Dr.RaviCardio said:On a suppressed appetite the winning strategy is protein density per unit of volume, not per calorie.
I will push back on the powder-first advice. It works and it also trains people out of eating food, and when the drug stops the habits are what remain. Getting protein from meals is slower and holds up better afterwards.
One concrete data point for the thread. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
PharmacoVig_BOS said:I will push back on the powder-first advice.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after stefan_berlin’s answer:
Whether the RDA is the wrong reference entirely during rapid weight loss, and what the actual target should be?
Closing the loop on my own question.
Update: two thirds of the target before midday. Same total, same appetite, and I am hitting it most days now.