why does everyone say week 4 is the wall
Here it is: why does everyone say week 4 is the wall. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly. 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…
Week 38: 13kg down, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 2, and the honest headline is that nothing dramatic happened. It was boring and it worked.
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Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.
the first four weeks are a tolerance check, not a weight-loss phase
STEP-1 averaged just under 15% at 68 weeks, so a 10% year is not a failure
the first four weeks are a tolerance check, not a weight-loss phase
This is the part I would underline for anyone skimming. Everything else in the thread is downstream of it.
This is the part I would underline for anyone skimming.
Disagree with this specific line. A pause at 0.25mg is not evidence that 0.25mg has stopped working.