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6-month body recomposition — 12 month update

TomTeleRx Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 8:38 PM 34 replies 1,924 viewsPage 1 of 7
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Dec 17, 2024 at 8:38 PM#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.

The question I want answered is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.

Tell me what I have not thought of.

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Dec 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM#2
TomTeleRx 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 198 lbs for 7 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.

What finally broke the plateau: a brief dose increase followed by return to maintenance. Lost 12 lbs in the next 3 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.

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Dec 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM#3
JennaRN said:
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 198 lbs for 7 weeks.

That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Most reported plateaus are not plateaus. Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well inside the noise band. Before concluding anything, look at a rolling weekly average over at least four weeks and at a tape measure, because recomposition shows up in circumference before it shows up in weight. Then track intake honestly for a week: appetite suppression fades unevenly, and intake creeping back up is the single commonest cause.

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Dec 17, 2024 at 9:17 PM#4
TomTeleRx 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…

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

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Dec 17, 2024 at 10:25 PM#5

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.

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