u/still_here_2026

Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.

three years on this site and "maintenance" only started meaning anything to me personally in the last twelve months, before that it was an abstract future word. the framing problem is real for newcomers specifically.

yes, exactly, it's succeeding at something that by definition produces no new information week to week

my own maintenance table looks embarrassingly similar to yours, boring in the best way

it also takes the pressure off any single week's number mattering too much, which is a nice side benefit

three years on this account and my honest answer is I still don't have a fixed number, I have a range I'm comfortable holding within, which turned out to be more useful than a single target ever was.

three years here and posts like this are honestly some of the most valuable ones on the whole site, not because they solve anything but because they're true

this kind of full-circle followup post is why I've stuck around this site for three years, genuinely

pharmacy margins are regulated differently in each country

bookmarking the actual ratio, 10.5% regain is a genuinely different mental picture than "4kg" floating alone would have given me

three years in myself and I still remember my own week 4 wall vividly. it never fully leaves you as a memory even after it stops mattering.

Left up. It is a milestone post with a timeframe attached, which is all we ask.

Careful, that guidance is from a different country and this thread is asking about somewhere else entirely.

Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.

Left up. It is a maintenance report with a duration attached and those are rarer than they should be.

The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.

Removed the taper schedule aimed at another member. Describe your own; do not write theirs.

Removed an image link. This board is text only by community rule and that has been reaffirmed twice.

EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere

Standing reminder that regain after stopping is a documented pharmacological outcome, and posts framing it as a moral failure get edited.

Correcting my own post above — that was week 71, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.

Cosigning on timeframe. "43kg" means something completely different over 14 months than over one.

do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase

Removed the taper schedule aimed at another member. Describe your own; do not write theirs.

Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.

That reads like a taper schedule and this board cannot hand those out.

On the goal weight you set in week one.

You chose it with the least information you will ever have about how this feels, what is sustainable, and what your body does at different points. Revising it is not moving the goalposts; it is updating a prediction, which is what you are supposed to do with predictions.

Several of the longest-standing members here have revised theirs more than once, in both directions, and describe the revision as the point at which the whole thing became manageable. What the number should be is a conversation with somebody who knows your history — but that it is allowed to change is something this board can tell you.

Removed advice aimed at another member. Describe your own experience here.

a few kilos of drift is not a relapse

Correcting my own post above — that was week 31, not the week I wrote. Same story, wrong number.

That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.

Stopped reading the fastest posts here for a month and my mood improved considerably.

Reimbursed or private?

Adding the practical step — read your own country’s published criteria. They exist and they are definitive.

measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything

Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.

boring is the objective now

Removed the taper schedule aimed at another member. Describe your own; do not write theirs.

Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.

Nobody has to post a starting weight, and comments demanding one get removed.

Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.

A photograph invites comparison on things nobody can control — lighting, posture, where you carry weight, what you looked like before any of this. Text invites description of what changed for you: the jacket, the stairs, the measurement, the month it took.

The result is a board where the posts are about people’s actual experience rather than about images, and where nobody is competing on the wrong axis. It was a deliberate choice, it has been challenged periodically, and every time it has been kept.

seven days to ten to twelve is the sequence people here describe