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[PREMIUM] My 200-lb weight loss — anyone have experience?

Dr.PathRoch Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 8:55 AM 42 replies 2,345 viewsPage 1 of 9
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Dr.PathRoch
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Apr 5, 2024 at 8:55 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.

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

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Apr 5, 2024 at 9:05 AM#2
Dr.PathRoch 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 210 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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Apr 5, 2024 at 9:15 AM#3
LabKate said:
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 210 lbs for 7 weeks.

No disagreement with LabKate. One condition attached. 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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Apr 5, 2024 at 9:25 AM#4
Dr.PathRoch 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…

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.

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Apr 5, 2024 at 10:20 AM#5

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.

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