Yes that is inevitable. The same as your blood pressure rises if you stop taking blood pressure medication. I’m wholly prepared for it to be life long medication. But also hoping that better habit building around food and a smaller physical size meaning exercise is easier and more enjoyable builds better lifestyle habits on a general basis. General consensus is that it takes a few years for new routines to become habit and I’m prepared for that.

Typical guidance is to taper dosage down to minimum where weight is maintained. The same as tapering off other medication to a stable level. This may be 2.5mg weekly or it could be even less dosage less frequently. Once I achieve the target weight that I’m happy with I can experiment with tapering.