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c/progresspics·submitted 24 days ago by u/salma_almeida

[Struggle] eight weeks, 2kg, doing everything right, and it is grinding me down

Strugglebranch of 7 comments

Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/bloodwork repeats that struggle is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 13 threads of people agreeing with each other. Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because…

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u/meera_karlsen144 points·23 days ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 19–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/runa_grimaldi89 points·22 days ago

no images, none, not even redacted ones

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u/honest_syringe33-22 points·22 days ago

the community is deliberately image-free

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u/india_generic_g1 point·22 days ago

Yeah, text-only removes the comparison.

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u/nadia_norgaard1 point·22 days ago

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

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u/joaquin_trevino1 point·22 days ago

non-scale victories count, post them

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[removed]1 point·22 days ago

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