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c/glp1muscle·submitted 5 months ago by u/zaid_roos

20 months in and FFMI is still the thing I get wrong

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20 months in and FFMI is still the thing I get wrong. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing else. Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 20 months. Reduced appetite makes hitting a protein target a logistics problem rather than a motivation…

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u/greta_perrin4 points·5 months ago

Hydration status and fasting state affect the lean mass estimate. Standardising both is the difference between a comparison and a coin toss.

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u/dario_stanescu1 point·5 months ago

Careful, that is a nutrition prescription aimed at another member and this board does not do those.

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u/yannick_haddad1 point·5 months ago

Started weighing protein rather than estimating it. The gap between what I thought and what I ate was embarrassing.

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u/rasmus_petrescu1 point·5 months ago

nothing on this board is a training or nutrition prescription

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u/arne_amankwah1 point·5 months ago

Hydration status and fasting state affect the lean mass estimate.

Agreed — and same machine, same conditions, or the two scans are not comparable.

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