is it normal to get food noise at week 20
is it normal to get food noise at week 20. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing else. Some lean mass loss accompanies weight loss in any deficit. Resistance training and adequate protein intake are the two interventions with the best evidence for…
Same. Volume over novelty. Changing programme every six weeks cost me a year.
Are you comparing against your own baseline or against a published average?
the same DEXA machine or it is not a comparison
Not convinced by that DEXA comparison. Different machine, different protocol, and the difference is inside the error.
Correction: those scans are from different machines, and the difference you are describing is within the measurement error.
Strength retention is an imperfect but free longitudinal proxy: it is affected by neural factors and by being in a deficit, so it tracks tissue change loosely rather than exactly.
training volume matters more than training novelty