[Results] 39 weeks on 12.5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring
Reporting in. 39 weeks on 12.5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring. 39 weeks and 12.5mg — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend. Three scans over eighteen months, same machine, same conditions. Only the third one made the first two interpretable. What the evidence actually supports,…
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.
Hydration status and fasting state affect the lean mass estimate. Standardising both is the difference between a comparison and a coin toss.
DEXA has a real error margin and people quote it to one decimal
Tracked grip strength and three lifts monthly. Cheaper than scanning and directionally the same answer.
grip strength and lift numbers are cheap longitudinal markers
What is protein intake actually looking like, measured rather than estimated?
losing weight slower does not automatically preserve more lean mass
Two scans on the same machine 2 months apart. Lean mass held better than I expected and the lifts told the same story for free.
protein and resistance training, that is the entire intervention