hyun_seoul said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
BethLabQueen said:Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well…
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
hyun_seoul said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.