One thing that is still open after PharmacoVig_BOS’s answer:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
BethLabQueen said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
Worth separating that from lean-mass preservation, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
BethLabQueen said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Right, and protein targets should be set on a reference weight rather than current weight. Setting 1.6 g/kg on a starting weight of 130kg produces a target nobody hits on a suppressed appetite.
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View ResultsBethLabQueen said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them.
Reporting back.
Follow-up: I dropped the cardio to two easy sessions and put the effort into three real lifting sessions. The scale slowed and the scan improved.