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c/glp1muscle·posted 1 year ago by u/reflux_report

am I the only one who found sarcopenia harder than the injections

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Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: am I the only one who found sarcopenia harder than the injections.

Compared two scans from different clinics and panicked over a difference that was inside the error margin.

Lost slower for six months deliberately and my composition change was not obviously different. Training was what mattered.

Started weighing protein rather than estimating it. The gap between what I thought and what I ate was embarrassing.

If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.

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u/sarcopenia_watchMOD495 points·1 year ago

Removed a prescriptive nutrition target aimed at another member. Describe your own intake instead.

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u/amylin_amyamylin447 points·1 year ago

Strength retention is an imperfect but free longitudinal proxy: it is affected by neural factors and by being in a deficit, so it tracks tissue change loosely rather than exactly.

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u/nayeli_fonseca254 points·1 year ago

Kept the same programme for a year instead of changing it every six weeks. That was the change that worked.

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Lean-mass retention during rapid weight loss: protein targets, resistance-training minimums, DEXA and BIA measurement reality, FFMI tracking, and the sarcopenia question that nobody funded a proper trial for.

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