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c/glp1muscle·posted 28 days ago by u/adaeze_cabrera

genuine question about protein that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

Data Long Haul ×5

Right, the protein question again, but with numbers this time.

I have 15 data points over 38 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and boring enough that nobody is going to screenshot it, which is usually a good sign.

The thing I would flag for anyone new: the effect I am describing showed up at week 92, not week 46. People give up long before the interesting part.

Interested in whether this matches other people's logs or whether I am an outlier.

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u/formulary_fighterappeals133 points·28 days ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/kenji_vasquez38 points·28 days ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/adaeze_cabreraOP23 points·28 days ago

The constipation 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/intent_to_treat5 points·28 days ago

The constipation was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped.

Disagree on that part. 95.1% and 96.2% on the same vial is normal.

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u/amylin_amyamylin9 points·28 days ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.7, not 98.7. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/aksel_kjaer3 points·28 days ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/halima_mbeki0 points·28 days ago

Strongly agree. Resistance training counts.

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u/adaeze_cabreraOP1 point·28 days ago

Came off after 51 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial1 point·27 days ago

DEXA is the real measurement

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u/formulary_fighterappeals1 point·27 days ago·edited

Not to be pedantic but resistance training and protein are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/erez_yilmaz1 point·27 days ago

Not to be pedantic but resistance training and protein are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

Disagree on that part. 98.4% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/joaquin_trevino1 point·27 days ago

rapid loss plus no protein equals muscle loss

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u/TitrationTortoiseslow and boring1 point·27 days ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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