labquiet_amy said:

Body image adjustment with mental health: I've lost 91 lbs but when I look in the mirror, I still see my old self sometimes.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

labquiet_amy said:

Body image adjustment with mental health: I've lost 91 lbs but when I look in the mirror, I still see my old self sometimes.

No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.

labquiet_amy said:

Body image adjustment with mental health: I've lost 91 lbs but when I look in the mirror, I still see my old self sometimes.

That reframing is the part I needed.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

TinaHashiRN said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. Posting only so the count is not one.