintenance, but it would be great to keep in touch with everyone now and again and how we are all getting on post-weight loss and what we find works / doesn't work.

I'll start the thread with Mumsnet maintenance posts most repeated practical maintenance advice gathered by asking CoPilot to look at the board -

🚫 Don’t stop abruptly – taper your dose and/or slowly space injections; stopping suddenly often means hunger and regain

🎯 Aim for the lowest dose that keeps food noise calm, not zero at all costs

🍽️ Expect appetite to return – hunger is normal in maintenance, not a personal failure

🔄 Don’t jump from dieting straight to “normal eating” – a slow reverse diet (adding food gradually) helps weight stay off

🍗 Keep protein‑first habits and the smaller portions you learned while losing

🏥 Check your provider supports maintenance (some stop prescribing below certain BMIs)

📏 Allow a weight “zone” (±2–5 lb) rather than chasing one exact number

🧠 Weigh less often – watch trends, not single‑day/week blips

🚶‍♀️💪 Walk regularly; add gentle strength if you can – movement supports stability and confidence

💭 Expect maintenance to feel mentally harder than loss – less scale feedback doesn’t mean you aren’t succeeding 💛

(Hope this works in the Mumsnet Community Group feature!)

It wasn’t what I first typed out @WeAllHaveWings

but this is one of my happy places on the internet so I modified myself 🤣

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How is everyone getting on?

I’m currently on holiday with my family, and really noticing being another 20-ish kg down on last year. Actually enjoying the heat, and being able to get involved with everything. A very strange NSV (which I checked with Google and is a thing) is that I can no longer float 🤯🤯 (well - I can, but need to actively move my arms and legs whereas previously could just lie back). Makes sense if you think about it, I just never had!

I decided to reduce my dose again very slightly as I’m still slowly losing. Bit worried about the food noise, but am hoping if I up the protein and fibre it might offset it a bit 🤞🤞

Another month on maintenance and graph update. Not much to report, just moseying along. Considering dropping this weeks dose to 2mg as everything is quite stable and it will give me an extra week out of current pen.

I have a 21st birthday party next weekend and really struggling to find something to wear. It is likely going to be black trousers and flat boots (I can't deal with heels anymore after ankle fracture/ongoing drop foot) but I am struggling to find a nice top that is baggy enough to disguise the loose skin on stomach (B belly apron above and below waist) and not look like a pyjama top! i have ordered so much on line my bedroom looks like a royal mail depot with all the returns 🙈

Well done on your maintenance. Hope you find something to wear that you like.

I am 4kg away from my target weight - 60kg.
I have stayed about the same weight in the last 4 weeks because I wanted to slow down my weight loss. I have found that really tricky tbh.
I increased my daily calories by 250 but kept up same 10k steps per day and strength training routine. I gained 500g in the first two weeks!
I cut down my calories by 100 and if i do above 15K steps, i keep strength training/any workout to 15 - 20 mins. Since then i haven't gained or lost. I didn't expect to find it tricky.
Well done on maintaining!

I'd say its normal to gain a little at first when on maintenance; your body suddenly has more food, liquid etc. 500g is fine, i gained a couple of pounds straight away but it settled down. I have been maintaining since january this year, gradually increasing calories. The aim for me is to be able to eat as much as possible without gaining fat. Maintenance is quite boring though; i do miss the dopamine hit of the losses!

I'm not getting any loss dopamine at the moment!

Shotsy tells me in total I've lost 2.55kg over the last 3 months...

I knew I was slowing down but it really has! I know a plateau often happens in long term weight loss, and I've been good about not getting too frustrated initially... but I'm over it now!

I do think the heat, starting hrt and increasing exercise and going away all contributed a bit so hopeful I will start reducing again soon.

I do know its normal for weight loss to slow down as you get closer to goal but now Im crawling!

I'm 7 lb from bmi 25. And I really wanted to go a stone less...

18 months at maintenance for me now, first time in adult life my weight has stayed exactly the same (literally 40 years 😨). I’ve gone down a dose, my previous maintenance dose this whole time was 10mg. So I’ve gone down to 7.5mg over last two months, chiefly to be able to eat more so I could exercise more. I noticed that I really only had energy for one ‘thing’ a day, work OR exercise.

So far so good. At least a 2 hour walk or a set of exercises plus another ‘activity’ like work or ironing. Weights not moved, feel better for eating more.

Eating more has felt alot better for me too. Im at approx 1800 calories now, but i do need to get an overall calorie burn of 600-700 calories a day from a workout, steps and general activity to enable me to eat so much. Wouldn' be as hard to do that if i didnt have a sedentary desk job!