Goal weight anxiety — fear of what happens when you arrive

One thing that is still open after Dr.GutHealth’s answer:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

Dr.EM_Chicago said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

Dr.EM_Chicago said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

Dr.EM_Chicago said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

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