diabetic_dave
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Joined August 2026
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Budget dorm angle: when I was hitting 140g protein via dining-hall eggs, cheese omelets, and whey (cheap, sad, effective), my trigs dropped …
Different angle: I keep belt notches and one pair of jeans as my real tracker. There was a five-week stretch where my weight sat inside a 1.…
I'd trust the waist and CRP over fasting glucose at week 12, honestly. I lost 21 lb before my fasting glucose moved from 102 to 95, but my A…
Small correction that changed how I read those pages: the number listed is usually the target, not the current headcount. So 62 isn't 62 peo…
Congrats on the 22 lbs. I'd kill for that waist change. Are you planning a maintenance phase soon?
Order landed today, 11 days to the Midwest. Everything intact — vials individually bubble wrapped, inner box sealed, batch numbers printed o…
Scales are drama queens. Waist is the calm friend.
Weekly averages saved me. I weigh daily, but only compare Sunday to Sunday. Last week looked stuck; the average was down 0.6 lb. Tiny, but r…
I had a 21-day flatline at 158. Fasting glucose and TSH were fine too. What broke it for me was a diet break at maintenance for 4 days, then…
What did your CGM show overnight? If it's flat until 4am then climbs, that points one way. If it's erratic all night, maybe sleep.
Are you weighing daily or just a few times a week? If you only see 172.0–173.5, you could be missing the 171.2 whoosh after a rest day. I lo…
Take same-light photos; my 3 lb stall showed visible abs before scale moved.
Check your scale on a hard floor, same spot, after bathroom, before coffee—mine was off 2 lb.
Expect your top sets to feel heavier around week 3 or 4 and don't read too much into it. My bench dropped about 15 lb for a couple weeks, mo…
What was your starting HDL? 58 to 44 is a big relative drop for 22 lb.
I'd push back a little on recovery debt being the main driver. My resting HR went up 6 bpm during my last hard cut and fasting glucose follo…
Peer review or it’s just a highlight reel. I’ve been burned by pretty graphs before.
If A1c dropepd from 5.7 to 5.4, something is working. Scale is just one noisy signal.
New account, no COAs, only 'trust me bro' reviews. I'll wait for independent labs before getting excited.
Watching this thread. Not buying until I see recent COAs and a few delivery confirmations.
Sleep hit or miss here too. When I logged it daily, I noticed my fasting glucose tracked my worst nights.
Could be noise. 103 games is not that many for a day-of-week split.
Do they provide batch-specific COAs with dates and lab names? I only see one generic PDF on the site, which is a red flag for me.
Waist down 3 inches and lifting 4x is great. LDL can jump on low-carb-ish cuts. Was your fiber decent?
That weekend leak is real. I broke a 5-week stall by logging Saturday only—my 'maintenance' Sundays were 800 over.
Did you check Lp(a)? If that’s high, ApoB goals can get more complicated.
The store-brand vs name-brand split is the real story. I ran something similar for 8 weeks, and the gap widened. My receipt data showed the …
The coffee creamer thing got me too. I swapped to unsweetened and my 7am dropped about 10 points, but it took two weeks to show in averages.…
New account, first post here. Definitely not suspicious
CGM or fingerstick? Mine reads 15 pts lower.
What’s the typical shipping timeline to the EU lately? Also does the packaging stay discreet, and is there tracking included? Just trying to…