Ideas/critique?
I'm heading toward maintenance and hoping to get some opinions and "what worked for me" feedback on my tentative plan. I'm thinking of titrating down very incrementally when I'm a couple of pounds above the top end of my goal weight range, and then week by week, seeing if I need to cut my dose down further. As a 5 foot tall woman in my 70s, my goal range is 128 to 120 pounds. For clarity, I'm one of those (maybe unintentionally annoying?) people who responded so strongly to 2.5 mg that after three shots, with my doctor's guidance, we cut my dose down to 1.25 mg via kwikpen. I've since titrated up over several months to roughly 1.67 mg (40 clicks on my 2.5 mg kwikpen). I don't do well at all with spacing shots farther apart but I'm very responsive to incremental dose changes.
Tentative plan: once I weigh 130 pounds, start reducing my dose by two clicks per shot (ie, first change takes me down to around 1.58 mg). If I lose more than one pound a week on that dose, keep decreasing the dose by another two clicks per shot until the weight loss slows to less than a half pound per week. Around then, see if adding more calories puts me at maintenance. I'm already weight lifting two or three times a week, and hiking a couple of times a week, so I've been adding muscle while losing fat. I plan to continue that, and my doctor will continue to monitor with Dexa scans.
I totally get that people's responses can be wildly different, but I'm wondering: Have others tried anything similar to this? Do you see potential pitfalls? Ideas for improvement?