am I the only one who found resistance training harder than the injections
Genuine question, and the title is the question: am I the only one who found resistance training harder than the injections.
Protein was the whole problem. Appetite dropped and I was eating well under target without noticing for a month.
Two scans on the same machine 20 months apart. Lean mass held better than I expected and the lifts told the same story for free.
Reduced appetite makes hitting a protein target a logistics problem rather than a motivation problem, which is why the practical advice here is about timing and food choice rather than willpower.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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 limiting the proportion.
Lost slower for six months deliberately and my composition change was not obviously different. Training was what mattered.
training volume matters more than training novelty
Tracked grip strength and three lifts monthly. Cheaper than scanning and directionally the same answer.
do not compare your composition to a trial average
strength retention is a decent proxy and it is free
Lost slower for six months deliberately and my composition change was not obviously different.
ferran_krastev is right that protein becomes a logistics problem when appetite drops.
Yes. Nobody here is prescribing training or nutrition and the good posts say so.
protein and resistance training, that is the entire intervention
What is protein intake actually looking like, measured rather than estimated?
Correction: those scans are from different machines, and the difference you are describing is within the measurement error.
Disagree — slower loss does not automatically preserve lean mass. Protein and training do the work, not the rate on its own.
FFMI is a ratio and it moves when either term moves
How many weeks between the two scans?
Three scans over eighteen months, same machine, same conditions. Only the third one made the first two interpretable.
How many weeks between the two scans?
Adding the free proxy — track a few lifts monthly. It costs nothing and it is longitudinal.
That is a trial average in a supervised population and you are comparing your own scan to it.
Agreed — protein and resistance training. Everything else in these threads is a rounding error on those two.
This. Same machine, same protocol, or the DEXA comparison is measuring the scanner.
Compared two scans from different clinics and panicked over a difference that was inside the error margin.
lean mass loss during weight loss is expected, the question is how much
Have the lifts held, dropped, or moved around?
resistance training first, cardio if there is time left
Kept the same programme for a year instead of changing it every six weeks. That was the change that worked.
Small fix — that is fat-free mass, not muscle mass. The scan cannot separate them the way the post assumes.
Correcting myself upthread: 8 months between scans, not the figure I gave.
Started weighing protein rather than estimating it. The gap between what I thought and what I ate was embarrassing.
grip strength and lift numbers are cheap longitudinal markers
protein intake gets harder exactly when appetite drops
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