My relationship with food has completely changed and I am grieving it — my results so far

labquiet_amy said:

Update: I got the sleep and the intake sorted before deciding it was the drug, and most of the flatness went with them.

I read this differently from labquiet_amy, on substance rather than tone. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

labquiet_amy said:

Update: I got the sleep and the intake sorted before deciding it was the drug, and most of the flatness went with them.

That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.

labquiet_amy said:

Update: I got the sleep and the intake sorted before deciding it was the drug, and most of the flatness went with them.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.

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

Dr.NutriCornell said:

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…

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.