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protein: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1

Results Well Actually ×6 Clean Column ×1 Cold Box ×1

Week 77 update. 43kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 34.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with reflux.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/protein_first_pMOD257 points·1 year ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxOPmaintenance-27 points·1 year ago

The sulphur burps was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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u/viktor_girard168 points·1 year ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 18–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/emil_okwuosa73 points·1 year ago

sarcopenia is the unsolved question

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u/meera_oyelaran56 points·1 year ago

Which country? Half the answers in this thread only apply in Spain.

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u/arne_amankwah62 points·1 year ago

protein targets in g/kg

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u/alcohol_aversion139 points·1 year ago

body-composition claims need a method

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u/maintenance_mode_maxOPmaintenance76 points·1 year ago

Stalled for 2 weeks, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 22.

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u/nayeli_fonseca99 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/meera_oyelaran138 points·1 year ago

This is correct. DEXA is the standard.

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u/joaquin_wojcik56 points·1 year ago

rapid loss plus no protein equals muscle loss

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u/maintenance_mode_maxOPmaintenance16 points·1 year ago

FFMI tracking requires body composition

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u/yannick_haddad9 points·1 year ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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u/long_post_larry44 points·1 year ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch35 points·1 year ago·edited

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/ferran_dahlberg54 points·1 year ago

What are you comparing it against though?

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u/trialwatch_theotrial nerd14 points·1 year ago

lean mass retention is the 23 week conversation

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u/ferran_dahlberg3 points·1 year ago

resistance training is protein not optional

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u/saskia_wojcik4 points·1 year ago

protein targets in g/kg

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u/halima_mbeki23 points·1 year ago

bathroom BIA scales are not a method

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u/viktor_girard7 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Resistance training counts.

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u/noor_ivaturi3 points·1 year ago

resistance training is sarcopenia not optional

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u/tomas_kimani1 point·1 year ago

DEXA twice yearly is the pattern

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u/lift_heavy_thingsresistance training38 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Resistance training counts.

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u/ahmed_fonseca31 points·1 year ago

Genuine question — what concentration were you at?

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u/protein_first_pnutrition35 points·1 year ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is sarcopenia. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/mariam_cabrera18 points·1 year ago

Yeah, protein matters on rapid loss.

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Lean-mass retention during rapid weight loss: protein targets, resistance-training minimums, DEXA and BIA measurement reality, FFMI tracking, and the sarcopenia question that nobody funded a proper trial for.

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