Maintenance woes
After about a year on zepbound I reached what I considered to be my "goal". I put that term loosely because a specific number wasn't really my goal, my goal was good health (which I've achieved) and feeling confident and comfortable in my body, which I also reached. I reached that milestone about a month and a half ago. I declared myself "in maintenance". I continued with my 7.5mg weekly dose, but decided to stop weighing daily and added in an extra snack or two each day to increase my intake (I never counted calories on this medication and never will).
However since then I've slowly dropped a few more pounds. Not really a big deal at first glance as my BMI is still in the overweight range so there was room to go down. But those few pounds have made such a drastic change in my body. Suddenly, even my smaller clothes that I bought are now too big. I need new jeans in the next size down. I'm staring down the barrel of a full wardrobe replacement! The problem is, I really don't want to lose any more weight. I have never been thin. I am tall with broad shoulders and a big frame and I think I look best with some curves.
I don't know where to go from here. I'm afraid to drop my dose down to 5mg because I don't want the food noise to come back, and my doctors office is very slow with putting in prescriptions so I'm afraid if I need to switch back to 7.5 it will take a long time. I don't think spacing out doses would work well either, as I have my weekly shots timed to have the least appetite suppression on weekends so I can enjoy heavier meals or alcohol with family and friends. I can continue trying to add in more calories but my intake and activity varies so much day to day that I'm not sure how to go about it without counting. Any tips? Does it level out?