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Most clinics either keep you at maintenance dose forever or have you stop cold turkey. The middle path, a structured taper, is more workable than either, but the protocol isn't standardized. Here's what's known.
The trial averages on regain mask substantial variance. The patterns that predict who keeps the loss and who doesn't are partly biological and partly behavioral.
A reader at month 12 asked me what happens if she stops. The honest answer involves the trial data on weight regain, the lifestyle changes that determine how much, and a more useful frame: stopping isn't a single event, it's a process that takes about as long as starting did.