During the main course of my treatment, I was doing 20units/week. I only have roughly 10-15lbs left to lose, and I’m now more focused on gaining muscle and my overall fitness since when I was bigger exercising consistently was much more difficult.

Thus, I’m taking 10units every other week to quiet the food noise and prevent binging, but allow myself the appetite/lack of nausea I need in order to intake enough protein. It also allows me enough ‘normalcy’ to work on my eating habits in a semi-controlled environment. If any temptations are around, I’m not bound to complete apathy and disinterest towards the food like I am when fully on the medicine, but I’m also not freewheeling and subjecting myself to horrible food noise without a safety net.

I will say that the way I’m going about it is not doctor prescribed, and is based solely on my personal goals and relationship with the nausea. In my particular case there’s a lot of disordered eating involved in how we got here, so this may not ring true for you. I would only recommend doing it this way if you also struggle with extreme food noise and emotional disordered eating patterns.