I spent 15 months tracking a 30-day rolling average, not daily scale noise. Lost 58 lb, hit a rough maintenance zone, then went off GLP-1 with my clinician's sign-off. That was 7 months ago.
My weekly average has stayed inside a 4.2 lb band (152.6–156.8), and the 30-day slope is +0.04 lb/week, which is basically my scale's version of a shrug. The contrarian part: what kept me steady wasn't a new diet.
It was keeping the same boring checkpoints — protein at two meals, a 20-minute walk after dinner, and Sunday meal prep.
I still log everything, but the spreadsheet now feels like a smoke detector, not a scoreboard. For those who got off and stayed mostly off: what did your first six months look like — flat, drifting up, or noisy but stable?
I'm curious whether my flat line is common or just luck plus a very persistent column of data.