jim_asheville said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
tane_welly said:Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.
That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
jim_asheville said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
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.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.