24% weight loss number blew my mind - please be real — my results so far

One thing that is still open after Dr.MetabolicMD’s answer:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

Pushing back on SleepDoc_PDX here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part.

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.