Loose skin after major weight loss — my results so far

DoseLogDan said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Pushing back on DoseLogDan here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

DoseLogDan said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

DoseLogDan said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Taking it to my next appointment.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.

sophie_paris said:

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

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.