how much of what we believe about food noise actually comes from 2.4mg threads
Trying to get a straight answer on this: how much of what we believe about food noise actually comes from 2.4mg threads.
Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 2.4mg.
The mental model that finally made this click for me: there are two curves, and people watch the wrong one.
The first is exposure, which is set by the dose and smoothed by a week-long half-life. It changes when you change the dose and then settles over about a month. The second is body weight, which is exposure filtered through appetite, food, water, sleep, training and the scale itself, and which moves in steps rather than a line.
Almost every "it stopped working" post is somebody watching curve two over a fortnight and drawing conclusions about curve one. If the appetite effect is still there, exposure is fine. Wait the month.
injection-site soreness made the first fortnight rough at each step up, then flattened out. Predictable enough that I started planning around it.
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
Retitled to match the body. The original promised a comparison the post does not make.
Steady state after a dose change takes four to five half-lives, so the fair judgement point on a new step is about a month, not four days.
protein first, then everything else gets easier
staying at 1.7mg for an extra month is a legitimate plan
if 0.25mg is working there is no prize for going up
First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.
First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit.
Adding one thing to this: the appetite effect and the scale run on separate clocks, so both halves can be true at once.