Stopped in spring and my ten-day average is flat

2026-10-07 08:44

I stopped in early April after about a year on semaglutide. I still weigh every morning because the ritual keeps me honest, but I only care about the 10-day average.

The first month off, the scale jumped 3.8 lbs in four days when we had family visiting. My average moved 0.4 lbs. That made the noise feel less personal. The surprise: hunger came back, but not as a tidal wave — more like a radio in another room.

I'm using the same habits I built: protein at breakfast, a walk after lunch, and a hard stop on kitchen wandering after 8. I'm not declaring victory. I'm just noting that maintenance after stopping can look boring, and boring is kind of the goal.

Anyone else find the post-med average more useful than the daily number?

2026-10-09 13:57

Not to be that guy, but a 10-day average still gets yanked around by a 3.8 lb water swing. I run a 21-day EMA in Sheets with a 7-day median on top. When I paused last summer, my 10-day looked flat for six weeks, then crept up 0.2 lb/week once my steps fell from ~9k to ~6k.

Hunger returned before the scale did—that was the real tell. Did your NEAT/steps slip after April? That’s the first cell I’d audit before blaming appetite.

Are you tracking waist monthly? Mine changed before the 21-day average did.

2026-10-11 18:01

For what it's worth, the 10-day average really does take the drama out of family-visit spikes. When my hunger came back after stopping, I started rating it 1–10 before meals and 20 minutes after, plus noting whether it felt like stomach-empty or head-comfort.

More useful than expected: my worst evenings traced back to skimping on protein at breakfast/lunch. Not a fix-all, just data. Are you noticing yours is steady through the day, or does it hit a certain time?

Also curious whether your average stays flat while other signals—sleep, cravings, how clothes fit—are shifting. That’s what I’d track next to the scale.