Non-scale victories mega-thread — 12 month update

Dr.SleepRoch said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.

tammy_FL said:

Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well…

Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion.

Dr.SleepRoch said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. 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.

One concrete data point for the thread. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.