marathon_matt
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Weigh Saturday morning and Monday morning, and compare those two, not Monday to Friday.
I ran a 36-book year and my DNF rate was 25%, but the surprise was that it tracked my sleep way more than genre — any week I averaged under …
87 games here and my slowest day isn’t Tuesday, it’s Monday at 4:41
Before you write off those six weeks, grab a shirt or pair of jeans that was snug in January. My scale sat at 191-193 for five weeks while I…
The tape can lie if you’re measuring after a salty weekend or at a different spot; I’d use one pair of jeans and shirt as a weekly benchmark…
Curious what your lifts did during those six weeks. If your squat or rows went up while the scale froze at 203, you were losing fat and it w…
> @daily_diane said:
> at 15% BF, the scale can be a terrible coach. Waist tape and bar speed told me more than DEXA did.
That lines up wit…
MRI-PDFF substudy would answer this better than our n=1 guesses?
If someone orders soon, can you post the COA and a redacted shipping label timeline? That’d be more useful than another 'great communication…
What’s the packaging like? Discreet is nice, but I mostly care whether vials arrive intact and not warm.
Insurance quoted $499/mo for brand GLP-1 at BMI 27 with no comorbidity. That math reframed everything: I'd rather spend $200/mo on DEXA, coa…
Prices look decent until you add shipping, then it’s basically retail. Am I missing a coupon or bulk tier?
Recalc afte r18 lbs is fair, but I'd bet on water and logging drift first.
Unpopular: losing scale weight fast would’ve hurt my sprint mechanics more than 15% BF did at 38.
Waist mattered more for me too. Down 6 cm.
Prices seem all over the place lately. Are people paying list, or is there a coupon code floating around? Asking for a friend who likes spre…
Does anyone ask for the CPT codes before booking? That’s the only way I’ve found to compare labs apples to apples. Also state license matter…
Clinician type is huge. NP-owned cash clinics can run lean; medspa with MD oversight adds rent, front desk, and margin. Ask if follow-up is …
ALT 41 to 22 at week 20 is wild. Mine went 38 to 31 by week 16, but weight loss was only 6%. Did your triglycerides move early or late?
Does the current batch COA include residual solvents or just HPLC? I’d like to see the full spectral data before ordering.
Not saying change anything, but are you eating back exercise calories? My 8k steps plus 3 lifts made hunger way higher than I expected.
Diarist log: Monday, requested lot-linked COA. Tuesday, received generic purity sheet. Wednesday, compared shipping fine print. Thursday, st…
Their COAs listed HPLC/MS methods but not lot numbers. Purity was a summary, no chromatograms. For me, that’s a hard pass.
5.8. Down to 5.5 now. Late screens wreck my morning glucose, so I charge my phone in the kitchen.
$1,200 a month was the quote I got before coupons, so I stopped assuming this was worth it for a recomp.
Anyone know if they offer bulk pricing or coupon codes? Not trying to pay full retail if there’s a standard forum discount.
Maybe, but sleep affects glucose independently. I saw dawn phenomenon flatten after a fixed bedtime.
Following. Do they ship internationally, or is it domestic only? Also, are the COAs batch-specific or generic? Trying to figure out if it’s …
For me yes. More cheese and eggs, LDL +31, trigs -40. Pulled cheese back, LDL -18. N=1, but the pattern was hard to ignore.
I've seen vendors post COAs from a lab that dissolved two years ago. Dates on the PDF were edited metadata. Always check file properties.
Same batch code across March-April is the tell. I track 5 sites, and 3 only update COA when they refresh the whole page. Not proof of anythi…
Same. Hard cardio makes me ravenous and then I snack at night. A slow walk after dinner keeps my appetite normal and my head clear. Stuck sc…
Shipping page says UK tracked, international available, but cold-chain wording is vague. Does anyone know if ice packs or ambient is standar…
Fiber helped my LDL but gave me bloating. Psyllium before lunch was easier than capsules.
Same thing happened to me around 20 lbs down. Scale froze 5 weeks, shirts got loose.
The sleep and stress angle matters. When I slept six hours, the scale sat still for a month. A 20-minute walk after dinner got it moving.
I'm 14 weeks in, similar weight loss but my LDL didn't move. Sleep is my missing variable.
I had almost the same arc: A1c 5.9 to 5.4, trigs 210 to 110, LDL 118 to 168 over 24 weeks. My doctor wasn't worried because trigs/HDL ratio …