[PREMIUM] From morbid obesity to marathon finisher — what worked for you?

sarah.morrison said:

Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 195 lbs for 7 weeks.

Pushing back on sarah.morrison 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.

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.

RetaRick_CA said:

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

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.

One thing that is still open after InsuranceTom’s answer:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

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.