I hit my goal about 14 months ago — 61 pounds down from my peak — and maintenance has been mostly boring, which I've learned to appreciate. Lifting three mornings a week, walking after dinner, sleep tracking every night.
The thing I didn't expect: once the weight stuff settled, my attention drifted to the hormone stuff. I'm 39. Energy has felt flat since roughly November, and I keep seeing TRT and sermorelin mentioned like they're the natural next chapter after GLP-1. My labs came back low-normal, nothing flagged. My PCP sent a referral to an endocrinologist, and I'm on a wait list until spring.
Meanwhile I caught myself reading peptide forums at midnight, which is exactly the pattern that used to walk me into bad decisions. So I've parked it. Sleep study first, iron and thyroid checked, then a real conversation with someone who knows my history. If the endo says my numbers are fine, I'd rather be a little tired than chase a fix that isn't mine.
Anyone else in maintenance who went down this road — how did you decide it was worth pursuing versus just noise?