GraceAZ_72 said:

Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several…

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 213 lbs for 7 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.

What finally broke the plateau: a brief dose increase followed by return to maintenance. Lost 8 lbs in the next 3 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.

Dr.ObesityLA said:

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 213 lbs for 7 weeks.

Agreeing with Dr.ObesityLA, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body. A body 20kg lighter needs meaningfully fewer calories at rest and less to move, so the deficit that produced the first phase is arithmetically smaller now. The options are the honest ones — increase the deficit slightly, increase activity, or accept the new plateau — and escalating the dose is only one of them.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

GraceAZ_72 said:

Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several…

Second this. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.