Dr.ObesityMed said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
TomFromTexas 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…
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.
Dr.ObesityMed said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
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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