[PREMIUM] 72-year-old transformation — proving age is just a number (full photos)

Dr.KarenChen said:

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 203 lbs for 7 weeks.

Pushing back on Dr.KarenChen 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.

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

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.

LipidDoc_ATL said:

The "it is your intake" reflex here gets tiring.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. 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.

Following on from wei_SG — and this may be the naive question:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

Closing the loop on my own question.

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.