Delivered Meals or a Wellness App Cut Weight Regain by About 7 Points in the Four Months After Stopping GLP-1 Drugs, Pilot Trial Finds
Researchers at Tufts University and UT Southwestern reported in Obesity Science & Practice on October 7, 2026 a pilot randomized trial of 39 adults who had lost weight on GLP-1 drugs and were stopping them, assigned to usual care (14), a digital wellness app (12), or medically tailored meals (13). Over the first four months off the drug, both the app and meal groups gained less weight than the control group, by 7.16 and 7.17 percentage points of body weight. Weight was an exploratory outcome, measured with Bluetooth scales at home, and the authors said larger and longer trials are needed.