rachel_ABQ said:Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
Dr.EM_Chicago said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
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