Dr.RenalNash said:

Gym confidence after training weight loss: walked into a gym for the first time in 12 years yesterday.

This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Taking it to my next appointment.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.

sarah_TO said:

If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

One concrete data point for the thread. Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath. An edited-away mistake is invisible to the next person who makes it.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.