Coming off & maintenance

Holding steady after your goal, and what research says about stopping — so the conversation with your prescriber starts from facts.

The long game

After you reach your goal

Reaching your goal changes the question from 'how fast' to 'how steady.' How Light Years shows maintenance in your own logs.

Coming off

Stopping a GLP-1: what the trials found

STEP 4 and SURMOUNT-4 randomized people to keep taking their medicine or switch to placebo. What happened, who the results apply to, and what labels say about stopping.

Coming off

Weight after stopping a GLP-1

The STEP 1 extension and a 2026 BMJ meta-analysis on what happens to weight and health markers after weight-management medicines are stopped — as averages, not predictions.

Coming off

The maintenance conversation

What Obesity Canada's 2025 guideline says about long-term treatment, the trial evidence to bring, and questions to ask your prescriber.