Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Following on from paige_pharma — and this may be the naive question:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?
NicoleRaleigh said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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Rolling average over five weeks showed I had lost 1.6kg during my "plateau". The scale was noise and the tape had moved. I changed nothing and it resumed.
TinaHashiRN said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.