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[PREMIUM] Athlete body recomp — 12 month update

nancy_portland Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM 37 replies 1,986 viewsPage 1 of 8
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Jun 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM#1

Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several times.

What I am trying to establish is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.

If the honest answer is that nobody knows, that is a useful answer and I would rather have it.

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Jun 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM#2
nancy_portland said:
Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several…

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 199 lbs for 5 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.

What finally broke the plateau: switching from evening to morning injection. Lost 11 lbs in the next 2 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.

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Jun 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM#3
Dr.ReproEndo said:
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 199 lbs for 5 weeks.

Dr.ReproEndo has the substance of this right. The condition it depends on is worth stating. Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body. A body 20kg lighter needs meaningfully fewer calories at rest and less to move, so the deficit that produced the first phase is arithmetically smaller now. The options are the honest ones — increase the deficit slightly, increase activity, or accept the new plateau — and escalating the dose is only one of them.

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Jun 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM#4
nancy_portland said:
Thirteen weeks at the same dose with no change on the scale, and I have gone from assuming it was the drug to assuming it was me and back several…

Second this. Nothing to add that would improve it.

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Jun 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM#5

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

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