[Results] 48 weeks, 18kg, and DEXA was the hard part
48 weeks, 18kg, and DEXA was the hard part. This is a description of what happened to me and not a plan for anybody else. Pulling the figures out of the title: 48 weeks and 18kg. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed. Fat-free mass index is a ratio of fat-free mass to height squared. It…
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.
Have the lifts held, dropped, or moved around?
Are you comparing against your own baseline or against a published average?
protein intake gets harder exactly when appetite drops
Compared two scans from different clinics and panicked over a difference that was inside the error margin.
lean mass loss during weight loss is expected, the question is how much
That protein figure is grams per day, not grams per kilogram. Different claim entirely.
DEXA has a meaningful coefficient of variation, and it differs between machines and protocols. Comparing scans from different clinics adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report.
Nothing here is a training or nutrition prescription. Targets and programmes are matters for somebody who knows your history and your training background.
Agreed — protein and resistance training. Everything else in these threads is a rounding error on those two.