2.5mg advice

I am looking for some advice with 2.5mg and next steps. Back story, I started Zepbound April 2024 and took 2.5mg for 8 weeks the moved to 5mg and lost 60lbs. Around December 2024, I started spacing out the 5mg and tried to come off of it but after a few months I started 5mg again in May 2025. I spaced out as much as I could and tried to come off of it again in December 2025 because the 5mg ended up getting strong and I wanted to try to not be on this long term. I started 2.5mg again Sunday evening because the food noise is too strong after being off 5mg for 7 weeks hoping I could get benefit out of it without having to stay on 5mg as I am learning this is going to be a long term medication. However, I am still really struggling this week and not getting as much benefit from this lower dose as I thought I would like when I first started. What are the suggestions from long term users? Should I take my next 2.5mg early, stay on 2.5mg for another week or move up to 5mg on Sunday evening?