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Weight Loss Medication – Maintenance Guide

Weight Loss Medication – Maintenance Guide

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Maintenance Dosing

So you reached your weight loss goal – congratulations! It’s possible to keep weight off after using weight loss medication, but long-term success requires other weight management strategies, such as diet and exercise. Even with healthy lifestyle interventions, hormones, metabolism, and brain chemistry can all play a role in whether you gain weight after weight loss, even if you’re eating healthy and exercising. This is why some people may need to do maintenance dosing to keep the weight off. Just like managing high blood pressure or high cholesterol, where medication is often required in addition to lifestyle changes, weight loss can be similar.

To maintain goal weight, patients may need to do maintenance dosing. You take a low dose of the medication to maintain results and prevent weight regain. Maintenance dosing can look different for everyone. What Renew MedSpa recommends is based off what we see with our own patients’ success. Upon reaching your weight loss goal, your dose is reduced to a low dose, and you can do one injection every week or every other week, depending on your needs. Some patients may need higher dosing for maintenance. We will start you on a low dose and adjust as needed. For higher maintenance dosing, it is not recommended to skip weeks and to do these doses every week, to avoid negative side effects. The lowest starting dosage is for treatment initiation and is not intended for glycemic control. Maintenance dosing should not be started until you reach your weight loss goal.

Medication Refills

  • When you are ready to order more medication: 1) complete a weight loss medication online check-in here; 2) send an email to julie.davis@renewmedspamn.com requesting a refill. A check-in is required before we can order more medication for you.
  • When you’re due for a refill, we recommend starting the refill process when you still have two injections remaining in your current supply. This way you won’t run out of medication in between orders.

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