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Wedding dress shopping 3 sizes smaller — my results so far

pat_auckland Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 10:48 PM 14 replies 1,985 viewsPage 1 of 3
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pat_auckland
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Aug 4, 2024 at 10:48 PM#1

Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.

The bit I cannot resolve on my own is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.

I have searched first, so if this is covered somewhere point me at it and I will read it.

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PeptideChemSF
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Aug 4, 2024 at 11:51 PM#2
pat_auckland said:
Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 219 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 8 lbs in the next 3 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.

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Aug 5, 2024 at 12:54 AM#3
PeptideChemSF said:
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 219 lbs for 7 weeks.

PeptideChemSF has the substance of this right. The condition it depends on is worth stating. 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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Aug 5, 2024 at 1:57 AM#4
pat_auckland said:
Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.

Mine went the same way, slower. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

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Dr.PainCLE
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Aug 5, 2024 at 8:01 AM#5

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

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