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c/progresspics·posted 1 year ago by u/marta_marchand

someone explain progress to me like I have not read a paper in years

Struggle Clean Column ×8 Well Actually ×1 Slow Clap ×1

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking progress against ApoB for 35 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/milos_vestergaard305 points·1 year ago

text only is the whole point of the community

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[deleted]228 points·1 year ago

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u/marta_marchandOP162 points·1 year ago

Stalled for 19 weeks, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 71.

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u/plain_titration37 points·1 year ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with non-scale victory, not with what you concluded.

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u/salma_almeida157 points·1 year ago·edited

non-scale victories count, post them

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u/soren_zamora113 points·1 year ago·edited

Not to be pedantic but timeframe and milestone are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/marta_marchandOP41 points·1 year ago

My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.

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u/bastian_aalto174 points·1 year 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/neha_rahimi53 points·1 year ago

Yeah, text-only removes the comparison.

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u/wanjiru_osei123 points·1 year ago

Maintenance for 5 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/milos_vestergaard91 points·1 year ago

no images, none, not even redacted ones

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u/anders_karlsen115 points·1 year ago

text removes the comparison trap

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u/marta_marchand55 points·1 year ago

Yeah, text-only removes the comparison.

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u/rasmus_kuipers13 points·1 year ago

The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.

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u/anya_correia7 points·1 year ago·edited

the community is deliberately image-free

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u/placebo_arm_pam3 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/marta_marchandOP1 point·1 year ago

Week 86 for me and the honest summary is: 7kg down, the food-noise thing manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/search_before_post1 point·1 year ago

no commenting on anybody's body, comment on the process

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u/spreadsheet_gremlindata1 point·1 year ago

non-scale victories count, post them

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u/elise_ramos5 points·1 year ago

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

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u/lina_ndiaye43 points·1 year ago

Yeah, text-only removes the comparison.

Adding to this: milestone is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/meera_sandvik28 points·1 year ago·edited

include timeframe and starting point or it is a brag with no info

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u/kaia_wojcik12 points·1 year ago

text only is the whole point of the community

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u/sigrid_kaufmann39 points·1 year ago
this deserves more than 20 upvotes
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u/rasmus_kimani11 points·1 year ago

text removes the body-shaming pile-on

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics26 points·1 year ago

My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math8 points·1 year ago·edited

the struggle change matters as much as the scale

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u/wholesome_lurker13 points·1 year ago

What was the batch number and which service?

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