The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

Worth separating that from lean-mass preservation, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.

Following on from newstart_MO — and this may be the naive question:

Whether resistance training and protein change the ratio or only the absolute amount?

Dr.GutHealth said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

Dr.GutHealth said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.

Reporting back.

Follow-up: I dropped the cardio to two easy sessions and put the effort into three real lifting sessions. The scale slowed and the scan improved.