roxy_nash said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
paul_denver said:Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Taking it to my next appointment.
roxy_nash said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
I read this differently from roxy_nash, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
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View ResultsAdding 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.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.