Dr.MetabolicMD said:Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 201 lbs for 8 weeks.
Pushing back on Dr.MetabolicMD here. The "it is your intake" reflex here gets tiring. Some people genuinely stop responding at a dose that worked, and telling them to track harder when they have already tracked is how people stop posting.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
DanielChem_CHI said:The "it is your intake" reflex here gets tiring.
Coming at DanielChem_CHI’s question from a different direction. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
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View ResultsFollowing on from claudia_zurich — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Reporting back.
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.