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c/glp1muscle·submitted 1 months ago by u/bence_zamora

[Discussion] the FFMI advice in here is 3 years out of date

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the FFMI advice in here is 3 years out of date. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. The relevant figures are 3 years, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time. Protein was the whole problem. Appetite dropped and I was eating well under target without noticing for a…

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u/rasmus_petrescu19 points·1 months ago·edited

Disagree — slower loss does not automatically preserve lean mass. Protein and training do the work, not the rate on its own.

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u/vito_chowdhury12 points·1 months ago

What was the rate of weight change over that window?

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u/stubborn_batchlist_pls6 points·1 months ago

a single DEXA is a number, two is a comparison, three is a trend

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u/zeynep_villalobos4 points·1 months ago

Are you comparing against your own baseline or against a published average?

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u/bilal_adebayo3 points·1 months ago

I would not change the programme on the strength of one scan. The measurement error is larger than the effect you are reacting to.

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u/bence_zamoraOP5 points·1 months ago

Same DEXA machine both times?

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