sean_dublin said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.
Happy to go further on any of that.
sarah_TO said:Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
sean_dublin said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
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.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath. An edited-away mistake is invisible to the next person who makes it.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
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