While completely preventing weight regain is difficult, you can minimize it by tapering gradually instead of stopping abruptly, prioritizing protein (0.8 to 1g per pound of body weight daily), implementing consistent resistance training 2 to 4 times weekly, continuing to monitor food intake and body weight, staying highly active (250+ minutes weekly), maintaining eating patterns developed during treatment, and potentially staying on a low maintenance dose long-term
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In the FIGHT trial on patients hospitalized for HFrEF, Liraglutide did not show benefit on time to death, time to rehospitalization for heart failure, and time-averaged proportional change in N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels from baseline to 180 days [51]
In STOP-NIDDM, which recruited 1,429 individuals with IGT, 48% of those who discontinued early did so in the first year, and the most common single cause of discontinuation was GI side-effects [7]
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