week 31 check-in — 11kg down, sulphur burps manageable, one thing confusing me
week 31 check-in — 11kg down, sulphur burps manageable, one thing confusing me, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. The relevant figures are week 31 and 11kg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time. Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is…
How many weeks between the two measurements?
Yes. Repeat before you react. Almost every alarming single value I have posted here regressed on the repeat.
Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population. By construction one person in twenty falls outside one on any given test without anything being wrong.
fasting state and time of day change more than people expect
Tracked fasting insulin against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing.
How to make a panel worth comparing, which is most of the value people leave on the table.
Standardise the conditions: same lab, same fasting state, same rough time of day, same point in the week, similar hydration. Take a baseline before you change anything. Repeat any surprising value before acting on it. Change one thing at a time if you want to attribute anything to it.
Do that and a year of panels is a trend. Skip it and a year of panels is a collection of unrelated mornings, which is what most of the alarmed posts here are actually describing.
draw at the same point in the week if you want comparability
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
Same view — ApoB if you add one thing. It answers a question the standard panel only gestures at.
Cosigning on baseline. The panel I regret most is the one I did not take before starting.