Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

Worth separating that from training through weight loss, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.

VendorMark said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Second this.

VendorMark said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

One thing that is still open after VendorMark’s answer:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?