Gym anxiety after major weight loss — what worked for you?

traveltech_sara said:

The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.

Coming at traveltech_sara’s question from a different direction. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.

One concrete data point for the thread. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

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

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

raj_cambridge said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

Worth separating that from training through weight loss, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.

raj_cambridge said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.