LibrarianMeg said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
RunnerRach said:Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
LibrarianMeg said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.
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