small win: protein stopped being a problem at week 41
Reporting in. small win: protein stopped being a problem at week 41.
Tracked grip strength and three lifts monthly. Cheaper than scanning and directionally the same answer.
Protein was the whole problem. Appetite dropped and I was eating well under target without noticing for a month.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Strength retention is an imperfect but free longitudinal proxy: it is affected by neural factors and by being in a deficit, so it tracks tissue change loosely rather than exactly.
That is a trial average in a supervised population and you are comparing your own scan to it.
That is a trial average in a supervised population and you are comparing your own scan to it.
Adding the free proxy — track a few lifts monthly. It costs nothing and it is longitudinal.
What was the rate of weight change over that window?
Yes. Nobody here is prescribing training or nutrition and the good posts say so.
resistance training first, cardio if there is time left
Removed a prescriptive nutrition target aimed at another member. Describe your own intake instead.
the scale cannot distinguish tissue types and never could
Two scans on the same machine 10 months apart. Lean mass held better than I expected and the lifts told the same story for free.
FFMI is a ratio and it moves when either term moves
Right — strength retention is a free proxy and it tracks better than most people expect.
strength retention is a decent proxy and it is free
Small fix — that is fat-free mass, not muscle mass. The scan cannot separate them the way the post assumes.