u/TitrationTortoise

How to compare prices across borders without misleading yourself.

Normalise the pack size first. Presentations differ between member states and a headline figure for one pack is not comparable to another. Then separate reimbursed from private prices, which are set by entirely different mechanisms. Then note the dispensing fee structure, which is nationally regulated.

When members here have done all three, the interesting finding has consistently been that variation between pharmacies within a country is often as large as the variation between countries — which makes the cross-border shopping most of these threads are really about far less attractive than it looks.

Disagree — slower loss does not automatically preserve lean mass. Protein and training do the work, not the rate on its own.

Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the

Agreed — and being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting the same thing is the pattern here.

I would not treat appetite returning as a sign of doing it wrong. It is the expected sequence.